Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] had been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , in the case of John Main at Inverkeithing , he and his two fellow excisemen were threatened with the board 's displeasure in 1752 , when the collector of Bo'ness accepted , without any enquiry into the facts , an allegation that they had been guilty of excessive drinking and had thereby neglected their duties . |
| 2 | ‘ And the allegation that she had been disloyal to anyone was very firmly refuted . ’ |
| 3 | Within a month Wilson saw with her own eyes that she had been right . |
| 4 | In 1989 , the wife of the " Yorkshire Ripper " was awarded £600,000 by a jury to compensate her for a false story in " Private Eye " , published eight years previously , to the effect that she had been prepared to sell her story to newspapers . |
| 5 | Two Cellophane-wrapped sprays that she had been unable to deliver were lying on the bouquet of roses she had prepared for her rival . |
| 6 | The local authority 's decision to agree to his application was an admission that they had been wrong all the time . |
| 7 | The last faint hope that there had been some mistake died . |
| 8 | It was reported on TV-AM that there had been forty arrests as a result of the riot , but it was not known if any charges would be brought . |
| 9 | Three-quarters felt that there had been little feedback following its presentation . |
| 10 | Within six days , on 3 May 1862 , the young boy died , Benjamin declaring as he applied for a certificate that he had been present at the death . |
| 11 | She had an intimation that it had been important to her to have an impersonal initiation , in her own control , not over-whelming . |
| 12 | On Oct. 1 the United Kingdom bank Standard Chartered admitted to the committee that it had been aware of violations of banking guidelines by its Indian subsidiary some 18 months before the scandal erupted . |
| 13 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 14 | It was the first time in the campaign that there had been any rapport between the embattled figures on the platform and the assembled press and television correspondents . |
| 15 | I may even have said in the spirit of the joke that it had been one hundred and fifty-six whores , for all the world as though it was of an obsessive importance for the actual number to be known with absolute accuracy ! |
| 16 | At the trial of the action in 1979 Reeve J declined to take into account the supervening spinal disease and awarded damages on the basis that the plaintiff had been capable of light work , not on the basis that he had been incapable of work since 1976 in consequence of a disease for which his employers were in no way responsible . |
| 17 | He had found a niche at once with the men , but she told Julia that she had been unhappy for months , struggling with the other women to force local villagers to disgorge food , humping it back up to the camp and preparing it under extraordinarily difficult conditions . |
| 18 | The GP said that Peter had been to see her many times in the two years that he had been married , with small ailments that seemed to be stress-related . |
| 19 | Mr Beaton told the court that he had been asleep in his cab when two men with Glasgow accents woke him up by placing a bag over his head . |
| 20 | Rostov was troubled by the knowledge that he had been wool-gathering again . |
| 21 | THE woman who left her 11-year-old daughter alone in a London flat while she went on holiday to Spain denied last night that she had been heartless or wicked . |
| 22 | Someone who had called on Angy , found her groomed and perfumed and ready to receive a rival , and been moved to uncontrollable violence by the belief that she had been unfaithful ? |
| 23 | In March 1143 Pope Innocent II decreed that its validity was to depend on Ste Barbe swearing that it had been canonical ; he had not made this oath by February 1146 , when Eugenius III suspended Fitzherbert . |
| 24 | I have a feeling that he had been married but I do not know what happened . |
| 25 | Willie Carson will also resting easy after suggestions that he had been wrong to bring about the withdrawal of the red-hot favourite , Superoo , before the start of Ascot 's opening event on Saturday , having done a similar thing with the favourite , Red Paddy , before the Royal Hunt Cup . |
| 26 | After 1986 parliamentary concern shifted towards the security service or MI5 , particularly because of allegations that it had been involved in attempts to smear elected politicians during the 1970s . |
| 27 | On Aug. 15 , 1990 , Martin Kirchner , general secretary of the CDU , was suspended from office as a result of allegations that he had been one of the most senior paid informers of the Stasi . |
| 28 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 29 | She wanted to prove to Madame Gloriana that she had been wrong — to let her see how happy she was . |
| 30 | He led the way down the gangplank complaining vaguely to his friends that there had been some disgusting favouritism somewhere . |