Example sentences of "[adj] that he have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | His speech made clear that he had been brought reluctantly to much the same view as his Director of Propaganda . |
| 2 | ‘ They pretended that Paul was hit by a ricochet , but the evidence was clear that he 'd been hit by a direct shot . |
| 3 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 4 | They were slightly embarrassed that he had been left out , but had agreed at the time that there was no sense in phoning him at home because he would have nothing useful to say . |
| 5 | I am afraid that he has been far from well for several months . |
| 6 | It was possible that he had been in the Rolls with his father on the Sunday night . |
| 7 | The patient was also quite unaware that he had been rubbing his chest just prior to fainting . |
| 8 | So it 's appropriate that he 's been chosen to make new gates for the North porch of Hereford cathedral , to replace wrought ironwork that was made and then removed centuries ago . |
| 9 | Those who did live there all knew Father McGiff and they were able to inform the ignorant that he had been a close friend of the Rabbi ever since the Jews had arrived in the city . |
| 10 | Twenty years later Craig was still convinced that he had been right . |
| 11 | He was convinced that he had been on target . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm glad that he has been able to help . ’ |
| 13 | Having returned to China to work in and among the numerous but fragmented Vietnamese independence factions , Ho 's position as an acknowledged communist in what was an essentially anti-communist Kuomintang was always precarious and for whatever reason he was imprisoned ( in conditions of great hardship ) it seems likely that he had been close to the point of death before he was released thirteen months later : Chen suggests because of communist sympathisers in the local Kuomintang hierarchy . |
| 14 | I picked one of them up and was struck to the heart , for it was obvious that he had been writing a lot of poetry , all of it , so it seemed to me , very good . |
| 15 | It was obvious that he had been under house arrest at some point in his life . ’ |
| 16 | It 's obvious that he 's been sent some kind of message , and I believe in these things . |
| 17 | He was not using Fairbrother 's soap , Richard was sure of that , even though his mother had made sure that he had been supplied with the exact brand most popular at the school . |
| 18 | If you are confident that he has been so immersed in his chattering that he has n't a clue what has just been said , turn to him and say : " A very interesting point has just been raised ; what is your opinion , Mr C. ? " |
| 19 | She 'd reassure him over and over that she was fine , she was safe , there was nothing for him to worry about , and Ashdown would then ring Joe and pass along anything new or helpful that he 'd been able to pick out of the conversation . |
| 20 | He did n't say so , but it was evident that he had been successful in the sheepdog trials , because he was unusually cheerful and forthcoming and he seemed quite jubilant to meet them there . |
| 21 | But if he had been in the water for some time , it was unlikely that he had been killed at the spot where his body had fetched up , and equally unlikely that the weapon which killed him was there to find . |
| 22 | Walt Disney also suggested that Shere Khan , the villain of the piece , was aristocratic and regal rather than the slavering , growling heavy that he had been in development . |
| 23 | It followed that no individual should boast of his role ‘ but be thankful that he has been permitted to be useful ’ . |
| 24 | Starting to feel more than a fraction disgruntled that he 'd been in Prague when she 'd called before — on the right day and the right time — Fabia strove hard to keep what she was feeling out of her look . |
| 25 | He too was worried that he had been unfair to Angel . |
| 26 | Ballesteros worries about such heavy defeats because he finds it incomprehensible that he has been unable to repel the thrusts of those opponents . |
| 27 | As myths go , the Leavis myth was widely successful : but then what teacher , when he tells the young that he has been ill-treated by the world for his opinions , is not believed ? |
| 28 | A lunch with the Capo dello Squadro Anti-Terrorismo that he had been waiting a year for , a session with a good guy in the Guardia di Finanze , and a squash game with Dieter who was number two to the Legal Attaché , and he just did n't know whether he 'd be back before the Little League All Stars trip to Naples and the game against the Sixth Fleet which was the high point of the season which they played now courtesy of the Italian sunshine into late fall . |
| 29 | By March he was out again , and back at his office in Faber and Faber , although he was prudent enough to retire to bed early in the evening : with a complaint which had no organic cause , he could not be certain that he had been cured " . |
| 30 | I was surprised that he had been listening and seemed interested now . |