Example sentences of "that [vb past] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next thing that happened was six years after the Select Committee . |
| 2 | The only thing that happened was that Dad came into the kitchen where Oliver was crying because someone had broken the jar in which he kept his stick insects and said , ‘ What 's the matter , old chap ? |
| 3 | Lawrence is scathing about the Status Quos of this world and equally convinced that Felt 's pre-planned demise was a good idea . |
| 4 | The life that grew was half tree , half man . |
| 5 | But as some of the books had been through more than one library , the actual figures that emerged were 260 books from 292 libraries . |
| 6 | As a result of the ‘ literate mentality ’ that these institutions helped to form in England , and to which Lyons and fellow academics now subscribe , later historians , looking back to records of eleventh century England , tended to discard medallions , seals and other material objects that had been major criteria of validation in the oral culture of that period . |
| 7 | Have n't talked since that marvellous Bassanio you did at the Vic ’ — that had been fifteen years before — ‘ lovely performance . ’ |
| 8 | For example , the addition of magnesium fertilizers in Norway and Germany 's Black Forest has resulted in recovery in young spruce trees that had been suffering chlorosis ( Printz , 1987 ) . |
| 9 | Silence fell as Creggan and the other eagles that had been listening thought about what Minch had told them . |
| 10 | But my experience is also , if we 'd bought the books that had been printed neighbours in the first place , no one would have noticed the difference . |
| 11 | All that had been two months ago . |
| 12 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |