Example sentences of "that they had be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Access to Israel from the occupied territories was re-opened on Oct. 28 , but when Arabs returned to their jobs many found that they had been dismissed . |
| 2 | Reading it , the British discovered that they had been speaking the imperial equivalent of prose all their lives . |
| 3 | However , in April 1988 Teo , along with eight other original " conspirators " , issued a public statement claiming that they had been coerced into making their televised confessions [ see p. 36353 ] . |
| 4 | Several of them showed signs of injury , leading to claims in the US and the UK that they had been coerced into making their statements . |
| 5 | That is a reference back to the events of chapter 16 , and strange though it is , it is no more extraordinary than their wish in Exodus 16 that they had been killed together with the Egyptians at the time of the Passover . |
| 6 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 7 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 8 | Many of them by now had been in Malta for several months … and ever since Italy had entered into the war , these boys , often in obsolete aircraft , had carried out bravely and unquestioning , any task that they had been called upon to perform . |
| 9 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 10 | The appearance in the Tripoli courtroom of the two suspects , Abdel Baset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , disproved persistent US suggestions that they had been hidden or even executed by the Libyan authorities . |
| 11 | But no steps were to be taken to put them into effect until they had been communicated to the king , who , when he had satisfied himself that they had been made without prejudice , would decide what was to be done . |
| 12 | On Oct. 19 the United Kingdom and US embassies in Ankara investigated allegations by a group of Christian evangelists who claimed that they had been blindfolded and tortured at a police station in Ankara . |
| 13 | In an emotional debate , all Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ) deputies walked out in protest , claiming that they had been insulted by Confederation for an Independent Poland ( KPN ) leader Leszek Moczulski . |
| 14 | The Israeli delegation claimed that they had been assured by Egypt that members of the PNC , which it claimed was directly related to and controlled by the PLO , would not be present in the negotiating room . |
| 15 | Subsequently , one of the three , Francesco Di Maggio , in a television appearance , suggested that they had been withdrawn because they were getting too close to identifying links between the Mafia and establishment figures . |
| 16 | The authorities claimed that they had been living illegally on land which had been allocated to others , in Khartoum suburbs such as Karmuta where large numbers of mud-brick houses had reportedly now been vacated and then destroyed by bulldozers . |
| 17 | Erm and so therefore er they , they knew tools that they had been using since the period of the war , erm were gradually being overtaken by the new types of ceramic tools . |
| 18 | Could she come to terms with the knowledge that they had been conceived in that dreadful place ? |
| 19 | Now that they had been presented with the information which they had requested all along , they had to prove that faecal contamination of the egg shell did not constitute any great risk to public health , Mother Catherine said . |
| 20 | Some of the 120 rebels claimed that they had been granted an amnesty , but an official spokesman stated that all had surrendered unconditionally and could face charges of treason , a capital offence . |
| 21 | Neither the crew of this vessel nor its captain , a certain Captain Robert Anderson who , I believe , is still at large , knew that they had been monitored from the moment they had left port by an American spy-in-the sky satellite . |
| 22 | The recollections of those who worked with him in the war years show a striking convergence : volunteers were won over instantly by the self-assured prophetic tone in which he discussed the war and by his knack of making them feel that they had been singled out to receive a confidence . |
| 23 | ‘ The fund 's external investment advisers , Geoffrey Morley and Partners , have confirmed that although they were told of the scheme , they were not asked to give advice , contrary to a written assurance to a councillor by Reg Beard , the council treasurer , that they had been consulted . |
| 24 | In our main survey , only seven per cent told us that they had had classes about household budgeting or managing money while they were at school — and rather less than half of even this small minority said that they had been taught anything about buying on credit , or borrowing money . |
| 25 | Rita 's teaching experience has been enormously full and varied , including recreational classes ranging from her first class of East-enders at Plaistow to her university class at Newcastle 20 years later , courses for schoolchildren , for Civil Defence trainees and for physiotherapy students ( only this year , at the Sports Medicine exhibition , physiotherapists came up to the Medau stand to say that they had been taught Medau by Rita Quick ) , and work with the mentally ill and disabled . |
| 26 | Lisa and Phoebe shared the painful knowledge that they had been conning themselves as well as their men . |
| 27 | in 1195 , when King Richard Coeur de Lion was at Chinon , no less than fifteen so-called Assassins were apprehended , and confessed that they had been sent by the King of France to kill him . |
| 28 | The appellant claimed that they had been sent to the wrong office . |
| 29 | We enquired and were told that they had been disbanded . |
| 30 | Four pairs of eyes fastened momentarily on this and absorbed the fact that they had been cheated . |