Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there was huge euphoria when the Berlin Wall was , was knocked down , and in a way , we 've also heard recently that the gilt has perhaps been knocked off that ge , gingerbread as , as the real economic truths are hitting home . |
| 2 | In spite of the many things it has achieved over the last hundred years — and we have all been shaped by that — it has got itself boxed in by one issue . |
| 3 | The ancient civilizations were firm believers in a form of hypnosis ( although the word itself had not been coined at that time , only coming into existence in the early nineteenth century : it derives from the Greek hypnos , meaning sleep ) . |
| 4 | Clearly it was a winning gambit to aver simply that the work had not been written with that ‘ single purpose ’ , and this was the substance of the defence of Henry Scott who had published or who at least intended to sell copies of an anti-papist pamphlet containing more than a little obscene detail . |
| 5 | I think to do that erm to chairman , to define the Greater York area then to ten miles that would of course require a consistent calculation of the housing need requirement both the local need element and the hundred percent migration element which arises within that ten mile er area , to be consistent with erm the rest of the policy , and of course that calculation erm that consistent calculation er has not been done for that area . |
| 6 | For some great conductors it was — Karajan , like everyone else , had a good line in Knappertsbusch stories — but Karajan 's repertory and reputation have not been built on that premiss . |
| 7 | oh no you could n't you 'd not been messing with that all that long |
| 8 | On Nov. 27 the Supreme Court had issued a ruling declaring all the decisions of the National Assembly since Sept. 2 null and void , as a quorum of members had not been achieved on that date . |
| 9 | He then explained that William Tidbury could not be convicted of aiding and abetting because he had not been charged with that crime . |
| 10 | China and the USA narrowly averted a major trade war when a comprehensive trade agreement was signed on Oct. 10 ; if the agreement had not been signed on that day the USA , under Section 301 of the 1988 Omnibus Trade Act , would automatically have imposed punitive tariffs of up to 100 per cent of value on Chinese-made imports currently worth a total of US$3,900 million . |
| 11 | In some respects they use new language and embody in a formal text rules that have not been specified in that way before ; this has indeed been the way the laws of war have developed for 150 years . |
| 12 | The money has not been used for that purpose . |
| 13 | After all , the Conservative Party has had provision for electing a new Leader while in office since 1975 and it has not been used in that circumstance . |
| 14 | If the machine has not been delivered by that date , the buyer can treat the failure to deliver as a breach of a condition and he can cancel the contract as time for delivery is usually construed as being a condition ; see Hartley v Hyams [ 1920 ] . |
| 15 | One thing about him that was widely known was the fact that he was a businessman , and so it was as such that he was welcomed ; the party could even claim some credit for being the first to elect a businessman as its leader — much as it claimed credit in 1975 for electing a woman , although Margaret Thatcher had certainly not been chosen for that reason . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , it had not been left at that . |
| 17 | I understand that the Government have not been negotiating for that . |
| 18 | This speech was published in Pravda on 24 January under the title of ‘ Lenin 's Political Testament ’ , which must have rung some warning bells for many within the Party since Lenin 's actual political testament had not been published at that time . |
| 19 | This remains the objective and , in fact , a lot of the getting into shape has already been done in that similar tonnages of both dry and coated stone were produced and sold in 1992 as compared to 1991 with significant reductions in staffing and investment . |
| 20 | Any object that an individual has had for a long time , a favourite book for example , has already been affected by that individual 's electrical impulses . |
| 21 | One is left wondering whether it was a dream or one really had been listening to a man whose clothes and surroundings were obviously of little importance but who knew more Latin and Greek than one ever had , could quote the classics and poetry , would have one lost in the depths of philosophy , someone who was probably in a Gaelic world of his own and was translating into English for the benefit of his listener although the learning had largely been gathered in that language . |
| 22 | As well as support from Prime Minister John Major , a donation of £750 has just been received from that other MCC , in St John 's Wood . |
| 23 | Oh god I , I , I mean I , the books just been written on that |
| 24 | I 've , I 've just been dealing with that in a booklet . |
| 25 | ‘ I have always been prepared for that . |
| 26 | The document that I issued this morning on urban aid has always been issued in that form by all Governments . |
| 27 | It was inappropriate of me but I have always been attracted to that kind of danger . |
| 28 | From the time when the sovereign lived at St James 's Palace , first occupied by Henry VIII and abandoned in favour of Buckingham House ( now Palace ) by George III , the court has traditionally been known as that of St James . |
| 29 | Indeed , if I may build on what they have said and sum up my position on the future of the European Community , it is this : in the new Europe that has emerged from the ashes of the second world war and now from the grim shadows of the cold war , new possibilities for peace and prosperity across Europe exist which have probably never before been seen on that continent . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |