Example sentences of "been [adv] [vb pp] [that] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am extremely grateful to the chairman of the Greater London Territorial , Auxiliary and Volunteer Association , Sir Greville Spratt , and to Brigadier Peter Bowser , the secretary , for all that they have done to lead the way in ensuring that the Government have been properly informed that the Territorial Army is adequately provided for in the future . |
| 2 | In the early decades of the century it had been widely assumed that the distinct geographical provinces of the modern world had only come into existence quite recently in geological terms . |
| 3 | It has also been widely observed that the form of intonation is different in different languages ; for example , the intonation of languages such as Swedish , Italian or Hindi is instantly recognisable as being different from that of English . |
| 4 | In Helby v. Matthews he was merely hiring them and in Lee v. Butler it had been expressly agreed that the furniture was not to become his property until the payments had been completed . |
| 5 | ‘ However much analogy may lead us to conjecture the universal prevalence of law and orderly sequence , it has been acutely remarked that the phenomena which are most immediately important to the life and welfare of man are precisely those which he has never been , and probably never will be , able to reduce to a scientific calculation . |
| 6 | It has also been long known that a child who is shortly followed by another sibling also suffers the consequences of short spacing . |
| 7 | The whole question of the burden of proof was nicely summed up in the Esso case by Lord Hodson where he said : It has been authoritatively said that the onus of establishing that an agreement is reasonable as between the parties is upon the person who puts forward the agreement , while the onus of establishing that it is contrary to the public interest , being reasonable between the parties , is on the person so alleging … |
| 8 | On this principle , it has been authoritatively stated that no injunction should be granted by the civil courts to restrain the dissemination of allegedly obscene books , as such a step would pre-empt the ultimate decision of a jury . |
| 9 | Previously , it had been generally accepted that the requirement of an undertaking in damages as a condition of the grant of an interlocutory injunction did not apply in the case of the Crown . |
| 10 | In recent years it has been generally held that the backwash down the beach contributes to the breaking of the next wave , becomes involved in it and is returned with the swash , so that there is no continuous undertow transferring water out beyond the breaker zone . |
| 11 | It has been statistically proved that the young of the area are six times more helpful than youngsters in the rest of the country at carrying ladies bags . |
| 12 | In my judgment this review of the authorities demonstrates that for over 300 years the law has been clearly established that the visitor of an eleemosynary charity has an exclusive jurisdiction to determine what are the internal laws of the charity and the proper application of those laws to those within his jurisdiction . |
| 13 | It has been traditionally supposed that the language presented to learners should be simplified in some way for easy access and acquisition . |
| 14 | Whilst many people have written to say that they found the letter itself to be interesting and factual , the view has also been forcefully expressed that the quotation on the envelope implies a view that rape is somehow wrong , and to be opposed , only or primarily insofar as it may reduce a woman 's chances of marriage . |
| 15 | It has been convincingly argued that the image of an advice-giving agency is crucial because it is at the stage of identification of the appropriate agency that most people are obstructed on the way to the solution of their problem . |
| 16 | However , it has been judicially observed that the objection to a rent representing a percentage of the tenant 's turnover is that , if the price of a commodity rises at a faster rate than the cost of living , pressure is likely to develop on dealers in that commodity to reduce their margin of profit or rate of commission ( Naylor v Uttoxeter UDC ( 1974 ) 231 EG 619 per Brightman J ) . |
| 17 | It has been strongly argued that the interpretation is mistaken . |
| 18 | It has been well argued that the payment having been voluntary , it can not be recovered back in an action for money had and received . |
| 19 | It has been well argued that the payment having been voluntary , it can not be recovered back in an action for money had and received . |
| 20 | It has been well argued that the development of the Atlantic began as far back as Precambrian times . |
| 21 | It has been well argued that the great procession , headed by the Host and including the orders of the Church and social guilds , interrupted by the plays performed by the guild members reminding followers of the archetypal story of God 's plan of salvation from the Creation to the Last Judgement , provided opportunity for participating in that sense of unity beyond division which is the heart of Christian belief , and which underpins the social value put on the more isolated lives of contemplatives . |
| 22 | It has been plausibly argued that the cutting of the folds ( which is very shallow ) was done during a retouching of the colour ( something which must have been a regular operation ; on colour see below , p. 28 ) . |
| 23 | The figures are left in the orange colour of the clay , the background painted in round them in the shiny black : a purely decorative variation ; and it has been plausibly suggested that the strange ‘ negative ’ idea was inspired by the custom of washing the background of marble reliefs with a blue or red against which the mainly white figures were left standing out . |
| 24 | Yes , it 's been available for months now — but I 've been reliably informed that the 3.5-inch drive is going to be re -launched , hopefully with a sizeable catalogue of software titles to accompany it . |
| 25 | Although it had been initially stated that the elections would be held in September , they were then postponed to Nov. 4 , with a second round if necessary on Nov. 25 . |
| 26 | In so far as Whitehall had considered these matters it had been vaguely assumed that a status quo ante would be established and the Dutch in the Netherlands East Indies , the French in Indochina , and the Colonial Office in Burma and Malaya would resume their rightful sway . |
| 27 | It has been previously shown that the expression of integrins is differently diminished in a chain-specific manner in human colorectal cancer . |
| 28 | There was nobody to take immediate advantage of the breakthrough because it had until then been universally believed that the learning of language and the understanding of ideas depended on the ability to hear words . |
| 29 | Right from the beginning of that terrible saga , I have been absolutely determined that the United Nations and any other body that it may be necessary to involve in order to get to the bottom of this and to resolve matters for the people of East Timor — they have gone on since 1975 — should have our support . |
| 30 | It has been scientifically estimated that a pound of your own body fat provides approximately 3,500 calories . |