Example sentences of "that [noun pl] [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if I may Mr chairman , something that 's happened in the last few days , that 's er evident that er the been the first satellite survey in this country ever which is now beginning to show to the nation , just in fact the damage that roads have been doing and that there 's in fact now some suggestion from government that they may be rethinking some elements of these roads , because the environmental impact has not really been taken into account as effectively before . |
| 2 | The aim was to ensure that subjects had been fixating correctly by requiring them to report this digit immediately prior to recalling the stimulus . |
| 3 | Western reports said that troops had been massing in the region since December 1990 . |
| 4 | It is clear that this is partly due to the fact that incomes have been rising in real terms , so that people feel able to take on an increased burden of debt . |
| 5 | Could it be ( and perhaps this more likely ! ) that machines have been working non-stop all summer , spring and last winter ? |
| 6 | ‘ People have suggested to me that changes have been coming more rapidly than they would like but that brings me back to the feeling that people intrinsically do n't like change . |
| 7 | I do n't know how long it was that things had been going badly for them but I do know there were problems . |
| 8 | ‘ But I 'm just content that things have been going pretty well on the field so far . |
| 9 | Many critics of the encouragement provided until recently by the UK 's investment grants system in LFAs argue that farmers have been converting increasing areas of moorland and roughland to grass leys ( attracting substantial grants and more HLCAs ) while neglecting pastures previously improved and not maintaining standards of husbandry and land management . |
| 10 | Palmer had noticed that something was wrong with the water , even before taking the sample , and volunteered the opinion ( subsequently confirmed ) that cattle had been drinking in it upstream . |
| 11 | In practice , past references to the MMC have been linked , implicitly at least , to some suspicion that firms have been acting anticompetitively . |
| 12 | The negro was obviously homosexual and I realized that homosexuals had been buying that stuff for years . |
| 13 | An average rate is probably somewhere in the order of ten to fifteen millimetres per hundred years , which probably does n't seem very fast when you say it in terms of a hundred years , but when you think in terms of the length of time that landscapes have been involving , then erm you 've got to multiply it by centuries and indeed millions of years , and erm you can see that quite erm dramatic changes can occur . |
| 14 | EVERYONE must be wondering what is happening on the Mid-Hants Railway , the ‘ Watercress Line ’ , having received the startling news from the pages of a contemporary magazine that volunteers have been resigning from the work force in substantial numbers . |
| 15 | Thus , at least one of the systems that children have been learning over the centuries in the ancestral forms of BV must have incorporated a three-way distinction of meet/meat/mate . |
| 16 | The writers that men have been reading recently ( Nicholson Baker is a prime example ) , on the other hand , ask us to participate in their creation and observation ; we are invited to share the joke , and thus made to feel important . |
| 17 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 18 | It has come to my attention that students have been copying software with staff encouragement . |
| 19 | Brenda Thornton , do you think that men have changed very much as a result of the more forthright stance that women have been taking recently ? |
| 20 | The fact that a woman , Margaret Thatcher , smashed the biggest glass ceiling of all in 1979 and that women have been storming into business and Government with ever more determination and success than before , should point the way for the hospitality industry . |
| 21 | In addition , there has also been press criticism that ministers have been using advance knowledge to influence market and media opinion . |
| 22 | Much has been done in recent months to draw those matters to the attention of the Department and , as I said , I believe that Ministers have been listening . |
| 23 | Let us assume that agents have been flirting for a while with the use of the adaptive expectations mechanism but that , in the light of the persistent , systematic errors which this mechanism entails , they quickly abandon it . |
| 24 | Although the British Government ruled out the prospect of the US company buying Austin Rover , within days of it leaking out that talks had been taking place , Bob Lutz , Ford of Europe chairman , said : ‘ I honestly believe it would have been best for Britain . ’ |
| 25 | Magistrates heard that employees had been hosing out residue from used drums — using a high pressure jet — in a defined ‘ washing area ’ . |