Example sentences of "body had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of an eighth-century Pre-Khmer bronze figure of a Bodhisattva , estimated at £40,000-£60,000 , the body had been tested and proved ancient but it was clear that the head had once been broken off and re-attached . |
| 2 | The body had been covered by a thin layer of soil as was the practice when a soldier was killed in action and there was no time to move him to the rear . |
| 3 | Hard to steer , to balance , to float , she had learned instead to consent ; to cast herself onto the wind and learn the whole length and depth and height of its strength , and in perfect relaxation , the stern corseting of gravity left far below , her whole body had been open to power and loveliness . |
| 4 | The girl 's body had been identified by her aunt , Mrs. Browne . |
| 5 | Kim was learning more than she 'd bargained for from the entries : ‘ I had n't realised that the all-in-one body had been such an immensely influential piece . |
| 6 | In a windy , cold field in Cambridgeshire , green with winter wheat , half a mile away from where Angela Morgan 's body had been found , a small man with a narrow , turned-down mouth sat smoking his twentieth cigarette of the day at the wheel of a Land Rover . |
| 7 | The new body had been growing steadily for weeks . |
| 8 | In the year 1000 Otto III had Charlemagne 's tomb opened and removed from it the gold cross which hung round the neck of the skeleton and the marble throne on which the body had been placed . |
| 9 | As she walked Maggie thought of her father whose body had been one of the last recovered . |
| 10 | ‘ But , if the body had been brought in from the Met area , we would not necessarily have been alerted . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ One must accept ’ , Morton said carefully , ‘ that it would be unlikely the body had been brought from south of the river , because of the danger of being caught on a bridge . |
| 12 | Professor Burney said that the body had been kept on its back for some hours , before being put in the gateway . ’ |
| 13 | The car had burned out and the body had been difficult to identify . |
| 14 | This august body had been responsible for placing the bench we were now sitting on . |
| 15 | The body had been retrieved from the river after a lengthy search . |
| 16 | Everyone knew that this body had been a key element in Stalin 's rise to power and that any criticism of it was , by inference , a critique of Stalin . |
| 17 | This body had been set up by Bismarck in 1886 , when it was estimated that if the Ostflucht continued , 3 million Germans would have left their homes in the Prussian east by the start of the twentieth century . |
| 18 | The culprit was assumed to be the young woman whose charred body had been trapped by the flames ; she was identified as a feminist — funny , when PopCon had been giving money and moral support to feminist groups . |
| 19 | They said the body had been cut from the top of a bar ! |
| 20 | Demian 's body had been hidden , shrouded almost , by a deep-crimson velvet piece of cloth , edged with gold . |
| 21 | Only when every part of the grass verge around the body had been scoured , and the piece of turf actually under the body remained the last to be examined , would Dr Barnard allow human feet to walk on the ground to approach the body . |
| 22 | ‘ I believe they wired it to a car battery and the body asked if Danie Craven is still President of the South African Rugby Board ’ — UNNAMED SOUTH AFRICAN PLAYER on hearing that a Bronze Age body had been found perfectly preserved in an Alpine glacier . |
| 23 | That the body had been embalmed was established by the nature of the incisions , and its having been ‘ soaked in pickle ’ . |
| 24 | Once the body had been viewed by members of the Privy Council and others to confirm that life had ceased and that the king was dead , word went out to summon the surgeons , apothecaries and wax chandlers ‘ to do their duties in spurging , cleansing , bowelling , searing , embalming , furnishing and dressing with spices the said corpse ’ . |
| 25 | And here we learn something new , for though the sculptor has chosen to leave the left hand exposed he gives us an indication as to how shrouds were placed once the body had been encoffined : the right sleeve has been pulled down over its hands and gently tucked under the fingers . |
| 26 | Once the body had been placed in the coffin and the fitted pillow positioned under the head , these ‘ sheets ’ were folded over the remains and either pinned together or roughly sewn into place . |
| 27 | A layer of ferns or mosses for a bed , a bundle of sweet herbs for a pillow , and as much as it would still contain after the body had been gently laid in it of any aromatic or flowering plant for a coverlet ’ . |
| 28 | A spokesman for Kent police said yesterday that clothing from the body had been shown to Lisa 's parents and close associates , but he stressed the identity could not yet be confirmed . |
| 29 | His eyes were wired open so that he must stare unblinkingly at a giant Sagramoso head , and his own body had been reduced to roughly the same contours . |
| 30 | A couple of hours later , as I sat in the hostel kitchen , a message came over the radio that a body had been found . |