Example sentences of "[that] [adj] had [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her defence the artiste explained that this had only been caused by the persistent attention paid to her by mosquitoes that night . |
| 2 | Iraqi forces were debarred from using military aircraft , although it subsequently emerged that this had only been made explicit with regard to fixed-wing aircraft rather than helicopters . |
| 3 | In the event , it was a local veterinary surgeon , a woman with a brisk , hospitable but no-nonsense attitude towards journalists , who invited me into her home and confined that this had indeed been Um Al-Farajh . |
| 4 | I remembered my original impression that this had all been prepared . |
| 5 | As Mungo hunched his shoulders and thrust his hands deep into his pockets against the dank evening mist , Emily explained that this had once been a riding school . |
| 6 | Tonight , alone and quiet after the eventful day , the shadows seemed to hold ghosts of the past , and there was so much here to remind her that this had once been Elise 's home . |
| 7 | It was a melancholy thought that this had once been someone 's home . |
| 8 | Breeze saw that they were her favourite kind , and remembered then that this had always been a little ritual — chocolates on the first night of the holidays . |
| 9 | That this had always been in the interest of Great Britain did not alter the fact that such interventions had tended since 1815 to favour liberal and nationalist causes . |