Example sentences of "had [adv] be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had better be that and not him having another of his scenes . |
| 2 | Only plaice was familiar to him , so he supposed it had better be that . |
| 3 | The main symbol of death had long been that of the old man holding a familiar rural implement , the scythe , implying that man would be cut down when he was ripe for it . |
| 4 | She had not been that way before . |
| 5 | For a long time after independence , English was the language of the educated élite , just as it had largely been that of the colonial administration . |
| 6 | There had always been that choice , and it was as difficult to take , and as easy to reject , in the twentieth century as it had been in any other . |
| 7 | Her concern , until then , had always been that Time ( or the house ) would prevent him from reaching her , stop them from being able to meet , remove the opportunity , once and for all , for her to feel again as she had done last night , leaving her for ever empty and unsatisfied . |
| 8 | However , the diplomacy which really mattered had always been that of sovereign states ; this final withering away of the claims of other entities to conduct some sort of foreign relations of their own was merely a kind of necessary tidying-up , the clearing of an undergrowth of quasi-diplomacy . |
| 9 | A man with unfashionably long hair — it had probably been that way since his own undergraduate days , Loretta guessed — was stabbing the air with his fork . |
| 10 | In 805 Charles chose one chieftain to reign as his vassal king , and bestowed upon him the ancient title of Chagan , which had originally been that of the independent High King of the Avars . |
| 11 | By now he and Twoflower were on horseback — mounts had n't been that hard to obtain . |
| 12 | Her hatred — if it had even been that — had turned out to be as intensely personal as her love and an intrinsic part of it , Maria acknowledged privately . |
| 13 | But the judge did find the wording to be a very potent factor , and , after reviewing the guidelines discussed below , he found that the decision had indeed been that of an expert . |
| 14 | Or should he turn desire aside and pretend that there had never been that brief , blinding flare of longing between them ? |
| 15 | And she had never been that . |
| 16 | Nastily , she said , and he had never been that before . |