Example sentences of "[adv] that it had be " in BNC.

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1 She could not remember her dream , only that it had been about Edmund and that he loved her .
2 Lamprey was reading the second , and so far no word had come downstairs that it had been rejected .
3 Not that it had been difficult , he thought disgustedly .
4 The consortium behind the $7bn management buyout , in which BA would have a 15 per cent stake , admitted yesterday that it had been unable to complete its part of the financing .
5 But solicitor Ray Tooth , who represented the wife in the £1 million split , said yesterday that it had been an exceptional case .
6 Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas .
7 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 .
8 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 …
9 It was clear to me from this letter that we were engaged again , if that was what I wanted , and I did ; also , that the natural happiness and buoyancy of Leslie 's nature had reasserted itself , now that it had been released from what he had felt to be the cramping frustration of home service .
10 Now that it had been draped by thick blankets stripped from the beds upstairs it was very dark .
11 The Trees had crossed half of the floor now and the nearest one — Fenella could see now that it had been a Larch , elegant and slender — was already inching its way across the slimy black pool of the Melanisms , creating a kind of bridge .
12 It was standard procedure for such conglomerates to collect contemporary art , now that it had been recognized that such art was plentiful , reasonably affordable , and able to yield substantial returns .
13 She had been right in her assumption about the photograph — she was sure now that it had been taken at one of those supper parties , and without prior warning .
14 Deal or no mysterious deal , now that it had been established that he had not tracked her down all she wanted was for him to go .
15 before that it had been done in eighty one , eighty two , eighty four , eighty six , eighty eight and ninety , so curiously now , it 's it 's missed out several years ,
16 Mr Peter Stewart , hospital unit general manager , would not comment on the outcome of the appeal until he had heard officially that it had been defeated .
17 The new device 's distributors , the Innovations mail order company , insisted however that it had been proved safe in laboratory tests .
18 Public prosecutor Andrei Makarov declared afterwards that it had been significant " not so much because it punished Ostashvili , but because it brought to light the forces standing behind this small figure and exposed the fascism which is growing in society " .
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