Example sentences of "[conj] [that] had been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The occasional and unfortunate accidents have been due to inadequate safety procedures , not to lack of understanding of the basic nuclear processes ; had there been some previously unknown nuclear process taking place at room temperature in solid materials and that had been somehow overlooked , then it is likely that we would have discovered this long ago in some reactor . |
| 2 | And that had been just two years ago . |
| 3 | It had taken until the long , open left-hander that leads down into Glen Kinglas before my erection had finally subsided , and that had been mostly naked fear ; Verity had lost it just for a second , the rear of the car nudging out towards the wrong side of the road as we whanged round the bend . |
| 4 | At other times — especially in the beginning — he had succeeded in arousing a desire in her that matched his own , and that had been almost as frightening . |
| 5 | He found that Christians had stood firmly by their faith and practice ; only one family had lapsed , and that had been very weak , even in the best of times . |
| 6 | In fact , I had n't lived south of the river for nearly five years and that had been further over in Southwark until a small matter of an exploding terrace house had persuaded me to go flat-hunting . |
| 7 | and that had been so cruelly denied to Isaac by Jacob himself in his youth . |