Example sentences of "that have been [verb] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | A five-member UN war crimes commission that has been sifting through mountains of documents submitted by governments and non-governmental bodies is building a computerised database of reported atrocities , accompanied by names of victims , alleged perpetrators and witnesses . |
| 2 | It is argued that the Lords provides an important opportunity for more careful consideration of legislation that has been steamrollered through the Commons , and that it provides high-class debates . |
| 3 | Dr Marsh said : ‘ There has been no radical change to our financial situation since the Annual General Meeting in August , apart from the income that has been generated through the gates . |
| 4 | Under licence from Chorus it will be bringing out a product based on the System V 3.2/Intel technology of Chorus Mix so it can pursue the real-time and telecomms business that has been slipping through its fingers . |
| 5 | The way that had been made through the fallen rock was very narrow and uneven and to take John out he was laid on a board and pushed along as if on a sledge . |
| 6 | The Society reached an agreement with most tuna-canners in 1990 , setting up the labelling scheme in return for the canners ' agreeing not to buy tuna that had been caught through drift-netting or " setting-on-dolphins " ( where the mammals are rounded up to catch the schools of tuna which swim beneath them ) . |
| 7 | Furthermore , when Joseph explained to his brothers the purposes of God that had been running through the events they had been caught up in , he used terms recalling the promises of Genesis 12 : ‘ … you meant evil against me ; but God meant it for good , to bring it about that many people should be kept alive , as they are today ’ ( 50.20 ; see , too , 45.4–11 ) . |
| 8 | These efforts by the government were given more force through the White Paper Better Schools , which outlined the aims that had been emerging through the previous documents . |
| 9 | He began to whistle a tune that had been dancing through his head ever since he left the pub : |
| 10 | The text is based on ideas that have been developed through observations and trials in the classroom — they are offered in the spirit of exploration rather than in supplying definitive answers to the designer 's problems . |
| 11 | Job enlargement involves combining tasks that have been fragmented through a scientific management approach , again to increase task variety and meaning in otherwise repetitive work . |
| 12 | Well again all of these things should be done on water that 's been passed through a filter to separate the water from the sestron yeah . |