Example sentences of "that they [vb base] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I understand the Leeds position , they want what they call a lev a level playing field , or to be aiming at the same goalposts that they 've been aiming at for the last number of years . |
| 2 | You see at Banbury School our governing body erm has expressed itself clearly as against the tertiary education proposals as they were first put forward , and I am very pleased to have heard during the debate that they 've been amended as a result of quite a lot as a result of the discussion that has gone on . |
| 3 | We 're particularly proud of him in South Cambridgeshire , as we 're also proud that so many of our environmental health officers like Alan Hobson do sterling work for us , and we are looking to them in the in the future with this semi-autonomy that they 've been given to really take on board the opportunities which have been given to them under the 1990 Act to really go to town on environmental health . |
| 4 | Yet they are n't fakes , for it would appear that they 've been printed by the county 's National Mint . |
| 5 | But beware — the Black Night 's ghoulish cohorts are everywhere , and rumour has it that they 've been dabbling in the dark arts … |
| 6 | Is actually to terrify the p poor and to drive them in into a s an under and this is part of their philosophy that they 've been following since nineteen seventy nine under Mrs Thatcher . |
| 7 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 8 | Well people have rung into this programme saying that they 've been put off visiting graves because this man is there . |
| 9 | Yes there are far too many overlapping institutions that self regulation has n't worked , it ha has no adequate on the annualt we welcomed 21 effective against fraud by replacing it by an independent statutory statutory based regulator which has the power to strike and strike hard rather than everything er by the the the plethora of regulations we now deal with in the financial er in the financial sector and in the respect of what 's proposed today , you ca n't rely er on auditors to be the effective police force that they 've been required to be by these er regulations . |
| 10 | Erm , it does n't matter what I propose , whether it actually makes out things that they 've been talking about or whether it 's completely found something to criticise about it . |
| 11 | Why are there grave areas , areas of uncertainty and responsibility erm Rivers Authority er Area Manager I believe , Mr er presented the position from their point of view er in particular circumstances on the night of thirtieth December er the er Southern Water whose responsibility is primarily sewage erm er describes circumstances that they have been contending with and a great deal of criticism erm was what we had to anticipate if you like or do anything er to contend with the unusual circumstances of that night erm the consequence was that a large number of new houses in the very close to the that runs through Barnham and under the railway there erm and er not ordinary surplus water flooding , but sewage flooding and the consequences then for many years er it 's obviously going to give , quite apart from having to live with it , er it will on the properties themselves and adversely affect er the ability of individuals to sell them off . |
| 12 | The idea of them having to bring fortnightly evidence that they have been looking for work when in the majority of cases they are not even permitted onto premises to ask for a job suggests an obvious indifference on the part of the policy makers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Picture to yourself the furore which they will make in the world when people read on the title-page that they have been composed by a seven-year-old child ; and when the sceptics are challenged to test him , as he already has been , imagine the sensation when he asks someone to write down a minuet or some tune or other and then immediately and without touching the clavier writes in the bass and , if it is wanted , the second violin part … every day God performs fresh miracles through this child . |
| 15 | The penultimate saga of the Entebbe Four ( ‘ Chimpanzees on the run ’ , October ) is that they have been repatriated from Hungary to Uganda , where they are waiting in Entebbe Zoo to move to a semi-wild setting in their native land , courtesy of the Jane Goodall Institute . |
| 16 | Research has also indicated that many members of the upper strata owe their position primarily to the fact that they have been born into those strata and have capitalized on the advantages provided by their social background . |
| 17 | And women have not been present in those circles with the result that they have been deprived of the means to participate in the construction of forms of thought which are relevant or adequate to express their own experience , ( Spender , 1981 , p. 3 ) . |
| 18 | " I have been connected with different unions for this last twenty years " , he declared to the Royal Commission on Labour in 1892 , " but I am sorry to state that they have been formed for the benefit of one man , for he has generally cleared out with the funds " . |
| 19 | And they are losing their tradition of the food that they have been getting from Eastern Europe . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Does he agree that such improvements are a key component in a strong economy and that they have been achieved through the Government 's industrial relations laws , which the Opposition parties wish to repeal ? |
| 22 | In addition , there are the policies that they have been advocating from the Front Bench this afternoon on the European social action programme , a national statutory minimum wage and trade union law reform , which would make it easier to strike and to have more frequent and more damaging strikes . |
| 23 | In view of developments it might be argued that they have been justified in this view . |
| 24 | An important factor in the crisis is the awakening realisation among West Germans that they have been tricked into pretending this peculiar arrangement of subsidising their compatriots ' oppressors was normal . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Although I have great respect for W. 's consultant and for the dedication of the staff , it seems to me that they have been manoeuvred into a position from which a change is necessary , even if it is a change that carries the risk of interpretation by W. as ‘ yet another adult rejection and failure . ’ |
| 27 | Would my right hon. Friend care to come to the county town of Lancaster to see how outstandingly well our schools , under local management , are spending their money now that they have been freed from an extravagant county council which never had the right priorities and always deprived our schools of the money that they should have had ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 30 | Similar findings have also been reported in patients with chronic atrophic gastritis , Which suggests that they have been infected with H pylori at some point in their lives . |