Example sentences of "[adj] that [pron] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the area had ‘ an extremely unfair image because the majority of people on this estate want the best housing facilities and the best education for the children and that is certainly my view in the year and a half that I 've been at the school ’ . |
| 2 | It was possible that he had been in the Rolls with his father on the Sunday night . |
| 3 | He was convinced that he had been on target . |
| 4 | It was obvious that he had been under house arrest at some point in his life . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ After all that we 've been to each other over the years , Dane , darling … ’ |
| 6 | Walt Disney also suggested that Shere Khan , the villain of the piece , was aristocratic and regal rather than the slavering , growling heavy that he had been in development . |
| 7 | Starting to feel more than a fraction disgruntled that he 'd been in Prague when she 'd called before — on the right day and the right time — Fabia strove hard to keep what she was feeling out of her look . |
| 8 | I was almost certain that she had been to the British Museum no more recently than I had myself . |
| 9 | Is he aware that there has been at least one case in which , having seen a name badge , a claimant looked in the phone book and traced the Benefits Agency employee to his home . |
| 10 | In drawing comparisons between the state of credit marketing in the US and her , I am mindful that I have been in the UK for a long time and of that famous Bacon quote , ‘ Time is the greatest innovator ’ . |