Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Relations between Lang and Salmond are not good at the best of times but , given that the SNP had been in the same lobby as the Government the night before , it might have been expected that Lang would have been at least polite . |
| 32 | E. Coli was a hitherto unknown disease and also , apparently , it could not reasonably have been expected that pigs would become ill from eating mouldy pig nuts . |
| 33 | It has been claimed that interference has disrupted train signals , and electronic equipment from Nintendo Gameboys to video cameras has confused aircraft flight management computers . |
| 34 | Much must also depend on the , as yet unknown , date of the constitution of the civitas Carvetiorum , for which it has been claimed that Carlisle acted as a capital . |
| 35 | It has been claimed that adults can also ‘ pick up ’ spoken language in this way ( second language acquisition ) better than by the traditional classroom approach ( second language learning ) if the conditions are similar to those experienced by young children . |
| 36 | It has certainly been claimed that values associated with ascetic Protestantism provided new motivation for scientific inquiry , particularly in Holland and England during the seventeenth century . |
| 37 | It has been claimed that fundholding ‘ has revealed rather than created these variations . ’ |
| 38 | It had been claimed that Mrs McWilliams had had an allergic reaction to the drugs and she had alleged negligence by the anaesthetist . |
| 39 | It has also been claimed that towns were centres of consumption rather than production and that even local trade was insignificant in volume because of poor transport facilities , while long distance trade was with few exceptions restricted to luxuries because there was no mass-market . |
| 40 | It has been claimed that Aindow allowed himself to be struck on the leg to support the false story that he had been hit by the car . |
| 41 | It has been claimed that binoculars will show it , but again I must admit failure . |
| 42 | It has been claimed that Margaret saw the tunnel as some sort of monument to her and her period of government . |
| 43 | It has been claimed that food sensitivities occur often in Crohn 's disease and that exclusion of foodstuffs after treatment with elemental diet prolongs remission . |
| 44 | It has been claimed that Mr Gooderham may have had financial problems . |
| 45 | It 's been claimed that children whose fathers worked there were genetically damaged by radiation . |
| 46 | However it has been claimed that Markov probabilities do not give significant reductions in word error rate , and can even lead to an increased error rate ( Riseman and Ehrich , 1971 ; Riseman and Hanson , 1974 ; Hanson , Riseman and Fisher , 1976 ) . |
| 47 | Increasingly , it has been claimed that people who work in government , industry , the social services , etc. , ought to have some sort of specialist knowledge of society on the grounds that they will be better equipped to meet the demands of their work . |
| 48 | It has been claimed that criminals , sportsmen and senior government officials are the most conservative groups in every country . |
| 49 | Based on pioneer work by Fogel and Gray , the notion that symptomatic carbohydrate malabsorption is uncommon in patients with chronic pancreatitis has not been challenged until recently , when it has been noticed that patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency may malabsorb complex carbohydrate . |
| 50 | It has now been decided that meetings will take place of all Branch Representatives in the Pilot Branches in order to clarify the experiences of our members on the ground regarding these Pilot Branches . |
| 51 | It had already been decided that Hayling was to remain as chief executive , and everyone who had been doing a specific job for the company was invited to carry on . |
| 52 | As it happened , on 2 June the following was issued by MEHQ : ‘ It has been decided that Major Stirling , L Detachment S.A.S. Brigade , will not take part in active operations with his unit until further notice . |
| 53 | 2.1 Following detailed discussion at the Council 's Advanced Courses Policy Sub-Committee , it has been decided that SCOTVEC should now proceed beyond the pilot programme to implementation of the new system : it was felt that the work to date on the pilot courses has provided enough experience to confirm the adoption of the Policy Paper 's principles as the basis of the new operational system . |
| 54 | Now it has been decided that men , with all their brow-mopping and weeping , are simply invading the seminal female experience , which should really be carried out in a darkened sweat lodge with only women as company . |
| 55 | As one of Francesca 's DTI colleagues had maliciously observed , it had been felt that fraternization with the American colleagues could be carried too far . |
| 56 | ‘ Principally , ’ I continued , ‘ it has been felt that Father should no longer be asked to wait at table , whether or not guests are present . ’ |
| 57 | Since the death of Thomas Worby , under the wheels of a horsebox , at a hunt protest in Cambridgeshire , it has been revealed that Hunt saboteurs groups have been infiltrated by neo-Nazis , apparently as a convenient cover for their activities … |
| 58 | It has been revealed that Elwyn Bishop , the former headmaster of Kings Road Junior School , Chelmsford , and secretary of the Mid-Essex Association of the Nation Union of Teachers , wrote the leaflet . |
| 59 | It has been said that Philip Miller worked at the Garden before 1722 and that this referred to his promotion . |
| 60 | It 's also been said that Prince , who writes songs for anyone and everyone from Sheena Easton to The Bangles , has written a song specifically for her called ‘ Do Me Baby ’ . |