Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [prep] those " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , their report stated that syllabuses for pupils of lower attainment had been constructed from those designed for pupils in the top quarter of attainment by deleting a few topics and reducing the depth of treatment of others . |
| 2 | The Department of the Environment , announcing the allocations , said priority had been given to those sites which were most badly contaminated . |
| 3 | Her sister did not reply , confused by the question , and the anxiety that had been aroused by those few moments , during which two men had helped old Eleanor Thorne down the front path and into a waiting ambulance . |
| 4 | This method of examining the data has not been employed in the previous studies because no attempt had been made in those studies to be representative in the sampling of direction of turn at each junction ( see Table 4.2 ) . |
| 5 | At the crossroads outside the village a row of clay effigies had been placed by those who 'd been bitten . |
| 6 | Once again , much of the German casualty list had been caused by those infuriating guns behind Côte 304 . |
| 7 | He drew up a map of Scotland based on where the men lived and found the excess of cases in children from rural areas who had been exposed to those men . |
| 8 | Jimmy had been shaken by those sounds , more shaken than the others , for good reason , but Cardiff could see that he was unprepared to show it as he pushed himself away from the reception counter . |
| 9 | One of the major objectives of the account was to reapportion credit within the movement since much of it had been misappropriated by those who had done little or only appeared after emancipation in 1834 . |
| 10 | Mr Jenkin said he and other British politicians opposed to Maastricht had tried to get this message across in the run-up to the referendum , but had been defeated by those urging people to vote yes . |
| 11 | Most of that land had been allocated to those with forest grazing rights , whose method of running stock would be affected by the enclosures . |
| 12 | Union affiliations to the Labour Party had been confined to those " contracting in " under the Trades Disputes Act of 1927 , and the total of affiliated unionists stood at two million throughout the 1930s . |
| 13 | By March 1992 , no legal action had been taken against those responsible . |
| 14 | No decision had been taken in those first decades of the sixteenth century . |
| 15 | Writing to the archbishop of York after the Council , he told him he could send only the ‘ headings ’ ( the Capitula ) of the decrees because he did not wish to circulate the fuller texts until they had been approved by those who were present . |
| 16 | They had met just three months ago , yet now it seemed that the whole of her life had been crammed into those few fleeting weeks ; as if her living had had no meaning before they met and her future would have no substance if ever he left her . |
| 17 | Many parents of potential boy soldiers , sailors and airmen would have been very reluctant to allow their sons to join the armed forces if homosexuality had been allowed among those who were to train them . |
| 18 | A social wage had been provided for those unable for whatever reason to earn , or those whose earning capacity had been interrupted by illness , injury , and unemployment . |
| 19 | In the late nineteenth century , the pastime of rambling through open countryside had been restricted to those who not only had time at their disposal but also the financial capability to travel into rural areas . |
| 20 | His pace quickened as the accents changed ; City gents in long black coats and bowlers gave way to professional men in dark suits and trilbies , to be taken over by rough lads in ill-fitting clothes and caps , until Charlie finally arrived in the East End , where even the boaters had been abandoned by those under thirty . |
| 21 | It was a lot of hard work and a lot of fun , but once in a lifetime was enough , as they themselves had been told by those who had made the 1928 pie . |
| 22 | Our use of some light music on the Fort San Programme was excused because it had been requested for those patients recovering in hospital . |
| 23 | Advertising sales had been combined with those of Grampian , Scottish , West country and S4C . |