Example sentences of "[det] that had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , it said that there had been a threat of economic and monetary union which threatened to bring unemployment , but that that had been removed and therefore people could vote in the referendum knowing that there would be no economic or monetary union . |
| 2 | Erika felt goose-pimples on her arms and the thought crossed her mind that , despite all that had been said to her about courage , perhaps she was n't really cut out for stardom , after all . |
| 3 | The regime would scarcely have been considered noteworthy , nor Napoleon III a remarkable sovereign , if all that had been achieved was the creation of a brilliant Court which succeeded in outshining those of the traditional European monarchies . |
| 4 | Not an appropriate analogy as fairy tales and pantomimes are the Devil 's tools , I 'm sure — Ness District deleted ‘ Devil 's Dance ’ from the SCO posters — but all that had been asleep was now activated . |
| 5 | To one correspondent , Elia Diodati , he described his book as a most ample confirmation of the Copernican system by showing the nullity of all that had been brought by Tycho and others to the contrary . ’ |
| 6 | Instead of a systematic policy of imperialism , Unionists had Montagu 's Indian policy and Milner 's policy in Egypt ; instead of settlement in Ireland there were outrages ; instead of a broad social policy there was first a reckless waste of money and then an abandonment of almost all that had been proposed . |
| 7 | All that had been achieved was a more punitive regime , while the cause of sex reform had been set back by the whitewashing of women and the doctrine of the uncleanness of men . |
| 8 | Overwhelmed by not having noticed this earlier , by his failure of politeness , observation and helpfulness , all that had been taught him from boyhood up , Richard proceeded at the double onto the Embankment , to escort her on to Lord Jim . |
| 9 | But this morning all that had been forgotten because the budgerigar had taken a turn for the worse . |
| 10 | The woman with the pram asked him what all that had been about . |
| 11 | The judgement on whether the consequences were acceptable was clearly left to the negotiators : all that had been done was to remove the uncertainty as to what the consequences would be given a set of grade boundaries , not to state whether any set of consequences was acceptable . |
| 12 | All that had been definitely erased were the pointers to where each ‘ exon ’ began and ended . |
| 13 | She felt a returning surge of anger — after all that had been said , did he really think she would sleep with him ? |
| 14 | She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months . |
| 15 | And so it was Emily who , if all that had been said about herself and George was true , would miss him most and she was absent from the funeral . |
| 16 | She would give to it all that had been withheld from her , pour out her infinite capacity to love knowing that for certain this time it would be needed and valued . |
| 17 | With an almost unanimous vote at its 40th congress in Geneva , the party said that the word " communism " was being dropped because of all that had been done in its name . |
| 18 | When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters . |
| 19 | All that had been two months ago . |
| 20 | Listlessly she tossed about , unable to sleep , her mind reliving all that had been said tonight . |
| 21 | I mean , ten years ago , maybe twenty years ago , I would n't have known anyone at all that had been millionaires . |
| 22 | And his aim in doing that would be to be res , fully restore all that had been his brother 's , for his brother 's family . |
| 23 | If Joyce 's energy had been concentrated in the forging of a language adequate to resolve all that had been , then that language , whatever else it had done , had achieved something for him . |
| 24 | During Queen Victoria 's reign , many that had been formerly open to the public closed their gates , preferring to cultivate the sanctity of ‘ home ’ . |
| 25 | Shelford , the tour captain , will no longer be asking £500 for personal appearances and is understood already to have set about ‘ dismantling ’ those that had been arranged . |
| 26 | For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label . |
| 27 | Teachers had begun to realise there was a strong case for the teaching of knowledge about language in ways very different from those that had been fashionable thirty years earlier . |
| 28 | It was only years later that I came to learn that the easily remembered collects were those that had been translated by Archbishop Cranmer from the Sacramentaries of Popes Leo , Gregory and Gelasius , while the difficult ones to remember were in almost every case the work of reformers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 29 | Some of the rapids were as difficult as those that had been our undoing on the first day , but tackled with a bit of newly learned skill they were challenging and exhilarating rather than terrifying . |
| 30 | Of course the trade papers revelled in hyperbole but the claims that were being made had a greater validity than those that had been made for music-hall . |