Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that he had been scouting at the Festival . |
| 2 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 3 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 4 | Anderson , the Clerk to the meeting , who was strongly attached to Sir John Anstruther , when he was called upon to attach the seal to the commission returning Alexander ‘ pretended that it had been abstracted from him ’ . |
| 5 | Writing to a colleague at Caserta , he mentioned that he had been presented with some tricky problems concerning the status of individual British subjects in Austria , and he then went on to mention , among " similar problems " he had been confronted with : " if captured Cossacks fighting with the Germans are to be handed over to the Russians , what should be done with White Russians with French nationality ? |
| 6 | The grin left his face as he mentioned that he had been informed about an hour ago that his brother-in-law , who was a member of No. 4 Commando , had been killed during a German counter attack on the Commando positions . |
| 7 | If you er using a similar example , if , if you were looking after the neighbour 's house while they 're away on holiday and found that they 'd been broken into , then that would n't necessarily be a nine nine nine call , unless you thought there was somebody in the house . |
| 8 | Access to Israel from the occupied territories was re-opened on Oct. 28 , but when Arabs returned to their jobs many found that they had been dismissed . |
| 9 | The Prussian banks found that they had been lending increasing amounts to the Junkers to maintain a lifestyle rather than to finance the modernisation of facilities and improve agricultural methods . |
| 10 | He further found that she had been lulled into a sense of false security by the hospital staff and been misinformed as to the availability and effect of alternative procedures . |
| 11 | Blix , in Libya for the opening of the first Arab conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy , visited Libya 's one declared nuclear reactor , the small Soviet-built Tajura research reactor outside Tripoli , and found that it had been shut down since June 1991 because spare parts were no longer available and most of the Soviet scientists who had worked there had gone home . |
| 12 | The intention to resolve disputes with Libya , notably over the Aouzou strip , although formalized in the agreement on Aug. 31 , 1989 ( see p. 36841 ) , was obstructed by repeated allegations that Libya was supporting anti-regime forces and factions ( although in the wake of that agreement some anti-Habre groups in Tripoli reported that they had been asked to leave ) , and by the Libyan insistence that Chad should return some 2,000 Libyan prisoners of war ( see also p. 37114 ) . |
| 13 | The UAE news agency WAM reported that they had been expelled for " activities which harm relations between the two countries including the fabrication of false reports about the Sudanese community in the UAE " . |
| 14 | Subsequently , however , the Moscow correspondent of the daily La Stampa examined the original of the letter , which had been discovered in the KGB archives , and reported that it had been misquoted in 12 places . |
| 15 | Jean Parmiter reported that she has been asked by the Executive Committee to organise the Annual Reunion on 29th November . |
| 16 | Jean Parmiter reported that she has been asked by the Executive Committee to organise the Annual Reunion on 29th November . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , they have demonstrated activity in the visual areas during an imaging task , in the language areas during a verbal task and even , on one - occasion , in the higher visual areas of a schizophrenic patient who subsequently reported that he had been hallucinating . |
| 18 | Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods . |
| 19 | Pascoe realized that he 'd been asking questions that Susan had n't answered . |
| 20 | It was some time before he realized that he had been fooled . |
| 21 | He was also weaving and Adam realized that he had been drinking . |
| 22 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 23 | He asked himself , ‘ What is the direction upon which I have been depending ? ’ , and realized that he had been relying on a sense of what seemed ‘ natural ’ and ‘ right ’ to govern his actions . |
| 24 | I realized that I had been tricked , so I then turned to some American and French correspondents . |
| 25 | The husband agreed that he had been bewitched ; he spoke like a somnambulist , in tones of grief . |
| 26 | Hoare also agreed that he had been advised by the Director of Public Prosecutions that charges of seditious libel against individuals attacking Jews as a group would in all probability fail . |
| 27 | Mr Mynott said that , apparently , neither minister realised that they had been overheard . |
| 28 | His fingernails were broken and bloody from when he had thrown himself at the door and torn at it , in the moment when he realised that he had been shut into the stall , and what was going to happen next . |
| 29 | When five o'clock came , however , and not one word had she heard from Naylor , Leith , with something akin to relief , realised that she had been mistaken . |
| 30 | So , although she was aware of getting ‘ red ’ letters , she never realised that she had been taken to court . |