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"had been predicted" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is the past perfect passive form of "to predict," indicating that something was predicted in the past and had already been completed before another event or action took place. Example: The rainfall in this region had been predicted to increase by 10% over the next decade, but the actual increase turned out to be much higher.
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Worse, the calamity had been predicted.
Probably not as many as had been predicted, but yes.
Still, while that result was unprecedented, it had been predicted by theory.
This type of coupling had been predicted by theorists, but never observed.
He was informed that the new element had been predicted by Mendeleyev but that its density had been predicted to be 5.9.
Indeed, antiaromatic compounds had been predicted by Breslow to be more conducting.
The neutron's existence had been predicted in a speech by Rutherford in 1920.
In particular, ice XV is antiferroelectric rather than ferroelectric, as had been predicted.
Police have arrested two men for spreading rumours that a second major earthquake had been predicted.
This effect had been predicted qualitatively using Newton's theory of gravity.
The preliminary turnout figure was 6o%, it said, less than the 70% that had been predicted.
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had been foreseen
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