Example sentences of "that [pron] has been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Students often complain that nothing has been learned from a particular allocation .
2 I consider that nothing has been laid before your Lordships to justify the view that their advice based on this objection was incorrect .
3 The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed .
4 Imagine that someone has been killed in an industrial accident .
5 The report undermines the industry 's often-repeated assertion that nobody has been killed by the British nuclear programme .
6 Jean Parmiter reported that she has been asked by the Executive Committee to organise the Annual Reunion on 29th November .
7 Jean Parmiter reported that she has been asked by the Executive Committee to organise the Annual Reunion on 29th November .
8 But it could be argued that she has been placed in a high turn-over establishment because she possesses an authoritarian style of leadership .
9 She thanks Jenny and her previous Medau teachers for their leadership and is grateful that she has been blessed with an ability to keep up her sport .
10 However , Sally Kuenssberg , a specialist in children 's panel training in the department of adult and continuing education , says that she has been appointed as an individual with experience of the needs of children .
11 Once Stella has returned Blanche tells her that she has been raped by her husband .
12 A TEACHER who quit a North-East City Technology College is outraged that she has been used in election literature by one of the CTC 's biggest supporters .
13 He said : ‘ I 'm disappointed that she has been hijacked by the Scots .
14 I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip .
15 A substantial similarity between programs , however , can suggest that one has been copied from the other and this can shift the burden of proof to the defendant , especially if there is something else to support the view that copying may have taken place , such as access to the original program by the defendant , see L.B. Plastics Ltd. v Swish Products Ltd. [ 1979 ] .
16 Despite his claim that he does not make things into ideas but only ideas into things , the feeling remains , as , in effect , Berkeley concedes , that ‘ all that is real and substantial … is banished out of the world ’ , and that everything has been made into ‘ so many chimeras and illusions on the fancy ’ .
17 The fact that it has been written about so perfectly inhibits my response to the place : I have no feelings about Tipasa , only to what Camus has written about it .
18 To describe behaviour as skilled is to say no more than that it has been influenced by training and experience .
19 If he can prove that it has been exercised for 20 years before the date of an action , it will be presumed that it has existed from ’ time immemorial ’ .
20 San Jose-based Maxoptix Corp , joint venture of Maxtor Corp and Kubota Corp , reports that the European Computer Manufacturers Association has formally endorsed the Maxoptix 1Gb zoned constant angular velocity magneto-optical disk format as ECMA Standard £183 and that it has been accepted by the International Standards Organisation for its Fast Track procedure as a Draft International Standard ; the spec is an extension of the 650Mb standard .
21 However section 19 permits the constable to seize anything on the premises if he has reasonable grounds for believing either that it has been obtained in consequence of the commission of an offence or that it is evidence in relation to an offence which he is investigating or any other offence .
22 But if there is a distinctive female verbal culture — and here we need to bear in mind that women themselves are not a homogeneous group — I would argue that it has been shaped by patriarchal conditions , including the restrictions placed on women 's lives and words .
23 My main criticism of intensive agricultural production , and of animal farming in particular , is that it has been locked for too long into a model-T-Ford-type philosophy , geared to produce a standard commodity as cheaply as possible .
24 As the Daily Express noted : ‘ Much as I disliked this film and its cheap exploitation of suffering and illness , I must concede that it has been made with the dead-on professionalism that is characteristic of the other ‘ Carry Ons . ’ ’
25 The chronology of place-name developments was rejected by place-name scholars after seminal research by John McNeal Dodgson in 1966 and , to the extent that it has been replaced at all , place names are now seen to represent the hierarchical status of places in the landscape with no particular significance attached to when they are first recorded .
26 Financial support between relatives has one feature which is not shared by other types of support , namely that it has been regulated by the law .
27 Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't .
28 Place the text block back onto the page and you will discover that it has been converted into a graphic which can be stretched and distorted as much as you want .
29 We too would like to see some pensioner and pensioner trustees on that trustee board , but we do also recognise because it is er a large scheme heavily weighted er with er pensioners and deferred pensioners in the very fact that it has been transferred from the public centre of public er sector into the private sector , that we would like to see an independent trustee er er appointed on to the er Committee of Management it would er er sort of act as a balance and be able to provide er specialist advice to particularly the Trade Union Trustees and for that matter the Employer Trustees so as to keep a broad balance of what 's happening within the that time .
30 Furthermore , from a banker 's standpoint a bill that indicates that the merchandise has been ‘ shipped ’ or placed ‘ on board ’ is preferable to one which merely states that it has been received for future shipment .
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