Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Starting with Aristotle , elaborate classification systems have been built up to show that things may belong to the same class ( and therefore have common features ) even if their appearance is different . |
| 2 | Since then the sea defences have been built up to ensure that such a disaster will not strike again . |
| 3 | The yield of clones grown with the grass species from which they had originally been sampled again exceeded that made when they were grown in an ‘ alien ’ sward , P < 0.00001 . |
| 4 | Mr Larsen has been roped in to see that all the music lovers of Gullshaven are informed — I know that the doctor and the pastor and one or two of the schoolteachers are devoted to music . |
| 5 | A new Accreditation Sub Committee has been set up to ensure that proposed SVQs meet the stringent criteria which have been laid down . |
| 6 | Analysis has been brought forward to show that what was taken as proof of a lack of logical processes amongst ‘ primitive ’ peoples was often simply misunderstanding by ill-informed European commentators of the meaning of what was being said and done . |
| 7 | We 've been brought up to think that it 's not nice and not polite to do so . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been brought up to think that schoolwork comes first , you know , if you want to get anywhere . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But one likes doing things for people , ’ said Ianthe firmly , for of course she had been brought up to think that one should , though perhaps this situation was a little different . |
| 10 | ‘ Women suffer from it more than men — especially women who have been brought up to think that it is enough just to look beautiful . ’ |
| 11 | Since the days of Frederick the Great the Germans had been brought up to believe that the Poles were drunken , brutish and in every way inferior . |
| 12 | We may have been brought up to believe that it was selfish to put our own needs before others . |
| 13 | Stella had been brought up to believe that Catholicism was a plague rather than a religion . |
| 14 | There are often , among the competitors , girls from Eastern Bloc or otherwise under-privileged countries who have been brought up to believe that a monumental talent requires total dedication , who have been told that great minds do not fuss about small externals , who have been led to suppose that for a great genius to be a plain Jane is only appropriate . |
| 15 | He had been brought up to believe that marriage was for ever . |
| 16 | He had been brought up to believe that policemen were havens of security , to whom you turned in times of trouble . |
| 17 | We 've been brought up to know that it ca n't last and we 're deeply suspicious of what we disdainfully see as decadent ‘ beach bimbos ’ . |
| 18 | The glee with which an upward blip in house prices has been greeted hardly suggests that Britons have weaned themselves from the inflation habit . |
| 19 | In Chapter 9 we discuss some of the arguments which have been put forward to suggest that British companies are likely to be slower than their international competitors in taking up new technology based products and production processes . |
| 20 | Various arguments have been put forward to suggest that specific statutory provisions have been entrenched . |
| 21 | As part of the re–organisation negotiations a revised working rota , attendance hours and bonus scheme has been worked out to ensure that existing employees contractual earnings are protected |
| 22 | She had been mistaken ever to think that he would come . |
| 23 | It is second to none and it is grateful that the figures that have been released today show that it will receive 10.2 per cent . |