Example sentences of "all [that] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erika felt goose-pimples on her arms and the thought crossed her mind that , despite all that had been said to her about courage , perhaps she was n't really cut out for stardom , after all . |
| 2 | The regime would scarcely have been considered noteworthy , nor Napoleon III a remarkable sovereign , if all that had been achieved was the creation of a brilliant Court which succeeded in outshining those of the traditional European monarchies . |
| 3 | Not an appropriate analogy as fairy tales and pantomimes are the Devil 's tools , I 'm sure — Ness District deleted ‘ Devil 's Dance ’ from the SCO posters — but all that had been asleep was now activated . |
| 4 | To one correspondent , Elia Diodati , he described his book as a most ample confirmation of the Copernican system by showing the nullity of all that had been brought by Tycho and others to the contrary . ’ |
| 5 | Instead of a systematic policy of imperialism , Unionists had Montagu 's Indian policy and Milner 's policy in Egypt ; instead of settlement in Ireland there were outrages ; instead of a broad social policy there was first a reckless waste of money and then an abandonment of almost all that had been proposed . |
| 6 | All that had been achieved was a more punitive regime , while the cause of sex reform had been set back by the whitewashing of women and the doctrine of the uncleanness of men . |
| 7 | Overwhelmed by not having noticed this earlier , by his failure of politeness , observation and helpfulness , all that had been taught him from boyhood up , Richard proceeded at the double onto the Embankment , to escort her on to Lord Jim . |
| 8 | But this morning all that had been forgotten because the budgerigar had taken a turn for the worse . |
| 9 | The woman with the pram asked him what all that had been about . |
| 10 | The judgement on whether the consequences were acceptable was clearly left to the negotiators : all that had been done was to remove the uncertainty as to what the consequences would be given a set of grade boundaries , not to state whether any set of consequences was acceptable . |
| 11 | All that had been definitely erased were the pointers to where each ‘ exon ’ began and ended . |
| 12 | She felt a returning surge of anger — after all that had been said , did he really think she would sleep with him ? |
| 13 | She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months . |
| 14 | And so it was Emily who , if all that had been said about herself and George was true , would miss him most and she was absent from the funeral . |
| 15 | She would give to it all that had been withheld from her , pour out her infinite capacity to love knowing that for certain this time it would be needed and valued . |
| 16 | With an almost unanimous vote at its 40th congress in Geneva , the party said that the word " communism " was being dropped because of all that had been done in its name . |
| 17 | When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters . |
| 18 | All that had been two months ago . |
| 19 | Listlessly she tossed about , unable to sleep , her mind reliving all that had been said tonight . |
| 20 | I mean , ten years ago , maybe twenty years ago , I would n't have known anyone at all that had been millionaires . |
| 21 | And his aim in doing that would be to be res , fully restore all that had been his brother 's , for his brother 's family . |
| 22 | If Joyce 's energy had been concentrated in the forging of a language adequate to resolve all that had been , then that language , whatever else it had done , had achieved something for him . |