Example sentences of "something that have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I I last time I were there I went there for erm well to put it fairly straight I went to consult on something that 'd been done . |
| 2 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 3 | Benny and Eve watched fascinated , as he shook his head sorrowfully and seemed to agree with something that had been said to him . |
| 4 | When the political and moral credibility of the Soviet system collapsed in 1956 , something that had been slumbering in the depths of Sartre 's consciousness was suddenly reawakened . |
| 5 | It was hardly going to be any great wrench to part with something that had been picked up so casually . |
| 6 | There was no shadow , but the drifting tatters of smoke from something that had been burning were still swirling in the wind and rain . |
| 7 | Claws braced on the wall beneath it , the thing strained upwards , rolling its dripping head in agony — and something that had been lying tight beneath it on the pavement slid from under its ravaged body and into the basement . |
| 8 | Surely this was something that had been threatening for years ? |
| 9 | ( v ) took a personal or financial responsibility for something that had been done by the addict in your life . |
| 10 | Probably something that had been generally agreed over the remains of the first person that had dared to call him Rosie . |
| 11 | It was something he had been wanting to do for over ten years , but , now that he had done it , he had destroy something that had been between them — a mysterious , almost exquisite , promise of delight . |
| 12 | On several occasions I witnessed his lordship make attempts to draw M. Dupont aside for some private conversation , only for Mr Lewis smilingly to impose himself upon them with some remark like : ‘ Pardon me , gentlemen , but there 's something that 's been greatly puzzling me , ’ so that his lordship soon found himself having to listen to some more of Mr Lewis 's jovial anecdotes . |
| 13 | It 's really ironic that suddenly people from The Independent are really into it because it 's safe to be behind something that 's been and gone and proved its worth . |
| 14 | This is something that 's been on my mind for a very long time and I mean , I , I , I think it 's about time we started getting rid of these things and updating our own toilets you know . |
| 15 | Did you never think , ‘ Here 's something that 's been neglected and so I 'll step in and begin collecting this ’ ? |
| 16 | No a f a fossil is something that 's been turned to stone in the ground . |
| 17 | I 'm a manufacturer , I like to make things , I like to hold something at the end of day and say that 's something that 's been created . |
| 18 | So I think you can be assured that it 's not something that 's been put to one side , it 's something that we 're trying to build in to all the work we do , in whatever ways appropriate , but er , I accept that the the implications for your comment , that we 've got to be continually , er watching ourselves , to make sure that we do that . |
| 19 | Tomorrow the agenda focuses specifically on violence in prisons , something that 's been a problem at Long Lartin jail in Worcestershire where prison officers have been the subject of attacks by prisoners in recent months . |
| 20 | but I know there 's a , a LP or something that 's been brought out |
| 21 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 22 | Has that been something that 's been on the government 's mind , the backhanded benefit of higher prices ? |
| 23 | He much prefers to drive something that has been on the market for two or three years , reasoning that most of the initial problems should have been ironed out . |
| 24 | Give a detailed oral account of an event , or something that has been learned in the classroom , or explain with reasons why a particular course of action has been taken . |
| 25 | Elephants : if you actually shoot elephants in a controlled way you may in fact preserve the species , and that is something that has been done , though it is less important if everybody avoids using ivory and it is not worth killing the elephants at all . |
| 26 | This is something that has been advocated for disadvantaged communities across Europe but rarely gets past the rhetoric stage . |
| 27 | Approval is given for something that has been done so the management arrow is somewhat behind the broken arrow . |
| 28 | Is it a sort of bonus approval for something that has been done particularly well or approval for an ordinary job well done ? |
| 29 | I might see something that has been missed . ’ |
| 30 | In higher education , it introduces devolution from a United Kingdom funding council to a new Scottish body , something that has been universally welcomed by universities and others . |