Example sentences of "[conj] that [pers pn] [vb -s] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Dieter Sims , I do n't know much about him except that he 's been building up the East German unit under Husband 's wing . |
| 2 | To describe behaviour as skilled is to say no more than that it has been influenced by training and experience . |
| 3 | Informal methods are fine for small numbers of students ( say less than 20 ) , but for larger numbers some more formal mechanisms are necessary to record that students have submitted their work , and that it has been marked . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is necessary to check not merely that the ad has appeared , but that it is in the right place , and that it has been properly reproduced — the quality of printing can vary markedly , and this may well be the fault of the publication : in this case , some redress is due . |
| 6 | She just said that he was here when she first came to the Zoo and that he 's been here longer than anyone else . |
| 7 | It 's difficult to be sure , but I 'd say he 'd been put in the water immediately after death and that he 's been tossed about in shallow water over a rocky bottom ever since . |
| 8 | ‘ The Tandy shock will prove he 's prepared to use anyone to his own ends and that he 's been leading a double life . ’ |
| 9 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
| 10 | Unfortunately very little , er we know he 's been in prison since nineteen eighty seven and that he 's been sentenced to ten years , but we have n't been able to determine er under what charge , what happened at his trial , whether he was given defence , er access to a lawyer , those kind of things , and er Amnesty believes that he 's been er imprisoned for his beliefs . |
| 11 | Xorandor explains that he lives on radioactivity , that he has come from Mars in search of food , and that he has been stealing the waste to feed himself . |
| 12 | And Professor Bourdieu , in response , has claimed that in fact social stasis is a more prevalent phenomenon than social change in empirical reality , and that he has been thus justified in his pronounced concern over his career with the explanation of such social stasis . |
| 13 | Consider now the various kinds of argument which can be used in approaching these points of focus in your material and making something new and interesting from them : mode of argument ( a ) : Revalue a reputation ( or assess relative achievement ) ; example An extended essay which argues that Josephine Tey is a major Scottish writer , and that she has been neglected because she wrote detective fiction . |
| 14 | The Kitemark on a product will indicate that it has not only been made to a published specification , but that it has been independently tested by BSI as well . |
| 15 | Reports on the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia , however , suggest not only that rape and the sexual abuse of women have been carried out on a massive scale , but that it has been systematic and organised . |
| 16 | As we have seen , this is an impossible task and at times Olson himself seems prepared to admit as much , But the tenor of his claims , and those of others , for the lack of ambiguity of literacy , and of Lyons ' claims for its ‘ objectivity ’ , are , as we have seen , such as to imply that not only can the goal be achieved , but that it has been uniquely achieved in the form of writing developed in their own culture or sub-culture . |
| 17 | What is theoretically and politically interesting and puzzling is not that it has been defended by the powerful and the better-off sections of the community but that it has been so widely accepted by those who suffer as a result of its continuance . |