Example sentences of "that it [vb past] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was sure it had been there every night since , and Mrs Masters turned out to be equally confident that it had also been there during the day . |
| 2 | Katharine replied that she had done shoulder-in and hand had a go at half-pass , but that it had n't been very successful ! |
| 3 | Taking up an oil-can she went out and towards the old outbuildings , to the door next to the one leading into the barn and , moving it , she found that it had n't been oiled . |
| 4 | She took a step backwards , and suddenly he realized that it had n't been easy for her to come here . |
| 5 | Clara pointed out that it had n't been donated by her father in the first place , but by Aunt Doris , as birthday presents , over the past seventeen years . |
| 6 | I decided it was just because she had n't mattered that it had n't been worth shocking her . |
| 7 | The black paint on the body was already peeling from the heat , though the Doctor guessed from the depth of the dust layer that it had n't been there more than a couple of days . |
| 8 | The house was n't run-down , either , but there were touches here and there betraying the fact 64 that it had n't been lived in for a couple of years ; the windows that were n't shuttered were n't clean , and there were weeds pushing up through the gravel . |
| 9 | That was n't so difficult , was it ? ’ he said , and , when Caroline admitted that it had n't been , he said that in that case , would she please agree to do another private showing in mid-afternoon ? |
| 10 | The idea that Stamford was the centre of Mercian government was invented by William Stukeley in the 1730s from his belief that Alchfrith had held his court here and that it had formerly been Hengist 's town . |
| 11 | The third was heading for Isengard , to alarm Pippin on its way with the thought that it had somehow been despatched for him ( 11 , 204 ) . |
| 12 | Jenjin told Rostov that Burun had broken Nogai 's wrist during an argument five days earlier , and that it had just been suggested that if his plan went ahead he might get the other one broken as well . |
| 13 | Although he was driven away by the defenders of the city of St Stephen 's with derisive shouts of " We do not want this man to reign over us " , he was able to capture the castle of Aixe , which was so lightly garrisoned that it had clearly been abandoned by Henry and Richard . |
| 14 | When she came to pay for the bill , she found that it had already been paid . |
| 15 | I pointed out that it had already been a month , and there was no record of me on the Chicago computer . |
| 16 | Enterprise 's managing director Ted Tuppen defended the supply deal , saying that it had not been a condition of the sale that Enterprise take its beers from Bass . |
| 17 | The general told a news conference that it had not been copied from the Americans , but because it was an ‘ easier , natural movement ’ . |
| 18 | The abolition of Pomgol was greeted with so many protests from the affected areas of Russia that Kalinin had to issue two statements in which he tried to show the stricken population that it had not been abandoned by the government . |
| 19 | a radiograph of the pieces revealed that it had not been made from just one piece of iron , but from many welded together . |
| 20 | Now , she knew that it had not been a hallucination , it had been real . |
| 21 | This time , however , the physicist could see from his instruments that it had not been totally successful . |
| 22 | The JAC in Leeds admitted that it had not been able to counter the numbers going into dead-end jobs , and a similar admission was made by the Plymouth authorities . |
| 23 | A spokesman for ICI , Britain 's giant chemical conglomerate which is active in many fields of genetic engineering , told New Scientist that it had not been approached . |
| 24 | The strike was continued for another four days , partly to show that it had not been panicked by the killings into throwing up its responsibilities and partly to ensure that persons on unemployment insurance and social benefits received payment for a full week . |
| 25 | Misys Plc , which said in January that it was in talks that could lead to it acquiring Burns Anderson Independent Network Plc ( CI No 2,081 ) , said yesterday that it had not been able to agree terms for the acquisition and that negotiations had therefore been terminated . |
| 26 | The Church throughout the world received orders and instructions which it obeyed willingly enough , though sometimes it regretted that there were no arrangements for dialogue and that it had not been invited to collaborate ; the result was that unity had to be lived out in passive acceptance rather than celebrated in fraternity ( Pensiamo al Concilio 9 ; see Hebblethwaite , 1984 , p. 409 ) . |
| 27 | In the first annual report of the medical superintendent it was reported that it had not been necessary to use the padded cell on any occasion , despite the fact that many patients had been admitted handcuffed , leg iron locked or bound with cords and chains . |
| 28 | I am speaking now of its Belgrade side , of the old men in the Academy who wished to complete Serb history because it seemed to them that it had not been properly completed back in 1918 . |
| 29 | Proceedings in a Dutch court were begun by a document transmitted under the Hague Convention to a local court in Germany which certified under Article 6 that it had not been possible to serve the document . |
| 30 | The member States were deemed to be at one with the Organisation and the Tribunal concluded that it had not been their intention to disappear behind its constitution . |