Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be [verb] [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major contribution of Weinreich , Labov and Herzog ( 1968 ) and the quantitative paradigm has been to demonstrate that heterogeneity in the speech community can be shown to be have patterns in it . |
| 2 | Part of the disciplinary action taken was to ensure that patients were made aware when he employed alternative medical practices and that written consent was obtained in advance . |
| 3 | The first battle has been to ensure that chapels are listed , the second to secure grants for repairs . |
| 4 | BANBRIDGE Council has been told that anglers have given up fishing at Loughbrickland Lake because the fish stock has been completely destroyed by cormorants . |
| 5 | The major purpose in outlining the roles within the Rowdies group has been to demonstrate that football fans of this type are not simply to be viewed as a disordered bunch of maniacs . |
| 6 | ‘ Our aim has been to show that food can be fun , ’ said Paul who trained with Jeanne at the famed Roux brothers ' Le Gavroche restaurant in London . |
| 7 | Speculation has been intensified that Mr Nelson Mandela , African National Congress president , will soon yield to pressure to distance himself from his wife by announcing that their de facto separation is official . |
| 8 | The jury at his trial at Bristol Crown Court has been told that Hagans watched the offices where Mrs McGurk worked from behind the bars of his prison cell before he was granted bail.The court has been told that after the murder , he tried to sell the victim 's wedding ring . |
| 9 | She tried to feel pleased that she had n't descended from such uncompromising stock , but it was still a shock to have been told that William Ash was not her father , and that Eddie had only been her half-brother . |
| 10 | The court had been told that Pask stabbed Doctor Howe to death just hours after she arrived at York University to teach a summer school . |
| 11 | The court had been told that Mrs McWilliams had suffered severe brain damage which would affect her for the rest of her life . |
| 12 | Although no evidence had been found that Gnassingbe had been present during the attack , the report said he had been at the scene of the attack " immediately beforehand " . |
| 13 | The Iranian consulate in Geneva had been occupied for four hours on Dec. 14 , 1988 , by opponents of the Tehran regime and evidence had been found that Tale had been collecting information on the Iranian exile community in Switzerland . |
| 14 | It was only after his appointment had been confirmed that Sutton demanded a nine-month notice period , which was in such stark contravention of the paper 's equality principles that Christine Jackson took his contract to the Board . |
| 15 | It was not until a few weeks after her father had been installed that Dorothy began to realize the fortitude with which her mother had cared for him over the years . |
| 16 | The basic concern has been to demonstrate that regimes , such as that in Iraq , can no longer threaten this new dispensation of global power . |
| 17 | It 's only when the peak has been conquered that thoughts turn to the delicious things that used to be in the foil-covered dishes , and the question of how best to prepare the spam . |
| 18 | The other approach has been to argue that rats have difficulty with passive avoidance because they can not remember recent events . |
| 19 | The approach adopted was to say that accounting can be based , not on users and their needs , but on hypothesized users and hypothesized needs . |
| 20 | His man had been warned that Pintsch was not to be put off , whatever the occasion , so The Fat One — without irony — shouted ‘ Come ’ when the bedroom door was knocked . |
| 21 | The intriguing suggestion has been made that dolphins , if they chose to use it , have a potentially effortless means of communicating " mental pictures " to one another . |
| 22 | In proceedings by C against A for an interlocutory injunction the House of Lords held that a prima facie case had been established that A was liable for procuring breaches by B of the hiring contracts , the unlawful means being the inducement of X to ‘ black ’ the barges . |
| 23 | Under traditional contracts should the D/BO or the Architect realise after the Contract had been let that alterations would be necessary to meet the stated needs , a claims situation arose — and the builder never had to meet the cost . |
| 24 | Earlier , the trial had been told that police had set up road blocks north of Perth as part of another inquiry when the white Cavalier containing what police described as ‘ seasoned criminals ’ had burst through . |
| 25 | An inquest has been told that staff failed to realise the scale of the injuries and later found the woman dead in her bed . |
| 26 | SINCE vitamin E was first discovered in the rat in 1922 so many ill-founded claims for its role in human nutrition have been made that cynics have dubbed it ‘ E for everything ’ . |
| 27 | In France the government is backing a FFr 1.4 billion five year investment programme into photovoltaic technology and the view has been expressed that photovoltaics could become a $10 billion a year industry worldwide by the end of the century . |
| 28 | Two days earlier the family had been told that tests at Darlington Memorial Hospital confirmed Mr Watson was terminally ill . |
| 29 | Workers at Rosyth Royal Dockyard have been told that jobs could be cut by a third over the next twelve years . |