Example sentences of "that [noun sg] has been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now that decision has been reversed by Planning Minister Tony Baldry , in a U-turn that 's shocked protesters . |
| 2 | So far wheels , frame and chimney have been built and I believe that progress has been made on the boiler . |
| 3 | It is more difficult to judge how far the commitment has been translated into action , though it is clear that progress has been made in some areas . |
| 4 | It is easy to understand how irksome that condition has been felt to be and how strong has been the temptation to try to tamper with it . |
| 5 | ‘ You ca n't imagine , ’ she choked , ‘ the hell that girl has been goin' through these last few months . |
| 6 | The paper says that Sun has been working on the project for two and a half years under the code-name Green at its SunLabs unit under former Apple Computer Inc executive Wayne Rosing , and is forming a new company , First Person Inc , to exploit it . |
| 7 | This means that work has been done on the system . |
| 8 | The central heating system does not need to be drained provided that anti-freeze has been added via the feed-and-expansion cistern — do not add anti-freeze to the main cold water cistern . |
| 9 | There are no balance sheets because there are no assets or liabilities in the books : sales are only recognized when cash is received ( so there are no debtors ) ; purchases are only recognized when cash is paid ( so there are no creditors ) ; there are no stock adjustments because the accounts are not concerned with recording usage , only with the fact that cash has been paid for purchases ( so there is no closing stock figure ) ; there are no fixed assets , for the same reason . |
| 10 | The south west Regional Health Authority said in a statement that cash has been paid to chemists in some areas to encourage new outlets for needle exchange . |
| 11 | Any system in which adaptation becomes the sole determinant of structure will be incompatible with the idea that Nature has been created in accordance with a harmonious or regularly structured grid of relationships . |
| 12 | Both indices have weakened somewhat in recent months , however , a pattern consistent with the view that recovery has been delayed by political uncertainty and will occur once the election is out of the way . |
| 13 | A cruel analysis of the last 30 years in education might say that the succession of Schools Council , then the Schools Curriculum Development Committee and then the NCC neatly summarises the way that education has been perceived over this period . |
| 14 | One finds direct contradictions such as Lewis 's ( 1931 ) observation that an 8 km/h ( 5 mile/h ) current off Hurst Castle Spit was ineffective in moving the lightest shell debris except when combined with wave action and Russell and Macmillan 's ( 1952 ) belief that shingle has been scoured to a depth of nearly 60 m ( 200 ft ) by this same current . |
| 15 | Notice must be given also to the court with a certificate that notice has been given to the other parties . |
| 16 | What she does not do is believe for one moment that Rainbow has been possessed by some kind of demon . |
| 17 | It is perhaps more likely that Freeman has been deceived by the fact that the linguistic patterning of King Lear so under-determines how it is to be interpreted that it is compatible with his and a large number of other theories of metaphor which all equally predict it , and hence appear to explain it . |
| 18 | Aware that society has been constructed by able-bodied people in ways which serve and perpetuate their own interests , these people have used our consequential marginalisation and dependence not as a starting-point for developing with us a struggle for social change and equal opportunities , but as a handy and convenient fact to justify the development of all the inappropriate disability services with which we are now so familiar . |
| 19 | This does not mean that life has been found on Mars . |
| 20 | As regards the physical limitations in food supplies , there seems to be general scientific agreement that this does not constitute the real constraint … the vague counter argument that more intensive cultivation will ruin the soil is hardly convincing in view of the fact that soil has been farmed with increasing intensity in Western Europe for about 2000 years and there is still no sign that it is exhausted . |
| 21 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman is aware of the fact that unemployment has been rising in most European Community countries and that it is higher than it was a year ago in every EFTA and G7 country . |
| 22 | Although I realise that he can not know of a particular incident that has been drawn to my attention today , is he aware that information has been sent to deceased claimants , thus causing a great deal of distress to the families concerned ? |
| 23 | The implication is that Saruman has been led from ethically neutral researches into the kind of wanton pollution and love of dirt we see in ‘ The Scouring of the Shire ’ by something corrupting in the love of machines or in the very desire for control over the natural world . |
| 24 | Now that electricity has been brought to nearly all the villages , the inhabitants can cluster around a television set and see how much better things are in Bangkok . |
| 25 | I 'm delighted that justice has been done by that poor horse ) |
| 26 | Dr Piperno 's results show that maize has been cultivated for about 2,000 years longer than previously suspected . |
| 27 | Ensure that agreement has been reached with the libraries about making documents available for consultation before this facility is publicised . |