Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] that [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are peaceful people , too , and many of them have been persecuted for that love of peace : Arthur Raistrick , Yorkshire Dalesman and the greatest living Dales historian , was imprisoned as a pacifist during the First World War , while in earlier times , the Quakers led by William Penn fled to America where they founded Pennsylvania , the capital city of which is Philadelphia , the city of brotherly love . |
| 2 | It was a case that bothered him because he felt that in the Assize Court the unfortunate man 's chances had been wrecked by that fool of a cocky young barrister who had concocted an elaborate defence that gave a totally false impression of what had happened . |
| 3 | It was inappropriate of me but I have always been attracted to that kind of danger . |
| 4 | Since the beginning of 1990 , a total of 13 exploration and four appraisal wells have been drilled in that part of the United Kingdom sector of the Irish sea generally known as the Manx basin . |
| 5 | On my last visit to Wood Green , I saw that an attractive house had been built on that part of the garden . |
| 6 | ‘ Both the settlers and the natives assured me ’ , wrote Gould , ‘ that they [ the bronzewings ] had suddenly arrived , and that they had never before been seen in that part of the country . |
| 7 | Well you see they 've been brainwashed to that sort of music so they 're bound to , bound to like it . |
| 8 | Professor Dyos estimated that newcomers never amounted to more than between 12 to 16 per cent of the total population of south London districts in any single decade , but that this rate of immigration was sufficient to create communities in which less than half the inhabitants had been born within that part of Greater London which lay south of the Thames . |
| 9 | Some serious steps had been taken towards that outburst of anticlericalism and , in particular , antipapalism which marked the later fourteenth century : suspicions had been raised about the church 's landed wealth and envy of it had been fanned ; resentment against the papacy — by the clergy as well as by the laity — was growing ; above all parliament was providing an assembly where hostility could be orchestrated , diffused and preserved . |
| 10 | Think of your sister ; would you want her to have been forced into that way of life ? ’ |
| 11 | It was a dramatic gesture , a revelation ; it put him in a position of power , if only for a moment , but he liked that position and his primacy had been denied in that group of irreverents . |