Example sentences of "that he have been [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Court of Appeal today , Rachael 's solicitor explained that he 'd been frightened of losing the children , and that for several weeks before the killing he 'd been taking medication for depression . |
| 2 | He knew he had done nothing , knew beyond suggestion 's reach that he had been innocent of action as well as intention . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In a reflective article for the February 1991 issue of Life magazine , Atwater admitted that he had been one of the " most ardent practitioners " of negative campaigning tactics as manager of Bush 's 1988 presidential election campaign against Michael Dukakis . |
| 5 | She told her brother that he had been one of the lucky ones , blown up by a land-mine , and only lost a toe — not even a big one , she teased . |
| 6 | The continued silence about him gave rise to new rumours about his health and mental condition , and that he had been relieved of his duties by Himmler and Goebbels . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Sir Thomas admitted — though with no small reluctance — that he had been aware of a liaison 'twixt my lord and Bess Halidon . |
| 9 | I think , in fact , that he had been aware of this property of the area . |
| 10 | 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 . |