Example sentences of "[been] [that] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I walked fast , to keep warm , so it may have been that I was a little above myself by the time I reached the school where the classes were held , because that night , try as I would , I could not believe anything our teacher was telling us . |
| 32 | Had the Israelites been polytheists , like all the other peoples of the ancient world , a natural conclusion to have drawn from the defeat would have been that their god or gods had been overcome by the gods of the Philistines . |
| 33 | The only change in the intervening period had been that the government had prepared for the threatened dispute while the Samuel Commission deliberated about the way in which to make the industry more efficient and profitable . |
| 34 | It may have been that its conflicts with the communists exaggerated its importance . |
| 35 | Gaily 's quiet defence had always been that he liked a certain monotony . |
| 36 | It may have been that Harvey enjoyed such seniority in the Church that in his case such deviation was permitted , but given that two or three other committed Free Presbyterians have been active in the Official Unionist Party ( in 1985 there were two Free Presbyterians in local government as Official Unionist councillors ) , it is more likely that the Church leadership was genuinely able to maintain some distance from Paisley 's politics . |
| 37 | A key component of Hitler 's image had formerly been that the buildup of Germany 's military might would bring the strengthening of defence against outside threat : a policy of ‘ peace through strength ’ . |
| 38 | Until then , he had been that most inhuman of creatures — the public figure described by others as ‘ very human ’ . |
| 39 | The result has been that the minority Free Democrats ( FDP ) , with only 79 seats in the Bundestag , can maintain their grip on the balance of power for decades . |
| 40 | She said : ‘ The strength of my country in recent years has been that we have had no coalition , just clear leadership , a clear majority and clear decisions . |
| 41 | The idea had been that Mr Major would finish with a rousing personal plea just before 9pm so his speech would lead the Nine O'Clock News with live scenes of Tory euphoria . |
| 42 | He 's always been surrounded by people who think everything else he does is marvellous , but one of the points of our relationship has been that I 've always criticised his work , and for me those double portraits of the Seventies came perilously close to Photo-Realism . ’ |
| 43 | The result has been that sales of diesel cars in Britain last year reached a record 139,810 , or 8.8 per cent of a smaller total market , compared with 128,167 ( 6.38 per cent ) in 1990 . |
| 44 | A central plank of her mitigation , after she admitted 17 charges of theft and deception , had been that every penny had been spent . |
| 45 | The strong points in their argument have been that they exhibit voluntaryism in its purest form , that they are free of any obligation to find a programme for the tutor-organiser to teach and that , in managing on voluntary effort alone , they are saving the District that portion of a full-time salary which would not be covered by government or local authority grant-aid . |
| 46 | The principal counter-argument has been that Essex has enjoyed the benefit of a former tutor-organiser as Federation chairman and that , in the absence of an equivalent person to give a lead elsewhere , tutor-organisers have continued to be essential . |
| 47 | Once he had hit her so hard when she would n't tell him where she 'd been that she had had concussion . |
| 48 | A common observation has been that there are soils in which some diseases never seem to occur and it is presumed that microorganisms that are antagonistic to pathogens naturally occur in these ‘ suppressive soils ’ . |
| 49 | It follows , then , that an evolutionary argument must attempt to establish exactly what the continuity may have been that led from the level of the higher animals to that of Man . |
| 50 | One suggestion has been that the Government would agree to amendments in December 1991 , with the reservation that these would not be binding upon the United Kingdom unless and until they had been ratified and approved by the United Kingdom parliament . |
| 51 | Why this large size evolved is something of a mystery : it may have been that larger gliders cruise at slower speeds without ‘ stalling ’ . |
| 52 | The result has been that a century which has seen so much development in terms of resources and method in historical research , has also seen a recurrent historical scepticism in theology . |
| 53 | My claim has been that there are parallels to be observed between the theism of the Western religious traditions and that of the main Eastern religious tradition . |
| 54 | Another suggestion has been that the only solution would be the fitting of a Rover SDI engine which I understand would also give much better mpg . |
| 55 | The effect of this change in responsibility has been that in many schools the provision of meals and the supervision of children during the mid-day break has drifted out to the margins of importance and there has been , in general , a gradual decline in the numbers of children receiving cooked meals on school premises . |
| 56 | From the outset , as in 1854 , it may well have been that Napoleon hoped to coerce Austria into negotiating a settlement by underlining her isolation in Europe , and thus avoiding an armed conflict . |
| 57 | But it could have been that the whole truck was a set-up : corral the gringos then fleece them . |
| 58 | The announcement on the morning of 22 November of Mrs Thatcher 's decision to resign came as a dramatic surprise to the public because , up to that point , all the outward signs had been that she intended to stick to her initial resolve to contest the second ballot . |
| 59 | The Irish Times quoted Craig as claiming that a reason for banning the march had been that it posed a threat to the United States military base in Derry : |
| 60 | But this morning , I must say , I found it quite offensive and it may well have been the urge to demonstrate just how foolish his insinuation had been that caused me to set off up the footpath . |