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Example sentences of "[vb -s] [that] had been " in BNC.

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1	The dhāmi picked up his long tuft of hair bound with silver rings that had been given to the god he embodied , and carefully wound it round his head again and covered it with his turban .
2	Birds of paradise skins that had been prepared in the traditional way by natives of Papua New Guinea had had their legs removed ; for a considerable time even respectable scientists thought there might be a land where birds never settled .
3	The first fighter to use P–5 Mustangs in the Eighth Air Force , the 357th had a faster rate of kills than any other unit within the Mighty Eighth The 357th featured may top ‘ ace ’ pilots and five survivors , Chuck Yeager , Clarence Bud Anderson , Leonard Kit Carson , Richard Peterson and Tommy Hayes were all present at Oshkosh to be reunited with five Mustangs that had been painted in the markings carried by ‘ their ’ wartime aircraft .
4	We chose acupuncture points that had been used in most experiments with acupuncture analgesia , as well as in the two previous clinical studies , both of which were of electroacupuncture .
5	Following the government retreat over the terms of the Directive in 1988 it was estimated that Anglian would have to spend £60-£70 million over the following 10 years to clean up the water supplies of Bedford and Norwich , along with a total 25 supplies that had been subject to derogations .
6	Meanwhile , the corporate-finance deals that had been generating big bucks for Wall Street 's investment bankers were starting to dry up .
7	On 19 December 1989 Vinelott J. declared that the plaintiffs were not entitled to object to items in the accounts on the ground that the items were unreasonable in amount except where the items challenged formed part of litigation costs that had been directed to be taxed on an indemnity basis , in which case the plaintiffs could make objections appropriate to a taxation on an indemnity basis unless ( a ) the court had deprived the first defendant ( as mortgagee ) of any relevant costs ; or ( b ) the court had ordered taxation of any relevant costs on some other basis save where there was no inconsistency between such an order and the first defendant contractual right to payment of such costs .
8	The order made by Vinelott J. and now under appeal dealt with these issues by declaring that the plaintiffs were not entitled to object to items in the accounts on the ground that the items were unreasonable in amount except where the items challenged formed part of the litigation costs that had been directed to be taxed on an indemnity basis , in which case the plaintiffs could make objections appropriate to a taxation on an indemnity basis : see R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 12(2) .
9	Warner 's only chance with Black Fury would have been if the serious critics had hailed it as a masterpiece and as a great breakthrough , but on this occasion the critics were all too aware of the stresses and strains that had been created by the processing of an authentic theme into a melodramatic format .
10	He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons .
11	As a result of the ‘ literate mentality ’ that these institutions helped to form in England , and to which Lyons and fellow academics now subscribe , later historians , looking back to records of eleventh century England , tended to discard medallions , seals and other material objects that had been major criteria of validation in the oral culture of that period .
12	Sam came back frowning and , stretching inside without stepping into the water , pressed the three switches that had been unresponsive two days earlier .