Example sentences of "that [noun] have been [adj] in " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I knew that response had been bad in our parish and I honestly did n't expect many young people to be there anyway .
3 The court had heard evidence from Kelly , who said that Blissett had been involved in an ‘ ordinary aerial challenge ’ .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 This showed him nothing except that Ross had been skilful in the way he had chosen to combine places with times .
9 But there was no suggestion that Gray had been involved in anything improper and Jefferson continued to be involved in youth work .
10 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 .
11 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 ] .
12 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 .
13 ‘ I am delighted that HCIMA has been instrumental in its formation and look forward to a closer working relationship with our partners . ’
14 The police suspected that Samuel had been involved in a serious armed robbery at a building society in Birmingham .
15 Pop fans will note that Albini has been fulsome in his praise for his next project , Polly Harvey .
16 In his appearance before the House government operations subcommittee in May Pierce denied any personal knowledge of malpractice , but subsequent testimony , particularly from his special assistant , Joseph Strauss , indicated that Pierce had been instrumental in providing assistance to friends , aides and others in housing schemes .
17 For example , Drudy ( 1978 ) found evidence that depopulation had been worse in small settlements , and concluded that a low level of service provision , when added to the lack of a sufficient employment alternative to agriculture , could lead to a vicious circle of decline based on the theory of cumulative causation , already outlined .
18 The only blot on an otherwise clean campaign came on the eve of the poll when the communist newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya published a report implying that Yeltsin had been involved in an illegal deal to sell billions of roubles at a cheap rate to a British company .
19 Not that Ulster has been alone in being so treated .
20 The other two grown-ups would see that Maman had been right in her judgement .
21 Its existence demonstrated for Engels that Marx had been right in arguing that commonality was the oldest form of social existence .
22 It is suggested also in Selby 's submissions that demand has been frustrated in their paragraphs three point two one to three point two five , but again no evidence has been submitted of that , that I have seen .
23 A commission of inquiry chaired by Englishman Kgabo , looking into land allocations in villages surrounding Gaborone , had reported that Mmusi had been involved in improper land transfers , and that on two occasions he had interceded in favour of Kwelagobe in decisions of the local land board .
24 What is being done is to argue that the failures were of the order to suggest that Bukharin had been correct in his prediction before the event , not after it .
25 In the rune-friezed , banner-hung oratorium reserved for cadets the Necromundans hung on the words of crippled veteran lecturers ; and on one such occasion Lexandro learned that Valence had been correct in his seemingly blasphemous comments uttered in the scriptory …
26 A positive test result means that antibodies have been found and means that HIV has been present in the body .
27 Manville knew then that Hayman had been right in writing him off as a washed-up veteran .
28 Despite turnover being virtually flat at £13,242m , Vallance said that BT had been successful in controlling operating costs .
29 Looking at examples of day-to-day practical assistance , it is apparent that women have been involved in exchanging this with other women much more commonly than men have been involved in exchanges with women , or with other men .
30 A spokeswoman claimed that Itoh had been involved in discussions with Sun regarding OEM supply of the X-terminal built by C Itoh , but Sun had decided to go its own way .
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