Example sentences of "[verb] be [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It may well have been in that picture that the new type was created . |
| 32 | I think the department of Health was swayed rather more than it should have been by that lobby , because the sort of service that was intended to set up in Camberwell has not yet been set up . |
| 33 | having been through that experience with Helen , he 'll be a lot more weary . |
| 34 | Having been through that process once , the Social Security Committee is clearly interested in other areas . |
| 35 | Indeed , I recall that shortly after Miss Kenton 's departure to Cornwall in 1936 , myself never having been to that part of the country , I would often glance through Volume III of Mrs Symons 's work , the volume which describes to readers the delights of Devon and Cornwall , complete with photographs and — to my mind even more evocative — a variety of artists ' sketches of that region . |
| 36 | For instance , the Borough Surveyor wrote to ask for repairs to be made to the wall between the School and Greek Street : he was politely but firmly informed that the wall was not dangerous , " having been in that condition for twenty years " ! |
| 37 | They know the truth : that life with an aged parent can be a strange mixture of joy and sorrow , and all they ask is for that fact to be accepted , not glossed over by their family and society , and then to be offered some practical ideas on how to make the best of a good job , which they consider to be well worth doing . |
| 38 | The precise rating of the engine is not known , but Thomas had specified about 25 h.p. , and it appears to have been of that order . |
| 39 | I 'm very glad to have been at that rally in Sheffield , because it was a historic moment . |
| 40 | ‘ It 's a situation I have seen happen but I am grateful never to have been in that position myself ! ’ says Susan , who lives with actor-turned-writer Andy de la Tour in a house they have just bought in London . |
| 41 | Lopes LJ : Speaking for myself , I think it ought to have been in that form , and probably a little bit stronger . |
| 42 | The artists I greatly admire are within that tradition , like Grunewaldt , Goya and Gericault . |
| 43 | The artists I greatly admire are within that tradition , like Grunewaldt , Goya and Gericault . |
| 44 | The other discovery we are making is of that world cut off from us for fifty years by the Iron Curtain ; Simon Jervis 's otherwise excellent Penguin Dictionary of Design and Designers published in 1984 does not include a single one of the leading names in Czech Cubist design : Josef Gocar , Pavel Janak , Vlastislav Hofman , Josef Chochol and Otakar Novotny . |
| 45 | I thought , would n't it be good though if they , if what they did is on that day we went they pick everyone who wanted like the jobs yeah |
| 46 | I said do n't hold your breath Elaine but if it 's what I think 's in that carrier bag over there it ai n't a voucher , cos they all were saying |
| 47 | Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article . |
| 48 | He was their paying guest and had been since that afternoon seven years ago when he had tracked Rachel Gebler down to her home in this seaside suburb close to the famous swimming beaches . |
| 49 | He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago . |
| 50 | He had been on that motorbike , which was in bits over beside the wall . |
| 51 | Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight . |
| 52 | The Reverend Peter Brown , Convener of the Social Matters Committee for the Orkney Presbytery , began to investigate the actions of the Evangelical Charismatic Movement in Orkney , and whether any members of the Orkney Christian Fellowship had been at that seminar . |
| 53 | Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave . |
| 54 | He composed his blends not only according to the flavour of the juice , but also according to what the weather had been like that year — an early or late development , depending on the amount of cold or rain there had been — and according to whether the vines had grown a rich or mediocre foliage . |
| 55 | Instead she asked Stan whether Shildon had been in that night . |
| 56 | He smiled to think how accurate his suspicions had been in that direction . |
| 57 | The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured . |
| 58 | Or again , the Friar had been in that area when last seen . |
| 59 | People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room . |
| 60 | He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt . |