Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [that] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found , for example , that cover values for vegetation , litter and bare ground were distinct between sites that had been moderately and severely affected with a less distinct gradation occurring between slightly and moderately disturbed sites , and that noticeable exposure of mineral soil occurred only after the vegetation cover was reduced by c. 40 per cent . |
| 2 | He rattled the necklace of shells that had been wound around her neck . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At three o'clock in the morning of Tuesday 20 May , Frank Foley and Edward Carrington watched a Dornier 217 taxi to a halt between the lines of flares that had been lit ten minutes previously at RAF Lincoln . |
| 6 | She felt lousy , drained by the swings of emotions that had been an integral part of these last — what was it , just eight hours ? |
| 7 | This was part of a huge complex of buildings that had been owned by the Bulgarian Communist Party . |
| 8 | This position was not only the culmination of ideas that had been knocking around in Balcon 's mind for the past six years or so , it was also a declaration of a new confidence in the possibility of British cinema , and a final casting off of the inferiority complex that had impaired British filmmakers since 1918 . |
| 9 | But there was still a French-speaking population on the peninsula itself ; transferring a population to a new ruler in this way was common enough in Europe , and the only unusual thing about this transfer was that the British promised to let the inhabitants retain their Catholic religion without enforcing the laws restricting the civil rights of Catholics that had been passed at Westminster . |
| 10 | Defries hardly noticed the lakes and the vegetation : she was studying the strange complex of structures that had been built on a vast slab of rock in the centre of the fertile valley . |
| 11 | In the shrine also : a small bunch of flowers , some heather , a pair of gloves that had been Mama 's ( and still , but only a little now , smelled of her ) , and her little gold notebook and gold pencil . |
| 12 | Concerns of this kind , as Pamyat' demonstrated , could sometimes take a xenophobic or anti-semitic form , but they also helped to provide the impetus behind a growing environmentalist movement centred around issues such as the pollution of Lake Baikal in Siberia and the defence of villages that had been declared ‘ perspectiveless ’ by central planners . |
| 13 | Although until April 1980 it was illegal for beneficiaries to sell land , researchers found evidence of land being sold and also of farms that had been turned over to sharecropping . |
| 14 | Talk of magic in the Western World as a spent force : self-congratulatory accounts of cults that had been infiltrated , and discovered to be groups of pseudo-scientists exchanging arcane theories in a language no two of them agreed upon , or sexual obsessives using the excuse of workings to demand favours they could n't seduce from their partners or , most often , crazies in search of some mythology , however ludicrous , to keep them from complete psychosis . |
| 15 | There was an old-fashioned herb garden at the back ; the house was surrounded by lawns and gardens , shrubs and trees everywhere , beds of flowers that had been there forever . |
| 16 | SALT I , the most important of these , placed limits on the further construction of intercontinental nuclear weapon systems by both sides ; it was intended to remain in force for five years or until superseded by a more comprehensive agreement , and it was the first real fruit of negotiations that had been proceeding since the late 1960s . |
| 17 | It stuck to Adam 's body , burnt into the jigsaw of cuts that had been carved into his skin . |
| 18 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 19 | On climate change [ see also p. 37291 ] , Resolution 44/207 recalled an earlier resolution ( 43/53 — see p. 36778 ) and noted the number of conferences that had been held on this issue in 1989 . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , if I do , I 've chosen a pretty safe place to do it in , I think , ’ she responded tenderly , exploring the commanding contours of his face with fingers that had been aching to do this for months . |
| 21 | Some of them presented her with gifts that had been made in the centre 's workshops . |
| 22 | During the presentation , two briefcases were crammed full with used dealing books containing clients ' names and addresses , and with leads that had been left carelessly lying around on desks . |
| 23 | The hearth was drifted up with cinders that had been left uncleared when today 's fire was lit . |
| 24 | When applicable , these two sources of law provided shippers with benefits that had been unavailable under the Harter Act . |
| 25 | Quite a large sum of money was created partly out of existing funds ( of LEA ) which were to support in-service in schools that had been identified by some kind of functional group in the school … |
| 26 | The country 's Department of National Parks holds stocks of ivory amounting to around 25,000 tonnes , mostly obtained from elephants that had been culled or died naturally , or from seizures from poachers . |
| 27 | Only nineteen MPs were heirs to peerages and of these seven were from families that had been Liberal before 1886 and another five were new creations since then ; thirty-eight MPs were related to peers by blood and another forty by marriage . |
| 28 | Residents and shoppers in Girvan were recently confronted with a very smelly problem , as hundreds of fish were left to rot in freezers that had been switched off when a shop closed down and the previous owners omitted to tell the managing agent . |
| 29 | However , said Rosen , their analysts found mycotoxins in control samples that contained none , and then missed them in controls that had been doctored with mycotoxins . |
| 30 | Throughout the 1920s Japanese silk and rice producers faced severe competition from Asian producers , some of whom were based in territories that had been incorporated into the Japanese Empire . |