Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [vb pp] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lonely : The spiritual isolation of the disease is lonely enough but add to this the " Jekyll and Hyde " behaviour ( depending upon whether or not a drink or drug has been taken that day ) causing untold damage to family and other relationships and the loneliness becomes intense . |
| 2 | The case has been made that neutralisation is potentially attractive only to relatively minor states that by virtue of their strategic position or symbolic political value have become or threaten to become the focal points of contests for control or dominant influence between principal regional or global rivals . |
| 3 | All he had was the certainty that whatever steps had been taken that day had led them in one direction only . |
| 4 | ‘ If artists have the right to fail , Glasgay ! does not , ’ says D'Angelo , whose modest £65,000 budget projection has been kept that way by trying to involve many indigenous grant-aided bodies in the year one programme . |
| 5 | To return to Lévi-Strauss , the point has been made that emotion need not be seen as obscure and incomprehensible , and that Freud 's importance is that he made a lasting contribution to explicating how the most obscure actions can be seen to make emotional sense . |
| 6 | ‘ NatWest had been told that merchant banking was a good idea , but I do n't think they thought much beyond that , with the result that we could plough our own furrow , ’ he says . |
| 7 | Nor did he reimburse Alistair for the lunch , though he did explain that his wallet had been emptied that morning — by which alcoholic , Sixsmith never established . |
| 8 | In July 1969 , the select committee reported in favour of the publication both of the five-year rolling programme in the form of an annual White Paper with a full explanation of what changes had been made that year , and of the Medium Term Economic Assessment . |
| 9 | Fears have been expressed that timber cladding could suffer from Britain 's cold and damp climate , but the location on the south bank of the Thames estuary at Thamesmead should test the method to extreme : in winter the fog rolls in directly from Denmark . |
| 10 | Anhydrite in minor quantities has been reported at different Devonian horizons in two wells in France and Belgium , and in more substantial thickness in the Dinantian in Belgium ( Massa and Oudin 1980 ) ; intriguing speculations have been made that halite might be present deeper in the Namur and Dinant basins . |
| 11 | Several studies have been produced that point to correspondences between French fabliaux and intellectual ( scholarly ) currents of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries . |
| 12 | The argument has been made that proportionality underlies decisions as diverse as those relating to the legitimacy of planning conditions or local transport policy , disciplinary actions or sex discrimination . |
| 13 | Loughlin , out until Christmas , broke his arm playing for Great Britain against New South Wales Country , and Saints have been told that insurance does not cover players on international duty . |
| 14 | CONCERN has been expressed that emergency calls are being answered by people who may not understand local accents . |
| 15 | Much concern has been expressed that acid precipitation causes a reduction in forest productivity . |
| 16 | After warning had been given that poll-tax bills will average £400 ( $780 ) in April , Westminster council announced that residents will have to pay only £176 , down £19 on last year . |
| 17 | At the Tour 's A.G.M. last year , I asked how many players had been fined that season for slow play . |
| 18 | Albeit , Renee 's fame throughout the locality had been assured that night . |
| 19 | Just three seals had been killed that day , when more than twenty were needed ; and only one cleanly , by a single spear-thrust from Okawi . |
| 20 | Thamesdown Borough Councillors have been told that expenditure to tackle the problem of subsidence is virtually inescapable . |
| 21 | Mothers have been warned that alcohol and tobacco — as well as various medicines and other chemicals — can injure a fetus . |
| 22 | In much of the writing on the dependent elderly , the assumption has been made that retirement has become more common at an earlier age because of a reduction in the demand for elderly workers . |
| 23 | In an effort to reduce overproduction of food , the suggestion has been made that land in lowland Britain be taken out of agricultural production and forested . |
| 24 | Maggie was tempted to that particular plot , for the story had been told that way so many times , and it is very hard , at moments of crisis , to re-cast the language and the shape of old stories . |
| 25 | Israel Defence Force ( IDF ) radio reported on Aug. 8 that an officer of the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) militia had been killed that day in the central sector of Israel 's self-declared " security zone " . |
| 26 | To protect the spirit of demilitarisation , a convention has been followed that defence spending will not exceed 1 per cent of GNP , and although this ceiling has been broken on a few occasions , the 1 per cent target has a symbolic significance . |
| 27 | If a listeners ' poll had been taken that evening I believe we would have rated 100% listenership . |
| 28 | Dinner had been strained that evening . |
| 29 | Meanwhile haemophiliacs had been assured that blood products were free from HIV and therefore safe . |
| 30 | Accusations have been made that bus drivers already flout speed limits on the estate . |