Example sentences of "that they have [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But when they were late in arriving , Mr Stokes rang the agent and was told that they had been impounded at Dover for five weeks while checks were made for drugs . |
| 32 | Nothing was known of the fate of the three men , all of them active on behalf of the National League for Democracy , until 27 July , when the official radio announced that they had been condemned to death . |
| 33 | His wife now feared that they had been punished for his presumption . |
| 34 | They assumed that they had been moved into the area these smells were coming from and , in an endeavour to return to the loft , those with olive oil on their bills flew north , while those with turpentine on flew south . |
| 35 | The two drivers were later charged with dangerous driving , but it was widely suspected that they had been acting on orders . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 38 | To settle in America they were forced to sign documents stating that they had been persecuted in Russia and were seeking political asylum . |
| 39 | This demonstrated the importance of family factors in determining the occupational choice of rural school-leavers — nearly 42 per cent of the respondents stated that they had been influenced by their family in their decision to work on the land . |
| 40 | There they lived their lives , and prospered for a while ; but there was a disquiet amongst them , for it was said that they had been created with a purpose in this life , and that the purpose had something to do with the manner of their creation . |
| 41 | ‘ not for the purpose of repining that they had been deprived of the important blessings of hearing and speech , but to manifest their love and gratitude to God for all those other things He permitted them to enjoy . ’ |
| 42 | Gorbachev declined to comment on the talks , other than to indicate that they had been inspired by the scale of the commercial links which already existed between their countries . |
| 43 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |
| 44 | In the eyes of those who believed that the Masai were decorative but unproductive idlers sitting on land that could be put to better use , the unco-operative attitude of district officials was mere romantic obstructionism , proof positive that they had been bewitched by the Masai . |
| 45 | Differences emerged between the manufacturing and service sectors , however , with 44 per cent of the former saying that they had been affected by green concerns , as against just 29 per cent of the latter . |
| 46 | I thought that those were wise words when I read them and was delighted to find that they had been written by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , the hon. Member for Penrith and The Border ( Mr. Maclean ) in The Lake District Herald only this week . |
| 47 | I found it strange that those words had come from the Parliamentary Secretary because , when I read them , I thought that they had been written by the Labour candidate , John Metcalfe , because there was no other indication that that article had been written by a Minister of the Crown who is responsible for this country 's agriculture . |
| 48 | Some trade unionists later felt that they had been misled by private assurances from the Prime Minister that there would be an early election . |
| 49 | Seventeen Stormont MPs were taken on a tour of inspection by the University for Derry Action Committee and one of them , Dr Robert Nixon , the Stormont Unionist MP for North Down , declared that they had been misled by the Lockwood Report and that there was no shortage of suitable land or amenities in the city . |
| 50 | In their defence the party leadership could argue that they had been hampered by the lack of a parliamentary majority ; the choice had been hanging on by the skin of one 's teeth or of giving up and holding an election in the face of adverse opinion polls . |
| 51 | It was not enough that they had been questioned at length about a work in which they had secretly collaborated : they were now to be insulted by having their acknowledged work dismissed as of small account . |
| 52 | Early last year the Ministry of Defence announced new measures to discourage bullying after young recruits revealed that they had been pushed into rivers , pelted with stones , and gassed with CS gas . |
| 53 | They said that they had been talking about it themselves . |
| 54 | Betty would have been upset to know that they had been talking of the devil . |
| 55 | They refused still to attend the kirk and word had got around that they had been married by ‘ The Prophet ’ . |
| 56 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 57 | Women jeered at Blackshirts who made their way to them , only to find that they had been lured into a group of Communist sympathisers intent on vengeance . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | During the hearings , officials from the CIA apparently admitted having concealed evidence from Judge Shoob , but claimed that they had been pressurized into doing so by the Justice Department . |
| 60 | Mr Murphy , who works for the housing department as a caretaker for a group of flats in Coatbridge and is a shop steward for the National Union of Public Employees , said at the time that he could ‘ name names ’ and that elected members had told him that they had been put under pressure when short-leeting jobs . |