Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Tocqueville and Marx emphasized different features in the development of European and North American societies in the nineteenth century , they both recognized in some way the interplay of economic and political forces : Tocqueville by associating democracy with the values of an agricultural and commercial middle-class society , and by noting the possible implications of the incipient class divisions within manufacturing industry ; Marx by giving prominence to the political struggles of the working class as a movement to extend democracy , whether in his account ( in 1852 ) of the Chartist demand for universal suffrage as being , if realized , ‘ a far more socialist measure than anything which has been honoured with that name on the Continent ’ , or in his later analysis of the Paris Commune ( 1871 ) as a new form of democratic government , as ‘ the political form at last discovered under which to work out the emancipation of labour ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that there will be outrage tonight in my constituency and in that of my hon. Friend the Member for Falkirk , East ( Mr. Ewing ) at his betrayal of the trust that has been placed in that hospital by the people in its care ? |
| 6 | Had our patient been subjected to an exploratory laparotomy during the initial admission the diaphragmatic tear would have been diagnosed at that time . |
| 7 | Ever since his return to power in 1958 , his foreign policy had been pointed in that direction : his development of an independent French nuclear deterrent and his growing estrangement from NATO are part of that general background against which his treatment of the EEC in 1965 must be understood . |
| 8 | For example , three representatives from the Isle of Ely sat on the committee although only four short courses had been arranged in that Authority . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The debate which deals with these matters will be referred to and the conceptual apparatus which has been developed in that debate will be used where appropriate . |
| 11 | Thank you , does touch on that issue and refers to the point that I made earlier that that the proposals having been referred to that policy and how it meets with er more work . |
| 12 | It could even have been disguised in that box I sent . |
| 13 | Marshall seems to think it relates to the oyster farm negotiations , but as no money , has yet been received on that account I don t see why commission had to be paid in advance , particularly at a time when the group is pressed for cash . |
| 14 | A vertical thread on the chart showed the actual number of vehicles which had been completed to that stage at a given time . |
| 15 | Thus 266 of 961 Housing Association houses have been completed since that date , 141 of 1201 local authority dwellings and 737 of 4395 private dwellings . |
| 16 | Each practice was given the results of the study for all their participating patients after the study had been completed in that practice . |
| 17 | Again er even frosting blast when even other trees er specific trees are erm alright , it may have been caught in that draught and set it back a little , you never know . |
| 18 | When teachers have received each final version of guidance and ministerial requirement then , despite the connections which will have been included in that guidance between a specific subject and a broader concern ( such as the encouragement of multicultural or anti-racist education ) , school managers will still be faced with a problem . |
| 19 | It was inappropriate of me but I have always been attracted to that kind of danger . |
| 20 | Personally she had never been attracted to that sort in her life before . |
| 21 | It had been parked on that spot for at least three hours , probably much longer , for whoever had parked it had very likely done so before the evening traffic build-up . |
| 22 | The trouble was , it should never have been parked in that corner in the first place , so there was n't much the owner could say , apart from making the air blue for half an hour or so . |
| 23 | Happily my inspector friend was at hand , He opened the Chief Constable 's hospitality cupboard , I had a dram and was told that they had been tipped off that afternoon about some Scot that would run some sheep through the Lion . |
| 24 | She knew , before the talkative nurse had told her so , that it would have been squeezed to that shape by her own body giving birth . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She says that she she lives in a on the estate on the outskirts of Mansfield have you been checking around that area ? |
| 27 | Little problem had been expected from that workforce : it was young , unorganized and naive . |
| 28 | ‘ Wild ’ , Omi had called him the night he arrived , a wild boy , and now another dimension had been added to that figure from long ago : cruelty — a cruel boy … . |
| 29 | Dr Dixon said , ‘ With up to 20 years from infection to illness , we just have to ask how many of our congregation have been added during that time ? |
| 30 | The observer 's task is then to observe what goes on in a classroom and , every three seconds , to tick the category that best describes what has been happening during that period . |