Example sentences of "[verb] that they have be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the new VAT rules have brought vexations in their wake , it should not be forgotten that they have been introduced because frontier controls are abolished from today . |
| 2 | Yesterday , when the Government were defending their postition at the United Nations in Geneva on interrogation procedures and denying that anything untoward was happening , settlements were being awarded in Belfast courts to people who had claimed that they had been assaulted in just those circumstances . |
| 3 | The Slovak government initially claimed that they had been planted by the federal authorities in the 1980s and had not been functioning since 1989 . |
| 4 | Recent press coverage was given to a newly married couple , both aged 85 , who arrived at their hotel to discover that they had been allocated twin beds . |
| 5 | The auctioneers say that they have been assured that a licence will be forthcoming . |
| 6 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB and Italtel SpA say that they have been awarded a contract by Stet-Hellas SA , one of Greece 's two mobile telephone operators , for Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular phone equipment worth $62.5m : the order includes exchanges , control systems , and radio base stations . |
| 7 | I thought that those were wise words when I read them and was delighted to find that they had been written by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , the hon. Member for Penrith and The Border ( Mr. Maclean ) in The Lake District Herald only this week . |
| 8 | Women jeered at Blackshirts who made their way to them , only to find that they had been lured into a group of Communist sympathisers intent on vengeance . |
| 9 | All she could recollect was that she 'd been amazed to find that they 'd been born on practically the same day in August : she on the sixth , and he on the eighth . |
| 10 | If you er using a similar example , if , if you were looking after the neighbour 's house while they 're away on holiday and found that they 'd been broken into , then that would n't necessarily be a nine nine nine call , unless you thought there was somebody in the house . |
| 11 | Access to Israel from the occupied territories was re-opened on Oct. 28 , but when Arabs returned to their jobs many found that they had been dismissed . |
| 12 | The victims of Stealers forget that they 've been infected . |
| 13 | Gorbachev declined to comment on the talks , other than to indicate that they had been inspired by the scale of the commercial links which already existed between their countries . |
| 14 | A similar case is GLC Police Commissioner v Strecker ( 1980 ) 71 Cr App R 113 ( DC ) — initialling goods to indicate that they had been stolen did not indicate possession . |
| 15 | The intention to resolve disputes with Libya , notably over the Aouzou strip , although formalized in the agreement on Aug. 31 , 1989 ( see p. 36841 ) , was obstructed by repeated allegations that Libya was supporting anti-regime forces and factions ( although in the wake of that agreement some anti-Habre groups in Tripoli reported that they had been asked to leave ) , and by the Libyan insistence that Chad should return some 2,000 Libyan prisoners of war ( see also p. 37114 ) . |
| 16 | The UAE news agency WAM reported that they had been expelled for " activities which harm relations between the two countries including the fabrication of false reports about the Sudanese community in the UAE " . |
| 17 | If then you have invited the artists of Europe to send in plans for a Plan which we have no intention of executing , two questions will arise — the first is who will pay the Premiums which you propose to offer for these Plans , seeing that we could hardly propose to Parliament to vote Premiums for Plans that are not to be executed , and secondly whether the Artists of Europe will not think that they have been trifled with in being asked to send in Plans for an undertaking which the Govt had on consideration determined not to attempt . |
| 18 | All over the country hurt and disillusioned journalists and would-be journalists wondering why they had never received a reply could only presume that they had been rejected . |
| 19 | You 're suggesting that they 've been disorganized ? |
| 20 | Mr Mynott said that , apparently , neither minister realised that they had been overheard . |
| 21 | Nothing was known of the fate of the three men , all of them active on behalf of the National League for Democracy , until 27 July , when the official radio announced that they had been condemned to death . |
| 22 | On Feb. 5 lawyers for two Palestinians convicted following the October 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro [ see pp. 34077-79 ] announced that they had been released in December 1990 and had left for Algeria . |
| 23 | Early last year the Ministry of Defence announced new measures to discourage bullying after young recruits revealed that they had been pushed into rivers , pelted with stones , and gassed with CS gas . |
| 24 | I thought Eng v SM was 16th & Pol vs Hol 17th but I 've heard that they 've been rescheduled so that they are played at the same time . |
| 25 | Tourism has declined during the recession and numerous small businesses protest that they have been hit hard by the uniform business rate . |
| 26 | But she did confirm that they had been deposited in the Kazachi Aquarium , which is surrounded by military bases , and not open to the public , before their bid for freedom . |
| 27 | Yet they are n't fakes , for it would appear that they 've been printed by the county 's National Mint . |
| 28 | The dead lay in rows under fans of palm and banana , so many dead the survivors had wept that they had been spared . |
| 29 | " I have been connected with different unions for this last twenty years " , he declared to the Royal Commission on Labour in 1892 , " but I am sorry to state that they have been formed for the benefit of one man , for he has generally cleared out with the funds " . |
| 30 | The recollections of those who worked with him in the war years show a striking convergence : volunteers were won over instantly by the self-assured prophetic tone in which he discussed the war and by his knack of making them feel that they had been singled out to receive a confidence . |