Example sentences of "[adv] that [pers pn] have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I honestly thought she loved me so much that she 'd been prepared to get herself pregnant to trick me into marriage . |
| 2 | It was not enough that they had been questioned at length about a work in which they had secretly collaborated : they were now to be insulted by having their acknowledged work dismissed as of small account . |
| 3 | And she had never had much time for Angela Cartwright , who , when it came to Grunte , tended to run with the hare , though it was plain enough that she had been put out by Grunte 's placing Hyacinth on his right hand and had agreed with Carole afterwards that they would have little trouble finding the necessary fifty signatures . |
| 4 | The complainant need not show he was aggrieved on the date mentioned in the summons , it is enough that he had been aggrieved earlier , otherwise as Darling , J. pointed out in Hilton v Hopwood it would be virtually impossible for an individual to bring an action under s.99 . |
| 5 | Was n't it enough that he had been so humiliated ? |
| 6 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 7 | And it had been there , about twenty minutes later , that Thiercelin had received his wound ; a shell splinter in the cheek , which looked worse than it was , bleeding profusely into his collar and tunic , so that he had been ordered back to the chateau to have it dressed . |
| 8 | You 've extended courtesy , patience , and fair-mindedness to all , so that you 've been a tribute to the enquiry process if I may say so . |
| 9 | I 've had a great deal of fun reviewing Animation Works Interactive , so much so that I 've been staying in the office well past my normal time just to play with it . |
| 10 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 11 | Human language is much more powerful — so much so that it has been suggested that the ability to speak is what really distinguishes people from animals . |
| 12 | They acknowledged only that they had been playing loud music and having innocent fun . |
| 13 | They have forgotten who they are , knowing only that they have been trapped by an evil enchanter . |
| 14 | She could n't really remember anything , only that she had been knitting and then she had woken up in this bed with her nosy , bossy sister sitting beside her . |
| 15 | ‘ Only that he 'd been abroad . |
| 16 | Rufus could not remember the man 's name , only that he had been the second visitor to Wyvis Hall , the gardener being the first . |
| 17 | Only that he had been up at San Carlos about two years and had a wife that was supposed to be very pretty and about fifteen years younger than he was . |
| 18 | She could not remember her dream , only that it had been about Edmund and that he loved her . |
| 19 | The Earth and the Moon are so close together that it has been estimated that the exposure of both planets to asteroids and comet debris has been much the same . |
| 20 | And although you 're right that they 've been selling flowers for a long time , they underwent a massive re-fit recently . |
| 21 | In June , he told Puchberg bitterly that he had been forced to give away his ‘ Prussian ’ quartets for a song , just in order to have enough cash to meet his present obligations . |
| 22 | No matter that she had n't understood the broken phrases gasped from Rune 's lips as he had devoured her with his kisses ; she knew instinctively that they had been an expression of his desire for her in that sweet moment of culmination . |
| 23 | It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life . |
| 24 | It was no longer that he had been a member of the murder gang , but that he had presided over a meeting of UDA officers in order to plan it . |
| 25 | Lamprey was reading the second , and so far no word had come downstairs that it had been rejected . |
| 26 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 27 | It was just that they 'd been told they could n't do it . |
| 28 | If sophisticated strategies such as nominalization have not so far been recognized as viable options in resolving the tension between syntax and communicative function , this does not imply that they are not viable — just that they have been largely overlooked . |
| 29 | It was just that she had been too much in love at the time to see it . |
| 30 | It 's just that he 's been used to having his own way for so long it does n't occur to him there are perspectives alternative to his own . ’ |