Example sentences of "that had be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In previous years the competition cakes had been auctioned off to benefit the Belltower Restoration Fund — and that had been the intention this year , too — but there would be no bidders , now . |
| 2 | The tide would carry them inland at least two miles and possibly three before they were beached on the first low ridge that had been the coastline a million years before the birth of Christ . |
| 3 | Simon and Art sang Bridge Over Troubled Waters , and the fads that had been the preserve of counter-culture spread into the young middle classes of America and Europe . |
| 4 | Harrison felt that the solutions used were too strong and suggested that the containers of irrigating fluid should be no more than three feet above the patient 's pelvis , in contrast to the ten feet that had been the norm . |
| 5 | The protection suit that had been the sacrificial dummy was no longer that . |
| 6 | What an inglorious end to what had once been a busy loco shed that had been the scene of so much activity in its heyday . |
| 7 | So Wolfgang and his mother moved on to the spacious , elegant town on the Rhine that had been the seat of the Elector Palatine since 1720 . |
| 8 | Biff himself was n't basic ; never had been , not even down in the depth of ignorance that had been the undercity of Trazior . |
| 9 | Holly no longer looked at him , he stared back at the stunted ruin that had been the office of the Commandant . |
| 10 | In other ages that had been the task of the Church , and it is hardly an exaggeration to say that , for some in the 1950s , criticism was an organised religion . |
| 11 | It was here , on the ground floor of the east wing , that Louise Taylor had been found , in the same room that had been the royal family 's drawing-room . |
| 12 | In this way the autonomy and spontaneity of the individual subject that had been the original goal of enlightenment might be retrieved . |
| 13 | Carter also suffered a devastating setback when the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union made necessary the withdrawal of SALT II from the Senate , a treaty that had been the centrepiece of his defence policy . |
| 14 | Suppose , for example , that there was some fundamental change in the circumstances that had been the basis for the grant of the right to the third party , and that this change radically transformed the extent of the obligations of the parties . |
| 15 | This meant that some of the old despoblados , the deserted towns that had been the despair of the economists for two hundred years , came back under cultivation , just as in the town of Salamanca , centre of a great wheat region , the empty houses left untenanted by the recession of the seventeenth century were occupied once more . |
| 16 | It is it is it 's a statement of fact that in the ten years preceding the time er when that comment was written , which was in the er mid-eightie mid-eighties , erm that had been the case , that 's absolutely true . |
| 17 | Yes , that had been the happiest time of her life . |
| 18 | It was ancient , a nest of shining metal that had been the first cis-lunar colony , the first man-made world that orbited around mankind 's ancestral home . |
| 19 | They had finished the wine and talked about almost everything but the charity that had been the purpose of the lunch . |
| 20 | They looked about them a bit hazily and then at the bleeding half-thing that had been the young boy and scuttled into a corner . |
| 21 | In a move that had been the subject of rumours for many months , Jeffrey Archer has gone from Hodder to HarperCollins in a two-book deal . |
| 22 | Nowhere was this more evident on the wide blue expanse of the discworld than in those areas that had been the scene of the great battles of the Mage Wars , which had happened very shortly after Creation . |
| 23 | The clashes failed to sabotage a new peace meeting on June 22 , if indeed that had been the aim , and representatives of all main parties attended , except the right-wing Conservative Party and some of its allies . |
| 24 | But on the other hand , well , that had been the Store , and this was here . |