Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] that [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But investigations into the leaking of sensitive material from Washington had narrowed down to Maclean as chief suspect , and it seems that Burgess was detailed , probably by Philby , who was still in Washington , to warn him and organize his escape , although it does not seem to have been intended that Burgess should go too . |
| 2 | It has also been recognized that Porter may not be correct in supposing that cost-leadership and differentiation policies should always be mutually exclusive . |
| 3 | It had already been arranged that Eric and Daphne Lovell would drive Rose to her destination before going on to their own and would pick her up later for the return trip . |
| 4 | It has been calculated that Betty , singled handedly moved a total of 40,500 tonnes . |
| 5 | All her life she had been taught that Philip and his kind were aliens in possession of land which they had stolen from its rightful owners . |
| 6 | It was not until a few weeks after her father had been installed that Dorothy began to realize the fortitude with which her mother had cared for him over the years . |
| 7 | On May 3 it had been reported that Sawyer 's interim government , appointed on April 19 , was ready to resign , apparently as a preliminary to offering the NPFL a power-sharing arrangement ; no more was heard of this proposal , however . |
| 8 | It had been reported that Smith was to send a written offer to Celtic for Aitken , and although Smith would not specify the amount it became common knowledge that it was for around £300,000 . |
| 9 | It has been reported that PGA phenotype A is associated with duodenal ulcer in white people . |
| 10 | Shortly before the February 1992 meeting it had been reported that OPEC production in January had been running at 24,200,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , about 70,000 bpd above the level in December 1991 and the highest levels since the 25,000,000 bpd recorded in 1980 . |
| 11 | Details of yesterday 's court order were not made public , but it has been reported that Miss Bonham-Carter has provided the court with a map with a red line marking an area of several hundred yards around her house which she did not want Mr Farquharson to enter . |
| 12 | It had been reported that BSP members of the government not only adopted a " wait-and-see " policy , but also , through contacts with the Soviet embassy in Sofia , had secretly supported the coup leaders . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It had been claimed that Mrs McWilliams had had an allergic reaction to the drugs and she had alleged negligence by the anaesthetist . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It has been claimed that Margaret saw the tunnel as some sort of monument to her and her period of government . |
| 18 | It has been claimed that Mr Gooderham may have had financial problems . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 … |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It has been said that Philip Miller worked at the Garden before 1722 and that this referred to his promotion . |
| 26 | It has been said that Lewis 's expressed distaste for the poetry of his contemporaries , such as MacNeice and Eliot , was based on jealousy . |
| 27 | In fact it has often been said that Halley 's reputation for atheism may have cost him the Savilian chair of astronomy in 1691–2 . |
| 28 | It has been said that Gouzenko 's defection was the start of the Cold War in that it convinced people that Russia was not benign and friendly but busily spying on its wartime allies by any means at its disposal . |
| 29 | It has been said that Peter 's military and naval staff headquarters were almost Scottish institutions . |
| 30 | The Standard commentary column enthused again about the benefits that would accrue to the town ; ‘ people of means and leisure will take up residence in the district ; it has long been said that Henley needed further attractions and the present move is assuredly one in the right direction ’ . |