Example sentences of "that had been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that was less surprising than that somebody had still been issuing such certificates in the chaos that had been Germany , just three weeks before the final surrender . |
| 2 | Peggy did not go up to apologise to her great-grandmother ; she was too busy doing the work that had been Rosie 's routine . |
| 3 | The social provision that had been Britain 's thank-offering to an expectant postwar world after 1945 had left the problem of poverty , in some respects , remarkably and alarmingly unaffected . |
| 4 | On 9 November , the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965 came into effect , suspending rather than abolishing the death penalty for those categories of murder that had been capital . |
| 5 | Although overt proclamations of the need to maintain English as a " manly " educational pursuit by no means disappeared during the inter-war period , the pages of the Review reveal few of the defensive and often hysterical avowals of the discipline 's " manliness " that had been characteristic of the earlier period . |
| 6 | The branch he 'd climbed over this morning that had been tom down in the wind was moving , shaking violently . |
| 7 | He had been painted in wonderful Afghan clothes , a tunic and turban of deep blue and red embroidered with gold , clothes he had brought back from the exploits during which he had found Charlotte , the fabulous exploits that had been Alexandra 's bedtime stories every night , every single night in childhood , haunting her sleep with nightmares of cruelty and savagery in wild , barbaric places . |
| 8 | The dark , sticky mass that had been Dominic Wetherby 's head . |
| 9 | On the other hand it is difficult to argue that the Revolution resolved the major issues that had been sources of political tension since the Restoration , and it certainly did not restore the political consensus that had eluded the nation in 1660 . |
| 10 | It said quite plainly , there will be trouble , mademoiselle , and Jenna followed Marguerite into the house that had been home to her father for all those years . |
| 11 | Virus F/x-01–74482 , soon referred to as , simply , the Mahon virus was , as far as she could understand , a unique example of something that up till now had only been postulated : that deep in the ocean , under the terrific pressure and in temperatures approaching absolute zero , there had remained chains of biochemicals , primitive viruses that had been part of the great ‘ organic soup ’ at the creation of life , remaining unchanged as the rest of the primordial swamp had undergone the long evolutionary journey to form all the complexities of life on earth . |
| 12 | It was in 1982 that TMAM finally moved in to the airfield , taking over two pre-fabricated huts that had been part of the Station in the late 1940s and early 1950s . |
| 13 | The only evening dress she had brought with her was the colour of well-polished copper , which added a little colour to her pale complexion , but it was not going to be warm enough and so she took the mink that had been part of her trousseau from the wardrobe and slung it around her shoulders . |
| 14 | In the end , ten republics — including some that had declared independence — agreed a joint statement which indicated that a loose union would be established based on Russia and the Central Asian republics , and that around it there would be a ‘ common economic space ’ that would include most if not all of the republics that had been part of the USSR . |
| 15 | Yields from the peat lands that had been part of the swamp were disappointing , however , and the land became subject to subsidence and oxidation . |
| 16 | Also barrels of apples and tobacco and many other useful items that had been part of the boat 's cargo were strewn all along the beach . |
| 17 | Somewhere beyond , the thing that had been Farley Peters — still locked in the corridor wall — gibbered and scrabbled with monstrous hunger . |
| 18 | Down below on the staircase , the thing that had been Farley Peters was trying to crawl up the steps towards him . |
| 19 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 20 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 21 | Products that had been heat treated to inactivate HIV were introduced in July 1985 and all untreated products were recalled . |
| 22 | I mean , ten years ago , maybe twenty years ago , I would n't have known anyone at all that had been millionaires . |
| 23 | Until the catastrophe in Anatolia in 1922 , the great idea pulled them eastward , in an attempt to recapture the glory , and some of the lands , that had been Byzantium . |
| 24 | Adam took a look out of the window of the bedroom that had been Hilbert 's . |
| 25 | More human than she 'd looked all morning , he thought , realizing he had taken against his witness at least partly because she was alive and the amusing , lively , feminine creature that had been Angela Morgan was not . |
| 26 | And , at last , Cardiff could see that the mutated horror on the stairs was not the thing from the wrecked car , not the thing that had been Barbara 's brother from 1964 . |
| 27 | She squatted by the mess that had been Andrew Jean , and said her goodbyes . |
| 28 | They lived in a double-decker apartment in Adelphi Terrace that had been Charlotte 's home before her marriage . |
| 29 | The period immediately following the death of Raedwald among the eastern Angles was one of internal strife between Raedwald 's son and successor , Eorpwald , and his half-brother , Sigeberht ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , who was driven into exile in Gaul , and probably also one of tension between pagan and Christian factions as the kingdom lapsed further into paganism under Eorpwald ( HE 11 , 15 ) , so that Eorpwald was not able to maintain the influence that had been Raedwald 's . |
| 30 | 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 . |