Example sentences of "[adj] that they have [be] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah , just as a , as a side issue , I am interested that they 've been growing plum tomatoes because each year I hear of more and more people growing plum tomatoes successfully in this country and while we are just on the subject of diseases and things to control them , you may remember that a few weeks ago we were giving advice on how we should dispose of waste garden chemicals and , and we said you ought to pour it down an outside drain .
2 It must be because they are historic that they have been left standing .
3 Although this is the first recorded instance of a private undertaker being used by the royal household it is possible that they had been previously involved in some small way in royal funerals , for it is doubtful that the College of Arms provided coffins and it would seem probable that they contracted this out to the trade , to people such as William Russell — indeed , could it have been Russell who provided the coffin for Queen Mary in late December 1694 ?
4 They were too far away for her to recognise faces , but she could imagine John and Angela among them , unaware that they had been pursued all the way from Romania .
5 The Status software programme was designed to avoid the kind of accident that took place at Three Mile Island in the US , where shift workers faced with a breakdown in equipment switched to substitute systems , unaware that they had been taken out of service by a previous system .
6 Moreover , those who suffer from the effects of corporate crime , the victims , tend to remain unaware that they have been victimised .
7 The result is of that is not fortunate that they 've been delayed but that in fact we have as much money to spend on them next year from the capital receipts as we will have spent this year , so in a sense we , we 're not going backwards there either .
8 A lawyer for the family said afterwards : ‘ The Bonham-Carters are sad that they have been compelled to take proceedings and they very much hope that Mr Farquharson will abide by the court order . ’
9 Sometime later I had replaced the clubs and got a better set than I originally had after that I thought I was quite lucky that they had been stolen .
10 It was n't likely that they had been .
11 It was obvious that they had been outside all the time , probably in a van .
12 ‘ It was quite obvious that they had been much more to each other than just friends , ’ she said .
13 First , the bidder does not have to deal with a series of forms of acceptance from accepting shareholders , making sure that they have been completed properly and dealing with any lost share certificates .
14 His family was so poor that they 'd been obliged to sell him .
15 I find it difficult to understand how they are going to carry on experimental work at other depots that are n't really equipped to carry out experimental work , and so for that reason , I mean , there 's a great deal of concern that these cuts are n't rather more cosmetic that they 've been made out to be .
16 The atmosphere with the actual returnees themselves is one of concern and apprehension I guess , because they 're concerned that they 've been involved in this , this crisis and they 're not quite sure what 's happening , and they are er not really being told by everybody , you know , there 's just too many people to make it very clear where they 're all going and when they 're all going .
17 ‘ But we are a bit concerned that they have been barricaded in by the Coal Board , so even if they want to , they can not get out .
18 I was well into my teens before I even knew there was a word to describe these secret feelings I had , let alone that they had been legislated against .
19 I 'm very happy that they 've been picked up and that they will now be on their way to Chile .
20 Some have suffered symptoms so severe that they have been given medication by their doctor .
21 We males naturally reject the idea that we 're not at all times ready to cream anything that moves as a monstrous slander on our virility , while women certainly do n't want to think that creatures whose sexual urges are so undiscriminating that they have been known to rape grannies and animals and even corpses , for God 's sake , could possibly find them so unattractive that they need to simulate orgasm .
22 Informations were listed for hearing but the justices were not satisfied that they had been served so further summonses were issued .
23 The Poles were well aware that they had been classed as Untermenschen , or sub-humans , long before the Nuremberg Race Laws made it official .
24 Guglielmo and Ferrando reappear without their disguises , and the girls become aware that they have been tricked .
25 However , it is not sufficient to constitute two pieces of land parts of one and the same curtilage that they should have been conveyed or demised together , for a single conveyance or lease can comprise more than one parcel of land , neither of which need be in any sense an appurtenance of the other or within the curtilage of the other ; nor is it sufficient that they have been occupied together ; nor is the test whether the enjoyment of one is advantageous or convenient or necessary for the full enjoyment of the other .
26 NALGO 's members , who are mostly women , are bitter that they 've been pushed to take industrial action .
27 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 .
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