Example sentences of "[conj] [that] [noun prp] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | This showed him nothing except that Ross had been skilful in the way he had chosen to combine places with times . |
| 2 | The rest of the afternoon had been more or less normal for the time of year except that Ted had been following Pete around for most of it , trying to pump him for details of what had happened between him and Diane Jackson . |
| 3 | Moreover the novel takes up the remark to Katkov that the criminal ‘ himself morally demands ’ his punishment ( which on its own might mean no more than that Dostoevsky had been reading Hegel or popularized Hegel ) , and builds some marvellous effects upon it . |
| 4 | The US proposal followed an intelligence assessment indicating that President Saddam Hussein had strengthened his position internally since the introduction of sanctions and that Iraq had been able to rebuild its infrastructure , including suspected arms production , through trade with Jordan and the illicit use of foreign bank reserves and gold sales . |
| 5 | Later on Feb. 2 Babic again rejected the peace plan , stating the following day that the participants at the meetings had been subjected to heavy pressure and physical assault from Serbian leaders and that Paspalj had been coerced into signing . |
| 6 | Ferrari argued that proper procedures had not been followed in Portugal and that Mansell had been unable to hear the instructions on his radio as he travelled at 170 mph past the pits . |
| 7 | — If he got the answers he expected , that Rhoda had kept William Egan 's money in some hiding place and that Roxie had been looking after her brother 's moneybags , and that all three women had been spending what they were supposed to be hoarding , then he knew what was causing the atmosphere he had picked up at Roxie 's house . |
| 8 | Harry had told her very little about his discussion with Sir Gregory : all she knew was that Tristram had been caught trespassing and that Jennifer had been caught going to meet him ; but although each had sworn that nothing untoward had happened , and their reserve and good behaviour seemed to confirm their innocence , Ann could not forget the scandal they had caused ten years before , nor could she believe that Tristram would have scaled the Roscarrock wall simply to sit with his cousin and talk . |
| 9 | Observers from the US National Democratic Institute said that there had been " serious problems " , that voter registration was incomplete , that registers had not been open for inspection , and that Biya had been allocated 142 minutes of coverage on the state-owned television service between Oct. 7 and polling day , while the six opposition candidates shared only 12 minutes . |