Example sentences of "had [been] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had left her and gone to live with an upper-class woman , had soared to the opposite end of the scale from Josie , whose attraction for him had been that of a splenetic victim from the lower depths of the goyim : but Josie had refused a divorce and the ordeal had dragged on . |
| 2 | The actual sphere of competence the church had sought to monopolize had been that of sexual morals , temperance , the semi-private sphere of the family , and education . |
| 3 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 4 | One of the difficulties with interpreting Small World visually had been that , like many of his texts , it features extended literary pastiche . |
| 5 | Typical of the complaints had been that of David Fletcher , a Wirral councillor , who said his constituents ‘ objected most strongly to subsidising the extravagancies of hard-left councils like Liverpool ’ . |
| 6 | His mainstream career prior to 1917 had been that of a journalist . |
| 7 | I did n't realise then that The Dave Clark Five had been that enormous in the States . |
| 8 | ‘ If the mistakes had been that obvious there were people around me to tell me where I had gone wrong , but they did n't . |
| 9 | When he was young his hair had been that flaxen gold too , as soft and as fine . |
| 10 | ’ One traditional way of discovering God 's will had been that of the biblical sortes — the question would be posed and the Bible then opened at random . |
| 11 | If only it had been that nice John Smith , with his twinkling accountant 's eyes and trust-me smile . |
| 12 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
| 13 | Throughout the 1970s the leitmotif of Community activity had been that of ‘ harmonisation ’ ; national frontiers and barriers to trade would subside as detailed legislation on subjects as varied as car parts , pasta , animal fodder and professional training , were enacted to create common Community standards leading to a united economic market . |
| 14 | Later , much later , Kelly was to reflect on how lucky she had been that day . |
| 15 | Then the doctrine common to all ages and nations had been that insolvency was a crime , and that the debtor might be properly made to pay in person the penalty for his offence . |
| 16 | She had helped to pick up all the things spilt from the bag , but there had been that look in her eye just before — a familiar look , contempt , indifferently hidden . |
| 17 | There had been that horrible murder on the A3 only this year . |
| 18 | Little more than a year earlier there had been that never-to-be-forgotten encounter at the inn . |
| 19 | When ( Labour ) tries to define a programme capable of rallying the masses at the next general election , it falls back , not on a specifically socialist programme , but on the old programme that half a century ago had been that of bourgeois liberalism in England . |
| 20 | Labour 's traditional view had been that interest rates should be kept down and investment restricted to feasible levels , not by monetary policy , but by quantitative credit controls and physical materials controls . |
| 21 | There was the usual bawdy banter , of course , and it had been that way ever since she first put on her white apron and began serving behind the counter . |
| 22 | For quite a long time the prevailing view among economists had been that money does not affect the relative prices of commodities , but that it does determine the overall price level . |
| 23 | However , his appearance had been that of an eighteen-year-old , which makes nonsense for a second time of the press claims that Lord Haw-Haw was as puny in appearance as he had been in his human sympathies . |
| 24 | The royal grant which had offered Richard the best chance of a viable power base had been that of the forfeited de Vere estates , made in August 1462 , but these had been restored to the earl of Oxford at the beginning of 1464 . |
| 25 | Bernice 's opinion , then , had been that Ace was brave , bright , emotional and impulsive ; she had shown her feelings , often forcibly . |
| 26 | suggested in Ex parte Benson ( No. 2 ) , The Times , 21 November 1988 , the decision in Handscomb had been that detention for a period equivalent to a determinate sentence of 27 years exceeded by such a wide margin any determinate sentence passed in recent years for the offence of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility , and was thus in the absence of reasons irrational , I would not disagree . |
| 27 | The general assumption by everyone involved on the Allied side , from 5 Corps up to AFHQ , had been that , in terms of the Yalta repatriation agreement , the " Cossacks " were Soviet citizens , and on that basis the decision in Principle had been made that , however much this may have regretted by some people on humanitarian grounds , the British obligation was to hand them over . |
| 28 | Medical men had perforce to be botanists , and often gardeners as well , and in time medical knowledge came to be the perquisite of the European religious orders , as it had been that of the priests in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs . |
| 29 | " You 'd have asked at the door if it had been that . |
| 30 | There had been that heat , that fierceness like a scorchmark . |