Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] had [be] " in BNC.

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1 But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder .
2 The haste with which Adobe urged Sun to ink the contract — Ybarra says he was was collecting signatures late into the evening out at Sun 's Mountain View headquarters — is thought to have alienated Sun 's SunPics print division which apparently wanted no part of a deal that it had been told of only days beforehand ( UX No 405 ) .
3 Well before 1330 the Angevin Empire had ceased to be the dynamic and significant political force that it had been in the mid and late twelfth century .
4 Equally , in the case of John Main at Inverkeithing , he and his two fellow excisemen were threatened with the board 's displeasure in 1752 , when the collector of Bo'ness accepted , without any enquiry into the facts , an allegation that they had been guilty of excessive drinking and had thereby neglected their duties .
5 Also on March 25 parties of the so-called " pro-democracy " alliance ( New Aspirations Party , Palang Dharma , Ekkaparb and the Democrats ) held a joint press conference and called into question the credibility of Narong as Prime Minister , in the light of a recent US State Department allegation that he had been denied a visa in mid-1991 because of his suspected ties with drug trafficking .
6 The allegation that there had been a military show of strength was flatly denied by Yakovlev on May 4 .
7 ‘ And the allegation that she had been disloyal to anyone was very firmly refuted . ’
8 My mother would answer inaudibly , but it would be evident from my father 's all-too-audible answering tirade that she had been gently remonstrating .
9 The first priority was to re-establish the team unity that had been allowed to dwindle , with the result that there had been much arguing and bickering The old inter-island rivalries that Worrell had eradicated had surfaced again , and he knew the team would accomplish little until these disappeared .
10 He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station .
11 Within a month Wilson saw with her own eyes that she had been right .
12 It reminded her too strongly for her own good that he had been doled out far too much fatal charm .
13 Colt knew his target at once from the photograph that he had been given .
14 By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles .
15 Because there was no doubt in her mind that he had been talking from personal experience .
16 He had jolted open a door in her mind that she had been keeping carefully shut .
17 According to our manager and most of the people we work with , the break that we had was too long .
18 Winnie Mandela told supporters that she had been found guilty by the media .
19 At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air , that his lungs could not sustain the pressure , that they would collapse as Commander Barnwell 's had collapsed .
20 I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time .
21 In response , Pat Arbor , the chairman of the Board of Trade , said it was not the exchange 's fault that it had been duped by Stotler 's doctored financial records .
22 Was it Dominic 's fault that he had been given the job she wanted so badly ?
23 One night , long after the senator had chartered Wavebreaker , I had defended him to Ellen , saying that it was not Crowninshield 's fault that he had been born to wealthy parents , and that he had used his wealth well .
24 In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her .
25 The sensations that he had were extraordinary .
26 No indication that anyone had been killed in it or done anything else in it but sit in it .
27 These documents demonstrate a commitment to developing broadly based , open political agitation , but they contain little about a civil rights strategy in the north ; such a strategy could be deduced from the analysis which they contain , but the documents give no indication that it had been proposed in any detail .
28 She looked behind and concentrated on speeding backwards down the track , giving silent thanks that she had been the last to arrive .
29 They could tell from his footprints in the snow that he had been trying to find a fold , which is what we call a stone shelter built for gathering sheep .
30 There was initial optimism that there had been a breakthrough in relations between Syria and Israel , but by Aug. 27 , Palestinian negotiators were expressing disappointment at the detailed autonomy proposals presented by the new Labour government .
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