Example sentences of "that [noun sg] [verb] 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 | According to Radio France International Cheiffou said that progress had been hindered by various obstacles including intrigues by political parties and the unjustified expectations of the army . |
| 3 | So far wheels , frame and chimney have been built and I believe that progress has been made on the boiler . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Immediately after the dummy was produced , Thornton found that money had been raised in his home city of Newcastle by using his name without permission . |
| 6 | On two occasions during this period he told at least four people that money had been found by her body . |
| 7 | A UEFA spokesman explained : ‘ The referee presented his match report which stated that money had been offered to both him and his officials . |
| 8 | A UEFA spokesman explained : ‘ The referee presented his match report which stated that money had been offered to both him and his officials . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Two years ago a Romanian government commission on the razing of gypsy villages concluded that violence had been provoked by ‘ persons [ ie , gypsies ] who have acquired vast possessions by illicit means . ’ |
| 11 | It was unlikely that murder had been committed for a few pounds , but one could never be sure . |
| 12 | It was denied that force had been used in the initial operation . |
| 13 | ‘ You ca n't imagine , ’ she choked , ‘ the hell that girl has been goin' through these last few months . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A day made all the more wonderful by the confirmation that SCUM had been beaten by Chelsea . |
| 16 | On Sept. 1 , Yeltsin and Snegur expressed their satisfaction that peace had been restored to the Dnestr region . |
| 17 | This means that work has been done on the system . |
| 18 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | At one time it was fashionable to argue that Darwinism destroyed the traditional belief that Nature had been created by a wise and benevolent God , thereby ushering in an age of rampant materialism . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | To understand the climate of opinion within which Darwin developed his own theory of transmutation during the late 1830s , we must bear in mind that Lamarckism had been branded as an atheistical theory appealing only to political revolutionaries . |
| 26 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | However , some market participants suggested that volume had been boosted by cross-trading , that is , the to-and-fro trading of contracts between market makers to create volume artificially . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Just to say that claim had been processed at his end , had all relevant documentation , etc . |