Example sentences of "[that] [noun prp] have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before long , Maudie had a baby — and soon after that , a telegram arrived saying that Arnold had been killed in action . |
| 2 | While the specialist was examining her legs , Janet mentioned that Lisa had been suffering from aches in her neck . |
| 3 | Whenever anybody started to make fun of Lennie , calling him cuckoo or crazy , George jumped straight to Lennie 's defence and said that Lennie had been kicked in the head when he was a little boy . |
| 4 | Police said that Kelly had been shot in the head by Bastian who then turned the gun on himself . |
| 5 | In the increasingly murky circumstances surrounding the trial , two senior Conservative Party officials were subpoenaed on Feb. 19 to appear before a magistrate after refusing to disclose the sources of their allegation that Mekgwe had been kidnapped by the state intelligence service . |
| 6 | He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour . |
| 7 | He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour and asked that Dodman be sent for psychiatric help . |
| 8 | On Jan. 29 , however , Pöhl disclosed to a German financial newspaper , Handesblatt , that Germany had been isolated in its opposition to an accord on currency " target zones " at the G-7 meeting . |
| 9 | When the Weimar Republic was founded , the feeling that Germany had once again been suppressed by victorious external powers was very strong : the division of Prussia into East and West , the imposition of reparations ( the economic effects of which Keynes so famously and misguidedly attacked ) and the association of republicanism and parliamentarianism with defeat all fostered the belief that Germany had been stabbed in the back . |
| 10 | It was widely believed that Churchill had been converted to the European cause during the war , and that he had kept the flame of union alight . |
| 11 | Either there has been a real fading , or ( more probably ) there has been an error in recording or interpretation , though it is true that Megrez has been suspected of slight variability in modern times . |
| 12 | interest tax relief , it 's M I D A S right , so let's not start talking about the benefit of public sector housing and to show the financial illiteracy of of of what 's actually been proposed if you understand the government regulation about the ring fencing o of of of the housing revenue account and and the way in which housing benefit is now having to be subsidised by those other council house tenants then what 's actually going to happen when your poor people inhabit those houses , those public sector houses and they need the housing benefit that David 's been talking about . |
| 13 | The trial , on 4 February , heard that Shiloh had been running in a race at Carfin dog track in August last year when he broke his leg . |
| 14 | It is quite true that Corbett has been applied to situations outside marriage , eg. , the alteration of birth certificates , unfair dismissal ( White v. |
| 15 | With some help from film buff Tony Hillman it can be revealed that Scott has been preceded by Charles Laughton , Flora Robson and Anthony Havelock-Allen . |
| 16 | Pub landlord Nigel Moxham said : ‘ We only realised after the race that Gaby had been saved by the boat we paid for . ’ |
| 17 | But he had barely been gone for an hour when there came the signal that Thorfinn had been waiting for . |
| 18 | IBM noted that Zschau had been tapped for the post before Louis Gerstner came aboard as its new chairman , and said that there were no plans to offer AdStar shares to the public . |
| 19 | For example , there was the Australian edition of the racy Sunday Sport which claimed that Kylie had been mauled by a killer shark while skin diving on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 20 | He was conscious that Therese had been engaging in ‘ business ’ but had n't appreciated how it had looked from the front until it was too late to do anything about it . |
| 21 | Finally , Horse Watch heard that Millie had been spotted in the New Forest . |
| 22 | Maureen had returned to the wool shop and told Anne that her customer who knew the O'Neills had said that Kathleen had been injured on her head and shoulder by shrapnel and been taken to hospital in Winwick several miles outside Liverpool . |
| 23 | As soon as they knew that Bella had been assigned to her , the other two trainees cornered Marie in the canteen and briefed her on what to expect . |
| 24 | When Ceauşescu 's chief intelligence adviser , Ion Pacepa , defected to the United States in 1978 , he claimed that Ceauşescu had been engaged in a long-term strategic plan codenamed ‘ Red Horizon ’ . |
| 25 | This argument reflects the official view disseminated after the war had begun again that Edward had been coerced into accepting the treaty while he was under the tutelage of Mortimer and Isabella and that therefore he could not be bound by it . |
| 26 | The truce with the Scots was , however , opposed by some of the northern nobility , whose personal interest lay in continuing the war , and it could be argued that Edward had been forced into it by another military humiliation and a political misjudgement . |
| 27 | Four days later it was announced that Tsedenbal had been stripped of his membership of the Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League . |
| 28 | Some said at the time that Leviathan had been written for Cromwell , and indeed Hobbes did say that it supported a ‘ conscientious obedience to the present government ’ of the Protectorate . |
| 29 | The final position , therefore , was that Wilfrid had been restored to York and had regained control of Ripon . |
| 30 | She did n't know that Aisling had been born with a severe ‘ port wine stain ’ . |