Example sentences of "[be] that [pron] has " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feelings within the BBC are that somebody has to go and that the 69-year-old Mr Hussey is likely to be the one . |
| 2 | One might , for instance , use the maxim to infer that because Eeyore 's sigh is a non-linguistic action , it 's a better sign that he 's out of thistles than Rabbit 's words are that he has some honey . |
| 3 | If you ca n't find these three files then the chances are that someone has deleted then to save space . |
| 4 | So , if the horse rears or puts its tongue over the bit , the chances are that it has been hurt in the mouth by a rider with bad hands . |
| 5 | But these days , with space at a premium , a room kept solely for dining is rare ; the chances are that it has to double as a work room , say for hobbies like model making , or as a quiet place where the family can get on with homework , studying or other paperwork . |
| 6 | Since then he has been seen by the right-wing as Maggie 's prince-in-waiting , but his skill has been that he has remained very much in favour with the Major Government where his ability and amiability won him respect . |
| 7 | But the most important flaw in the instruction has been that it has been too often divorced from the classroom itself and from the active involvement of the teacher . |
| 8 | According to Carl Chilley , principal business services consultant , the problem with distributed computing has been that it has encouraged the development of technology for technology 's sake , without real thought as to how to implement it effectively in a business environment . |
| 9 | This proved to be a fateful oversight since one of the most devastating criticisms to be levelled at Keynesian macroeconomics in recent years has been that it has such shaky foundations in microeconomics . |
| 10 | So successful has the state system been that it has lost only about 1 per cent of its operations to a private competitor under the system of tendering for the provision of local passenger services that was also introduced by the 1988 rail reforms . |
| 11 | It is difficult to be precise about the outcome , but again the general impression seems to be that there has been no significant and continuing deterioration , and some well-placed observers thought that behaviour had , on the whole , improved . |
| 12 | On a Sunday at family worship , it may be that there has been a rush to get to the service . |
| 13 | It may be that there has been a failure of performance in a key area . |
| 14 | It does not have to be that he has conceived what the French are calling the coup de force for Miss Jonathan . ’ |
| 15 | If a patient returns after a prolonged course of antibiotic therapy and is still found to be harbouring the ubiquitous pus cell in the urethra , then it may well be that he has reinfected himself from his , as yet untreated , sexual partner . |
| 16 | It could well be that someone has tried to make this look like murder followed by suicide . ’ |
| 17 | Where soil is being removed slowly it may be that it has built up in layers and a ‘ case hardening ’ effect is experienced . |
| 18 | The terms of this argument repeat exactly those of the critical debate about univocal meaning , according to which the only alternative to the idea that history has a single meaning must be that it has none at all . |
| 19 | The design of an aircraft structure falls into this category as the preferred solution for a component design would be that it has zero mass and infinite strength . |
| 20 | Kevin Irving 's ‘ father ’ writes to admit that he 's Pope , Chas F Garvey 's that he has been faithful to his wife for 42 years , and Mark Ambrose 's that he has a dash of myxomatosis ( to be fair , the father is a rabbit ) . |
| 21 | Kevin Irving 's ‘ father ’ writes to admit that he 's Pope , Chas F Garvey 's that he has been faithful to his wife for 42 years , and Mark Ambrose 's that he has a dash of myxomatosis ( to be fair , the father is a rabbit ) . |
| 22 | If Armstrong has a disadvantage , then it 's that he has n't got a passenger seat . |
| 23 | My attitude is that somebody has to do the job and if I get bumped off , I have experienced much more than the average bloke . |
| 24 | ‘ The only thing that can be said is that somebody has just snuffed out a very special person who was going to achieve an incredible amount in life . |
| 25 | A problem with diagnosing lipid disorders is that everyone has been obsessed with examining fasting specimens , a requirement which presents two obstacles for diabetics . |
| 26 | ‘ The important thing is that everyone has a blinding time , ’ says Dermot with the quiet confidence of a promoter who never promises attractions he ca n't deliver . |
| 27 | The first is that everyone has work but no one really works . |
| 28 | The great thing is that everybody has been to the cinema , and many have had a strange experience there . ’ |
| 29 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 30 | Er the situation is that what has happened is that government has lowered the mandatory ceiling from fifty thousand to twenty thousand . |