Example sentences of "be that [pron] had [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case it would possibly be that they had the name of the subscriber but … |
| 2 | But may be that we had a description , want to get the description out to as many people as possible , to see if anybody recognizes the person described , er then we 'd come to you there , give you the description of the |
| 3 | You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage . |
| 4 | Could it be that someone had an interest in keeping it alive ? |
| 5 | Now the son , Paul , would replace this patriarch merchant , about whom the kindest words an outsider might have offered were that he had an ability to survive and prosper and stay as far away from conflict as possible . |
| 6 | The implications were that I had no physical characteristics of my own , but that in the same way as I ‘ had ’ my father 's nose , or my grandmother 's eyes , I somehow inhabited a body which was not mine but a replica of my mother 's , and over which , therefore , I had no control . |
| 7 | A limitation of this study is that we had no information on the type of hysterectomy — abdominal or vaginal . |
| 8 | Well what they mean when they say a half of a quarter is that we had a a quarter and we 've shared it out between the two of it so we 've got half to that each . |
| 9 | I know you 're not Steve but all I 'm saying is that we had a discussion about this earlier in the week . |
| 10 | I 'm afraid the fact is that we had the finest guitarist in the world and we did n't recognise it . |
| 11 | The feeling is that we had the idea , which was the crucial element , and anybody could manufacture the product , but that is not true . |
| 12 | The truth is that they had a narcissistic preoccupation with their own past ; any information they could glean about ‘ savage society ’ was eagerly seized upon in the hope that it might shed further light on their own origins . |
| 13 | The awful thing is that I had a chance to meet him . |
| 14 | ‘ The reason I rang last night is that I had a message from your publishers , ’ he went on . |
| 15 | this is rather what what it , makes it difficult is that I had a copy as well farce right , but do n't say farcical . |
| 16 | What is interesting is that you had a kind of real intellectual respect for intellectual content and expertise and professionalism in a way that previous programmers perhaps have n't . |
| 17 | The reason it 's come out in this way is that you had the debate on the er original proposals for this extra money which did n't go as was recommended er and you made a decision on that and then later in the agenda , and I ca n't find the , the exact point now but you had a discussion and a suggestion was made and agreed that if there was any money left over investigations should be made and that the surveyor should give erm consideration Madam Chairman to using any of that , perhaps for a camera , and that was agreed , and it is noted somewhere , and that 's what Mr has done . |
| 18 | While agreeing with this description of Hoccleve 's illness as of psychotic severity , our own evaluation is that it had a more depressive quality , many of the symptoms described by Hoccleve meeting the modern criteria for serious depression . |
| 19 | An added advantage that the deaf people of Glasgow had over any other deaf community in the country was that they had a regular ‘ Deaf and Dumb Notes ’ column every week in the Glasgow Evening Times , the largest selling Scottish evening paper . |
| 20 | The reason for this was that they had a different view of tradition from the locals and this caused them to turn to ‘ progressivist ’ ideas and to new ventures put forward by planners in order to effect an entry upon the local political scene . |
| 21 | All he knew about Somerset was that they had a cricket team and that the yokels drank cider and pronounced it ‘ zyder ’ . |
| 22 | The consequence of this policy ( already well established in many areas before nationalisation ) was that they had a virtual monopoly of electric cooker sales , other retailers finding the trade unattractive . |
| 23 | Our Rally was just super — more people than before — But what they did n't know was that they had a treat in store : The National Display Team came for the afternoon To show their special item — we were all over the moon ! |
| 24 | ( c ) Her own view as expressed to the ante-natal clinic was that she had no religion . |
| 25 | The point about her was that she had a trick which worked and , unlike many politicians , She Was Not Found Out . |
| 26 | What had startled him was that she had a sister , Sandra Riverton , who had worked for INCUBUS in Suffolk . |
| 27 | The only certainty was that she had a few seconds to act . |
| 28 | I did n't expect her to do so , but what I did n't know then was that she had a holiday cottage in Muker , which is not far over the hills in Swaledale , and one day she turned up with some friends of hers . |
| 29 | And one thing he did know about the real Sandra was that she had a very low tolerance for boredom , and that she got bored very easily . |
| 30 | The upshot was that she had a rocky route through the rest of childhood and adolescence while I slipstreamed smoothly behind . |