Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [noun prp] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Composites , which have attracted takeover speculation , were inclined to ease on disappointment that Pearl had been targeted . |
| 3 | There was the sudden roar of a car engine and a screech of tyres and the red car that Stuart had been looking at sped forward and stopped at the entrance with its passenger door swinging open . |
| 4 | The first indication of the direction his mind ( or what passed for it ) was moving had come at the beginning of the trial when he called in two other judges to help determine whether the free pardon that Meehan had been granted quashed his conviction . |
| 5 | The horse that Tremayne had been going to run had gone lame , and another of Sam 's rides had been withdrawn because its owner 's wife had died . |
| 6 | There will also be some kind of performance boost for DB2 — either more microcode or conceivably the dedicated DB2 processor that IBM has been speculating about for 10 years now . |
| 7 | The young women had heard that Berwick was besieged and that the English army was none so far off , but they did not know the details , nor of course that Ramsay had been involved . |
| 8 | It was just a curious coincidence that Hatton had been killed on the day following that of Mrs Fanshawe 's regaining consciousness . |
| 9 | As the above data suggest , residential services in Nottinghamshire not only expanded considerably over the period of the study but much of the new development took place in non-traditional residential services of the kind that CMHTs had been charged with promoting . |
| 10 | ‘ Many of the people I spoke to felt that Merseyside had been forgotten . |
| 11 | Then Waddell 's alibi , Donald Carmichael , who had said at Meehan 's trial that Waddell had been staying with him on the night of the murder , now admitted this was a lie . |
| 12 | So cold was the Cold War that America had been boycotting the import even of Soviet crab meat , let alone a live and wily Soviet leader . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , piss off , ’ he 'd said finally , which was exactly the reaction that Pete had been expecting . |
| 14 | The planet Saturn crossed the heavens at exactly the point that Pluto had been discovered . |
| 15 | Mr Kallisher told the jury : ‘ The defendant tried to raise in the minds of the police a suspicion that Julie had been dealing with drugs stolen from the hospital and perhaps her murder was connected with that , not with him . ’ |
| 16 | Louise Taylor , the girl in the picture that Duncan had been shown the night before , was now dressed in an ill-fitting cheap Russian dress . |
| 17 | Pub landlord Nigel Moxham said : ‘ We only realised after the race that Gaby had been saved by the boat we paid for . ’ |
| 18 | There was at an early stage evidence that D. had been subjected to violent injury . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There was some feeling that Beijing had been left behind while the rest of the country had marched for democracy . |
| 21 | What caused me concern was , as I say , the slightly uncomfortable feeling that Eliot had been bounced into writing an article which he did not particularly relish doing and to which he would in any case have wished to devote much more reflection . |
| 22 | The delicate glasses were filled successfully , however , and Ian Jones announced the news that Belinda had been expecting . |
| 23 | She thought of the inevitable disdain with which her friend would react to the news that Constance had been seduced into a reckless marriage with a virtual stranger . |
| 24 | At the hotel a tearful maid told the sailor pair the tragic news that Bessie had been carried off to the cholera hospital . |
| 25 | Duncan had been asleep when the policeman burst into the room to give him the news that Leeming had been found . |
| 26 | About a year ago came the news that Cantona had been sold to Man Utd . |
| 27 | Suddenly , on 10 July , the Allies invaded Sicily , and on 26 July we heard on the radio the astonishing news that Mussolini had been deposed and arrested and that the King had invited General Badoglio to form a new government . |
| 28 | Consultants told the paper that IBM has been dissecting the two most recent pre-release versions of NT at its Toronto labs to assess the time and money that would be required to do the implementation , and reckon a product could arrive at the turn of the year . |
| 29 | Consultants told the paper that IBM has been dissecting the two most recent pre-release versions of NT at its Toronto labs to assess the time and money that would be required to do the implementation , and reckon a product could arrive at the turn of the year . |
| 30 | [ BELVILLE absent-mindedly picks up the paper that PAMELA has been writing . ] |