Example sentences of "[noun pl] be that [pron] had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he was n't much of a horseman , perhaps had n't been in the regiment very long ; and the great achievement in his eyes was that he had managed to do that long and difficult gallop without falling off . |
| 2 | The worry , though , for the visitors was that they had created much without converting chances into goals . |
| 3 | Dr. Eric Ashby , vice-chancellor of Queens University , Belfast , was named as chairman ; one of his advantages was that he had avoided publicising his personal views on adult education in the past , although he later emerged as a staunch defender of voluntaryism and a critic of those university extra-mural departments which had expanded by lowering standards . |
| 4 | Traffic through the Mersey tunnels was down 4.9pc in the year ending in April but a spokesman said indications were that it had regained 3pc of that business in the first few months of this year . |
| 5 | The trouble with all these guys is that they had become too aware of their public image after Saddam Hussein 's little escapade into Kuwait and the atrocious acts his troops had performed . |
| 6 | I now have 4 years ' teaching experience although I too was thrown in at the deep end — my only advantage over others was that I had studied languages myself and knew how difficult it could be . |
| 7 | The grounds were that he had used up his grant entitlement in qualifying to be a teacher . |