Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] that [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm delighted that justice has been done by that poor horse ) |
2 | It has been indicated above that Scottish law developed slightly differently from English law . |
3 | Margaret has been teaching in that particular home for five years . |
4 | It has been prepared by that august body , the Industrial Society and indicates that many secretaries feel trapped in their jobs . |
5 | I would hope , obviously , that I wrote poems that could sometimes speak to the reader 's condition , and it would be too grandiose to say helped him to sort out his own feelings , but at least helped him to get a feeling of recognition and , if the poem is successful , you know , some kind of satisfaction that the feeling has been turned into that permanent form . |
6 | All I 'm saying is , what account has been taken of that other ingredient , which is the strategic guidance for West Yorkshire ? |
7 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
8 | The ability of the elderly to manage a glute free diet has been shown in that 38 of 40 patients who started a gluten free diet complied well and benefited clinically . |
9 | This is a copy of Countryd Top copy sent to OBITS Country Diary for Saturday December 9th Machynlleth : For me a frequent delight in many years of hill-walking in Wales has been to come upon that lively , eye-catching bird the wheatear which so loves to play hide and seek among the rocks . |
10 | A Country Diary : MACHYNLLETH : For me a frequent delight in many years of hill-walking in Wales has been to come upon that lively , eye-catching bird the wheatear which so loves to play hide and seek among the rocks . |
11 | We need to find people to buy these places so that we can sort of balance the books , but one wonders , you know , could n't something have been done with that empty building for two years while there are folk in the area with nowhere to live . |
12 | Mr Major said at question time : ‘ Decent families everywhere will have been sickened by that cold-blooded attack on innocent people going about peaceful business on a spring Saturday lunchtime . ’ |
13 | She was an extraordinary human being , and it was a damn shame that her personality and talents should have been encased in that little dumpy body of hers . |
14 | What could he have been doing in that little field but reconnoitring the back premises of the house at the far end — even breaking in , there had been burglaries lately . |
15 | And in the era of John Major 's classlessness , it was not wise of Waldegrave in complimenting the new Speaker to speak of his ancestors having been dragged to that very chair at the time of the Black Death . |
16 | ( The column , incidentally , seems summarily to have been removed from that crusty contest 's judiciary by a meat trade equivalent of the Lord Chancellor . ) |
17 | She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night . |
18 | He himself , wounded , had been led off that bloody hill by his own esquire . |
19 | ‘ The Geiger counter picked up levels of radiation but we already knew those kegs had been stored in that particular freight car . |
20 | Could she come to terms with the knowledge that they had been conceived in that dreadful place ? |
21 | ‘ Kan Ying bows to Pan Chao after the Battle of Kazatin ’ , read the description , the huge letters cut deep into the two-ch'i-thick base , the Mandarin translation given smaller underneath , as though to emphasise the point that the message was aimed at those who had been conquered in that great battle — the Hung Mao . |
22 | Recalling how Meh'Lindi had been violated on that other occasion , Jaq feared for her sanity once her psychic hood was removed . |
23 | However I had perceived that he had been caught in that familiar predicament of being obliged to continue to the end of a story which half-way through he repented of having begun . |
24 | Even after she had been caught in that ruined church with Ginger Higby , that old bitch of a commandant in the women 's ambulance service had n't wanted to lose her . |
25 | Reality had been suspended in that secluded Thai beach house , in that paradise of Phuket . |
26 | He said he lost them about a week ago and heard today that a set which might have been his had been used by that psychic woman . |
27 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
28 | She had been propositioned at that last party by a sub-editor with bad breath , who seeing her maimed and brought down had been swift to seize the opportunity . |
29 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
30 | It was a perpetual anxiety with me that I should turn up at school wearing a dress that had been sold to that same shop by one of my fellow-pupils . |