Example sentences of "[adj] that [pron] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have lost so many big barbel on the Hampshire Avon , Dorset Stour , and the Severn through this that I have been ready to dispense altogether with swimfeeder fishing for big barbel . |
| 2 | You can confirm this that there have been any convictions for er er er two men conspiring to commit armed robbery or anything of that sort have there ? |
| 3 | It now seems clear that there had been intense military activity near Loughgall before last night 's shooting , as one eye witness recounts : |
| 4 | It is also clear that there have been long-term shifts in priorities as the cuts became permanent . |
| 5 | It is clear that there have been profound changes in North Shields since the mid-1970s . |
| 6 | Yeah , just as a , as a side issue , I am interested that they 've been growing plum tomatoes because each year I hear of more and more people growing plum tomatoes successfully in this country and while we are just on the subject of diseases and things to control them , you may remember that a few weeks ago we were giving advice on how we should dispose of waste garden chemicals and , and we said you ought to pour it down an outside drain . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I am afraid that I have been indiscreet . ’ |
| 9 | I am afraid that he has been far from well for several months . |
| 10 | He had sunk so low that she had been obliged to approach Dr McNab for his help . |
| 11 | However , with the stories of massive repair costs being bandied around and a particularly uninspiring incumbent devoting most of his energies to the adjacent parish , it was understandable that no-one had been brave enough to voice their concern . |
| 12 | They have been so pervasive and so self-evident that there has been little point in articulating them . |
| 13 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 14 | ‘ He deserves a proper thrashing , ’ Cissie protested , fiercely indignant that she had been unable to defend herself while her cowardly brother took delight in whipping her . |
| 15 | She said , with a catch in her voice , ‘ I — I wish very much that I 'd been able to meet him . ’ |
| 16 | I am delighted that we have been able to present Embassy with what I consider to have been our best tournament yet . |
| 17 | I am delighted that I have been able to hit on that point , because the flexibility means that the Opposition can not claim that they will not have enough time to debate those clauses . |
| 18 | I 'm delighted that you 've been able to come along at such short notice . |
| 19 | Twenty years later Craig was still convinced that he had been right . |
| 20 | I 'm only glad that we 've been able to sort it all out so quickly . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm glad that he has been able to help . ’ |
| 22 | I am glad that you have been able successfully to run your own practice . |
| 23 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |
| 24 | Eta ( 3.9 ) , in the Y , was ranked as of the second magnitude in ancient times , but as it is an A-type star it is not likely that there has been any real change in it . |
| 25 | Having returned to China to work in and among the numerous but fragmented Vietnamese independence factions , Ho 's position as an acknowledged communist in what was an essentially anti-communist Kuomintang was always precarious and for whatever reason he was imprisoned ( in conditions of great hardship ) it seems likely that he had been close to the point of death before he was released thirteen months later : Chen suggests because of communist sympathisers in the local Kuomintang hierarchy . |
| 26 | ‘ It was quite obvious that they had been much more to each other than just friends , ’ she said . |
| 27 | The little that she 'd been able to piece together was that Pamela was a barrister , that the house did , as Lucy had suspected , belong to her , and that she and Josie had been together for at least five years and probably longer . |
| 28 | As she looked at her niece 's radiant face , Louise felt sure that she had been right to approach Monsieur de Levantiére . |
| 29 | Williams attempts to show that if we examined the commonplace idea of equality of opportunity thoroughly , we find ourselves carried down a sort of ‘ slippery slope ’ towards insisting that only if everybody has succeeded to the same degree can we be sure that there has been genuine equality of opportunity . |
| 30 | But for all that and all that there have been some interesting stirrings in the undergrowth which may well have the effect of concentrating the minds of the opposition party leaders . |