Example sentences of "that we have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We deny that we have been disdainful of patients : we were investigating a concern expressed by them in the most objective way we could . |
| 2 | ‘ It is a sad fact of life that we have been fortunate enough to recruit staff with even greater levels of excellence , ’ says the company 's diplomatic chief executive , Michael Kerr-Dineen . |
| 3 | ‘ Mr deputy mayor I am pleased to say that we have been successful ’ , said the proposer . |
| 4 | The optimistic reading is that we have been successful , in that the number of men convicted of rape has increased over the last decade by 39 per cent in the case of rape , 2 per cent in the case of sexual assault , and 55 per cent in the case of incest . |
| 5 | What we have been successful at and particularly important in point of view is that we have been successful in keeping Whitchurch within the rural development areas , and , and retaining the status of the available which that gives . |
| 6 | ‘ Whatever the source of this material I am glad to say that we have been successful in seizing large amounts and bringing those who broke the law to book , ’ Mr Atkins said . |
| 7 | Indeed , we make an effort not to use the phrase for a number of reasons , one of which is that we have been unable to figure out what it means ’ . |
| 8 | No one who contemplates the brutal war that has racked Croatia over the last few months can do so without a deep feeling of sorrow and shame : sorrow that such devastation and misery should disfigure our continent in 1991 , and shame that we have been unable to do anything to halt the carnage and destruction . |
| 9 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 10 | In the long run I think this is probably the most exciting investment that we have been privileged to have in the town , and this really confirms Telford 's position as number one Japanese investment in the United Kingdom ; we now have 20 companies here . |
| 11 | In my own university , for instance , the number of first year students of biology that we have been able to accept this year has been entirely constrained not by the quality of our applicants but the physical size of our teaching laboratories . |
| 12 | At a consultation you will be able to assess for yourself the excellent facilities that we have been able to develop ( with the assistance of the Area Health Authority ) specifically for patients seeking improvement through cosmetic surgery . |
| 13 | ‘ This means that we have been able to deal with the cash position , which earlier in the year had reached crisis proportions . |
| 14 | I am delighted that we have been able to present Embassy with what I consider to have been our best tournament yet . |
| 15 | This is consistent with the hydrogen-bonding scheme of the tetrad ( Fig. 1b ) , and all other base associations that we have been able to devise are not consistent with all the data . |
| 16 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 17 | I think the people of Wiltshire recognise that we have been able to set a budget that enables all the departments to have more money in real terms to spend on delivery of service for next year , and I think that 's something that we can some credit in , and I think it does reflect a new partnership between councillors , officers and those that are delivering services to the public across the county . |
| 18 | The progress towards our erm , compliance with our ethical investment policy though , has been achieved while considering the need to secure the best returns possible on our investment , and we have done it through a series of progressive sales of investments at the appropriate times according to the market conditions , and so I 'm happy to say that we have been able to achieve both our responsibilities as trustees , our responsibility both to secure the best return on investment and , to consider wider policy implications of our investment policy . |
| 19 | We have since visited many Trust properties , but never left one without feeling gratitude that we have been able to share the pleasures of visiting such fine examples of our heritage . |
| 20 | Please note that we have been able to incorporate our successful appeals into these figures but we are still awaiting the national post-appeal figures . |
| 21 | Over the past twelve years , in regard to the Conservative government 's radical course of action , changes have been made to the Welfare State and life in Britain that we have been powerless to resist . |
| 22 | So , although we have of course taken a view of what has been significant , we deny that we have been ethnocentric in our choice of an Anglo-American focus . |