Example sentences of "that [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first episode , the house that crumbled was in a real North London street designated for demolition . |
| 2 | The most striking change that occurred was with regard to the parties ' respective attitudes towards Court–Country issues . |
| 3 | The prayer that occurred was in a small group and it was a prayer for power for the church . |
| 4 | Adjustment for risk factors known before the start of labour made little difference to perinatal mortality rates , but such differences that occurred were in the expected direction . |
| 5 | The radio was on , whatever it was that shrieked was at it full-blast , and from somewhere upstairs came music that sounded as if it proceeded from a violin . |
| 6 | The last time that happened was with an Irish judge in the 1830s . |
| 7 | Er all those that finished was in the finishing union , yeah . |
| 8 | The years that followed were in many respects his heyday . |
| 9 | Stalin was less interested in Korea and the type of state that developed was of idiosyncratic character , in some respects resembling the Soviet Union and in others the kind of communist party devised by Mao Tse-tung during the Yenan era . |
| 10 | Suddenly the only thing that mattered was to be home , safe , away from all this noise , this heat , the perpetual anguish . |
| 11 | The picture that emerged was of couples predominantly against the idea of adoption with contact . |
| 12 | However , in spite of having continually plundered Arabia through the centuries and taken thousands of its best horses , by the beginning of this century few of their descendants remained and those that did were in a very sorry state of deterioration . |
| 13 | Certainly those who came for a meal with Dorothy Mellings — while Alice was there , with Jasper — tended to come in ones or twos , mostly women , perhaps needing Dorothy 's advice , or even to borrow money ; divorced friends — so many of the couples that had been to the Mellings 's in the good days had split up . |
| 14 | She had recognised him instantly , though she had seen him in the flesh only once before and that had been across a crowded ballroom . |
| 15 | It became possible to standardize the matériel and develop strategy in a way that had been beyond Muscovy 's capabilities . |
| 16 | Only then did it strike me that there was indeed a role that a further staff member could crucially play here ; that it was , in fact , this very shortage that had been at the heart of all my recent troubles . |
| 17 | In spelling out its arguments for the proposed pattern , the Council was once again reinterpreting the balance that had been at the centre of its concerns from the beginning : there was nothing in the Charter and Statutes ‘ which prevented greater recognition from being given to an institution 's own internal procedures where these could be shown to be rigorous and effective . |
| 18 | First of all , there was the problem that had been at the root of France 's defeat in 1940 — the decay of the republican state , which had been so powerfully symbolized by the Third Republic 's abdication to Pétain in July 1940 . |
| 19 | Prized most of all was the collection of classical poetry — from John Donne to Robert Browning — which enhanced the Hebraic and Yiddish verse that had been with him from the first . |
| 20 | She waited and waited , the feeling of living a nightmare that had been with her ever since Thursday intensifying . |
| 21 | Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember . |
| 22 | Wet through again I wandered about inside the house touching pictures , clocks , trying to feel loss for these things , but it would n't come this time — that sense that had been with me since the reading of Francis 's Will had vanished . |
| 23 | They were glad to be free of the flatboat and the smell of death that had been with them ever since the battle . |
| 24 | According to H. C. Robbins Landon , it was the Tristan und Isolde shortly before that , a production of swarming darkness and rare musical sensibility , that had been for many people one of the greatest of all their musical experiences . |
| 25 | But , when asked in 1947 to replace an old dirty power station that had been on the site since 1891 , he soon forgot such idealism and , like any architect , was glad to have the job . |
| 26 | Marie , sick and trembling , overwhelmed with fear and guilt at her own actions , was already kneeling down with a dustpan and brush , sweeping up the broken glass from the tomato-sauce bottle that had been on the table . |
| 27 | During the same month the Young Republicans barricaded themselves into a house in Harvey Street to resist the eviction of a family that had been on the housing list for eighteen years . |
| 28 | The dunes that had been on the left were replaced by a sandstone ridge and the sand on that side of the road was now black . |
| 29 | After a while she sat up and slowly began to undress to her camisole and her waist petticoat ; then , turning up the gas that had been on a low jet , she went across the room to the wash-hand stand and poured water from the jug into the basin . |
| 30 | She hated arriving at places unannounced and , although Charles Caldecott had always been at his most ingratiating when he met her , that had been on social occasions . |