Example sentences of "be that [pron] had been " in BNC.
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| 31 | A bonus was that he had been so fascinated by his earlier experience that his confidence in hypnotherapy as a whole had grown , and he was far more willing to undergo treatment than he might otherwise have been . |
| 32 | All he knew was that he had been inadequately protected , and that an attempt on his life had been thwarted by the merest accident . |
| 33 | All we know of him was that he had been involved in RAF mountain rescue in Anglesey , and had quite recently been on a posting in Lincolnshire . |
| 34 | The only reason for Mr. Bell being before the justice was that he had been arrested without warrant under section 7(3) of the Act of 1976 and was being brought before her under section 7(4) . |
| 35 | And all he would say was that he had been delayed . |
| 36 | The tentative diagnosis was that he had been too close to Daine 's fantasies and been subsumed into the structure of the Dream . |
| 37 | Nastier still , from Foley 's point of view , was that he had been told to go and live at Mytchett Place as well . |
| 38 | And the irony was that he had been shocked when she had handed him back his ring . |
| 39 | But the important thing was , the impression that everyone er had , who read the paper , was that I had been interviewed by the press . |
| 40 | The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30 . |
| 41 | The worst thing about Pet 's body was that it had been badly crushed below the waist . |
| 42 | The problem SAVE faced was that it had been so disfigured by later alterations that many people doubted it was of sufficient interest to merit saving . |
| 43 | To Welford Beaton the great weakness of the movie industry was that it had been ‘ born without reasoning faculties ’ and had failed subsequently to develop any : since birth , he suggested , the industry had ‘ allowed the box-office to do its thinking for it ’ . |
| 44 | One hypothesis which had gained wide acceptance and which was consistent with the damage to the aircraft was that it had been hit in error by a NATO missile . |
| 45 | The verdict of the clerk to the select committee of 1824 which reviewed it was that it had been a dead letter so far as " those artisans on whom it was intended to have an effect " , namely printers , tailors , shoe makers and shipbuilders in London who continued " their regular societies and houses of call as though no such act were in existence " . |
| 46 | And the worst part of it was that it had been so wonderful that it would be hard to avoid doing it again . |
| 47 | The Downing Street line on the Home Office incident was that it had been a junior official who had gone through the files to help answer journalists ' inquiries about Clinton , not to help the Bush Administration . |