Example sentences of "[prep] what had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | No reason for either of them to write or telephone , not after what had been said . |
| 2 | Our shooting permits , after what had been eleven months of filming , were due to expire that evening and , though shot at the very end , the sequence on Anak Krakatoa was intended to introduce the very beginning of our whole ten years of adventure films . |
| 3 | All she had been urged to do was relax and recover her health and spirits after what had been a very traumatic experience . |
| 4 | They prepared Cameron for his appearance in the High Court of Justiciary by one final interview , a dry recapitulation of what had been said before , with the slightest of hints that it would go well for him if he divulged something about the United Scotsmen , who evidently still preyed on their minds . |
| 5 | Despite the immediate success of the new fleet of 125mph trains which brought new standards of safety and on-board comfort firstly on the Western Region services out of London ( Paddington ) and then on the East Coast main line from London ( King 's Cross ) , so much of what had been gained in the late 1970s was lost as the economic recession started to bite . |
| 6 | And how he tried — speeding from study group to policy committee , from National Executive Committee to Cabinet , from office to platform , spraying out speeches , press releases and lengthy papers reminding his colleagues of what had been said in their manifesto . |
| 7 | It was , in truth , all that remained of what had been the North Pier , blown away by a great storm in the 1920s . |
| 8 | Monaghan Day had revived nothing but a weak fanciful ghost of what had been . |
| 9 | He was brought back a few hours later , dazed and dreamy , with a dull headache and no very clear notion of what had been done to him or why . |
| 10 | ‘ It was a combination of shock , pain and exhaustion and the overall effect of what had been done to her . ’ |
| 11 | It was the contemplation of what had been which inspired humility of soul in our judgement of the present . |
| 12 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 13 | Czechoslovakia was substantially carved out of what had been Hungary , at least in its eastern and southern parts . |
| 14 | The rain softened the surface and showed the imprint of their short stay as they swooped down to the mirage of what had been their habitat . |
| 15 | MARTIN O'NEILL , the Wycombe Wanderers manager , emerged cheerfully to face the press , extolling the virtues of what had been , by his own admission , one of the most gruelling 90 minutes he had endured this season . |
| 16 | The museum had taken over the northern end of the building but the main hall of what had been Damiani 's factory , with its vaulted roof and tunnels , was in semi-derelict condition , leased on occasion to a firm of Iranian-born Jews who dealt in Persian art . |
| 17 | Legs , perhaps of the same body have turned up and last year yet another body , or rather the 70 or so fragments of what had been a body , had it not been mangled by machinery , were recovered . |
| 18 | The speeches of Finbar O'Doherty and Eamonn Melaugh were more militant in tone but they did not demur from Hume 's denial of what had been the central purpose of the DHAC — the unity of the working class around a material grievance . |
| 19 | And they were probably unaware of the scale of what had been happening , not just in their own field of Public Libraries , which was bad enough , but across the whole spectrum of British Public Institutional Libraries . |
| 20 | Monday was spent among the people , sketching one of the bays , the fisherman 's sea-side hut , the farmer 's house , a Druid stone that is the only representative of what had been a Druid circle — the base of the others remain in the ground . |
| 21 | As these allocations fell short of what had been proposed , the USA filed a ‘ reservation ’ , expressing the view that the conference had failed to make adequate provision for the h.f. needs of the broadcasting service , particularly below 10MHz and reserving the right of the US ‘ to take the necessary steps to meet the h.f. needs of its broadcasting service . ’ |
| 22 | Paul never explicitly describes the heresy he seeks to expose at Colossae , though from his statement it is possible to piece together the evidence of what had been such a destructive influence . |
| 23 | This he threw with a flicking movement on to a pile of scrap iron before making his way towards them , kicking out of his path and on to yet another pile the remnants of what had been a pair of trousers . |
| 24 | The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk . |
| 25 | Sources say Intel now figures it wo n't be able to ship them more than 2,000 or 3,000 apiece before October , a third of what had been projected before ( UX No 418 ) . |
| 26 | Sources say that Intel reckons it wo n't be able to ship them more than 2,000 or 3,000 to each apiece before October , a third of what had been projected before . |
| 27 | Traces of what had been dreamed and hoped for remained ; fragments of poems to Union , written by men whose names had been systematically removed from all record . |
| 28 | This liberation of what had been , since the end of the Second World War , ‘ a Church of silence ’ , may do much to transform an atmosphere of widespread ecclesial decline , noticeable particularly in Western Europe , into one of confident revival . |
| 29 | But that afternoon ( 8 November ) Pope Paul phoned Frings to express his approval of what had been said . |
| 30 | It appears that the tea was intercepted after having been successfully landed , but during the ensuing enquiry it transpired that the bailie had also imported a considerable quantity of Swedish iron in excess of what had been found suitable by the Wigtown customs officers . |