Example sentences of "[verb] that it [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also the same week that the Bank of England ( whose governor was last year awarded a £22,000 pay increase ) admitted that it had been over-optimistic when three months ago it predicted the recession was ending . |
| 2 | However , as the WPGET ventures into a 13th season , it is pleasing to reflect that it has been lucky not just for some , but for the majority of women golfers , both amateur and professional . |
| 3 | He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , he says that it has been difficult to avoid the wholesale abandonment of a fascinating liturgical and musical tradition which had sound scholarly foundations . |
| 5 | The results show that it has been possible to set up community-based placements which offer much richer social and material environments than the hospitals they replace . |
| 6 | For example , if a school has attempted to improve its image in the neighbourhood it may feel that it has been successful if the number selecting the school for the following academic year increases . |
| 7 | The chastened company admitted that the shock loss showed that it had been guilty of poor financial controls and a badly-timed shareholders letter — Vannotti said the board was convinced up to March 22 when the shareholders letter was sent that it would record a profit for 1992 , but he and the chairman subsequently ordered a special audit , after financial controllers warned of problems with the accounts for Ascom 's cable television and mobile telephone businesses in Germany , and a closer examination revealed the German results had to be corrected by $41m — $28m of extraordinary depreciation and $12.8m of adjustments to inventory values , Vannotti said . |
| 8 | He said , ‘ Did you have a good Christmas ? ’ , and not looking at him she thanked him for asking and replied that it had been quiet but nice . |
| 9 | I know that it has been hard to make ends meet over the past two years . |
| 10 | Suppose the brochure mentions another hotel , stating that it has been open for several seasons and that it closes every year from November to March . |
| 11 | The series aspect of any element is illustrated in the blow-up of figure 9.16(c) and application of Kirchhoff 's voltage law to this aspect gives or This time note that it has been possible to neglect the change in the current phasor I over the infinitesimal element as it only leads to terms that are second order in smallness . |
| 12 | Note that it has been necessary to enclose the camera behind a glass screen to cut down its noise . |
| 13 | we have had a few successes in spite of this uncaring government , and feel that it has been worthwhile to protest . |
| 14 | He 'd seen Nancy and Frank embracing in the back of the car , so closely entwined that it had been impossible to guess what else they were doing . |
| 15 | I wondered if she still felt that it had been worthwhile to appear in the film . |
| 16 | Secondly , it distorts the history of philosophy by assuming that it has been unchanging in its preoccupations and conceptualisations , which it clearly has not . |
| 17 | Before commencing it should be emphasized that when a geologist talks of a volcano having been recently active , he means that it has been active within the last ten thousand years . |
| 18 | Can not concede that it had been possible and neither will shift in how we communicate and view the place of the Royals in our society and what the are and how those P R shifts a phrase in terms of let's make ourselves more public , let's make ourselves more accessible , have resulted in that because their very their very accessibility is the those kind of radio programmes to happen . |
| 19 | In answer to a leading question about the temperature Of the room , he reflected that it had been cold and draughty . |
| 20 | Every time I do a stall I I quake in my boots up until I do it and then I feel great when we 're doing it and afterwards realize that it 's been productive and we we 've had a good lot a good response from the public . |
| 21 | ‘ I think I could take a barrister 's brief for arguing that up to , say , 1985 the squeeze was a necessary remedy for the rather free expansion which had taken place in the 1960s , and early 1970s , ’ says Sir Eric , ‘ but I do n't believe I could even theoretically argue that it has been justifiable since then . |