Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [prep] most " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly one-third of domestic consumers in 1948 were on very high flat-rate tariffs designed for small users , but these were gradually induced by Area Boards to shift to ‘ two-part ’ or ‘ block ’ tariffs which had been adopted by most of the larger , progressive undertakings before nationalisation . |
| 2 | The principle had been adopted in most , if not all , Commonwealth countries ; though in some it has now been modified or abandoned , either by statute or by judicial action . |
| 3 | In effect the competitive labour supply function had been supplanted over most of its range by what may be called the ‘ trades union labour supply function ’ , illustrated by the bold lines in Figure 5.1 . |
| 4 | All of these bodies had either been confined to MPs or had been expressions of ‘ Political Dissent ’ and had overlapped in membership , support and aims ; all had been shunned by most Methodists . |
| 5 | The elections for municipal administrations on May 26 [ see p. 38201 ] had been followed in most cases by the appointment of mayors on June 15 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although Duke had contested the election as a Republican , he had been disowned by most of the party 's establishment , and the official Republican candidate had withdrawn from the contest in order to avoid splitting the anti-Duke vote . |
| 8 | A phased return of responsibility from the army to the civilian police was begun in 1976 and had been completed for most of the region by early 1977 . |
| 9 | Unemployment rose from a level of about 10% ( which had been maintained throughout most of the '20s ) to a high of 23% in 1932 . |
| 10 | This not only showed how out of touch with the English political scene Tyndale was , but illustrated the honesty or obstinacy which made him feel that he had to declare his opposition to the divorce , although it had been supported by most of the other Reformers . |
| 11 | Mr Cook argued that 10 years of Thatcherism had been forced on most people , who had never voted Conservative , and that many of those who opposed PR in the Labour Party wanted to use the same undemocratic power ‘ to ram socialism down the throats of a majority who did n't vote for it ’ . |
| 12 | Aviation before the war had been considered by most countries , especially the imperial powers , as an important tool of government policy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The other eye had been closed for most of the fight by a left hook that had caused a large amount of swelling both above and below the brow . |
| 15 | They belonged without doubt to the successful minority , but a heavy price had been paid by most of them . |
| 16 | Salieri had never got on with Leopold II , and in 1790 he had been released from most of his court obligations , remaining as a kind of honorary kapellmeister . |
| 17 | Although no one had been hanged in Ireland since 1954 and capital punishment had been abolished for most categories of murder in 1964 [ see p. 19227 ] , it had been nominally retained for those categories specified above . |