Example sentences of "that [noun pl] had been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was widely reported that the UK had unsuccessfully argued at the committee meeting for a total suspension of the ERM and also that requests had been made for Germany to reduce its interest rates . |
| 2 | The feedback suggested that attitudes had been changed and that there had been an increase in knowledge and skills . |
| 3 | In a broadcast on Aug. 3 the RCC stated that plans had been drawn up to begin a withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait on Aug. 5 . |
| 4 | But in April 1980 the lengthy trial proceedings ground to a halt because of allegations that attempts had been made to bribe the jury . |
| 5 | Daiwa suspected that something was amiss only at the beginning of this year , when it uncovered evidence that attempts had been made to forge security depositary receipts . |
| 6 | But in February 1681 many witnesses began to see more advantage in making themselves acceptable to the government than to the Whigs , and in stating that attempts had been made to suborn them to give evidence . |
| 7 | From time to time the appellant presented invoices to Mr. Burt claiming that accounts had been kept and returns submitted . |
| 8 | Again the appellant failed to carry out his part of the bargain , but from time to time he extracted money from Mr. Hughes against the claim that returns had been made , and various work had been done . |
| 9 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 10 | ‘ We know for a fact that bombs had been prepared in the past for Portadown but the security presence in the area prevented them from being used here . |
| 11 | While the company has still not announced how much vendors will have to pay in royalties on top of the $400,000 licence fee for buying the 135,000 lines of code , it did say that royalties had been reduced significantly , and the second release of the code will be free to those companies that buy the first . |
| 12 | ‘ She was advised that the specimen paper was copyright and that schools had been asked to treat it as confidential until June 14 , ’ it added . |
| 13 | In April Mandela had admitted that the 1984 mutineers had been tortured , but said that steps had been taken to ensure that it would not happen again . |
| 14 | The Congress was told that journalists had been registered in only fifty of ninety guberniia committees . |
| 15 | It is only in the last thirty-five years that animals had been allowed to have ‘ mental ’ processes other than learning and so it is only in that time that psychologists have developed the behavioural tests to investigate them . |
| 16 | The Science and Engineering Research Council ( SERC ) also responded positively to the policies but was disappointed that opportunities had been missed . |
| 17 | The report claimed that funds had been diverted from the banking system through " massive collusion " between banks and brokers , and that the country 's largest commercial bank , the State Bank of India , had allowed Harshad Mehta , the financier at the centre of the scandal , to use the bank 's securities account " as if it is [ his ] investment account " . |
| 18 | Food would be marked with a " P " to indicate that pesticides had been used on a product . |
| 19 | At the commencement of the tournament it was made clear that referees had been instructed to apply Laws 18 and 19 . |
| 20 | Many Russian exiles have long suspected that spies had been planted in their midst by the KGB , and for some the advertisements confirmed their darkest fears . |
| 21 | The aim was to ensure that subjects had been fixating correctly by requiring them to report this digit immediately prior to recalling the stimulus . |
| 22 | Anna 's conscience said that she must report the whole of her interview at St Saviour 's faithfully to Peter , and then they could rejoice together that prayers had been answered , and that Pricewell 's could be abandoned . |
| 23 | There were other reports that judges had been refused permission to appear on television in the early 1980s . |
| 24 | Yesterday , Coun Davies said she understood that bids had been invited for exploration of the coastal region which included Aberconwy . |
| 25 | This was the line that commuters had been asked to switch to avoid the chaos caused by the night 's earlier bombings … at Reading , where one device went off and another was defused , and at Basingstoke , where the device was also defused . |
| 26 | Her husband and son say that cleaners had been left to hand out meals to patients . |
| 27 | The Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , in reply to a Commons question , acknowledged that concerns had been expressed about the advisory committee structure originally proposed . |
| 28 | As we shall discuss later , David Norman , head of Russell Reynolds in 1980 , was responsible — helped by international teamwork — for finding Sir Ian McGregor for British Steel , the first time in Britain that headhunters had been called in to find a new boss for a nationalised industry . |
| 29 | Amidst expressions of growing concern by environmentalists and politicians , the Japanese Energy Agency later admitted that engineers had been forced to use a back-up water sprinkler system after a valve had failed during the emergency shut-down process . |
| 30 | Sir Hugh told the BBC Northern Ireland Inside Ulster programme that lives had been saved and damage prevented by the huge haul of Semtex seized last week . |