Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the twelve years that I 've been head teacher at this school I have waited for promised improvements at the crossroads , and in particular the Lane junction . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman is clearly under the misapprehension that I have been Prime Minister for 50 years — not yet . |
| 3 | The pure white drifts of snow against the door of the hut convinced me that nobody had been that way recently . |
| 4 | She had worn a full-length coat because it was all she had that was decently subfusc ; now she wished that she had been less conformist . |
| 5 | ‘ It was very hard work in many ways ’ , he told me in February 1985 , ‘ and the fact that we 'd been thirteen years [ in Opposition ] meant that most of them , almost all of them , had no experience at all in government . |
| 6 | In doing so I like to think that we had been good ambassadors for the Department ; I know we all enjoyed every minute of the three hectic months . |
| 7 | Like us , he reckoned that there 'd been another man there . |
| 8 | Opposition parties persisted with their accusations that there had been innumerable instances of ballot box rigging , intimidation of voters and the expulsion of opposition representatives at many polling stations . |
| 9 | But he noted that there had been great differences over the issue of securing international guarantees for the zone , and concluded that the practical realisation of the zone idea was a long-term task . |
| 10 | At this point , ‘ Dr Johnson observed that there had been great disputes about the spelling of Shakespear 's [ sic ] name : ‘ At last it was thought it would be settled by looking at the original copy of his will ; but , upon examining it , he was found to have written it himself no less than three different ways . ’ |
| 11 | On Aug. 22 Abdullah stated that there had been 170 bomb explosions in the state in the previous 12 months . |
| 12 | On February 21 , 1991 a hearing took place before the justices , in camera , at which it was submitted on the defendant 's behalf that the publication of the prosecution would be a penalty highly prejudicial to the defendant 's business , that the publicity would bring about closure , that the restaurant had strong defences to each summons and that there had been serious breaches of PACE by the investigating officer . |
| 13 | ‘ in his opinion there was evidence to show that there had been serious breaches of the Lautro Rules in respect of the business conducted on behalf of Norwich Union by Winchester . |
| 14 | After a short while Mr. Wells felt able to tell the Chief Executive Officer of Lautro that ‘ in his opinion there was evidence to show that there had been serious breaches of the Lautro Rules in respect of the business conducted on behalf of Norwich Union by Winchester . ’ |
| 15 | In statements issued on July 16 the Foreign Ministers of Egypt , Kuwait and Saudi Arabia stressed that there had been total agreement on the articles of the Damascus Declaration notwithstanding some " minor amendments " . |
| 16 | In Turkey alone , the Guardian of Jan. 28 reported that there had been 10 terrorist attacks in Istanbul , Ankara and Adana on Jan. 21-28 , causing substantial damage to US and other allied military and business interests . |
| 17 | Her high-handed personal style , it appeared , had created widespread hostility to her , which surfaced in the course of the trial , especially when it became known that there had been blatant intimidation of witnesses . |
| 18 | The first two chapters of Moses and Monotheism were first published as articles in Imago ( 1937 and 1938 ) , and sought to establish , in purely historical terms , that there had been two figures with the name ‘ Moses ’ in Jewish development . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , it seems that there had been two successors in Stockport . |
| 20 | I mentioned this to a Fetlar man who used to hunt otters for their pelts , as many crofters did and he could tell me that there had been pale-coated otters in that area for at least fifty years . |
| 21 | The Home Office originally announced that no prisoners had been injured , but it was finally admitted that 54 had been , and that there had been criminal assaults on prisoners by staff . |
| 22 | It was confirmed that there had been broad agreement on establishing a ceiling of 6,000 on the overall combined number of nuclear warheads . |
| 23 | Daly stressed the narrowness of most reefs and showed , from examples where the rate of reef growth is known , that there had been ample time in the Post-glacial period for the growth of modern reefs . |
| 24 | Comparing , for fixed-term contract workers , the results of the 1984 survey with those of the 1980 survey we found that there had been little change . |
| 25 | Three-quarters felt that there had been little feedback following its presentation . |
| 26 | The Justice Tribunal Court of the state of Acre ruled that there had been insufficient evidence to convict Alves , who would now face a retrial . |
| 27 | That claim was denied but TV Licensing conceded that there had been insufficient grounds for obtaining the warrant . |
| 28 | The report showed that there had been many changes and improvements since 1986 , but that some deficiencies remain . |
| 29 | On Jan. 25 , however , Tanjug quoted statements by four refugees from Shkodër who said that anti-Stalinist demonstrations had taken place there on Jan. 11 and 14 , involving up to 7,000 people ; that there had been many arrests ; and that police reinforcements were patrolling the city and the surrounding area . |
| 30 | Then the farmer admitted that there had been many applicants for the job already , but each had been driven out of the stall by the horse . |