Example sentences of "was that there had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | All she had been told when she came round after the anaesthetic was that there had been a few complications and the operation had taken rather longer than had been expected . |
| 2 | His first observation was that there had been some difference of opinion among the volunteers at Ropley . |
| 3 | What was not apparent was that there had been a total flight instrument failure because of a complete electrical breakdown while the aircraft was flying in cloud . |
| 4 | One of the arguments for the defendants was that there had been no theft because the plaintiff had agreed to the transaction with the rogue and reliance was placed on Lord Roskill 's statement in Reg. v. Morris , at p. 332 , that appropriation |
| 5 | What was different was that there had been something else mixed in with the raw hunger blazing in his eyes . |
| 6 | His first reaction was that there had been a leak and he had phoned Mackie about the large sale of shares . |