Example sentences of "that [pers pn] have been [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Israeli Mossad would have confirmed that I 'd been killed in Damascus . |
| 2 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 3 | IN EXTRACTS from my forthcoming book , A Cuckoo in the Bodyline Nest , published in the May and June issues of WCM , I wrote that I had been born in Marathon Avenue , Darling Point , Sydney , next door to Gubby Allen . |
| 4 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 5 | She took little account of time , and was hardly even aware that she had been placed in Lady Merchiston 's old bedchamber . |
| 6 | She stayed away for two weeks , and there were reports that she had been seen in Bath with Sergeant Troy . |
| 7 | The first statement issued by COPREFA , the armed forces press office , declared that she had been killed in combat and claimed she was a guerrilla combatant who operated under the name of Comandante Lucia . |
| 8 | Shelley was beginning to see that she had been put in a very special place of importance in Miguel 's confidence . |
| 9 | It must mean that she had been mentioned in the will . |
| 10 | She was indeed torpedoed by a German submarine , but that was two years after the claim that she had been sunk in September 1939 . |
| 11 | The housekeeper , French by origin and known as Madame , was one of those fair Nordic or Norman types whose hair and complexion were of a uniformity to suggest that she had been dipped in custard . |
| 12 | He told the jurors they should look for corroboration of the 18-year-old woman 's claim that she had been attacked in the officer 's marked police car . |
| 13 | But it could be argued that she has been placed in a high turn-over establishment because she possesses an authoritarian style of leadership . |
| 14 | A TEACHER who quit a North-East City Technology College is outraged that she has been used in election literature by one of the CTC 's biggest supporters . |
| 15 | I refer to your application for the above post with this Council and write to inform you that you have been included in the list of candidates who are to be invited for an interview . |
| 16 | Epictetus said that we have been placed in a festival and we must enjoy it and be full of delight in it . |
| 17 | The solitude and the almost palpable darkness combined to create the feeling that they 'd been draped in a blanket . |
| 18 | Could she come to terms with the knowledge that they had been conceived in that dreadful place ? |
| 19 | But she did confirm that they had been deposited in the Kazachi Aquarium , which is surrounded by military bases , and not open to the public , before their bid for freedom . |
| 20 | Yesterday , when the Government were defending their postition at the United Nations in Geneva on interrogation procedures and denying that anything untoward was happening , settlements were being awarded in Belfast courts to people who had claimed that they had been assaulted in just those circumstances . |
| 21 | To settle in America they were forced to sign documents stating that they had been persecuted in Russia and were seeking political asylum . |
| 22 | On Feb. 5 lawyers for two Palestinians convicted following the October 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro [ see pp. 34077-79 ] announced that they had been released in December 1990 and had left for Algeria . |
| 23 | But besides being improbable in itself , it can scarcely be true , for Eadmer had mentioned that they had been produced in the royal court after Anselm 's death in 1109 . |
| 24 | Some of the women who were followers of Jesus had returned from the tomb where Jesus had been buried , saying that it was empty , that they had been told in a vision that Jesus had risen from the dead . |
| 25 | Most people refused to believe them and said that they had been faked in Hollywood . |
| 26 | The majority of doctors are simply not aware of the dangers attached to Depo-Provera and other injectable contraceptives , nor that they have been prohibited in other countries . |
| 27 | Danie Visser took the opportunity of his selection to South Africa 's first Davis Cup team to be announced since 1978 , to protest that they have been placed in the bottom Group , so that it will take them at least three years to qualify for the World Group . |
| 28 | In view of developments it might be argued that they have been justified in this view . |
| 29 | I am sure that , subject to Mr. Speaker 's ruling , it will be in order to discuss these matters — I know that they have been raised in previous autumn statement debates . |
| 30 | Animals arrive with forged documentation which claims that they have been bred in captivity , and which therefore entitles them to be taken on to other western destinations . |