Example sentences of "[noun] had be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her main fear had been that the mare would stumble over an unseen obstacle and they would both be pitched headlong into the snow . |
| 2 | Her worst fear had been that Jake would show up before they had even left Lomond View . |
| 3 | The prediction had been that these elections would result in more women and fewer Scots around the shadow cabinet table as a result of the voting system . |
| 4 | With the election of Margaret Thatcher , the assumption among some lobbyists had been that we would institute a new round of ‘ Beeching cuts ’ . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | A major criticism of the town-planning sections of the 1909 Act had been that the provisions were cumbersome and that as a consequence the operation of town planning schemes was slow and protracted . |
| 7 | My mother 's only stipulation had been that not more than two servants should remain with the child . |
| 8 | To his surprise , the strongest argument in favour of taking the job had been that it would keep him near to Frances . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The real trouble with old Tom had been that when he came into contact with the evil mind , the scheming , devious , manipulative mind of some murderers , he could not bear it . |
| 11 | However important this battle might be for future power at sea , the decisive point for the current war had been that the blockade made it impossible for the French to reinforce their West Indian or North American possessions . |
| 12 | When war was first declared , and she was co-opted into the military , he imagined that her first reaction had been that it was typical of these men to mess up her promising career like that . |
| 13 | After Janey went back to Billy , Kevin had patched up his differences with his wife , Enid , but one of the conditions had been that Kevin would sponsor polo instead of show jumping to avoid bumping into Janey on the circuit , and because their daughter , Tracey , would meet a nicer class of young man in polo . |
| 14 | While the Germans presented their situation as a disaster , they overlooked the fact that one of Danzig s major and continual problems had been that it could not grow or thrive purely on the traffic of its immediate Prussian hinterland . |
| 15 | I wondered what the place with towers and searchlights had been that we passed in the night . |
| 16 | His major criticism of Murder in the Cathedral had been that it contained too much obvious " poetry " , and in the new play he wanted to create a more flexible and less ostensible verse line which could handle demotic or rarefied material equally well . |
| 17 | Ian Hay told me the lady 's last wish had been that the Colonel should scatter her ashes in the headwaters of the River Laxford : ‘ But , you see , his new young wife was not the sort of lady to enjoy much walking and the poor Colonel just did n't know how he was going to get the job done . |
| 18 | Haines himself admitted that as an outsider his preconception had been that the Jockey Club was ‘ An old-fashioned , creaking organisation of part-timers . ’ |
| 19 | The general feeling had been that Mr Brown was a pooftah . |
| 20 | Ward 's excuse for talking in Spanish had been that he was accustoming himself to using it freely . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ The whole Virgin approach had been that you simply do n't fire people . ’ |
| 23 | Her last waking thought had been that she was wrong , and that Ace had been right all the time . |
| 24 | Its success had been that both the people of West Germany and its central bank , the Bundesbank , had a deep-seated fear of inflation . |
| 25 | Its success had been that both the people of West Germany and its central bank , the Bundesbank , had a deep-seated fear of inflation . |
| 26 | The message had been that the reception was for the ticket agencies , and the cast were requested to ration themselves to one glass of wine each . |
| 27 | Their message had been that boats should stay at least a quarter of a mile away from the whales and that sonar should never be used . |
| 28 | I mean the view that astronomers and most scientists and people who are interested in astronomy had was that there might be a few molecules in space , probably not very many , but if there were they would be very , very simple , probably one or two atoms , perhaps things like water , perhaps things like ammonia , and things like methane — molecules with a large amount of hydrogen attached to them and in fact a thermodynamically staple species . |
| 29 | Berowne 's only explanation had been that he felt it was time for his life to take a new direction . |
| 30 | For the last twenty years of progressive manufacturing decline in Britain , the one optimistic assertion had been that while industry 's contraction might be irreversible , at least the City of London remained the financial centre of Europe and second only perhaps to New York in the world . |