Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was this the point at which to say that I had been a professional actress for over thirty years and was well aware of the mechanics etc ? |
| 2 | ‘ Gross exaggeration , ’ Fabia laughed , but could n't deny that she had been a great fan of the Czech composers , and still was . |
| 3 | Personally , I think it was a merciful release both for my aunt and for my Uncle Félix , seeing that she had been a helpless invalid for so long . |
| 4 | Even in death , some members of the Glencairn family could not forget that she had been a commoner and objected to her burial in the vault . |
| 5 | Have you told Kath that you 've been a naughty girl ? |
| 6 | ‘ You could hang your torso , seeing that you have been a paramedic . ’ |
| 7 | so in all purp in , in always , the fact that you 'd come into this house made one realize that there 'd been a distinct change in one 's circumstances . |
| 8 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 9 | If it was obvious that there 'd been a false declaration . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal said that there had been a jurisdictional error . |
| 11 | The Reserve Bank of Fiji said in April 1990 that there had been a 23,000 net fall in the population since the 1987 coup , and that Fiji was now seeking experts from Thailand , China , Sri Lanka , the Philippines and Britain to make up the shortfall in professionals [ see also p. 36700 ] . |
| 12 | Yet , despite Mrs Thatcher 's resolutely ‘ gung-ho ’ attitude , it was increasingly clear that there had been a general shift in Britain 's stance on Iran and the whole of the Middle East . |
| 13 | It drew comparisons between the events in Cleveland , Rochdale , and now Orkney , stating that there had been a consistent failure — if not an outright refusal by Social Work Departments — to carry out proper investigations , pooling of information from the families and all the professions and services involved with them . |
| 14 | At one time it was widely believed that there had been a great rise in the birth-rate ; there was , in fact , a slow rise to the end of the 1861–70 decade , after which the rate began to fall . |
| 15 | Only when the plane landed was it discovered that there had been a compressor-blade failure in one of the engines . |
| 16 | This research suggested , however , that there had been a recent and substantial increase in the proportion of young women gaining formal , employment related qualifications . |
| 17 | In a speech delivered on March 6 , Tomur Dawamat , chair of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous regional government , admitted that there had been a recent upsurge in Moslem separatist activity in the region . |
| 18 | A report issued by the New York-based human rights group Asia Watch in late March claimed that there had been a recent crackdown against dissident activity in Inner Mongolia , reflecting government fears of nationalist influence spreading from neighbouring Mongolia . |
| 19 | ‘ He wished to make it clear for the purposes of this case that there had been a genuine company in Bombay called Rasiklal & Sons , ’ Dutta told Snaresbrook Crown Court . |
| 20 | This highlights the fact that there had been a practical separation between the organizations of business and artistic concerns , which in earlier types of organization had often seemed to be , and in many cases clearly were , united . |
| 21 | Although he differentiated his position from that of Draper , suggesting that the struggle had been between science and dogmatic theology rather than between science and religion , A. D. White insisted that there had been a theological and a scientific view of every question , invariably at odds . |
| 22 | He claimed that there had been a bona-fide revival of Gothic architecture during the reign of Queen Victoria , that there was with those who loved architecture and made it the subject of special study , |
| 23 | Data collected form this union in 1987 , 1988 and 1989 suggested that there had been a slight improvement in the usage rate of the lobon-gur solution compared with the unions studied in the 1984 Community Household Survey . |
| 24 | By noon on the same day , it is hue , the Government had accepted that there had been a slight set-back and that the European Communities Bill would have to be put temporarily on ice , but almost immediately they conceived and put into place a new plan . |
| 25 | The organization reported that there had been a worldwide increase of nearly 17,000 AIDS cases in April , bringing the total to 254,078 . |
| 26 | In late May 1991 it was reported that there had been a serious outbreak of dengue fever in the Cook Islands , with almost 800 cases having been reported since the beginning of the year . |
| 27 | What was not apparent was that there had been a total flight instrument failure because of a complete electrical breakdown while the aircraft was flying in cloud . |
| 28 | Physical man was supposed to have evolved from an ape by way of a " missing link " , but psychological evolution was discussed only within the defined limits of Homo sapiens where it was postulated that there had been a progressive development from the childhood of the race to its maturity . |
| 29 | The decline in smoking prevalence and tobacco sales is particularly significant because in March of this year , the Health Department reported that there had been a 14 percent rise in tobacco advertising during 1990 , apparently in anticipation of the advertising ban . |
| 30 | He said that there had been a postal strike and that he had been trying to write to me and as the mail was getting through , I should get the letters . |