Example sentences of "[adj] that [pron] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It now seems clear that there had been intense military activity near Loughgall before last night 's shooting , as one eye witness recounts : |
| 2 | It is also clear that there have been long-term shifts in priorities as the cuts became permanent . |
| 3 | It is clear that there have been profound changes in North Shields since the mid-1970s . |
| 4 | Yeah , just as a , as a side issue , I am interested that they 've been growing plum tomatoes because each year I hear of more and more people growing plum tomatoes successfully in this country and while we are just on the subject of diseases and things to control them , you may remember that a few weeks ago we were giving advice on how we should dispose of waste garden chemicals and , and we said you ought to pour it down an outside drain . |
| 5 | I am afraid that I have been indiscreet . ’ |
| 6 | I am afraid that he has been far from well for several months . |
| 7 | He had sunk so low that she had been obliged to approach Dr McNab for his help . |
| 8 | However , with the stories of massive repair costs being bandied around and a particularly uninspiring incumbent devoting most of his energies to the adjacent parish , it was understandable that no-one had been brave enough to voice their concern . |
| 9 | They have been so pervasive and so self-evident that there has been little point in articulating them . |
| 10 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 11 | ‘ He deserves a proper thrashing , ’ Cissie protested , fiercely indignant that she had been unable to defend herself while her cowardly brother took delight in whipping her . |
| 12 | I am delighted that we have been able to present Embassy with what I consider to have been our best tournament yet . |
| 13 | I am delighted that I have been able to hit on that point , because the flexibility means that the Opposition can not claim that they will not have enough time to debate those clauses . |
| 14 | I 'm delighted that you 've been able to come along at such short notice . |
| 15 | Twenty years later Craig was still convinced that he had been right . |
| 16 | I 'm only glad that we 've been able to sort it all out so quickly . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm glad that he has been able to help . ’ |
| 18 | I am glad that you have been able successfully to run your own practice . |
| 19 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |
| 20 | Eta ( 3.9 ) , in the Y , was ranked as of the second magnitude in ancient times , but as it is an A-type star it is not likely that there has been any real change in it . |
| 21 | Having returned to China to work in and among the numerous but fragmented Vietnamese independence factions , Ho 's position as an acknowledged communist in what was an essentially anti-communist Kuomintang was always precarious and for whatever reason he was imprisoned ( in conditions of great hardship ) it seems likely that he had been close to the point of death before he was released thirteen months later : Chen suggests because of communist sympathisers in the local Kuomintang hierarchy . |
| 22 | ‘ It was quite obvious that they had been much more to each other than just friends , ’ she said . |
| 23 | The little that she 'd been able to piece together was that Pamela was a barrister , that the house did , as Lucy had suspected , belong to her , and that she and Josie had been together for at least five years and probably longer . |
| 24 | As she looked at her niece 's radiant face , Louise felt sure that she had been right to approach Monsieur de Levantiére . |
| 25 | Williams attempts to show that if we examined the commonplace idea of equality of opportunity thoroughly , we find ourselves carried down a sort of ‘ slippery slope ’ towards insisting that only if everybody has succeeded to the same degree can we be sure that there has been genuine equality of opportunity . |
| 26 | His family was so poor that they 'd been obliged to sell him . |
| 27 | He found it extraordinary that I had been able simply to get into a car in Britain and drive unhindered to Roztoky . |
| 28 | She 'd reassure him over and over that she was fine , she was safe , there was nothing for him to worry about , and Ashdown would then ring Joe and pass along anything new or helpful that he 'd been able to pick out of the conversation . |
| 29 | The atmosphere with the actual returnees themselves is one of concern and apprehension I guess , because they 're concerned that they 've been involved in this , this crisis and they 're not quite sure what 's happening , and they are er not really being told by everybody , you know , there 's just too many people to make it very clear where they 're all going and when they 're all going . |
| 30 | He did n't say so , but it was evident that he had been successful in the sheepdog trials , because he was unusually cheerful and forthcoming and he seemed quite jubilant to meet them there . |