Example sentences of "and [vb past] that it have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only one company questioned , who insisted on complete anonymity , had taken on an ex-headhunter into a position it had been seeking to fill , and admitted that it had been a disastrous mistake . |
| 2 | Subsequently , however , the Moscow correspondent of the daily La Stampa examined the original of the letter , which had been discovered in the KGB archives , and reported that it had been misquoted in 12 places . |
| 3 | Blix , in Libya for the opening of the first Arab conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy , visited Libya 's one declared nuclear reactor , the small Soviet-built Tajura research reactor outside Tripoli , and found that it had been shut down since June 1991 because spare parts were no longer available and most of the Soviet scientists who had worked there had gone home . |
| 4 | The plaintiffs were manufacturers of a boiler disincrustant and claimed that it had been produced by a secret process . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ Did you have a good Christmas ? ’ , and not looking at him she thanked him for asking and replied that it had been quiet but nice . |
| 6 | He obtained a sample of the mould from Fleming , and discovered that it had been incorrectly identified . |
| 7 | I was put in touch with a local historian who thought that the stone was possibly a Roman altar stone and said that it had been discovered set into the wall of the church when renovations were made a few years ago . |
| 8 | The majority of their lordships rejected this argument and held that it had been intended that a customer who accepted the offer by buying four gallons would thereby become entitled in law to have a World Cup coin . |