Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been [vb pp] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All he had was the certainty that whatever steps had been taken that day had led them in one direction only . |
| 2 | In July 1969 , the select committee reported in favour of the publication both of the five-year rolling programme in the form of an annual White Paper with a full explanation of what changes had been made that year , and of the Medium Term Economic Assessment . |
| 3 | Fears have been expressed that timber cladding could suffer from Britain 's cold and damp climate , but the location on the south bank of the Thames estuary at Thamesmead should test the method to extreme : in winter the fog rolls in directly from Denmark . |
| 4 | Anhydrite in minor quantities has been reported at different Devonian horizons in two wells in France and Belgium , and in more substantial thickness in the Dinantian in Belgium ( Massa and Oudin 1980 ) ; intriguing speculations have been made that halite might be present deeper in the Namur and Dinant basins . |
| 5 | Several studies have been produced that point to correspondences between French fabliaux and intellectual ( scholarly ) currents of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries . |
| 6 | Loughlin , out until Christmas , broke his arm playing for Great Britain against New South Wales Country , and Saints have been told that insurance does not cover players on international duty . |
| 7 | At the Tour 's A.G.M. last year , I asked how many players had been fined that season for slow play . |
| 8 | Just three seals had been killed that day , when more than twenty were needed ; and only one cleanly , by a single spear-thrust from Okawi . |
| 9 | Thamesdown Borough Councillors have been told that expenditure to tackle the problem of subsidence is virtually inescapable . |
| 10 | Mothers have been warned that alcohol and tobacco — as well as various medicines and other chemicals — can injure a fetus . |
| 11 | Meanwhile haemophiliacs had been assured that blood products were free from HIV and therefore safe . |
| 12 | Accusations have been made that bus drivers already flout speed limits on the estate . |