Example sentences of "[been] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had left her and gone to live with an upper-class woman , had soared to the opposite end of the scale from Josie , whose attraction for him had been that of a splenetic victim from the lower depths of the goyim : but Josie had refused a divorce and the ordeal had dragged on . |
| 2 | The actual sphere of competence the church had sought to monopolize had been that of sexual morals , temperance , the semi-private sphere of the family , and education . |
| 3 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 4 | But life had not always been that way with Moby . |
| 5 | One of the difficulties with interpreting Small World visually had been that , like many of his texts , it features extended literary pastiche . |
| 6 | The irrational thought almost occurs that Shakespeare could n't have been that smart if he did n't realise that he had here a performer who can turn sows ' ears into silk purses , and silk purses into live butterflies . |
| 7 | Of all the proposed mega-mergers this year , the only success has been that of Ernst & Young , which merged all its significant practices expect for Canada . |
| 8 | The result has been that sterling has become very expensive to borrow , but there is still far too much of it , and the supply is still increasing too fast . |
| 9 | Typical of the complaints had been that of David Fletcher , a Wirral councillor , who said his constituents ‘ objected most strongly to subsidising the extravagancies of hard-left councils like Liverpool ’ . |
| 10 | Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing . |
| 11 | His mainstream career prior to 1917 had been that of a journalist . |
| 12 | I did n't realise then that The Dave Clark Five had been that enormous in the States . |
| 13 | ‘ If the mistakes had been that obvious there were people around me to tell me where I had gone wrong , but they did n't . |
| 14 | The immediate reason seems to have been that Indian painters working for some of the Spanish and criollo masters complained of mistreatment . |
| 15 | The general view has been that theoria is the engine driving the historical development of science and that praxis is merely the application of theoria . |
| 16 | When he was young his hair had been that flaxen gold too , as soft and as fine . |
| 17 | Bardsley put his teacup down and said in a melancholy voice , ‘ I was thinking of taking him into partnership , but business has n't been that good lately . |
| 18 | The result has been that ‘ investment at the highest levels ever ’ has come from fares , not from any public purse , and that an ‘ economic ’ system has become unsafe as BR and LRT weigh up commercial investment needs against the cost of safety measures and the cost of paying wages sufficient to maintain a safe level of staffing . |
| 19 | Do n't skimp on it , because the experience of great Christians has been that without it we can not grow into Christian maturity . |
| 20 | ’ One traditional way of discovering God 's will had been that of the biblical sortes — the question would be posed and the Bible then opened at random . |
| 21 | The main symbol of death had long been that of the old man holding a familiar rural implement , the scythe , implying that man would be cut down when he was ripe for it . |
| 22 | In the twentieth century the most dramatic political collapse has been that of the Liberal Party . |
| 23 | The dog had n't barked so it could n't have been that , because he did n't miss any strange sound . |
| 24 | The reason I cover my head is difficult to explain , because it 's always been that way . |
| 25 | I wanted it to be that I had n't really been that big before I left — in other words , prove them wrong . |
| 26 | ‘ She has always been that way , ever since she was a little girl , ’ says another of those close to her , Kylie 's great aunt , Mrs Thomas Riddiford . |
| 27 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 28 | If only it had been that nice John Smith , with his twinkling accountant 's eyes and trust-me smile . |
| 29 | In 805 Charles chose one chieftain to reign as his vassal king , and bestowed upon him the ancient title of Chagan , which had originally been that of the independent High King of the Avars . |
| 30 | One of the most popular trends has been that of Drama Games . |