Example sentences of "that they had [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was quite obvious that they had been much more to each other than just friends , ’ she said . |
| 2 | I wondered whether Lili would agree that they had been best friends . |
| 3 | In addition , two female science students who had attended girls ' grammar schools felt that they had been disadvantaged : |
| 4 | More of the non-medical staff said that fundholding had changed their job , and when asked to elaborate said that they had been involved in a lot of extra work . |
| 5 | The three alleged leaders arrested were Moslem Brotherhood members , although their lawyer on March 15 denied that they had been involved in any type of illegal activity . |
| 6 | how far teachers felt that they had been involved in the review ; |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 6–8–1880 Archibald Currie etc appeared and " mutually acknowledged that they had been guilty of quarrelling some time ago in a way scandalous to religion in the community where they reside . |
| 9 | The correspondents expressed deep gratitude to Hannah — they were so inspired by her sublimely tranquil and uncomplaining acceptance of the kind of material deprivation considered unacceptable by modern society , so moved by her angelic demeanour and indomitable spirit , that they had been obliged to consider their own situation and concluded that their individual complaints about life were so paltry by comparison that their entire perspective had been changed . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal reserved judgment on the challenge by auctioneers Messenger May Baverstock of Guildford to a High Court ruling that they had been negligent in selling for £840 two oil paintings that soon fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's as works of George Stubbs . |
| 11 | She wished to bring an action against her employers alleging that they had been negligent in failing adequately to protect her against the known risk of injury from this pupil . |
| 12 | Soon the balding brown lawns seemed to decide that they had been brave long enough , and every dahlia in the flower-beds needed dead-heading . |
| 13 | She did not need to be told that they had been happy here , the three of them . |
| 14 | Most said that they had been surprised if not totally taken aback on the news of the merger ; but to various degrees said that they were prepared to work with the new ownership as long as the guarantees of openness and neutrality made by Novell regarding the development of System V.4 were maintained . |
| 15 | In fact , she had almost convinced herself that they had been some sort of reaction to the arrival of that poison pen letter . |
| 16 | Two off-duty prison officers who were also in the minibus were beaten up and then released , but three others who escaped claimed that they had been unable to get help from a nearby police and Army checkpoint . |
| 17 | Due to wartime conditions the peasantry got the same amount of agricultural machinery over the years 1915–21 that they had been able to buy in a single year prior to the World War . |
| 18 | It was natural , but unreasonable , to feel guilt for what seemed like a failure in duty , rather than feel thankful for the years of unremitting and unselfish care that they had been able to give . |
| 19 | He and Ford had a cannon on the roof loaded with everything that they had been able to lay their hands on : stones , penknives , pieces of lightning-conductor , chains , nails , the embossed silver cutlery from the dining-room , and even some ivory false teeth , picked up by Ford who had seen them gleaming in the undergrowth ; but the greater part of the improvised canister was filled with fragments of marble chipped from The Spirit of Science Conquers Ignorance and Prejudice . |
| 20 | Mrs Redmond had sent sugar and tinned meat and jam from the food parcels sent from America by her sister , and the girls were proud of the meal that they had been able to provide . |
| 21 | When Cato 's supporters arrived at court they found that they had been pre-empted . |
| 22 | One thing parents ca n't afford — especially our sort of parent — is that the whisper might be put about that they had been willing to toy with their own children 's safety . |
| 23 | They did n't just acknowledge gracefully that they 'd been beaten , or perhaps even that they had been wrong , and welcome their Reporter back . |
| 24 | The local authority 's decision to agree to his application was an admission that they had been wrong all the time . |
| 25 | The number of neutrons was not enough to account for all the heat ( a fact that they had been aware . |
| 26 | One panel member said that they had been ready to ‘ throw out ’ the whole study until the notebook with this new data was produced . |
| 27 | How absurd it seemed — that they had been worried about Therese in Zarewitsch . |