Example sentences of "been [adj] [to-vb] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Committee may have been relieved to hear that in one case at another institution , the Inland Revenue had decided that officers who took round , for sale , firewood that had been chopped by the inmates , were exempt from the need for a hawker 's licence . |
| 2 | The queen mother 's religious views and those of the French advisers she gathered around her did little to allay the reformers ' fears ; nor would they have been happy to know that on Mary 's marriage in 1558 to the Dauphin , who the following year became King Francis II , she secretly signed an agreement that if she should die childless her kingdom of Scotland and her claim to the throne of England should become her husband 's . |
| 3 | But how sad that she had not been able to say that to the one person who really longed to hear it . |
| 4 | From our study we have been able to show that at least 5% ( 6/122 ) of patients will not have polyps at 30 years of age on sigmoidoscopy and , as only 36/ 123 in our series were shown to definitely have polyps under 30 years , the real figure may be somewhat higher . |
| 5 | Except for the two years after Martin drowned I 've always been able to believe that at the heart of the universe there is love . ’ |
| 6 | Doctors have been slow to appreciate that in a similar way their standing in the community could be raised if they encouraged complaints , investigated them rigorously , and made restitution when appropriate . |