Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 2 | It transpired that he had been scouting at the Festival . |
| 3 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 4 | Anderson , the Clerk to the meeting , who was strongly attached to Sir John Anstruther , when he was called upon to attach the seal to the commission returning Alexander ‘ pretended that it had been abstracted from him ’ . |
| 5 | Nurse Valerie Roper said she had spoken to Allitt after the first two or three arrests at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital and mentioned that she had been present on each occasion . |
| 6 | The grin left his face as he mentioned that he had been informed about an hour ago that his brother-in-law , who was a member of No. 4 Commando , had been killed during a German counter attack on the Commando positions . |
| 7 | Writing to a colleague at Caserta , he mentioned that he had been presented with some tricky problems concerning the status of individual British subjects in Austria , and he then went on to mention , among " similar problems " he had been confronted with : " if captured Cossacks fighting with the Germans are to be handed over to the Russians , what should be done with White Russians with French nationality ? |
| 8 | If you er using a similar example , if , if you were looking after the neighbour 's house while they 're away on holiday and found that they 'd been broken into , then that would n't necessarily be a nine nine nine call , unless you thought there was somebody in the house . |
| 9 | The Prussian banks found that they had been lending increasing amounts to the Junkers to maintain a lifestyle rather than to finance the modernisation of facilities and improve agricultural methods . |
| 10 | Access to Israel from the occupied territories was re-opened on Oct. 28 , but when Arabs returned to their jobs many found that they had been dismissed . |
| 11 | When Cato 's supporters arrived at court they found that they had been pre-empted . |
| 12 | By 1979 , however , the survey found that there had been a major shift in support for privatization and public opinion remained in favour of further privatization in 1983 , and probably reflected a positive response to the Thatcher policies . |
| 13 | When I arrived back I found that there had been very little press coverage and quite a lot of disbelief . |
| 14 | Comparing , for fixed-term contract workers , the results of the 1984 survey with those of the 1980 survey we found that there had been little change . |
| 15 | The Court of Appeal found that there had been a breach but the phrasing of the judgment is nonetheless restrictive . |
| 16 | In Glynn v. Keele University the court found that there had been a breach of natural justice by the failure to give a hearing to a student who had been disciplined . |
| 17 | The justices found that there had been a breach of the peace before the police arrived , because the mother-in-law of the person who had asked the defendant to leave the swings had been ‘ alarmed ’ by the defendant 's conduct . |
| 18 | At the inquest held on the same day the jury found that he had been in a deranged state of mind , his friend Wilshere having given evidence to that effect . |
| 19 | Checking his watch , he found that he 'd been out of the cabin for a little over three hours . |
| 20 | He further found that she had been lulled into a sense of false security by the hospital staff and been misinformed as to the availability and effect of alternative procedures . |
| 21 | I finally got one job offer , but when I turned up to work I found that it had been a mistake . |
| 22 | Blix , in Libya for the opening of the first Arab conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy , visited Libya 's one declared nuclear reactor , the small Soviet-built Tajura research reactor outside Tripoli , and found that it had been shut down since June 1991 because spare parts were no longer available and most of the Soviet scientists who had worked there had gone home . |
| 23 | The intention to resolve disputes with Libya , notably over the Aouzou strip , although formalized in the agreement on Aug. 31 , 1989 ( see p. 36841 ) , was obstructed by repeated allegations that Libya was supporting anti-regime forces and factions ( although in the wake of that agreement some anti-Habre groups in Tripoli reported that they had been asked to leave ) , and by the Libyan insistence that Chad should return some 2,000 Libyan prisoners of war ( see also p. 37114 ) . |
| 24 | The UAE news agency WAM reported that they had been expelled for " activities which harm relations between the two countries including the fabrication of false reports about the Sudanese community in the UAE " . |
| 25 | Subsequently , however , the Moscow correspondent of the daily La Stampa examined the original of the letter , which had been discovered in the KGB archives , and reported that it had been misquoted in 12 places . |
| 26 | Infolink , the independent credit information concern , yesterday reported that there had been an increase of 5½ p.c. in the number of consumer credit inquiries after the election . |
| 27 | The decline in smoking prevalence and tobacco sales is particularly significant because in March of this year , the Health Department reported that there had been a 14 percent rise in tobacco advertising during 1990 , apparently in anticipation of the advertising ban . |
| 28 | The organization reported that there had been a worldwide increase of nearly 17,000 AIDS cases in April , bringing the total to 254,078 . |
| 29 | The International Herald Tribune of Jan. 29 reported that there had been 29 attacks against allied targets in the first 12 days after the outbreak of hostilities . |
| 30 | In Turkey alone , the Guardian of Jan. 28 reported that there had been 10 terrorist attacks in Istanbul , Ankara and Adana on Jan. 21-28 , causing substantial damage to US and other allied military and business interests . |