Example sentences of "this [noun sg] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless welfare provisions for school children had made progress during the 1930s although because of the frequent economic crises this progress had been rather erratic . |
| 2 | The legislative measures corresponding to this change had been the Reform Act of 1832 and the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 , which recognised that the price of bread could no longer be controlled in the interest of British grain producers . |
| 3 | On the family farm this change had been , if anything , greater than on the larger units . |
| 4 | Mr Lightman said that at the time of the libel trial the defence had no idea that this payment had been made . |
| 5 | He added : ‘ The chancellor must come to explain why the secret arrangements were such that the public were never to know that this payment had been made . ’ |
| 6 | Prior to 1980 , the state pension was also linked to the average rise in earnings , whichever was the higher , and if this link had been maintained , single pensioners and married couples would be receiving an extra £12.80 and £20.50 , respectively . |
| 7 | Antics of this kind had been the stuff of carnival throughout western Europe for centuries . |
| 8 | Metal whiskers of this kind had been known of , in a general sort of way , for a long time but had been regarded as a nuisance or a curiosity . |
| 9 | This responsibility had been taken over by the medical and scientific establishment , as represented by Dr Meuthen . |
| 10 | This story had been used extensively by the Americans to drum up support against Gadaffi in the tame sections of the Western media even though they knew it was untrue . |
| 11 | Yet it is ironical that the most startling changes in industrial chemistry came in dyestuffs , because the fundamental discoveries in this field had been made as far back as 1857 by an Englishman , and England and France dominated aniline dye production until 1870 . |
| 12 | Precisely this eventuality had been considered at the highest level in the days just before the war ended . |
| 13 | What if the plaintiff in this case had been a tradesperson ( i.e a lawful visitor to the premises , but one who was not in a contractual relationship with the hotel ) who was injured whilst trying to escape from the fire ? |
| 14 | This hope had been inspired by events in France , where the financier John Law , exiled after a fatal duel , was perceived to be achieving a spectacular unloading of the public debt . |
| 15 | It incorporated a common interface component allowing the use of different operating systems and this part had been added by a former employee of the plaintiff who had a similar program and interface . |
| 16 | Alter this technique had been invented , it was only a matter of time before weapons designers adapted it for the detection of submarines . |
| 17 | This strip had been laid out by the estate gardeners into what were known as Walks . |
| 18 | This stick had been used so often for beating me that it was now quite smooth . |
| 19 | But at trial she said that this admission had been falsely made in order to protect her son . |
| 20 | In the picture the car is bound for Victoria Pier via Lytham Road , and is thus fitted with high mesh guards on the top deck to prevent passengers hitting the centre traction poles with which this route had been re-equipped . |
| 21 | All the surrendering Germans in this instance had been shot dead by the Commandos . |
| 22 | At the same time , it is only fair to point out that my task in this instance had been of an unusually difficult order . |
| 23 | Once this base had been consolidated , forays would be made deeper into the wilderness , this time , perhaps , with a cossack military unit establishing a blockhouse ( zimove ) to contain the furs collected from the next tribe to be located . |
| 24 | Powerful impulses in this direction had been supplied by the immense development in the study of antiquity throughout the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | Oh , no , I would not say this hour had been altogether wasted . |
| 26 | The purpose of this chapter is to examine on what basis this decision had been taken . |
| 27 | It was widely believed that this provision had been specifically inserted to prevent a return to office by Ríos Montt , an evangelical Protestant who had come to power in the wake of a military coup and ruled as dictator from March 1982 to August 1983 [ see pp. 31605-07 ; 32494-96 ] . |
| 28 | In some cases this money had been spent on ‘ magnificent sports centres , public buildings , and libraries ’ , as well as on useless projects such as FENI . |
| 29 | Afterwards many people said this experience had been traumatic but positive . |
| 30 | Previous findings over this hypothesis had been contradictory . |