Example sentences of "[n mass] which had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rufus had only seen it while eating partridge which had been winged instead of shot in the head and had nearly broken one of his teeth on the tiny ball of lead . |
| 2 | For this purpose sensitive ‘ Serrate ’ detectors were fitted into Beaufighters — aircraft which had been developed by the Bristol Aircraft Company from the ‘ Britain First ’ , with substantial private sponsorship . |
| 3 | In late August , however , only days before the body was due to be transported , Imelda Marcos announced that the burial had been delayed on the grounds that she would not submit the body of her husband to the " indignity " of being transported on the cargo aircraft which had been offered by the Philippines ' government . |
| 4 | A group of musicians stood in the angle of one of the buttresses of the cathedral playing tambour and fife whilst the Dean and Chapter , garlands of roses on their heads , danced in solemn procession around the severed head of a buck which had been placed on a pole , its brown eyes staring glassily over those who now rejoiced at its death . |
| 5 | I mean we did see some strange tracks and we did find this sheep which had been completely gutted , but apparently that could have been done by a snow leopard . |
| 6 | For example , in those areas where golden eagles fed extensively on carrion sheep which had been dipped in dieldrin , the proportion of pairs successfully rearing young fell from 72 per cent to 29 per cent during the late 1950s . |
| 7 | He was hospitalized this Summer after shearing sheep which had been dipped in O Ps . |
| 8 | On Aug. 16 , as a shipment of UN relief arrived for the first time in the southern port of Kismayo , a local militia which had been hired to protect it stole 600 tonnes of food and fuel . |
| 9 | The house surgeon received £3.3s.0d. for attending a coroner 's inquest on a patient who had died in the infirmary , and Samuel Whitbread , in his capacity as magistrate , exacted contributions from time to time : in August 1813 , for example , the infirmary funds benefited by £10 which had been received from John Schoner and William Edwards ‘ paid in atonement to stay of prosecution for disturbing the Methodist meeting at Biggleswade during Divine Service ’ . |
| 10 | A petition to them might bring assistance for a particular project , but their schools received little attention : salaries were simply noted in the accounts and no one stopped to consider whether £10 which had been generous by the standards of earlier centuries might now be inadequate . |
| 11 | The biggest loss I recorded was 11oz in a 9lb 5oz bream which had been in a keepnet for nine hours . |
| 12 | More than £4 which had been left for the milkman was stolen from the house in Marwood Drive . |
| 13 | Scaffolding worth £200 which had been put up at Firthmoor Infants School in Estoril Road South , Darlington , has been stolen . |
| 14 | The circumstance which offended most of the Yek who heard of it was not the attempt on Alexei 's life , but rather the means which had been employed . |
| 15 | In a way , the revolution had been a long time coming and somewhat contained in America , despite the reactions of the mass media which had been — like all conservative America — horrified , if not titillated by the lurid images of beat youth . |
| 16 | The only substantial aid received by the government so far had been $300,000,000 from the United States agreed by the US Congress in May 1990 [ see p. 37450 ] , which had been gradually disbursed , except for $50,000,000 which had been set aside for clearing debt arrears . |
| 17 | In April 1990 Starkist Seafood , the world 's largest tuna canner with 35 per cent of the huge US market , announced that they would no longer buy tuna which had been caught by encircling dolphins . |
| 18 | At the Victorian picture sales at Sotheby 's on 12 November and Christie 's on 13 November , buyers tended to stay away from works which had been on the market in recent years . |
| 19 | At the Northampton Forest Eyre of 1255 John Lovet , a verderer , had to pay the substantial fine of twelve marks ‘ for mendacity and concealment ’ : he had contradicted his roll by saying that the deer which had been taken in the forest by the men of the parson of Eaton Maudit ‘ was a certain sheep ’ . |
| 20 | The birds went off at noisy full-throttle , right through a herd of deer which had been grazing quietly till then . |