Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] that [pers pn] have [be] " in BNC.

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1 6–8–1880 Archibald Currie etc appeared and " mutually acknowledged that they had been guilty of quarrelling some time ago in a way scandalous to religion in the community where they reside .
2 NEC , Matsushita , Hitachi , Sony and Sharp have all confirmed that they have been approached , the paper said , with Philips and Thomson pegged as likely candidates .
3 The two drivers were later charged with dangerous driving , but it was widely suspected that they had been acting on orders .
4 Corbett spent the rest of the evening analysing what he knew and had learnt but soon realised that he had been drawn into a maze of marshy morass and the more he probed , the more puzzled he became .
5 Burton was not told that he had been superseded , and it was not until February 1856 that he sent in his fee account , which was received by the Treasury ‘ with great surprise ’ .
6 There is substantial evidence in the literature already cited that it has been the critical area of failure in Britain .
7 Marital work was accepted by these parents in an effort to solve the problem , and progress was made once the father finally admitted that he had been told at work that he was too domineering and was unable to delegate responsibility to his juniors .
8 Finally assured that he had been truly alive , he died .
9 And maybe she would n't have been expecting him to ‘ dance attendance ’ on her if she had n't soon discovered that he 'd been spending so much time with his personal assistant !
10 Thus in the case referred to by Holt C.J. , in Philips v. Bury , Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 , the plaintiff sought an order directed to the master and fellows of a college to reinstate him as a fellow , the visitor having already adjudicated that he had been rightly removed .
11 No organization claimed responsibility and it was widely speculated that it had been a mistake by ETA .
12 It was the only object , apart from the books , which reflected a personal taste ; Dalgliesh hardly supposed that it had been provided by a Government agency .
13 but we 've always known that they have been below .
14 Sullivan later claimed that he had been given no instructions on this point .
15 Iliescu later reported that it had been agreed to establish a dialogue involving the NSF and representatives of the 20 political parties now in existence [ These round table talks will be covered in the February News Digest . ]
16 Love also revealed that it had been decided not to include Iain Philip and Alastair Storie , as they had been playing overseas and it was a better option to give the others some match practice .
17 A post mortem later revealed that she had been strangled .
18 The students wondered if something had offended him , but later understood that he had been very depressed and had been still further depressed by the sight of everyone 's work .
19 The left-wing Dev Sol group later announced that he had been " punished " for his participation in the 1980 military coup .
20 And greater success at wealth creation has also meant that we have been in a better position to provide practical help to those that need it .
21 Junqueira later stated that he had been offered a US$50,000,000 bribe to drop the charges , through a colleague who had been approached by a businessman in the capital , Brasilia , on Nov. 17 .
22 The objective to funding from the old objective programme is we 've now learnt that we 've been successful in getting a grant made towards the Centre feasibility study , Shropshire welcomes Japan television advertisement on the Japanese , Japan area , towards the pipeworks promotion and the fly-drive marketing initiative because , er , to get people from North America into the marches and staying here , so it looks as those projects will be almost fifty percent funded from Europe to objective two .
23 It was even claimed that she had been poisoned by an African wife by whom Maclean was credited with having had several children .
24 His comrades immediately claimed that he had been the victim of Leftist aggression and demanded retribution .
25 The police initially strongly suspected that she had been involved ; her story kept changing and was filled with inconsistencies .
26 If her brothers even suspected that she had been with a boy , all hell would break loose .
27 Katherine put down the empty glass with a start , she had n't realized that she had been drinking .
28 And was he given the choice before the order went out , or simply informed that it had been given ? ’
29 ‘ Oh , yes , ’ she replied , and because she had almost added that she had been going to travel with her sister — which would surely then have led to her boring him out of his skull with all of the rest of it , ‘ All alone , ’ she added with feigned cheerfulness .
30 Since those days I have sometimes wished that I had been able to record on tape the conversations I had with Gilbert Harding , who was an intellectual .
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