Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [vb pp] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had been visited that morning by what was usually at this state of the term a rare inspiration , and was writing a poem of my own . |
| 2 | I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications . |
| 3 | I 've always shaved my legs but I 've been told that shaving makes the hair grow more strongly . |
| 4 | I have been advised that situation ( 1 ) applies to your Night , Early and Back shifts but that situation ( 2 ) applies to your Day shift . |
| 5 | Perhaps the reason is that she has been persuaded that teacher approval , and whatever other more tangible extrinsic rewards may follow , are in short supply and to gain what she needs she must not simply ( or even necessarily ) improve but also get ( or merely stay ) ahead of others . |
| 6 | Aye that er You 've Been Framed that dog in the water with that man . |
| 7 | Cos if you were asked as , as , as a person by , by a manager or by somebody else to , to actually do the training , then it 's your responsibility is n't it you 've been asked , you 've been given that task and it 's your responsibility to ensure that people are able to do at the end of the session something effectively . |
| 8 | No er we 've been told that Radio Leicester , our colleagues here at Radio Leicester tell us that there 's a bit of a delay in sending out C Ds . |
| 9 | If Labour come to power we have been promised that access to the countryside for canoeists and ramblers will be reviewed at an early stage . |
| 10 | Because they had been told that research shows that the teaching of grammar restricts the imagination , imposing a strait-jacket of conventions , they did not realise that it all depends on what kind of grammar is taught and in what contexts . |
| 11 | Handsome , smiling and smartly suited , he was an immediate hit , all the more so when their mother told them that they had been married that morning . |
| 12 | He has been advised that rest is the only remedy for a recurring groin strain . |
| 13 | Mr Hooke says he has been told that Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine is also looking at the deal , along with Welsh Secretary John Redwood and Employment Secretary David Hunt to see if it is in the best interests of the shareholders and taxpayers . |
| 14 | More recently , it has been demonstrated that casein kinase II ( CKII ) phosphorylates c-Jun at Thr-231 and Ser-249 both in vitro and in vivo ( 16 ) . |
| 15 | Traditionally it has been assumed that thinking , whether about value or about fact , has to be fully detached from the spontaneous , which engages with it only as emotion biasing judgement . |
| 16 | Jail term : It has been confirmed that Briton Simon Dunn , 23 , a resident of Kuwait , is in a Baghdad jail serving an eight-year sentence for illegally entering Iraq . |
| 17 | However , to help centres , students and employers it has been decided that communication , numeracy and information technology should be assessed through modules which have been specifically designed to deliver these core skills . |
| 18 | ‘ Furthermore , it has been decided that Father should not carry laden trays of any sort for even the shortest distances . |
| 19 | One recent line of research has involved the investigation of pottery distributions as a possible indicator of a town 's market area , partly because of its abundance and partly because it has been observed that pottery was not normally dispersed through permanent retail outlets . |
| 20 | It has been observed that reinfection of the grafted liver by HBV either alone or with HDV is common . |
| 21 | It has been observed that sodium restriction tends to be more beneficial in hypertensives who have low plasma renin activity and in whom the aldosterone response to lowering dietary sodium is poor ( Vaughan et al , 1973 ) . |
| 22 | However , it has been said that advice which is intended to have persuasive effect is not distinguishable from inducement and ‘ the fact that an inducement to break a contract is couched as an irresistible embargo rather than in terms of seduction does not make it any the less an inducement . ’ |
| 23 | It has been calculated that matter is at present being continually created at the rate of about 50,000 sun masses per second . |
| 24 | It has been argued that building systems to motivate and evaluate appropriate investment behaviour is better achieved when based upon a careful strategic analysis and critical success factors . |
| 25 | It has been suggested that sister parties within the Socialist International are not allowed to compete with one another . |
| 26 | It has been suggested that Methodism generally produced an attitude of mind and sense of resignation as well as the habits of order and " industry " which combined to reinforce in the proletariat the necessary submission to the disciplinary imperatives of industrial capitalism . |
| 27 | It has been suggested that alienation from others ( both staff and patients ) on the ward often precedes suicide ( Morgan and Priest 1984 ) . |
| 28 | Maintenance of information in verbal memory is based on sub-vocal rehearsal of material held in a fading phonological store and it has been suggested that maintenance of spatial information in memory over short periods is also carried out by an active control process based on a response system . |
| 29 | The mechanism is unknown , although it has been suggested that activation of tumour necrosis factor ( TNF ) may be responsible . |
| 30 | It has been suggested that susceptibility to autoimmune disease in general , including Crohn 's disease , is under the control of a single dominant gene , the specific clinical effects of which are determined by other genes , hormonal influences , and environment triggers . |