Example sentences of "have been [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our central initiative has been to urge that Labour , with others , should mobilise a major national demonstration , plus cultural activities , that would provide a unifying focus for campaigners . |
| 2 | Er if there were to be an exceptions policy the suggestion has been made that certain districts perhaps could be identified er as being a suitable location . |
| 3 | A WARNING has been given that some council buildings in Clwyd may have to close if maintenance is not carried out . |
| 4 | So and this doorway has been inserted that close to the corner of the window . |
| 5 | Within the English tradition of radical , ‘ Marx-influenced ’ , sociology the tendency has been to concede that social mobility is in principle important ( large-scale mobility would make a difference to one 's analysis ) , but to deny that really significant social mobility has taken place . |
| 6 | But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark . |
| 7 | It has been estimated that three-quarters of the elderly , compared with one-fifth of the non-elderly , live on or below the poverty line . |
| 8 | She 'd worn slacks all through rehearsals and the only other times he 'd seen her she 'd been wearing that dreary suit . |
| 9 | Some tenants to whom this happens every few months said they 'd been told that next time they 'd have to sort it out themselves . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd been planning that very thing . ’ |
| 11 | And , guests were told , Mrs. Jarrett 's first pension cheque had been received that very morning ! |
| 12 | In actual fact , Fabia had been wondering that selfsame thing herself . |
| 13 | Winchelsey 's pre-eminent objective had been to ensure that clerical taxation by the crown — conceded in principle at the Third Lateran Council in 1179 — was subject to clerical consent and was collected and managed by the clergy , a necessary corollary to their freedom of consent . |
| 14 | He had been performing that little number when these kids were wetting their diapers . |
| 15 | Me , I 've been doing that all my life . ’ |
| 16 | So what they 've done is they 've picked a way of doing but they kept chopping and changing the way they 've been doing that all the time . |
| 17 | You think you 're exhausted after a days work imagine if you 've been doing that all day long , shouting |
| 18 | I 've been requesting that small courtesy for weeks ! |
| 19 | I know you 've been investigating that horrible Martin man , even though you 've tried to keep it quiet , so here you are . ’ |
| 20 | In parts we have been given that modern definition . |
| 21 | Recently we have been learning that young animals , puppy dogs , even a giraffe , brought up exclusively by humans will be unable later on to identify themselves or establish emotional contact with their own species . |
| 22 | I think it 's been established that thirty-eight per cent of the people who now serve on police authorities have business e e experience a an and I I really like my Lor Noble Lord , Lord , er do n't really appreciate the need for the changes that are suggested in this bill . |