Example sentences of "[n mass] that had been " in BNC.

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1 It arranged with the manufacturers that he would be allowed to see technical data that had been carefully doctored to include major errors .
2 In 1962 H. H. Hess , of Princeton University in the USA , published a radical explanation for much of the geological data that had been accumulating over the previous decade or so .
3 A host of aetiological hypotheses has been formed , which have frequently been untestable and based on data that had been unsystematically selected or of dubious validity ( Rosenthal , 1968 ) .
4 So these things came to an end , I recall that on one occasion I was offered the eye of a sheep that had been cooked on a vast platter .
5 For Bridgnorth had made me resolve that I would never more go among a people that had been hardened in unprofitableness under an awakening ministry …
6 The third Duma consisted of people that had been arranged by the Tsar .
7 It was on er channel four I think it was and it was all about these people that had been , you know encouraged to buy this house and then repossessed .
8 He was n't going for a joy trip , he was n't going out in the boat just to se to while away an hour or so to relax and to unwind , he was n't going there to , just to get away from the crowd of people that had been following him and had been listening to him , he had a purpose in going in into the boat , to go to the other side .
9 So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do .
10 Turkington made a further experiment in which he introduced the four clone types of white clover into pure swards of the four grass species that had been sown on soil sampled from the experimental field .
11 Published eventually in five volumes on fossil mammalia , mammalia , birds , fish , and reptiles , respectively , the Zoology , openly claimed for science some of the many new species that had been named from the Beagle 's collection .
12 The Society reached an agreement with most tuna-canners in 1990 , setting up the labelling scheme in return for the canners ' agreeing not to buy tuna that had been caught through drift-netting or " setting-on-dolphins " ( where the mammals are rounded up to catch the schools of tuna which swim beneath them ) .
13 The only evening dress she had brought with her was the colour of well-polished copper , which added a little colour to her pale complexion , but it was not going to be warm enough and so she took the mink that had been part of her trousseau from the wardrobe and slung it around her shoulders .
14 His shroud of silver brocade , one of the pair that had been his wife 's first task after their wedding , was aired .
15 Boeing had the facilities to test aircraft structures to destruction , and they also had some old Boeing 707/300–400 series that had been traded in for more modern aircraft from which stabilisers could be taken .
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