Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should say in the context of the working of the Anglo-Irish Agreement that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Minister for Defence for the Republic of Ireland taken part in the conference . |
| 2 | I have just said that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Irish Defence Minister taken part in any conference talks . |
| 3 | In reply to the hon. Gentleman 's comment about the Government 's policy since 1985 , I should make the point that I have been Secretary of State for two and a half years of that period . |
| 4 | Every year that I have been Minister with responsibility for housing — it is now six years — the Housing Executive has suggested an amount which it hopes that the Government will give it , while knowing perfectly well that it will not get all that it asks for . |
| 5 | A 15-year-old Darlington girl admitted yesterday that she had been part of a gang which broke into the town 's Salvation Army Hostel . |
| 6 | In the six years and more that she had been David 's wife , not once had she heard his voice raised in such dark anger . |
| 7 | ‘ Go up ! ’ he hissed anxiously , hoping he 'd not be heard ; horrified that she had been witness to Gosse 's death . |
| 8 | So far , however , every road that we 've been down has turned out to be blind alley . ’ |
| 9 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 10 | I saw no trouble at the match , but I heard on TV afterwards that there had been fights in Waverly station before and after the match |
| 11 | Responding to the complaints , Mandela , who had previously acknowledged that there had been abuses , said that all the allegations would be thoroughly investigated . |
| 12 | A US official said troops opened fire several times , but he did not confirm that there had been casualties . |
| 13 | A US official said troops opened fire several times , but he did not confirm that there had been casualties . |
| 14 | The fact that there had been unlawfulness should not mean that a remedy should be denied . |
| 15 | In some of these cases the defendant appeared mentally normal when examined by the doctor , but the doctor was none the less willing to infer from the circumstances that there had been abnormality of mind at the time of the killing , and to write a report which brought this within section 2 . |
| 16 | There were suggestions that Bond Corporation executives had been under regular surveillance and that there had been interference with telephone communications , Mr Lucas said . |
| 17 | Her new owner suspected that there had been difficulties , so decided to start Jasmine 's training right from the beginning again . |
| 18 | The man in charge of the fund , Brigadier Jimmy Chater , admitted that there had been problems with finding and helping Royal Warwickshire POWs , and agreed that the income from the fund exceeded the benefits paid out . |
| 19 | A British Rail spokesperson in York confirmed that there had been problems with the Settle and Carlisle . |
| 20 | A South African foreign affairs spokesman said on Jan. 5 that there had been contacts with Soviet representatives on a regular basis , " for example on the Namibian issue " , and " should we wish to pursue talks we would do so directly " , with no need for Hungarian or any other mediation . |
| 21 | A few admitted that there had been excesses . |
| 22 | Yet Dysart 's expression reminded him of something else she had said : that Dysart and Clare had been arguing immediately before the explosion ; that there had been friction between them for some time . |
| 23 | It was apparent that there had been money at all periods except the most modem , and taste at some . |
| 24 | There were accusations of plagiarism , of cheating , of fabricating data ; there was name-calling in public as Fleischmann and Pons were called ‘ incompetent ’ and ‘ deluded ’ ; there were deep politics , paranoia and , by the end of the year , threats of writs being issued against the editor of a leading scientific journal and against one scientist whose experiments suggested that there had been errors in Pons ' laboratory . |
| 25 | In some cases she suggested that there had been coalescence of settlements , with the abandonment of the earlier pattern of hamlets and combining of lands and holdings . |
| 26 | The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book , Arbeau , Frescobaldi , Froberger — in those years people suddenly realized that there had been music before 1700 . ’ |
| 27 | I could honestly tell him that there had been improvements . |
| 28 | In my judgment she was entitled to consider the welfare interests of the children after the court had found that there had been acquiescence on the part of the father within the meaning of article 13 ( a ) . |
| 29 | Sheikh Saad , the crown prince and prime minister , admitted that there had been abuse of human rights in the early days of the country 's liberation but implied that , with the regime back in control , all was well . |
| 30 | The story quoted him as saying there was medical evidence which showed that there had been abuse . |