Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [that] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the major criticisms of these previous theories has been that they have tended to see their subject matter ( that is , rule-breaking ) as straightforward and easily identifiable — crime being behaviour that breaks certain of the rules of society . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ The strength of my country in recent years has been that we have had no coalition , just clear leadership , a clear majority and clear decisions . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One of the difficulties that results from these cuts and that tax has been that there had been so numerous that it ca n't keep count of how many times they 'd changed the goal posts , how many times they imposed cuts , but you know a lot of the government 's ideas are that it 's money , money , money , but it 's not all financial , it 's been physical and mental . |
| 8 | He 's always been surrounded by people who think everything else he does is marvellous , but one of the points of our relationship has been that I 've always criticised his work , and for me those double portraits of the Seventies came perilously close to Photo-Realism . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ What matters is that she has given us the most glorious production we have ever had at Hochhauser . |
| 10 | ‘ What matters is that I have signed a class international player who can score goals , a player who could become a giant at Old Trafford . |
| 11 | What 's happening is that I have a reason for rising , for living , for laughing . |
| 12 | What you do know is that it has caused you considerable hurt and pain . |
| 13 | The worst thing Lagerfeld can find to say of those who transgress is that they have behaved in an ‘ uneducated ’ manner . |
| 14 | Or the jurors could have taken the path they did in fact elect , which was to go to the very heart of the matter and conclude that these officers were only doing what they have been trained to do and that all the famous video footage demonstrated was that they had indeed gone by the book . |
| 15 | Our Rally was just super — more people than before — But what they did n't know was that they had a treat in store : The National Display Team came for the afternoon To show their special item — we were all over the moon ! |
| 16 | In fact , barn owls are reckoned to be one of the hardest breeds to hand-rear and train , and they are n't recommended for beginners — though I did n't know that then , What I did know was that I 'd probably lost the battle with this owl before I 'd started : I suspected he would be impossible to train , but I was so hooked on the idea of having my own bird that I could hardly drag myself away when I was looking at him . |
| 17 | And what she did not know was that she had even more lessons to learn — and that some of them might not be pleasant . |
| 18 | All she did know was that she had n't seen the last of him by a long chalk ! |
| 19 | Once he had hit her so hard when she would n't tell him where she 'd been that she had had concussion . |
| 20 | The strengths that these people show are that they have an ability to combine a sense of concern , with a sense of order and purpose . |
| 21 | The only sense in which the legislature can be properly said to have authorised these things to be done is that it has enabled the Poor Law Board to order , and the managers to do them , if , and when , and where , they can obtain by free bargain and contract the means of doing so . |
| 22 | What the elder thus proclaims is that he has a ‘ hotline ’ to the ancestors , that they are on his side and , in effect , do his bidding . |
| 23 | I mean what you have to remember is that we have not made a decision about Rockhill Farm . |
| 24 | The first thing to remember is that you have not necessarily lost your place even if you have n't quite made the grades required . |
| 25 | Then Arthur Miller added : ‘ The thing to remember is that it has not gone away for ever . ’ |
| 26 | All they show is that someone has a depressed steroid profile . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | The more generalized view which I have thus adopted is that we have goals which relate to our work . |
| 29 | The only consolation that Britain 's partners could perceive was that she had not reneged on her Brussels Treaty obligations altogether : her commitment to station troops permanently on the Continent was still intact , but many people wondered for how long — ‘ perfidious Albion' ! |
| 30 | Most people thought he looked like a tramp with his habit of tying his trousers up with string , but the first thing that all the dancers noticed was that he had big , flat feet . |