Example sentences of "[adv] that [pron] [vb past] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not enough that they had been questioned at length about a work in which they had secretly collaborated : they were now to be insulted by having their acknowledged work dismissed as of small account . |
| 2 | And she had never had much time for Angela Cartwright , who , when it came to Grunte , tended to run with the hare , though it was plain enough that she had been put out by Grunte 's placing Hyacinth on his right hand and had agreed with Carole afterwards that they would have little trouble finding the necessary fifty signatures . |
| 3 | The complainant need not show he was aggrieved on the date mentioned in the summons , it is enough that he had been aggrieved earlier , otherwise as Darling , J. pointed out in Hilton v Hopwood it would be virtually impossible for an individual to bring an action under s.99 . |
| 4 | And it had been there , about twenty minutes later , that Thiercelin had received his wound ; a shell splinter in the cheek , which looked worse than it was , bleeding profusely into his collar and tunic , so that he had been ordered back to the chateau to have it dressed . |
| 5 | They acknowledged only that they had been playing loud music and having innocent fun . |
| 6 | She could n't really remember anything , only that she had been knitting and then she had woken up in this bed with her nosy , bossy sister sitting beside her . |
| 7 | In June , he told Puchberg bitterly that he had been forced to give away his ‘ Prussian ’ quartets for a song , just in order to have enough cash to meet his present obligations . |
| 8 | Lamprey was reading the second , and so far no word had come downstairs that it had been rejected . |
| 9 | It was just that they 'd been told they could n't do it . |
| 10 | Not that he had been to work on a Sunday for several years , but that was how he remembered it . |
| 11 | Mrs Bennett would have a fit if she knew Celia had gone up to Beckwith 's Folly , but it was n't the first time lately that she had been overwhelmed by the desire to escape , although it was the first time she had actually done anything about it . |
| 12 | Harris , who last season captained the Raleigh-Banana team which has now been disbanded , announced yesterday that he had been offered a contract by the Spanish Lotus-Festina squad . |
| 13 | Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas . |
| 14 | Outwardly , I criticised them as much as anybody , feeling more than pissed off that we had been hit on their account . |
| 15 | This was the first time since 1948 that the entire Legislative Yuan had been elected , and the first time ever that it had been elected entirely within Taiwan . |
| 16 | She did n't seem surprised to see him sitting there still in his cloak and obviously only just returned from Mass , and he knew at once that she had been told about the murders . |
| 17 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 18 | I then tried to deduce the events of the previous night and discovered some time later that I had been raped by force by XYZ who had been on the mini bus and followed me home . |
| 19 | When I found out that we had been placed next to each other in class with all my friends around I went , ‘ Oh no , I 'm sitting next to Grant ’ . |
| 20 | To be seriously concerned with this field was to expose oneself to the possibility of ridicule when it turned out that one had been deceived by a clever confidence trickster ; at best it led to controversy , to results which were suggestive rather than conclusive , and away from those straightforward and answerable questions which since Galileo 's time had been the essence of scientific research . |
| 21 | he pointed out that it had been made by a woman who met life unafraid : ‘ Georgia O'Keeffe has had her feet scorched in the laval effusiveness of terrible experience ; she has walked on fire and listened to the hissing vapours round her person … |
| 22 | A notable illustration of this complexity even among hard-core racists was the NF official who pointed out that he had been elected by both black and white work mates , despite his well-known NF affiliation , because he fought equally hard for blacks and whites ; he claimed a liking for blacks and maintained that he played football and drank with them , although politically he supported repatriation . |
| 23 | However , the majority of MPs expressed their support , pointing out that he had been elected first time to the shadow cabinet , giving him a mandate and the right to the same loyalty which his predecessors , Donald Dewar and Bruce Millan , had received . |
| 24 | In his version , Gloucester met with Hastings and his allies in the Tower , and cried out that he had been ambushed , whereupon waiting soldiers rushed in and cut down Hastings on the spot . |
| 25 | In his version , Gloucester met with Hastings and his allies in the Tower , and cried out that he had been ambushed , whereupon waiting soldiers rushed in and cut down Hastings on the spot . |
| 26 | Dansey left Rome in 1936 ; word seeped out that he had been caught with his hand in the till and sacked . |
| 27 | Later she worked out that she had been kept underground for four months . |
| 28 | She was in fact very thin but had this huge wire frame around her ’ It turned out that she 'd been coming in a couple of times a week , stealing hundreds of pounds worth of clothes , hanging them on her frame then walking out . |
| 29 | In the instant case the IT were entitled to find that it was not reasonably practicable for Mr Sen to have presented his unfair dismissal claim in time , notwithstanding that he had been given erroneous advice about the time limit by a solicitor in circumstances where he had also been wrongly advised as to the time limit by a member of the IT staff . |
| 30 | Now that they had been presented with the information which they had requested all along , they had to prove that faecal contamination of the egg shell did not constitute any great risk to public health , Mother Catherine said . |