Example sentences of "that [pron] have been [art] [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 I warn the House — I am afraid that I have been an awful bore in continually pointing this out — that , as we extend the concept of health care out into the community , we shall find more and more unsatisfied demands that have not previously been recognised .
3 ‘ Gross exaggeration , ’ Fabia laughed , but could n't deny that she had been a great fan of the Czech composers , and still was .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 She was highly delighted , especially when she learned that she had been the only woman called for interview ; she had been certain that the job would go to one of the male applicants .
7 Guilty that she had been the lucky one .
8 She looked behind and concentrated on speeding backwards down the track , giving silent thanks that she had been the last to arrive .
9 It had never counted for anything that she 'd been the innocent victim , that she 'd had no control over the events which had shaped her life — she 'd carried the burden with her , locked into her soul , and at least that way she 'd felt relatively safe .
10 Have you told Kath that you 've been a naughty girl ?
11 ‘ You could hang your torso , seeing that you have been a paramedic . ’
12 Something has got to give and that something has been the vast majority of Third World people .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 If it was obvious that there 'd been a false declaration .
16 The Court of Appeal said that there had been a jurisdictional error .
17 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 ] .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 Only when the plane landed was it discovered that there had been a compressor-blade failure in one of the engines .
22 This research suggested , however , that there had been a recent and substantial increase in the proportion of young women gaining formal , employment related qualifications .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 ‘ 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 ,
29 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 .
30 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 .
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