Example sentences of "[noun] that they [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 2 | In addition , there are the policies that they have been advocating from the Front Bench this afternoon on the European social action programme , a national statutory minimum wage and trade union law reform , which would make it easier to strike and to have more frequent and more damaging strikes . |
| 3 | As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years . |
| 4 | Why are there grave areas , areas of uncertainty and responsibility erm Rivers Authority er Area Manager I believe , Mr er presented the position from their point of view er in particular circumstances on the night of thirtieth December er the er Southern Water whose responsibility is primarily sewage erm er describes circumstances that they have been contending with and a great deal of criticism erm was what we had to anticipate if you like or do anything er to contend with the unusual circumstances of that night erm the consequence was that a large number of new houses in the very close to the that runs through Barnham and under the railway there erm and er not ordinary surplus water flooding , but sewage flooding and the consequences then for many years er it 's obviously going to give , quite apart from having to live with it , er it will on the properties themselves and adversely affect er the ability of individuals to sell them off . |
| 5 | The defendants also ran a wire service and it was found by the judge that they had been obtaining information from a subscriber to the plaintiff 's service for republication by them . |
| 6 | Is actually to terrify the p poor and to drive them in into a s an under and this is part of their philosophy that they 've been following since nineteen seventy nine under Mrs Thatcher . |
| 7 | In corporate finance , the conventional view in America and Britain still is that Japanese firms rely for most of their money on friendly banks that they have been wining and dining for years . |
| 8 | The responsibility will now be theirs and they 'd better get on with it and better show things that they 've been arguing and get along . |
| 9 | Erm , it does n't matter what I propose , whether it actually makes out things that they 've been talking about or whether it 's completely found something to criticise about it . |
| 10 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 11 | The idea of them having to bring fortnightly evidence that they have been looking for work when in the majority of cases they are not even permitted onto premises to ask for a job suggests an obvious indifference on the part of the policy makers . |
| 12 | Lisa and Phoebe shared the painful knowledge that they had been conning themselves as well as their men . |
| 13 | We enter the area that they had been defending and everything shows that the Germans have pulled out in a hurry . |
| 14 | He had a feeling that they 'd been waiting right from the start of the trip . |
| 15 | Protected from prosecution by an amnesty law of 1978 , the military opposed any such investigation but their claim that they had been fighting a war against left-wing subversion became increasingly untenable with the discovery of mass graves containing the bodies of their political opponents and the disclosure of how they had indulged in corrupt financial practices while in power , including the payment of US$3,000,000 to Pinochet 's son [ see pp. 37528-29 ; 37852-53 ; 37958 ] . |
| 16 | Okay has anybody ever assumed things with people that they 've been training ? |
| 17 | The hijackers , who told reporters that they had been attempting to gain publicity for the pro-democracy cause in Myanma , pleaded guilty in Bangkok Criminal Court on Jan. 30 , 1990 . |
| 18 | The Government are supposed to support small firms , but is not the reality that they have been betraying them ? |
| 19 | Yes sir he told me that er would know because they ha had been together in prison and that he also had information that they had been planning armed robberies together . |
| 20 | And they are losing their tradition of the food that they have been getting from Eastern Europe . |
| 21 | I had the idea that they had been quarrelling and had n't quite made it up . |
| 22 | We should take them at their word and hold them to it , rather than resign ourselves to the judgment that they have been lying . |
| 23 | Erm and so therefore er they , they knew tools that they had been using since the period of the war , erm were gradually being overtaken by the new types of ceramic tools . |
| 24 | In a recent South African trial resulting from a rail accident , the drivers concerned denied responsibility on the grounds that they had been working compulsory 18-hour shifts . |
| 25 | Despite the fact that they had been trying to kill each other , against the creature they were united . |
| 26 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |
| 27 | A judge told William Sim and David Todd that they had been playing for high stakes and had to pay the penalty . |