Example sentences of "[be] that they [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I I think some of the lessons from Eastern Europe are that they have tried to go from one old system to a new system at an incredibly swift pace . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Their crime seemed to be that they had sung the song ‘ Hernando 's Hideaway ’ too loudly . |
| 4 | It could equally be that they had spotted my men following them and were attempting to shake them off . ’ |
| 5 | It may be that they have developed new sensitivities to foods , or that they are becoming chemical-sensitive . |
| 6 | It may be that they have discussed the matter with other witnesses , or even the opposition , and reconsidered their evidence . |
| 7 | It may be that they have been healed ; it may be that they have known the manifest presence of God as the church has drawn near to him in worship . |
| 8 | It may be that they have found a way to train humans . |
| 9 | As one delegate to the discussion put it ‘ The women still do n't understand what the real world is like when it comes to their commercial value but at least they 've realised for the time being that they have bitten off more than they can chew . ’ |
| 10 | Then the other argument as I can see is that they 've led me to believe , I don I know you said that it 's automatic twelve month ban , but we just accepted that because I was led to believe that my job was safe . |
| 11 | Their problem is that they 've lost five hundred pounds . |
| 12 | The latest from Aussie tats MR FLOPPY , whose single , ‘ 100,000 Morrisseys ’ has taken everyone by surprise ( not least the band who split up soon after its release ) , is that they 've decided to re-form The band , who described The Stone Roses as , ‘ A bunch of Pommie scum who ca n't play and flounce around in flares ’ , will celebrate with a new EP , tentatively entitled ‘ Tubular Bells ’ . |
| 13 | The latest from Aussie tats MR FLOPPY , whose single , ‘ 100,000 Morrisseys ’ has taken everyone by surprise ( not least the band who split up soon after its release ) , is that they 've decided to re-form The band , who described The Stone Roses as , ‘ A bunch of Pommie scum who ca n't play and flounce around in flares ’ , will celebrate with a new EP , tentatively entitled ‘ Tubular Bells ’ . |
| 14 | The only thing I want to hear is that they 've called it off . |
| 15 | Now one of the interesting things about this is that they 've worked out , in order to erm achieve our sales forecast , erm the impact of recruitment for each branch is that we need a net growth in branch of one plus one for every er on every month . |
| 16 | What that obviously means is that they 've drawn from a very , from a very wide area and therefore , they , they 've got the long , main industrial estate , which has thirteen factories , of which only three are occupied , and ten which are unoccupied , which are erm , in fact deteriorating . |
| 17 | It 's not it 's not the point of the money it 's the fact is that they 've lied to me erm and really I want =em . |
| 18 | You , you ha you establish a rapport of listening for a little while to whatever it is that they 've got to say , and their troubles and their anxieties and I was n't happy that |
| 19 | Well , the trouble is that they 've got a closed |
| 20 | The main reason our children try drugs is that they 're searching for pleasure , and the main reason they carry on is that they 've found it . |
| 21 | What Butthole Surfers have done , what made and makes them so crucial , is that they 've taken on the sonic possibilities bequeathed still unexplored and underdeveloped by acid rock but have jettisoned many of the disabling attitudes that originally trammelled that music — sophistication , expertise , the counter-cultural impulse to edify . |
| 22 | The trouble with all these guys is that they had become too aware of their public image after Saddam Hussein 's little escapade into Kuwait and the atrocious acts his troops had performed . |
| 23 | If they had now become dangerous , the only plausible explanation is that they had received significant new support . |
| 24 | If they had now become dangerous , the only plausible explanation is that they had received significant new support . |
| 25 | Right , now if we look on , erm we come to Regional Action Networks , another reason why Amnesty seems not to allocate more than one prisoner and all now is that they have expanded the ways in which we deal with prisoners and the world is more or less been divided up into areas , erm , of smaller regions and groups are asked to choose one or two regions to deal with particularly and we , we have for quite a long time now erm been concerned with Southern Africa and Central America and we get information through on prisoners and what 's happening in those two regions , so John do you have anything else on Africa at all ? |
| 26 | And what has happened is that they have done your one extra teacher and the extra books bit and they 're finishing up effectively going into liquidation . |
| 27 | The first is that they have become much more reliant upon state benefits : first supplementary benefit and latterly income support ( which replaced supplementary benefit in 1988 ) . |
| 28 | The hope is that bowling skills will rise to counter them and the evidence is that they have begun to do so . |
| 29 | The great merit of our constitutional arrangements is that they have developed cautiously and case by case . |
| 30 | Now at least they are in the same boat , and the balancing of the pronouns in the last four lines declares their equality : I have quoted extensively from that sonnet in order to give the full context for this Our : what they have in common is that they have sinned , each has betrayed the other . |