Example sentences of "be that [pron] had be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem had been that there had been a mix-up over my return tickets from Oslo and I could n't get back . |
| 2 | The result was that what had been a small-sized cheap labour force became a large well-paid labour force . |
| 3 | One of the arguments for the defendants was that there had been no theft because the plaintiff had agreed to the transaction with the rogue and reliance was placed on Lord Roskill 's statement in Reg. v. Morris , at p. 332 , that appropriation |
| 4 | All she had been told when she came round after the anaesthetic was that there had been a few complications and the operation had taken rather longer than had been expected . |
| 5 | What was not apparent was that there had been a total flight instrument failure because of a complete electrical breakdown while the aircraft was flying in cloud . |
| 6 | His first reaction was that there had been a leak and he had phoned Mackie about the large sale of shares . |
| 7 | All that mattered was that she had been the fool . |
| 8 | The verdict of the clerk to the select committee of 1824 which reviewed it was that it had been a dead letter so far as " those artisans on whom it was intended to have an effect " , namely printers , tailors , shoe makers and shipbuilders in London who continued " their regular societies and houses of call as though no such act were in existence " . |
| 9 | The Downing Street line on the Home Office incident was that it had been a junior official who had gone through the files to help answer journalists ' inquiries about Clinton , not to help the Bush Administration . |