Example sentences of "be that [pron] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to her foster brother , another clue had been that she had so blatantly considered Vitor to be ‘ a real cool dude ’ , but she saw no reason to reveal that . |
| 2 | She was as sure as she could be that she had n't been followed , but she knew she would n't breathe freely again until she was airborne . |
| 3 | That is , it might be that he had fully internalized the requisite mental structure , but for some reason lacked the capacity to use it . |
| 4 | I wanted it to be that I had n't really been that big before I left — in other words , prove them wrong . |
| 5 | We knew the weather conditions were calm enough inshore but fresher on the other side of the Channel so the indications were that she had probably crossed from France overnight . |
| 6 | It was known at Cadogan 's that she had once fallen from a horse while out hunting and had broken her collarbone , but continued to follow the hounds for the rest of the day until she collapsed as they ran the fox to earth . |
| 7 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 8 | The first is that nobody had really analysed and spelt out the interrelated series of planning and policy decisions which changing a school curriculum entails ; the essential links between the processes of curriculum planning and implementation ; the costs of change . |
| 9 | What is difficult to believe is that they had suddenly become a real threat to Gloucester . |
| 10 | What is difficult to believe is that they had suddenly become a real threat to Gloucester . |
| 11 | ‘ My guess is that she had n't come to terms with the situation herself , ’ she said . |
| 12 | The fact is that I had already begun to give serious consideration to the possibility of doing away with Dennis Parsons . |
| 13 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
| 14 | ‘ The thing I remember about my first visit is that I had never sung so much before . |
| 15 | ‘ The truth is that I had never even met him . ’ |
| 16 | Gandhi 's implicit suggestion here is that it had yet to support non-violence for , as he says , bishops still felt able to support slaughter in the name of Christianity . |
| 17 | One possibility is that he had already begun to campaign in western Saxon territory and that additional troops joined him from his supporters there . |
| 18 | The remarkable thing about it all is that he had already caused significant bad debts when his Pergamon Press failed in the seventies . |
| 19 | What history will say of his tenure of office is that he had very difficult decisions to make in awkward circumstances and while England 's international team suffered an unimaginable decline most of the 17 first-class counties , his prime concern , flourished more than might have been expected . |
| 20 | Thomas May 's earlier assumption would have been a perfectly natural one had he been dealing with a museum collection , but here at Templebrough , the sherds came from his own excavation , and the only conclusion to be drawn is that he had very little conception of the significance of stratified deposits . |
| 21 | The general opinion was yes , but certain it was that no-one had ever seen her . |
| 22 | Sean ( Hallam ) Blowers chips in : ‘ The brilliant thing about Backdraft was that no-one had actually done a film about firemen before . ’ |
| 23 | Their opponents ' difficulty was that they had not even read the original patent . |
| 24 | The reason that the protest was n't accepted by the courts in this country was that they had not protested with equivalent vigour at an earlier stage when the looted antiquities first appeared on the market . |
| 25 | Another difficulty for local authorities was that they had not developed a culture of objective evaluation ; few used good research methods to evaluate the costs and benefits of innovative schemes . |
| 26 | Their problem was that they had only one sanction with the British government and that was a general strike . |
| 27 | For professional development teachers the result was that they had only been able to learn through personal experience and had thus done so more slowly than was necessary : |
| 28 | The problem for the British was that they had seriously miscalculated their own positions . |
| 29 | Or the jurors could have taken the path they did in fact elect , which was to go to the very heart of the matter and conclude that these officers were only doing what they have been trained to do and that all the famous video footage demonstrated was that they had indeed gone by the book . |
| 30 | The common feature of all members of the Town Boys group was that they had all held dominant roles within the Rowdies group or its equivalent at some stage in their careers . |