Example sentences of "that [pron] have [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one had any comment to make for the excellent reason that everyone had already been convinced of the fact . |
| 2 | sidelong eyes that I 've not been bad |
| 3 | Before that I 've always been involved in women 's journals , including Women 's Report which is one of the early women 's monitoring journals in this country . |
| 4 | And I explained to them it 's because having been unemployed most of my professional life that I 've always been short of money and that 's what 's led me to work on very cheap materials . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's a parochial side to Scotland that I 've never been able to accept . |
| 6 | Soon I 'll have enough money for a really powerful crossbow , and that I 'm certainly looking forward to ; it 'll help make up for the fact that I 've never been able to persuade my father to buy a rifle or a shotgun that I could use sometimes . |
| 7 | Oh she probably heard that I had not been well |
| 8 | This was a very great help to me , because I was able to learn the meaning of many words that I had not been able to understand before . |
| 9 | It is not surprising that I have not been able to finish them , for I never have a single quiet hour here . |
| 10 | It 's been a bit of a pity , really , that rugby has taken over so much that I have n't been able to continue playing football . |
| 11 | It 's only that I have n't been able to get to the bank , being ill and all that , and I have n't got any money for the rent . |
| 12 | Now I might forget some of them but , er , what about er , you , seeing as how your skill is one that I have n't been able to acquire yet , Jo how did you get to make the perfect quiche . |
| 13 | ( I subsequently had ( 27 April ) a site meeting with an EGBT official , who completed a proposal form on the spot — however , the funding aspects are not my main concern here ; suffice it to say , 1 ) that I have always been confident that funding would be secured from one source or another , and 2 ) that my direct approach to SNH was done only because I had indications that their project approvals took months rather than weeks — something I have subsequently been assured is not true ) . |
| 14 | We lived for a year in a cottage attached to a remote farm — so remote that I have never been able to find it again . |
| 15 | Because of my very varied upbringing I have found that I have never been able to analyse the political effects of any discrimination . |
| 16 | It is of the eighth magnitude , but I admit that I have never been able to see it with certainty even with × 20 binoculars , though it is easy enough in a telescope . |
| 17 | The colour is obvious with a telescope , but I confess that I have never been able to detect it with binoculars , even × 20 . |
| 18 | There were various factors that came into making this decision but one of the things is I 'm heartily sick that I have never been able to go away on holiday in the autumn ever in my life . |
| 19 | It transpired that she had also been one of a party at the Hall the same day . |
| 20 | It was a pity that she had n't been able to use one of his handkerchiefs , a strand of his hair . |
| 21 | She bows her head , disappointed that she had n't been able to do more for herself . |
| 22 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |
| 23 | But how sad that she had not been able to say that to the one person who really longed to hear it . |
| 24 | She explained that she had not been able to bring herself to discuss things with them , although she had managed to speak to her married brother , who had been very supportive and helpful . |
| 25 | She was bitterly sad that she had not been able to see her aunt before she died . |
| 26 | Robbie drew breath to vindicate herself , to tell him that she had not been unfaithful , that so far as she was concerned Hugh had ceased to exist . |
| 27 | Rumour had it that she had once been married , long ago , when she was very young . |
| 28 | Every other sound that she had hitherto been conscious of — the distant bleat of sheep in the field , the wind in the trees , the mewling cry of a hawk far above her — disappeared , vanished from her awareness . |
| 29 | When Vron had sobbed it all out after showing her prospective stepson photographs of herself having a handjob with no clothes on for money , she explained to me at throaty length and with hot tears still foiling the points of her lashes — that she had always been creative . |
| 30 | When Vron had sobbed it all out after showing her prospective stepson photographs of herself having a handjob with no clothes on for money , she explained to me at throaty length and with hot tears still foiling the points of her lashes — that she had always been creative . |