Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] [conj] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although some strikes went ahead , the estimated 30,000 Russian workers in 18 enterprises who stopped work on May 21 were fewer than had participated in strikes for Russian minority rights in August 1989 [ see pp. 36854-55 ] . |
| 2 | The differences between Blacks and Whites were fewer than have been found in other surveys , though Blacks ' attitudes tended to be less favourable . |
| 3 | It found that the build-up of methane in the atmosphere had slowed down , and suggested that emissions of methane from rice paddies were less than had been previously estimated . |
| 4 | For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label . |
| 5 | It was only years later that I came to learn that the easily remembered collects were those that had been translated by Archbishop Cranmer from the Sacramentaries of Popes Leo , Gregory and Gelasius , while the difficult ones to remember were in almost every case the work of reformers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 6 | The local authorities surveyed had outstanding debt in excess of £100 million ( as a proxy for capital intensity ) and the health authorities were those that had ( then ) recently undertaken major capital projects . |
| 7 | It was this that had caused the shin injury , pushing me on when I could have taken things more slowly . |
| 8 | It was this that had prevented me from resting half a day here or there , from starting late in the morning and from stopping early in the evening . |
| 9 | Since the only source of energy in the building is electricity , it was this that had to heat the water . |
| 10 | It was this that had precipitated Charley 's act of violence towards Rose , whom he had grabbed as she parked her car , forcing her to drive to the van . |
| 11 | The only traces of passengers and crew were hundreds of pairs of shoes , eerily littering the cabins , passage ways and decks ; the treated leather was all that had withstood the salt water . |
| 12 | His openly expressed scorn was all that had mattered , because , quite inexplicably , it had begun to hurt and humiliate . |