Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] [noun prp] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put her head on one side , trying to make him understand from the look in her eyes that Stephen had been upset by the references to his mother 's death . |
| 2 | In a national address on television on March 4 , Aylwin rejected the claims of Pinochet and his supporters that Chile had been in state of civil war and that human rights violations were an inevitable cost . |
| 3 | Ken enjoyed his visits to Orton 's flat , with its crucifix on one wall surrounded by pictures that Ken said were ‘ almost porno ’ . |
| 4 | He rubbed polish in little circles onto the shoes that Erlich thought were impressively polished . |
| 5 | But Nick Stone was nowhere in evidence , and none of the departing cars were the models that Bodie had been primed to watch for . |
| 6 | One of the main concerns that Vernon had was the mess that was caused by throwing , his words , the bales down , and they were breaking open . |
| 7 | As I discussed the history of changes in prisons with officials or ex-officials of TDC , or colleagues at the Criminal Justice Center , I came to think that the most logical order in which to look at the contemporary response to the questions that Howard raised was not the same as that which he followed in those chapters . |
| 8 | Before the tin victory brooch , these bottles of liquid strength were the only goods that Dot knew were hers alone , belonging to no grown-up . |
| 9 | Well , all those things had gone in the parcels , parcels that Kathleen had been obliged to carry down to the post office in five separate journeys , parcels that were heavy and had cost altogether two pounds four shillings to send . |
| 10 | Dowty 's profits proved to be considerably less than the figures mentioned during the takeover , leading to suggestions that TI had been ‘ lumbered ’ with Dowty something TI furiously denies . |
| 11 | This was not the first time Alice had caught suggestions that Jasper liked being bound over — needed the edge it put on life . |
| 12 | The arguments that Freud advanced are unnecessary to establish the conceptualization of the death instincts , and their eternal struggle with the sexual instincts , in the unconscious life of humanity . |
| 13 | The main themes that Bukharin pursued were : ( 1 ) the need to cut down on the excessive unproductive consumption of the state bureaucracy ; and ( 2 ) the need to draw the widest possible strata of the people into the planning process and into controlling the state . |
| 14 | The jury 's verdict appeared to have resulted from the acceptance by some of its members that Barry had been unfairly singled out for prosecution , a central tenet of the mayor 's defence strategy . |
| 15 | The Army 's reported offer on April 15 of a reward of ( 100,000,000 pesos ) for the capture of veteran ELN leader Manuel Pérez Martínez effectively disproved reports that Pérez had been executed by an ELN faction on March 29 . |
| 16 | The contemporary tumours that Eleanor had been an adulteress made it possible to believe that she preached what she practised . |
| 17 | The NCR spokeswoman denied claims that Teradata had been guaranteed its independence from NCR , saying that from the outset , management had made clear its intention to merge operations . |
| 18 | Its existence demonstrated for Engels that Marx had been right in arguing that commonality was the oldest form of social existence . |
| 19 | To corral pure theorists specializing into other fields of economics into the enclosure of macroeconomic theory simply on the grounds that Keynes had been there before would be perverse in the extreme . |
| 20 | But it was impossible to forget entirely the rumours that William had been involved with some very undesirable people over the last few years . |
| 21 | Lothar 's supporters implicitly recognised this when they tried to postpone the battle 's political impact by spreading rumours that Charles had been killed and Louis wounded . |
| 22 | The hardships that Ceauşescu imposed were not only necessary to provide the funds and material for everything from the House of the People ( to which they would be denied access ) to canals without traffic and power-stations without fuel , but also formed part of the folk-wisdom of tyrants going back much further in history than Ceauşescu 's own model , Stalin . |