Example sentences of "[that] they had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd called at a house to install some concrete steps in the rear garden , and learnt that they had been burgled the previous night . |
| 2 | Nothing was known of the fate of the three men , all of them active on behalf of the National League for Democracy , until 27 July , when the official radio announced that they had been condemned to death . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We enter the area that they had been defending and everything shows that the Germans have pulled out in a hurry . |
| 5 | When asked if their shefi acted in too authoritarian a manner , some kolkhozniki at first said it was very rare , but then in peasant fashion slowly warmed up to the fact that they had been very angered by some young students who had written in Rabochii put ’ that their horses were badly fed and cleaned , and that they had not sown enough crops . |
| 6 | Due to wartime conditions the peasantry got the same amount of agricultural machinery over the years 1915–21 that they had been able to buy in a single year prior to the World War . |
| 7 | Some trade unionists later felt that they had been misled by private assurances from the Prime Minister that there would be an early election . |
| 8 | Lisa and Phoebe shared the painful knowledge that they had been conning themselves as well as their men . |
| 9 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 10 | Mr Ben Ali had indicated some softening of his position towards the fundamentalists in an interview with visiting Arab journalists on Monday , saying that they had been offered the chance to open their own newspaper . |
| 11 | The Court of Appeal reserved judgment on the challenge by auctioneers Messenger May Baverstock of Guildford to a High Court ruling that they had been negligent in selling for £840 two oil paintings that soon fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's as works of George Stubbs . |
| 12 | The chief ambulance officer , Mr Don Page , said last night that they had been very busy all day , and that their use would continue indefinitely — ‘ until ambulancemen and women in South Yorkshire resume normal working ’ . |
| 13 | Early last year the Ministry of Defence announced new measures to discourage bullying after young recruits revealed that they had been pushed into rivers , pelted with stones , and gassed with CS gas . |
| 14 | These poets are trying to speak for the lost generations , condemned forever to inarticulacy ; and to speak aloud about simple things that they had been forbidden even to think about . |
| 15 | One panel member said that they had been ready to ‘ throw out ’ the whole study until the notebook with this new data was produced . |
| 16 | He did admit afterwards that they had been carried away by trying to make a quick breakthrough and had bowled badly , but it still left an unpleasant taste . |
| 17 | Soon the balding brown lawns seemed to decide that they had been brave long enough , and every dahlia in the flower-beds needed dead-heading . |
| 18 | That is a reference back to the events of chapter 16 , and strange though it is , it is no more extraordinary than their wish in Exodus 16 that they had been killed together with the Egyptians at the time of the Passover . |
| 19 | The bitterness and the troubles of the coal mines for the next seven , or for that matter twenty-seven years , derived in great part from the feeling of both miners and owners that they had been betrayed . |
| 20 | Only after that did the order go to the waiting troops to smash the uprising on the transparently false grounds that they had been asked to assist in quelling a ‘ counter-revolution . ’ |
| 21 | There was more than a touch of arrogance to the assumption , and clashes with governments , who could at least point to the fact that they had been elected , were inevitable . |
| 22 | They said that they had been talking about it themselves . |
| 23 | If the contras could be neither saints nor crack troops , their appeal had to lie in romantic desperation : the ‘ fact ’ that they had been forced into exile , like the ‘ little old lady ’ with her hair in a bun and her dress ‘ held together by safety pins and string ’ whom Owen had met in a camp in Honduras ; the ‘ fact ’ that the soldiers were without food or uniforms , their hospitals nothing but hen-coops , lacking even mosquito netting ; the fact that there was never enough money for anything . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But no steps were to be taken to put them into effect until they had been communicated to the king , who , when he had satisfied himself that they had been made without prejudice , would decide what was to be done . |
| 26 | But she did confirm that they had been deposited in the Kazachi Aquarium , which is surrounded by military bases , and not open to the public , before their bid for freedom . |
| 27 | I did not run into a lot of people who told me that they had been unexpectedly impressed by Mr Kinnock or unimpressed by Mr Major . |
| 28 | The companies successfully argued that many elements of the Macintosh screen , which uses movable symbols rather than typed commands , were not original or that they had been invented by Xerox Corporation or International Business Machines . |
| 29 | Throughout the trial the brothers had maintained that they had been working as agents for the British Government in Dublin . |
| 30 | However , in the autumn of 1938 , they informed Jacques that they had been asked not to organise any Chapter III courses in existing , or former , university extension centres , but both had refused to accept such limitation on their activities . |