Example sentences of "[noun sg] that they have be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why , according to Eliot , soda siphons from that firm — I have never checked this — bear on their labels some phrase to the effect that they had been thoroughly and exhaustively tested . |
| 2 | The Prime Minister and the Lord Chancellor later in the year protested with apparent truthfulness that they had been quite unaware that it had been passed at all ! . |
| 3 | Some recent writers have tried to apply standards that are social rather than ethical , with the consequence that they have been very boring , and have made mistakes about individuals . |
| 4 | The chief ambulance officer , Mr Don Page , said last night that they had been very busy all day , and that their use would continue indefinitely — ‘ until ambulancemen and women in South Yorkshire resume normal working ’ . |
| 5 | Acts of Parliament have also been challenged on the ground that they have been improperly passed . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) On the taking of the account the plaintiffs are entitled to object to items therein contained on the ground that they have been unreasonably incurred or are of an unreasonable amount . |
| 7 | In actual practice you could find an analysis that very often the things that have been repressed have not been repressed in the sense that they 've been totally submerged from your consciousness and totally forgotten without any trace , but what often happens is they 've become isolated or , or divorced from their context in your memory . |
| 8 | This not only disturbed the Junker sense of social stability , but played havoc with their income since it opened up the estates to the market force of unfettered labour : the Junkers were obliged to acknowledge a world that they had been desperately trying to shut out . |
| 9 | He knows very well from the deputations of trustees and directors of national galleries and of galleries and museums around the country that they have been hugely critical of the Government 's neglect . |
| 10 | It is true that knowledge of the probable origins of the meditations in a series of Anglo-Norman prayers points to the possibility that they have been freely adapted by various compilers who may or may not have included Rolle . |
| 11 | Well I do n't know whether they 'd get it but they do n't want to upset people , the fact that they 've been really inconvenienced by not having it does n't seem to come into their thinking . |
| 12 | When asked if their shefi acted in too authoritarian a manner , some kolkhozniki at first said it was very rare , but then in peasant fashion slowly warmed up to the fact that they had been very angered by some young students who had written in Rabochii put ’ that their horses were badly fed and cleaned , and that they had not sown enough crops . |