Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [pers pn] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Italian engineer recently arrested in connection with the supergun affair disclosed that he had been employed by SRC associate company ATI to co-ordinate production of supergun parts in Italy , Switzerland and the UK . |
| 2 | It was the only object , apart from the books , which reflected a personal taste ; Dalgliesh hardly supposed that it had been provided by a Government agency . |
| 3 | Doreen Copas had to be reminded that she had been teaching Medau for all of 25 years by her Herts and Cambs colleagues and class members ; they presented her with a generous gift of garden tokens on the occasion of the Westhampstead Rally . |
| 4 | Where it is forgotten that we have been forgiven , little love is shown . |
| 5 | If the new VAT rules have brought vexations in their wake , it should not be forgotten that they have been introduced because frontier controls are abolished from today . |
| 6 | Yesterday , when the Government were defending their postition at the United Nations in Geneva on interrogation procedures and denying that anything untoward was happening , settlements were being awarded in Belfast courts to people who had claimed that they had been assaulted in just those circumstances . |
| 7 | The Slovak government initially claimed that they had been planted by the federal authorities in the 1980s and had not been functioning since 1989 . |
| 8 | It was even claimed that she had been poisoned by an African wife by whom Maclean was credited with having had several children . |
| 9 | The girl had claimed that she had been having an affair with the teacher for some months . |
| 10 | Sullivan later claimed that he had been given no instructions on this point . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , yes , ’ she replied , and because she had almost added that she had been going to travel with her sister — which would surely then have led to her boring him out of his skull with all of the rest of it , ‘ All alone , ’ she added with feigned cheerfulness . |
| 12 | Iliescu later reported that it had been agreed to establish a dialogue involving the NSF and representatives of the 20 political parties now in existence [ These round table talks will be covered in the February News Digest . ] |
| 13 | The master at this time , J.W. , was in trouble when it was reported that he had been boarding some of the officers and two of their relatives in his own apartments under a private arrangement . |
| 14 | Corbett spent the rest of the evening analysing what he knew and had learnt but soon realised that he had been drawn into a maze of marshy morass and the more he probed , the more puzzled he became . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman may already have guessed that we have been pressing others to play their part in the important work in which the United Nations is engaged . |
| 16 | He had expected to have a little chat with his boy , but the headmaster had explained that he had been put to bed early because he had an important French test the next day . |
| 17 | I thought Eng v SM was 16th & Pol vs Hol 17th but I 've heard that they 've been rescheduled so that they are played at the same time . |
| 18 | Yes , I 've heard that you 've been doing more than sending it out , you 've actually been taking it personally have n't you ? |
| 19 | When it was heard that he had been shot in the legs at the time of his arrest , the reporters assured their readers that the general view of the British people was , ‘ A pity they did n't aim a bit higher . ’ |
| 20 | The court 's heard that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |
| 21 | The dead lay in rows under fans of palm and banana , so many dead the survivors had wept that they had been spared . |
| 22 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
| 23 | Love also revealed that it had been decided not to include Iain Philip and Alastair Storie , as they had been playing overseas and it was a better option to give the others some match practice . |
| 24 | A post mortem later revealed that she had been strangled . |
| 25 | There they lived their lives , and prospered for a while ; but there was a disquiet amongst them , for it was said that they had been created with a purpose in this life , and that the purpose had something to do with the manner of their creation . |
| 26 | And you can add to that the fact that a number of districts er have said that they 've been consulted five times by the County Council er on various erm population projections . |
| 27 | Thus , whilst in 1953 Armed Forces support was invoked by the Party , in 1957 it might be said that it had been enlisted by a faction , albeit the First Secretary 's own . |
| 28 | In view of developments it might be argued that they have been justified in this view . |
| 29 | But it could be argued that she has been placed in a high turn-over establishment because she possesses an authoritarian style of leadership . |
| 30 | The two drivers were later charged with dangerous driving , but it was widely suspected that they had been acting on orders . |