Example sentences of "that [noun prp] has been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summing up , Nick Carey believes that ICI has been innovative in its approach towards the rationalization of its petrochemicals business — necessary because production capacity in europe was far too high . |
| 2 | Over the fifteen years that Motability has been established , there have been powerful disagreements but not a whisper of hostility . |
| 3 | Now that Higginbotham has been given the brush off , may I venture to approach you ? |
| 4 | ( The facts that Rousseau never used the phrase ‘ noble savage ’ , and that Hobbes has been widely misinterpreted are irrelevant here , since my concern is not with the conceptions that two seminal thinkers actually articulated , but is rather with the stereotyped dichotomous conceptions of human nature and human society that have come to be associated with their names . ) |
| 5 | He visits Satis House for Estella 's sake , and knows that Drummle has been killed , and in the evening mist he sees her ( she has also come to say farewell to the building ) . |
| 6 | No-one will deny — and even if they did , few would dare say so — that Clough has been a magnificently accomplished football manager , blessed with an alchemy denied to others . |
| 7 | [ BELVILLE absent-mindedly picks up the paper that PAMELA has been writing . ] |
| 8 | It is blatantly obvious here that Mitch has been taken in by Blanche 's deception . |
| 9 | The reaction from Ulster Unionists has been an almost automatic rejection , but Downing Street has been keen to point out that Foley has been vocal in his criticism of the IRA and his appointment might not be such a bad move . |
| 10 | It is already widely acknowledged that Germany has been able to augment her political weight , especially in European affairs , by pursuing her interests under the European banner . |
| 11 | ‘ I admit that Toby has been stirring things up in his newspaper . |
| 12 | A voice synthesiser continuously speaks to the unauthorised driver warning that Autoseeker has been activated , the police alerted and that the vehicle will be automatically disabled within minutes . |
| 13 | Either there has been a real fading , or ( more probably ) there has been an error in recording or interpretation , though it is true that Megrez has been suspected of slight variability in modern times . |
| 14 | It is quite true that Corbett has been applied to situations outside marriage , eg. , the alteration of birth certificates , unfair dismissal ( White v. |
| 15 | With some help from film buff Tony Hillman it can be revealed that Scott has been preceded by Charles Laughton , Flora Robson and Anthony Havelock-Allen . |
| 16 | ‘ Although the sales force is relatively small ’ , Harris said , ‘ one of the things that Adams has been careful to do is to focus the activity so that it would actually compete with the majors in its field of respiratory medicine ’ . |
| 17 | Bela Kadar , the minister of international economic relations , claims that Hungary has been the recipient of half of all recent foreign investment in Eastern Europe . |
| 18 | The despised belletrist criticism of an earlier day could make radical judgements in an off-hand manner ; those articles , for instance , with titles like ‘ On Rereading Stendhal ’ , which come to the conclusion that Stendhal has been much overrated . |
| 19 | It is in these past two weeks that Faldo has been putting the last pieces into place . |
| 20 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |
| 21 | While there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that Syria has been attempting to develop nuclear devices , it continues to purchase large quantities of heavy weapons and missiles from China and has illegally proscribed certain areas in Syria from IAEA inspection . |
| 22 | It is another sign of the long-term influence wielded by English scholar-reviewers that England has been swifter than some European countries to evolve away from the multiculturalism of the 1960s . |
| 23 | No doubt it is because of the vision to train in this way that Ichthus has been able to grow in the way that it has done . |
| 24 | The fact that Oslear has been stripped of his position as the umpires ' boss at their annual meeting , means that Palmer , Hampshire and the England team now fear Allan Lamb 's sensational Daily Mirror revelations may never be backed by cricket 's dithering chiefs at the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 25 | It is no secret that Damascus has been using the PKK as a bargaining chip to press Turkey into complying with its demands for more water from the Euphrates , on which it heavily depends . |
| 26 | Consultants told the paper that IBM has been dissecting the two most recent pre-release versions of NT at its Toronto labs to assess the time and money that would be required to do the implementation , and reckon a product could arrive at the turn of the year . |
| 27 | He suggests that IBM has been using cash to offer attractive financing to help sell mainframes to generate the revenue growth to cover the cost of its 180,000-strong mainframe-oriented sales and service organisations , and needs to work out how to make the mainframe business the cash cow it should be , focussing on the near $20,000m in sales , general and administrative costs , not the $6,500m for research and development , pointing out that saying it is cutting $1,000m off this , mainly on mainframes , while not making a proportionate cut in costs , is a recipe for disaster . |
| 28 | Consultants told the paper that IBM has been dissecting the two most recent pre-release versions of NT at its Toronto labs to assess the time and money that would be required to do the implementation , and reckon a product could arrive at the turn of the year . |
| 29 | There will also be some kind of performance boost for DB2 — either more microcode or conceivably the dedicated DB2 processor that IBM has been speculating about for 10 years now . |
| 30 | It is certainly not true of Arab public opinion which has long ago accepted the ‘ linkage ’ that Washington has been at such pains to discount . |