Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] be [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave . |
| 3 | The research of Jane Rowe and Lydia Lambert , published in Children Who Wait in 1973 , showed us how inadequate our work had been in that respect . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He smiled to think how accurate his suspicions had been in that direction . |
| 6 | Or again , the Friar had been in that area when last seen . |
| 7 | Instead she asked Stan whether Shildon had been in that night . |
| 8 | 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 . |