Example sentences of "be that they had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their crime seemed to be that they had sung the song ‘ Hernando 's Hideaway ’ too loudly . |
| 2 | It could equally be that they had spotted my men following them and were attempting to shake them off . ’ |
| 3 | The trouble with all these guys is that they had become too aware of their public image after Saddam Hussein 's little escapade into Kuwait and the atrocious acts his troops had performed . |
| 4 | If they had now become dangerous , the only plausible explanation is that they had received significant new support . |
| 5 | If they had now become dangerous , the only plausible explanation is that they had received significant new support . |
| 6 | All he remembered was that they had flown on an invisible road in the sky called Red One from Moscow to St Petersburg at 33,000 feet . |
| 7 | Even when the study appeared , there was a great deal of scepticism within NoS , but the attitude was that they had consulted the experts and got the evidence . |
| 8 | The problem with the building was that they had made it suicide-proof , so there were no windows you could open on the front . |
| 9 | Friend stood back — or rather , his pattern spun off a little way so that she could see what it was that they had built inside the black of infinity . |
| 10 | The worry , though , for the visitors was that they had created much without converting chances into goals . |
| 11 | I think their suggestion was that they had to go via Norwood Gardens because they then turned right at the in and went up into the middle of and it was to get them on to that line that they had to go through . |
| 12 | So is the range of the gifts , which included not only items of direct utility to a church , such as the ecclesiastical vestments and bells received by St Cuthbert , but also objects whose chief characteristic was that they had belonged to the king , like Æthelstan 's cap and Edgar 's cloak . |
| 13 | What our friends did not realise was that they had to travel through Blea Moor Tunnel . |
| 14 | The reason that Schrödinger 's and Heisenberg 's versions of quantum mechanics had seemed at first sight different from each other ( see p. 14 ) was that they had chosen to use contrasting extreme possibilities . |
| 15 | Thus in [ 30 ] the speaker might be taken to suggest that he did not mean that his childhood days had just gone : what he really meant was that they had vanished . |
| 16 | In effect , the message being sent to John and the other hostages was that they had to keep a stiff upper lip and hope that , one day , the kidnappers might let them go . |
| 17 | Lord McGregor said his experience of Government bodies and committees was that they had to fight to preserve their independence against officials and Ministers . |
| 18 | The tragedy of the industry was that they had won the battle only by turning their back on the price mechanism : a procedure for resource allocation which , arguably , is the best medium for the decentralisation of decision making to firms in the modern economy . |