Example sentences of "[noun pl] that had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Motion pictures were to develop into the great mass entertainment of the twentieth century but they had first been shown in the cities of the late nineteenth century and both as an industry and as a social activity they were never to lose characteristics that had been determined at their birth . |
| 2 | The confounding factors were patients ' characteristics that had been shown to be predictive of increased perinatal risk . |
| 3 | As her bobbin shot back and forward between the wools , she sang the old Gaelic songs that had been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries . |
| 4 | No degranulation was noted in either transection or resection animals that had been treated with CR-1409 , but incipient vacuolation of the rough endoplasmic reticulum was a feature of all CR-1409 treated tissues as well as those of the PSBR group ( Fig 8 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ This was to prepare us should we come across animals that had been knocked down by cars . |
| 6 | Their trials , the sentences imposed on them and the police methods that had been used , caused a public outcry and put the government under great pressure . |
| 7 | The representatives of nations and organizations that had been preserving a cautious neutrality now swelled the flock , gabbling about friendly relations and mutual benefit . |
| 8 | Mr Hyde also provided ACCOUNTANCY with a list of 18 KPMG , PKF and Haines Watts offices that had been listed on the system at one time or another . |
| 9 | The black eyes that had been sparkling with good humour a moment before had become hard , almost angry . |
| 10 | A perfect oval face , thick , glossy hair and the same bright sparkle in the wide brown eyes that had been so evident in the photograph at Seaview . |
| 11 | When they first moved far enough into the courtyard to glimpse Gabriel sitting on his cloud , the morning sunshine dazzled eyes that had been indoors for days on end . |
| 12 | She brushed away the dullness that settled itself on her whenever she thought too hard about his death , about the way he had chosen to live parts of his life , the worries that had been there within her , deep below the surface , and forced herself to concentrate on finding the right numbered exit to this magnificent part of Gloucestershire . |
| 13 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 14 | I even wore those same trainers that had been glued to my feet for four and a half months . |
| 15 | It could scarcely be more vivid in their memories than it is in mine , but what is also vivid in my memory is the aftermath of those events , which was the Government 's sensible accommodation of the fears and anxieties that had been expressed . |
| 16 | It was connected with the Marshall Aid fund at the end of the war , er where the United States actually wanted evidence of the fact that funds that had been transferred to the U K Treasury , were being so to speak properly used by the Bank of England and that the Bank of England issued this er one million pound note as evidence that the funds were made available to the Bank of England by the Treasury . |
| 17 | They advised on the tactics that had been successfully used to defeat Labour in April , particularly in attacking their leading opponent personally . |
| 18 | She lost pearls that had been given to her for her 21st birthday . |
| 19 | We had a stable rate base for a long time and we saw no reason to doubt that there was anything untoward in the ratings that had been made within our borough . |
| 20 | Though there had been some concern as to what the world 's reaction would be , Wilson had smoothed it over with assurances that the world community could n't deny that America had the right to protect the few hundred of its citizens in Haiti , and to defend the various mining and import/export concessions that had been granted to them . |
| 21 | It trembled uncomprehendingly over Harry Dunstaple running towards the ramparts waving a sabre and shouting orders , with the bulging pockets of his Tweedside lounging jacket swinging about his knees over Ford , carefully laying a train back to the wall of the churchyard from one of the fougasses that had been dug … over the Sikhs staggering here and there with loads of small stones to shovel into another fougasse not yet completed … over the green Fleury having a rest in the shade of a tamarind beside the Church wall … and finally over the pariah dog , looking towards Fleury with admiration but from a respectful distance ( for Fleury continued to reject its advances ) . |
| 22 | It comes from RHM Research and it shows how the company rescued valuable 16th and 17th century books that had been waterlogged in a flood at Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire . |
| 23 | But my experience is also , if we 'd bought the books that had been printed neighbours in the first place , no one would have noticed the difference . |
| 24 | Most of the books that had been set out on the last delivery had gone , and now more volumes were being added . |
| 25 | All the images that had been in Patrick 's mind while he drove up to the Barbican the previous morning formed again in his imagination . |
| 26 | He built his shed which , made as it was of old floorboards from a couple of hovels that had been empty for years , resembled a shack . |
| 27 | We killed time by looking at classic cars that had been driven by classic car ‘ lovers ’ as they called themselves all the way from southern Italy . |
| 28 | just full of bloody cars that had been confiscated ! |
| 29 | The modern science of ecology emerged when naturalists trying to understand how a species ' distribution is limited by environmental factors sought to develop more precise ways of studying relationships that had been largely taken for granted by previous generations . |
| 30 | It was in 1982 that TMAM finally moved in to the airfield , taking over two pre-fabricated huts that had been part of the Station in the late 1940s and early 1950s . |