Example sentences of "that what had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired rather late in the planning of Overlord that what had been thought to be beaches of hard sand actually had bands of exposed clay . |
| 2 | But this had been increasingly called into question : women campaigned for equality , divorced people and unmarried parents became more assertive , and theologians showed that what had been claimed as universal truths often arose from particular cultures and societies . |
| 3 | Paul Lee , Orkney 's Social Work Director , consistently said that what had been done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 4 | He stuck rigidly to his statement that what had been done was absolutely essential in the best interests of the children . |
| 5 | The Bishop finished by praying that what had been discussed would become an apostolic thrust of the diocese . |
| 6 | The results of what followed have led Ivan Koltsov , who led the research and was a Member of the Geographical Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences , to announce that there was no longer any doubt that what had been found beneath the monastery at the Alexandrov settlement was indeed Ivan the Terrible 's library containing priceless works of art . |
| 7 | I decided to apply for some help , so my daughter Lilya ( Aliki ) and I wrote a letter to Andropov and Brezhnev , and I explained in these letters that what had been stolen was a large number of works from the collection that I had intended to give to the Tretyakov Gallery . |
| 8 | On the whole I bore the strictures with courage in the firm belief that what had been done was the best that could be done . |
| 9 | The result was that what had been a small-sized cheap labour force became a large well-paid labour force . |
| 10 | It soon became disappointingly clear to the NVA that what had been conceived as a two-way process between voluntary bodies and the state , in practice placed the burden of day-to-day regulation on private initiatives . |
| 11 | In a few hours she would come face to face once more with that same man who was responsible for his death and this time she was intent on making absolutely sure that what had been a teenage crush on her part remained just that . |
| 12 | Their inclusion was a clear sign that what had been the order of the regime 's stated priorities since the end of the Civil War must now be reversed . |