Example sentences of "[noun] that he have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at that moment , Ronni thought later , that Guido made up his mind that he 'd been wrong in associating Jeff with the disappearance of his speedboat . |
| 2 | It 's thanks to a hefty sponsorship package from Village Homes that he has been able to make the move after only one full season of FF1600 racing in Ireland . |
| 3 | George Soloway has been so busy making money that he has been unable ‘ to commit himself to another human being ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Rostov was troubled by the knowledge that he had been wool-gathering again . |
| 11 | There has never been any hint that he 's been involved in underhand dealings . ’ |
| 12 | I have a feeling that he had been married but I do not know what happened . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He , in retaliation , has launched against them the most concentrated onslaughts that he has been able to devise . |
| 16 | He knew he had done nothing , knew beyond suggestion 's reach that he had been innocent of action as well as intention . |
| 17 | Although the assassination of Buckingham could have provided a fresh start , on the assumption that he had been responsible for the King 's policies , there was no redress of grievances . |
| 18 | However , on his return to Hong Kong on April 8 he indicated to reporters that he had been unsuccessful in his attempt to win Chinese approval for the project . |
| 19 | Although the details of Clinton 's draft record were tortuously complex and , by common consent , of limited relevance to the presidential campaign , Republicans made some effective political capital from the repeated suggestion that he had been evasive over admitting the truth of the matter . |
| 20 | On Jan. 22 it was reported that the government had ordered a tightening of security at the prison holding Pablo Escobar amid reports that he had been able to continue running his drug cartel through visitors . |
| 21 | He remained in detention during the rebellion but stated in a letter published in the press that he had been responsible for it , a claim which was interpreted more as a dramatic personal gesture than a statement of fact ; earlier reports stated that the rebellion had been such a surprise to him that he had requested a pistol in order to shoot himself . |
| 22 | The distinctive orange , yellow and black bike was a Christmas present for the youngster , but he has been so weak because of chemotherapy treatment that he has been able unable to ride it . |
| 23 | We begin to leaf through two large black plan chests containing examples of numerous advertising campaigns that he has been involved in over the years . |
| 24 | It was the first time since her death that he had been able to think of it with anything like acceptance . |
| 25 | By 20 July Wolfgang was writing to Leopold that he had been obliged to move out of the Weber 's house and find different lodgings , since ‘ people were gossiping ’ . |
| 26 | The relative lack of resonance of the boycott can only have indicated to Hitler that he had been right to keep a fairly low public profile on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 27 | As he left court , Bartman said in a statement through his solicitor that he had been horrified and shocked by the murder and had always emphatically denied the allegations against him . |
| 28 | The fact that he had been unaware that there was a problem at all , and that people had grievances they felt unable to air to him privately , was , perhaps , a measure of him losing touch since moving office to the houseboat . |
| 29 | The maid would have to be dismissed of course … the girl had brazenly admitted allowing Patrick back into the house , and Katherine was n't sure which annoyed her more — the fact that the boy had managed to creep back into the house or the fact that he had been alone in the girl 's bedroom . |
| 30 | The fact that he had been able to make the journey across the Atlantic meant that life was at last reverting to its customary shape . |