Example sentences of "that [noun] have been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it is only since 1965 that mergers have been subject to public scrutiny at all . |
| 2 | Summing up , Nick Carey believes that ICI has been innovative in its approach towards the rationalization of its petrochemicals business — necessary because production capacity in europe was far too high . |
| 3 | But it was impossible to forget entirely the rumours that William had been involved with some very undesirable people over the last few years . |
| 4 | Although no evidence had been found that Gnassingbe had been present during the attack , the report said he had been at the scene of the attack " immediately beforehand " . |
| 5 | I knew that response had been bad in our parish and I honestly did n't expect many young people to be there anyway . |
| 6 | The court had heard evidence from Kelly , who said that Blissett had been involved in an ‘ ordinary aerial challenge ’ . |
| 7 | The reaction from Ulster Unionists has been an almost automatic rejection , but Downing Street has been keen to point out that Foley has been vocal in his criticism of the IRA and his appointment might not be such a bad move . |
| 8 | Later James McInally , a forensic scientist with Lothian and Borders police , told the court that after tests on the accused 's clothing and in the burned house , they had concluded that Sutherland had been involved in splashing petrol in the house . |
| 9 | Indeed , it should be emphasized that Picasso had been dissatisfied with the limitations imposed on pictorial volumes by a scientific or linear system of perspective for some time before he became aware of the fact that Cézanne 's painting suggested a new concept of form and space . |
| 10 | Thus one often encounters the claim that a large number of Quakers ( and other dissenters ) contributed significantly to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physical science and that Jews have been preeminent in mathematics , physics , and psychiatry in the twentieth century . |
| 11 | Bacon and Eltis went on to suggest that labour had been successful in protecting itself from erosion of C m , so that adjustment had fallen largely on I m i.e. investment in the marketable sector . |
| 12 | It appears from Jean Piaget 's child psychology that perception has been inseparable from simulation right from the start , and that instead of learning to project my inwardness on to other persons I had to unlearn the habit of projecting it on to the rising sun or a bouncing ball . |
| 13 | The Jockey Club 's Disciplinary Committee upheld the York stewards ' judgement that Eddery had been guilty of interfering with Green 's Bid and Splendent in the Gimcrack Stakes . |
| 14 | This showed him nothing except that Ross had been skilful in the way he had chosen to combine places with times . |
| 15 | Of course John , her husband , told Elizabeth that Ivy had been right about the fuse-boxes : they just had n't come to her notice , so she had to eat humble pie . |
| 16 | But there was no suggestion that Gray had been involved in anything improper and Jefferson continued to be involved in youth work . |
| 17 | She knew that Hugh had been wrong in what he had tried to do , but she also knew that no real intimacy had taken place . |
| 18 | In that case he refused to hold that directors had been negligent on the ground that he was satisfied that they had made ‘ a real exercise of discretion and judgment ’ . |
| 19 | From then onwards , ‘ Fred T. Jane ’ became a recognized signature on bold black and white illustrations in a number of books and magazines ; so realistic was the picture in the Illustrated London News of the torpedoing of the ironclad Blanco Encalada in the Chilean revolutionary war of 1891 that a legend grew that Jane had been present at the action . |
| 20 | The document also alleged that Montazeri had been involved in a gang whose members had been executed in Iran in 1987 after smuggling explosives to Saudi Arabia during the pilgrimage to Mecca the previous year [ see pp. 35541-42 ; 35677 ] . |
| 21 | The Medellín drug cartel in a message broadcast on Inravision Television , Bogotá on April 27 denied responsibility for the assassination , stating that Pizarro had been opposed to the government 's current policy of extraditing drug traffickers to stand trial in the United States . |
| 22 | Punch published two harsh cartoons and , when at the end of February 1858 the government was defeated , The Times , with possibly a touch of exaggeration , declared that Clanricarde had been able by his ‘ mere presence ’ in the cabinet to destroy an exceptionally strong administration . |
| 23 | History shows that sport has been one of the two major areas in which blacks have been allowed or even encouraged to do well . |
| 24 | What he did not mention was the fact that Scotland has been involved in the processing of vegetable raw materials of medicinal use for some 200 years . |
| 25 | The Miller spokeswoman confirmed that Sainsbury had been aware of the plans , and that as it was a non-retail development , there would be no conflict of interest . |
| 26 | ‘ I am delighted that HCIMA has been instrumental in its formation and look forward to a closer working relationship with our partners . ’ |
| 27 | Belinda blurted dismissively , disturbed to find that Tom had been aware of at least some of Greg 's attentions to her that evening . |
| 28 | Warsaw police confirmed on April 24 that arsonists had been responsible for a fire on April 22 at the home of Jerzy Jachowicz , a journalist on Gazeta Wyborcza , in which his wife had been killed and his daughter injured . |
| 29 | She put her head on one side , trying to make him understand from the look in her eyes that Stephen had been upset by the references to his mother 's death . |
| 30 | On one level I knew that Robert had been unfaithful to Lili and on another I knew that he could n't possibly have been . |