Example sentences of "that it [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ann Upton the returning officer for the East Hampshire constituency told the Herald on Thursday that the ballot box had been taken out of the small office and made freely accessible to voters — meanwhile our photographer discovered that it had been simply relocated in the forest . |
| 2 | Intellectually he had accepted that the marriage had been a mistake , that it had been largely his mistake . |
| 3 | In terms of Israeli-US relations , the issue was so potentially divisive that it had been largely ignored ; the issue never formally arose during the whole of US President Reagan 's eight years in office . |
| 4 | The worst thing about Pet 's body was that it had been badly crushed below the waist . |
| 5 | While the combined effect of a number of cases had been to limit the audi alteram partem principle , it would be misleading to say that it had been wholly forgotten . |
| 6 | In 1984 , a faculty to examine the St John vault for these items proved that it had been extensively reordered in the early eighteenth century when the decayed earlier coffins were cleared and placed in a charnel cistern within the vault . |
| 7 | He obtained a sample of the mould from Fleming , and discovered that it had been incorrectly identified . |
| 8 | Well quite a lot , we we went out with them for a meal last night erm we had an interpreter who who was the only one that could speak English but it was it was well worth the evening , it did a lot for relationships and I think that there should be more of this in football , that off the field people should get to know each other a lot better and we felt at the end of the evening that it had been well worthwhile . |
| 9 | While baptism was the main sacrament that could be performed by lay persons , the Church counselled the clergy to check that it had been properly performed . |
| 10 | After reference to the unfortunate existence of the BSP , he stated that it had been completely destroyed by amalgamation into the Communist Party ‘ pledged to follow the Bolshevist dictatorship of Lenin' . |
| 11 | Lord Diplock also pointed out that the only case brought to their Lordships ' attention in which an appellate court had actually excluded evidence on the ground that it had been unfairly obtained by a trick was Reg. v. Payne [ 1963 ] 1 W.L.R. 637 . |
| 12 | Not only was it alleged that the manoeuvre had been a most un-British attack on civilian Boer settlements , overwhelming evidence emerged that it had been irresponsibly commanded with several floutings of elementary military precautions , so that the men who had died — my brother among them — had died quite needlessly . |
| 13 | The floor was even harder and colder that it had been before . |
| 14 | Theodora reflected that it had been really rather brave of Mrs Totteridge to turn him over . |
| 15 | But later , I realized that it had been quite good for me and stopped me getting big-headed . |
| 16 | One marcher thought that it had been deliberately chosen to be provocative ; others suggested that it was simply the most direct route . |
| 17 | She realised that it had been deliberately left open to add to her humiliation . |
| 18 | Fran wished that it had been further away , wished that she 'd had more time to compose herself and remove all traces of that kiss , but as she opened the door and got out of the car when they stopped in front of the neat little semi she was aware of the throbbing redness of her bruised lips , the faintly dishevelled state of her silvery hair . |
| 19 | One moment the sun had been hanging above the desert , the next it had plunged out of sight , leaving only the copper and rose and saffron of the water to testify that it had been there . |
| 20 | The main thrust of all the writings was to show that Bonapartism was for France the natural system of government and that it had been so since the Revolution . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Knowing that he was unquestionably going to die , and not knowing how or when , had been a strain , and the fact that it had been so much easier for him than might have been the case was a great relief . |
| 23 | And the worst part of it was that it had been so wonderful that it would be hard to avoid doing it again . |
| 24 | Giving evidence in court , he said that it had been very crowded because there had been a karaoke session before people started watching the boxing match . |
| 25 | The sores that it produces are usually found on the external surface of the penis in the male , but rarely the site of infection may be inside the urethra , and in these cases recurrent ‘ non-specific urethritis ’ may occur , which is particularly resistant to treatment . |
| 26 | I also went on to say that while that policy would be continued , the council always had and always would reserve it 's right to challenge any decision that it believed was legally flawed . |
| 27 | That it does is mainly down to the script . |
| 28 | Now , sources close to the receivers of the H-M Agency of Los Angeles suggest that it has been conclusively proved that she was involved in the massacre at Dead Rat , Arizona , last year , during which a peaceful force of process-servers were murdered by members of the Maniax gangcult , who then razed the community to the ground . |
| 29 | It is usual to make specific provision for service of such notices , eg at the last known home address of a partner , in a way that will afford evidence that it has been duly given ( eg by registered delivery , entry in the firm 's post book etc ) . |
| 30 | It is necessary to check not merely that the ad has appeared , but that it is in the right place , and that it has been properly reproduced — the quality of printing can vary markedly , and this may well be the fault of the publication : in this case , some redress is due . |