Example sentences of "that [noun] [ex0] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half the racing world seemed to have embraced the occasion , for which after the last race that afternoon there had been much speedy unrolling of glittering black and silver ceiling-to-floor curtaining , transforming the workaday interior of the grandstand into something ephemerally magnificent . |
| 2 | In that case there had been a failure to make an application to appoint an independent surveyor within the time limit in the lease . |
| 3 | That night there had been much wine at dinner and Flavia , though far from drunk , felt warmed , free . |
| 4 | That night there had been a dinner for some of his London friends , they sat up late and there was a kind of wager , they went out into the park , it was a chilly night , and Simon in his evening clothes jumped into the water-piece . |
| 5 | Earlier that day there had been dramatic scenes in Tirana 's central Skanderbeg Square as protesters toppled a huge statue of Enver Hoxha , Albania 's hardline Stalinist leader from 1944 until his death in 1985 . |
| 6 | That morning there had been no reason to drive to Newbury . |
| 7 | That morning there had been a renewed run on the Bank , and he asked his colleagues to share with him the burdens both of office and self-sacrifice . |
| 8 | But by that time there had been two centuries of strife between Empire and Papacy and the Empire no longer had any special connection to the City of Rome . |
| 9 | Prior to independence in 1975 Angola was the world 's fourth-largest coffee exporter , but since that time there had been a dramatic drop in production . |
| 10 | Excessive secrecy , unwillingness to consult with senior politicians , reluctance to uncover the hands of cards on the table of missions and operations , and for all that covertness there had been no great efficiency and success . |