Example sentences of "that [vb past] be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first episode , the house that crumbled was in a real North London street designated for demolition . |
| 2 | The prayer that occurred was in a small group and it was a prayer for power for the church . |
| 3 | Adjustment for risk factors known before the start of labour made little difference to perinatal mortality rates , but such differences that occurred were in the expected direction . |
| 4 | The last time that happened was with an Irish judge in the 1830s . |
| 5 | Er all those that finished was in the finishing union , yeah . |
| 6 | However , in spite of having continually plundered Arabia through the centuries and taken thousands of its best horses , by the beginning of this century few of their descendants remained and those that did were in a very sorry state of deterioration . |
| 7 | Certainly those who came for a meal with Dorothy Mellings — while Alice was there , with Jasper — tended to come in ones or twos , mostly women , perhaps needing Dorothy 's advice , or even to borrow money ; divorced friends — so many of the couples that had been to the Mellings 's in the good days had split up . |
| 8 | She had recognised him instantly , though she had seen him in the flesh only once before and that had been across a crowded ballroom . |
| 9 | Only then did it strike me that there was indeed a role that a further staff member could crucially play here ; that it was , in fact , this very shortage that had been at the heart of all my recent troubles . |
| 10 | In spelling out its arguments for the proposed pattern , the Council was once again reinterpreting the balance that had been at the centre of its concerns from the beginning : there was nothing in the Charter and Statutes ‘ which prevented greater recognition from being given to an institution 's own internal procedures where these could be shown to be rigorous and effective . |
| 11 | First of all , there was the problem that had been at the root of France 's defeat in 1940 — the decay of the republican state , which had been so powerfully symbolized by the Third Republic 's abdication to Pétain in July 1940 . |
| 12 | After a while she sat up and slowly began to undress to her camisole and her waist petticoat ; then , turning up the gas that had been on a low jet , she went across the room to the wash-hand stand and poured water from the jug into the basin . |
| 13 | But , when asked in 1947 to replace an old dirty power station that had been on the site since 1891 , he soon forgot such idealism and , like any architect , was glad to have the job . |
| 14 | Marie , sick and trembling , overwhelmed with fear and guilt at her own actions , was already kneeling down with a dustpan and brush , sweeping up the broken glass from the tomato-sauce bottle that had been on the table . |
| 15 | During the same month the Young Republicans barricaded themselves into a house in Harvey Street to resist the eviction of a family that had been on the housing list for eighteen years . |
| 16 | The dunes that had been on the left were replaced by a sandstone ridge and the sand on that side of the road was now black . |
| 17 | The Paddington Bear wallpaper that had been on the walls for years was mocking her . |
| 18 | The were taken by limousine through the streets of Manhattan , observing with awe the eight magnificent structures that had been on the market for many months and which no one had wanted to buy . |
| 19 | He went into his bedroom , returned almost at once with the oil-lamp that had been on the table when we had dinner . |
| 20 | And saved : The ice rink that had been on the skids . |
| 21 | But now he was n't making excuses , stating facts that had been under the surface all the time . |
| 22 | On one of the trials , Ray placed a popsock over the end of a pipe delivering water that had been through an Eradicator and , in 72 hours , collected a golf ball-sized piece of limescale from the mesh … in East Anglia , the water is so hard that it will give a kettle an internal fur coat in no time , and here was the proof . |
| 23 | that had been through the fire and they were taken out and you know whoever . |
| 24 | Only once had I feared the heat of Egypt and that had been in a waking dream . |
| 25 | You would n't want one that had been in a smash anyway , it could |
| 26 | Nigel went along on his own with a nice little pair of mother-of-pearl binoculars that had been in the family for generations . |
| 27 | He pulled the woollen cap that had been in the pocket of his overalls further down over his close-cut hair . |
| 28 | Although the two firms are still expected to cement an agreement covering Hewlett-Packard taking a 20% stake in Taligent Inc , the Common Operating System Interface announcement is now likely to be toned down , with the participation of other firms that had been in the same swim , such as Santa Cruz Operation Inc and SunSoft Inc , looking increasingly unlikely by the day . |
| 29 | One crucial element in this was the resumption of centre stage by a type of music that had been in the dominant culture throughout Punk rock — black disco music . |
| 30 | By the time the light was on , where was the man that had been in the bed ? |