Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] that [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it not been realised that it was the work of a humble man , this poem would be thought a sacrilege and an example of striking pride and arrogance , but instead it is an invitation to extreme exaltation of spirit for it comes from a man who has submerged his ego in the All . |
| 2 | If it was n't for the air of wary intelligence about him it might have been supposed that he was a barbarian from the Hubland wastes . |
| 3 | Especially when they are tipped that it was you who topped him . ’ |
| 4 | It will have been noticed that it was common for more than one child in a family to enter the same trade , and our sample very strikingly demonstrates the importance of sisterhood . |
| 5 | It had just been decided that it was not possible that the coffin in a horizontal position could be manoeuvred around the many angles of doors and walls between there and the front door . |
| 6 | In the annual report of the Ministry of Health it had been said that it was the practice , in some wards , to require a casual who was locked in a cell by himself to break a given quantity of stone , often very hard , down to a specified standard of size which was reached when it could be passed through a ring : |
| 7 | I heard it had been said that it was discouraged but er |
| 8 | Although its size is not yet known , suggestions have been made that it was larger than a normal auxiliary fort and may have accommodated either a vexillation , possibly of Legio IX , whose tile-works may have been situated some 8 km ( 5 miles ) south of Carlisle at Scalesceugh , ( though the stamped tiles from there may belong to a slightly later period ) , or the Ala Petriana before its transfer to Stanwix over the river . |
| 9 | Rosa Jacobsen confirmed in Elisabeth her determined quest , not directly , but indirectly , for Rosa was like Marie Grubbe , of whom it had been written that she was someone who ‘ sought flowers in the tree of life where others would never think to look — under dark leaves and on dry branches ’ . |
| 10 | After all , in the war Barry would have been told that he was fighting to uphold the rights of small nations , so what could be more logical than that he should now fight for the rights of his own country , Ireland , a small nation if ever there was one ! |
| 11 | They had enquired if he was at the pottery and been told that he was not . |
| 12 | He had been trying to talk to Sir Alexander Cadogan , the Cabinet 's linkman with the secret services , but had been told that he was busy . |
| 13 | Prison officers had been told that he was a suicide risk . |
| 14 | An inquest on Grant Mann has been told that he was shot in the head at close range . |
| 15 | I went through a period of depression erm I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told that I was suffering from various illnesses , but nothing helped . |
| 16 | And she stared at it , glad to have been told that it was not good , for she could make nothing of it : it stood about five feet high , on a stone lump , and it had holes in it and stretching arms . |
| 17 | The question they had to answer was quite simple , and they had been told by the seneschal that he had been told that it was an empirical question , not a purely theoretical one , though he had also said he found this difficult to believe , as even the mysterious powers and forces which moved the Wars themselves could not control such absolutes . |
| 18 | This morning she had been told that she was ill-mannered ; now it seemed she was not fit to be a lady ! |
| 19 | I had seen my mother pregnant , and had been told that she was carrying a baby inside her , a little brother or sister for us all . |
| 20 | The Bursar , Lesley Webb , had on her appointment been told that she was a member of the senior management team . |
| 21 | It has often been alleged that he was incapable of friendship ; that he was ruthless and unforgiving in sacrificing associates . |
| 22 | Caroline had disappeared but it had been shown that it was nothing to do with him . |
| 23 | Other writers give different dates , none so precise , but all are agreed that he was a prisoner . |
| 24 | It may be noted here , however , that all the sources are agreed that he was buried in Edirne , Mecdi , in his being the first to give the precise location of his grave , namely " outside the of the Darulhadis mosque in Edirne " . |
| 25 | Yes it 's been understood that it was a routing thing to put them at the right side of Southwell to drive through the middle of it . |
| 26 | It has been noted that it was for the same crimes that Klaus Barbie was sentenced by the courts in Lyon to life imprisonment . |
| 27 | It has been found that it was rare that an old person initiated a request for admission to a local authority home ( Stapleton , 1979 ; Sinclair , 1988b ) . |
| 28 | And somebody knew about that telephone call , and met Kemp at the railway station , doubtless informing the taxi-driver who had been hired that he was no longer required . ’ |
| 29 | At one time , it had been rumoured that he was being groomed to be the next Commissioner . |
| 30 | Bomber Command lost over 500 aircraft during the next few months over Berlin , and when you consider that this meant 3,500 fully trained men , it can be realised that it was a critical time . |