Example sentences of "that [vb past] be [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoping against hope that she had not ducked out back to her own flat — not that she 'd blame her ! — Leith skirted the room until her eyes were drawn to a settee that had been pushed back to the side of the room . |
| 2 | Byrd studied all research on the trait approach that had been done up to the 1940 's and only found 5% of all traits identified for leaders common to all the research . |
| 3 | Although until April 1980 it was illegal for beneficiaries to sell land , researchers found evidence of land being sold and also of farms that had been turned over to sharecropping . |
| 4 | He knew the sentences that had been handed down to his associates . |
| 5 | The Proceedings of the Royal Society completely overlooked Lear 's beautiful Parrots when it decided that , ‘ The so-called Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains ’ was ‘ by far the most accurately illustrated work on foreign ornithology that had been issued up to that period . ’ |
| 6 | He felt like a moth that had been sucked in to a candle flame , but the fluttering was in his chest . |