Example sentences of "[adv] [that] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saved much that had been thrown away as rubbish , and would otherwise have perished without trace . |
| 2 | Perhaps that had been too personal a remark . |
| 3 | I I simply , I simply want er er a direct message from from the programme which is going on Chairman incidentally I I note that Nottinghamshire County Council erm has found a a and the Labour group there has found it necessary to tackle just the same problems erm in elderly persons homes and that I understand that they have a a closure list of seven , now presumably that has been drawn up from a long list of a lot more than seven , say fourteen or fifteen from which they 've made their final choice . |
| 4 | It just felt like somewhere that had been absolutely clean for a very , very long time . |
| 5 | Well it really was so different from a built up place but er um , when , but the day that we came in it was mm , pouring with rain everywhere was muddy and er of course , i i there were only erm one part of this town this area , rather that had been occupied because all the other parts were all fields . |
| 6 | Not that Dare was brainless-Seconds considered John Kennedy 's assassination , and Do n't You Want Me was as perceptive a snapshot of Eighties mores as pop would produce . |
| 7 | This , to use a definition of the American , Stanley Ellin , one of the writers to have given us short stories to equal any that have been written since crime and the short story met ( read his The Speciality of the House ) is any story so long as it deals with " that streak of wickedness in human nature " . |
| 8 | He knew well enough , because once that had been his world too . |
| 9 | Probably that had been one of the things which Aunt Ruth , who had little dress sense , so disliked about her . |
| 10 | She pointed out that smacking is particularly problematic for childminders who are often alone with a child . |
| 11 | Both Poutsma ( 1923 : 42 ) and Jesperson ( 1940 : 287 ) point out that have is often used with the to infinitive in conditional contexts with would : ( 178 ) I 'd have you to know that I do n't care a penny , madam , for your paltry money . |
| 12 | The second raid was a diversion for now that raiding was becoming more organised , full use could be made of feints and diversions to distract defenders from intended targets , and in a wider strategy the whole policy of raiding would involve a major distraction of the enemy towards an invasion of Norway , not France . |
| 13 | It 's the same sort we had before that have been so good . |
| 14 | I ai n't checked them , I 've been on holiday I 've only come back today that 's been drawn has it ? |
| 15 | provide opportunity for catharsis ie. the release of hostile feelings etc that have been , or may be , repressed otherwise . |
| 16 | If you can sort of say well that has been proven , this is the research , this is the system , this is the model , theorists actually enjoy that because they think well this is n't just somebody 's gut reaction , this is something that somebody spends a long time actually thinking about it considering . |
| 17 | Something had happened two years ago that had been traumatic enough to send Ana de Santis blind . |
| 18 | There are a number of books in the list here that have been discarded from the British Library , including an editio princeps . |
| 19 | Right Well garages the there are already some here and here , both in here and here that have been built as part of Ayletts Field . |
| 20 | some notes here that have been here all , all the vacation , I think they 're yours are n't they ? |
| 21 | Mungo crouched and ran his hands through the grass wondering about the bird 's skull , but even that had been removed . |
| 22 | His relationship with Don Roberto had been strictly business and even that had been in abeyance since Trent 's posting to Ireland . |
| 23 | Surely that has been one of the major changes of Government policy over the last few years . |
| 24 | There 's Echo There 's Echo goes from strength to strength to the extent that one of its competitors , the main competitor , Tribune del Expansione was obliged to merge with Lacoude Francais I mentioned earlier that Ensure was re-launched and er it achieved a circulation of a hundred and five thousand . |
| 25 | Well maybe that 's been the cause . |
| 26 | Er sometimes that has been known and it would be right to , for a youngster to sort of through their mother and father to take it back and say well look er can we have another one , but that would only be on a rare occasion , but if we 're given an assignment in the congregation then , especially in a |
| 27 | The unlucky loser was Reid but then that 's been the story of his season . |
| 28 | And then on the left hand side the old houses continue and the female I interviewed er I reckoned there had been a house there that had been knocked down , and they built a wee bungalow . |
| 29 | ‘ There were tackles going in out there that have been banned for two years , including the tackle from behind . ’ |
| 30 | There 's a cupboard there that 's been ripped open , I mean is that just part of the vandalism that goes on ? |