Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [vb past] be " 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 | The traditional bloom process was still capable of meeting all needs , for a negligible outlay ; the exotic indirect process had been introduced as an act of state policy simply in order to make cannons , the need for which had been proved by the effectiveness of French artillery — against the English themselves — in the wars of the fifteenth century ; Newbridge , where the first successful gun had been cast in 1509 , was Crown property . |
| 5 | The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) signed an historic commercial agreement with the Russian Space Agency on June 18 , the basis for which had been established at the June summit between US President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin [ see pp. 38985-86 ] . |
| 6 | His artistic career began with a series of paintings based on the thirteenth-century sculpture of the elegant countess of Uta on the façade of Naumburg cathedral , a photograph of which had been lent to him by the young artist Vlady , but in the late fifties he turned his attention to Spanish art . |
| 7 | Still other male mice spent a single four-hour period inhaling nitrous oxide before being put with females ( none of which had been exposed to hazardous chemicals ) . |
| 8 | For English fans , though , there was pleasure that their team had begun to show heart and direction and purpose , all of which had been missing since the Ashes tour of 1986–7 ; while West Indian fans were just happy that their heroes had shown that , after all , W.B. Yeats had got it wrong and the centre could hold . |
| 9 | The pain in his ribs , three of which had been crushed in a recent collision , was almost unbearable . |
| 10 | There was lots of very French glitz and glamour and an apparently unlimited budget , much of which had been spent on giant television screens and clever use of lights ; but it was all quite impractical and unco-ordinated . |
| 11 | The exhibition Ladislav wanted me to see and which he had not yet seen himself , was a series of documents and photographs relating to the events of 1968 , none of which had been made public before . |
| 12 | The archives , many of which had been assembled by the French police themselves , were kept firmly closed . |
| 13 | This was attributable mainly to an increase in the number of branches , from 158 in 1953–54 to 189 in 1957–58 ; losses in Bedfordshire ( 15 branches down to 11 ) and the Fenland ( 23 down to 15 ) , both of which had been without a tutor-organiser for much of the period , were more than offset by gains everywhere else , notably in Essex ( 27 branches up to 40 ) and Suffolk ( 14 up to 32 ) . |
| 14 | A bricoleur was a handyman who , by using bits of machinery or equipment , the original purpose of which had been forgotten or never known , was able to solve immediate mechanical problems . |
| 15 | My uncles Fawzi and Tawfiq lived in two houses joined together , one of which had been built by my grandfather Ismail . |
| 16 | The poster had been pinned onto a large wooden board to the top of which had been affixed a very small Lebanese flag . |
| 17 | Eventually Mr Holdsworth was summoned to attend a Council committee at which he was presented with a list of 26 disciplinary offences , none of which had been raised with him before his suspension . |
| 18 | Lower down the hierarchy and , apparently , quite independently of his seniors , the young William Armstrong ( who was to head the Treasury in the 1960s and the Civil Service in the 1970s ) was , as Brook 's private secretary , trying to make sense of the proliferation of committees , some of which had been inherited from the Coalition while others had been created at a considerable rate by the new government . |
| 19 | The first generation of Compton FELs ( 1975–85 ) was built around available electron accelerators , most of which had been designed for nuclear physics and were therefore not optimised as FEL injectors . |
| 20 | By 1898 the number of books had fallen to about 180 , 44 of which had been added the previous year . |
| 21 | Initially , two application packages were examined , both of which had been developed for privately run EPHs and emphasised the medical aspects of residential care . |
| 22 | Note that these resonators were cylindrical extensions of Hertzian loops , the resonant wavelength of which had been calculated by Hector Macdonald of Aberdeen in 1902 as 7.94 x the diameter of the loop . |
| 23 | By placing a tethered owl under a tree , the branches of which had been covered with sticky lime , it was possible to trap small birds as they gathered to mob the bird of prey . |
| 24 | ‘ It led to an examination of cheques , a number of which had been forged and negotiated , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Work began last July to repair the weather vane and to replace the original plaster , joinery and copperwork , all of which had been damaged by the weather over the years . |
| 26 | Wearing his other hat of H Buckley and Sons , he was responsible for the 3,000 kilos of potatoes and 700 kilos of onions , some of which had been grown by the pupils of Scissett Middle School as part of their rural studies . |
| 27 | I went on and delivered a fast three minutes of the cleanest material I had , most of which had been done to death already by every comic who went before me and would no doubt be done again by those who followed . |
| 28 | Councillor Rosie also voiced his concerns over the treatment of the W family , eight members of which had been held in care since November 1990 , at enormous cost to Orkney . |
| 29 | In one case five fire extinguishers in the same room were found to be empty — some of which had been used by workmen to get rid of dust . |
| 30 | The door was secured by eight clamps , some of which had been jammed into position by the impact of the blast . |