Example sentences of "[vb infin] that [pron] had been [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Well , now that she was no longer there , he would have to pay attention ; would know that she had been serious .
2 they did not consider that there had been enough preliminary discussion in their school prior to the review .
3 Churchill , as First Lord of the Admiralty , could not explain that he had been conscious of enemy intentions , without giving away the secret that German codes were being broken .
4 I can not feel that we had been negligent , had we been dealing with another man .
5 We did not claim that there had been any cases of poisoning in Britain , but referred to the numerous American cases ( FDA Drug Bulletin 1977 , vol 7 , p 26 ; New England Journal of Medicine 1979 , vol 300 , p 238 ) .
6 By the end of the project we could report that there had been some changes and developments in practice .
7 The Court of Appeal held that the evidence did not establish that there had been any direct procurement by the defendants of any wrongful acts by the drivers or loaders or that the latter had committed any wrongful acts ; also that there was no evidence of any actual knowledge by the defendants of any contract between Bowaters and the plaintiffs .
8 Can not concede that it had been possible and neither will shift in how we communicate and view the place of the Royals in our society and what the are and how those P R shifts a phrase in terms of let's make ourselves more public , let's make ourselves more accessible , have resulted in that because their very their very accessibility is the those kind of radio programmes to happen .
9 I wondered whether Lili would agree that they had been best friends .
10 His new girl-friend was also examined and nothing abnormal was found , although she did say that there had been some increase in her vaginal discharge for some months .
11 I could accept that I had been foolish , but that acceptance was not yet a sufficient antidote for the niggling little pain in my heart .
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