Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday , Frank Malcolm , 49 , a director and stockbroker at Bell Lawrie White , confirmed that Mackie had immediately told his colleagues after a meeting with Peter Runciman , former executive chairman of Shanks&McEwan , that he had been warned that company profits would be lower than first thought . |
| 2 | As one of Francesca 's DTI colleagues had maliciously observed , it had been felt that fraternization with the American colleagues could be carried too far . |
| 3 | In the general election of 1970 there had , for instance , been no discussion of the settlement issue ; it had been assumed that ujamaa would continue to be a voluntary movement . |
| 4 | It had been argued that exchange rate flexibility allows the individual country to determine its own monetary policy and , therefore , choose its preferred rate of inflation . |
| 5 | The County and Borough authorities had been informed that accommodation at the workhouse was too limited for it to be used as a place of detention under the Children 's Act of 1909 . |
| 6 | Early on in the running of the clinic it had been found that treatment with house dust 200 alone was less effective and less long-lasting if the avoidance programme was not also undertaken , but it was not possible , from the nature of the study , to assess what proportion of the benefit was attributable to each measure . |
| 7 | The Iranian consulate in Geneva had been occupied for four hours on Dec. 14 , 1988 , by opponents of the Tehran regime and evidence had been found that Tale had been collecting information on the Iranian exile community in Switzerland . |
| 8 | It had been learnt that progress could not be made if a member state objected strenuously to a particular part of a programme . |
| 9 | Although as long ago as the early 1970s it had been shown that protein synthesis inhibitors were without effect on habituation and sensitization , it was not until the mid-1980s that Kandel turned his attention to the longer-term cellular processes . |
| 10 | He was more concerned with prevention than repression ; and in any case by the time he wrote it had been shown that repression could be safely left in the hands of the Romans . |