Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [verb] that this " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been determined that this baby would be hers . |
| 2 | It had been argued that this merely regulated the respondent 's trading and tended towards the promotion rather than the restraint of his trade . |
| 3 | When 5 Corps had first been informed by Gen Schmidt-Richberg of the approach of 600,000 Germans and Croats to the southern edge of the Corps area on the evening of 13 May , it had been assumed that this huge mass of fugitives was on the verge of entering Austria and that it would be difficult to prevent all of them from doing so . |
| 4 | It had been anticipated that this group of fit and well motivated patients would have fared better , and allowed full assessment of the advantages of this technique , particularly as the patients were younger , median age 63 ( range 33–77 ) and fitter ( lower ASA grade ) . |
| 5 | However , the scattered radiation does carry to Earth signatures impressed on it by the atmosphere above the clouds , and by the 1960s it had been established that this part of the atmosphere alone contained about 1000 times as much CO 2 as the whole atmosphere of the Earth . |