Example sentences of "that [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I I last time I were there I went there for erm well to put it fairly straight I went to consult on something that 'd been done . |
| 2 | The schools that existed were run by either the Church or private individuals and education was for the rich or those able enough to get scholarships , and women 's education was not an issue . |
| 3 | The silence that followed was broken only by the buzzing and blundering of insects , the uninterrupted beating of cricket legs . |
| 4 | On the other hand , anti-papalism and anti-Catholicism had struck deep roots within Elizabethan society , and when England was threatened by Spain in the late 1580s the war that followed was viewed by many in England as a glorious life or death struggle for national and religious survival against the evil forces of the counter-Reformation . |
| 5 | The charges of genocide that followed were denied by Iraq but pressure accumulated for a UN investigation , not least through the criticism of Turkish premier Ozal , whose own country 's relations with its Kurdish minority have enjoyed a chequered history over the years . |
| 6 | For example , the final black-hole state is independent of whether the body that collapsed was composed of matter or antimatter , and whether it was spherical or highly irregular in shape . |
| 7 | Many of the new firms that started were under-capitalised and so went to the wall , but the net number has increased by many hundreds of thousands since 1979 . |
| 8 | In the United States the theory that evolved was based on ‘ pitch phonemes ’ ( Wells , 1945 ; Pike , 1945 ) : four contrastive pitch levels were established and intonation was described basically in terms of a series of movements from one of these levels to another . |
| 9 | This might have made sense when all Council decisions that mattered were passed on the basis of unanimity . |
| 10 | The complex pattern of linkages that emerged was labelled by Burton the ‘ cobweb model ’ . |
| 11 | Not a great deal of intervention took place , and most that did was directed towards small companies in ‘ high-tech ’ sectors , which tended to be located in the south of England . |
| 12 | That always used to be a fortnight to three weeks to unload a ship but this one ship , that was called , I remember that was called the lovely ship and that had been bombed , that had a bomb drop right on the . |
| 13 | There was also concern about the environmental damage that had been suffered as a result of decisions about economic development taken in Moscow rather than in the republics themselves . |
| 14 | It trembled uncomprehendingly over Harry Dunstaple running towards the ramparts waving a sabre and shouting orders , with the bulging pockets of his Tweedside lounging jacket swinging about his knees over Ford , carefully laying a train back to the wall of the churchyard from one of the fougasses that had been dug … over the Sikhs staggering here and there with loads of small stones to shovel into another fougasse not yet completed … over the green Fleury having a rest in the shade of a tamarind beside the Church wall … and finally over the pariah dog , looking towards Fleury with admiration but from a respectful distance ( for Fleury continued to reject its advances ) . |
| 15 | So the funeral went on and the person was lowered into the grave that had been dug and the grave digger was asked to stay behind and they quickly got it put where it should be . |
| 16 | So these things came to an end , I recall that on one occasion I was offered the eye of a sheep that had been cooked on a vast platter . |
| 17 | Her first two charges were a kitten that had been kicked so hard its front paw was broken and a dog who no-one would taken ‘ because it was so strange-looking . ’ |
| 18 | But more often the allocation of billets reflected social relations and deferential attitudes in rural society , as when , according to one MP , at Inverary in Scotland 150 women and children were housed in a cold hall , with bedding of dirty mattresses and sacks of straw ‘ with a broad arrow on them , that had been obtained from the local jail ’ , while near by the Duke of Argyll 's castle was left uninhabited . |
| 19 | Er my job was to er obtain intelligence on er active , known criminals and also to develop intelligence that had been obtained by other officers . |
| 20 | Aubrey had been at his most affected , protesting volubly at the trick that had been played on him . |
| 21 | However , the Regional Development Officer of the housing association insisted on carrying out the same thorough appraisal of its potential that had been applied to the previous buildings . |
| 22 | One of his greatest achievements was to complete the theory of the so-called Diophantine linear equations , a subject that had been studied since antiquity ( Box A ) . |
| 23 | In this way , Axis governments anticipated a Pacific war that had been studied by only a few individuals in the Allies ' interest . |
| 24 | The twist to this story is that it was only when the gods lost patience and threatened to draw a veil of darkness across the proceedings , leaving me stranded high and wet ( and rather chilled ) on one of the most rugged landscapes in the land , that I at last took the chance and accepted the offer that had been proffered . |
| 25 | Minton explained that he had recognised him from a self-portrait that had been exhibited at the AIA Gallery in London . |
| 26 | Few fights — occasionally , you 'd get a man who 'd been gashed in the face with a bottle , that had been drunk in the bar and you 'd be called in and you 'd take him to hospital . |
| 27 | The insignia of royalty that had been assumed by the papacy reflected a monarchical form and structure of government . |
| 28 | But this time , the voices were not in the distress of agony that had been heard in the reception area . |
| 29 | The turnout , across the Soviet Union as a whole , was 80 per cent , and of those who voted , 76.4 per cent declared in favour of the question that had been asked of them . |
| 30 | Nothing was left of the hundreds of thousands of pounds — perhaps as much as half the floating capital of Scotland — that had been invested and over half the colonists were dead of hunger or disease . |