Example sentences of "[adv] that [pron] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not enough that they had been questioned at length about a work in which they had secretly collaborated : they were now to be insulted by having their acknowledged work dismissed as of small account . |
| 2 | And she had never had much time for Angela Cartwright , who , when it came to Grunte , tended to run with the hare , though it was plain enough that she had been put out by Grunte 's placing Hyacinth on his right hand and had agreed with Carole afterwards that they would have little trouble finding the necessary fifty signatures . |
| 3 | The complainant need not show he was aggrieved on the date mentioned in the summons , it is enough that he had been aggrieved earlier , otherwise as Darling , J. pointed out in Hilton v Hopwood it would be virtually impossible for an individual to bring an action under s.99 . |
| 4 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 5 | And it had been there , about twenty minutes later , that Thiercelin had received his wound ; a shell splinter in the cheek , which looked worse than it was , bleeding profusely into his collar and tunic , so that he had been ordered back to the chateau to have it dressed . |
| 6 | I 've had a great deal of fun reviewing Animation Works Interactive , so much so that I 've been staying in the office well past my normal time just to play with it . |
| 7 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 8 | Human language is much more powerful — so much so that it has been suggested that the ability to speak is what really distinguishes people from animals . |
| 9 | They acknowledged only that they had been playing loud music and having innocent fun . |
| 10 | They have forgotten who they are , knowing only that they have been trapped by an evil enchanter . |
| 11 | She could n't really remember anything , only that she had been knitting and then she had woken up in this bed with her nosy , bossy sister sitting beside her . |
| 12 | The Earth and the Moon are so close together that it has been estimated that the exposure of both planets to asteroids and comet debris has been much the same . |
| 13 | And although you 're right that they 've been selling flowers for a long time , they underwent a massive re-fit recently . |
| 14 | In June , he told Puchberg bitterly that he had been forced to give away his ‘ Prussian ’ quartets for a song , just in order to have enough cash to meet his present obligations . |
| 15 | Lamprey was reading the second , and so far no word had come downstairs that it had been rejected . |
| 16 | It was just that they 'd been told they could n't do it . |
| 17 | It 's just that he 's been used to having his own way for so long it does n't occur to him there are perspectives alternative to his own . ’ |
| 18 | It 's just that you 've been doing things the same way for ten plus years and it 's second nature . |
| 19 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 20 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
| 21 | Wembley confirmed tonight that it has been given the go-ahead to make more room for wheelchairs . |
| 22 | Mrs Bennett would have a fit if she knew Celia had gone up to Beckwith 's Folly , but it was n't the first time lately that she had been overwhelmed by the desire to escape , although it was the first time she had actually done anything about it . |
| 23 | Frank Malton , 77 , of Acacia Street , Darlington , has called for action on a dangerous broken grating on Brinkburn Road which he reported two months ago but found yesterday that nothing has been done . |
| 24 | Harris , who last season captained the Raleigh-Banana team which has now been disbanded , announced yesterday that he had been offered a contract by the Spanish Lotus-Festina squad . |
| 25 | It was confirmed yesterday that she has been nominated as best actress for her part in the film Howards End . |
| 26 | Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas . |
| 27 | Ian Luder , head of Arthur Andersen 's executive and personal taxation services group , says that ‘ the more that I have been working on employee schemes , the more convinced I am that there is an impact ’ . |
| 28 | This was the first time since 1948 that the entire Legislative Yuan had been elected , and the first time ever that it had been elected entirely within Taiwan . |
| 29 | She did n't seem surprised to see him sitting there still in his cloak and obviously only just returned from Mass , and he knew at once that she had been told about the murders . |
| 30 | Financial support between relatives has one feature which is not shared by other types of support , namely that it has been regulated by the law . |