Example sentences of "that [conj] [pers pn] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign scholars as well as foreign diplomats found to their surprise that where they had been led to expect barbarity , they found civilization and love of learning ; for Giovanni Ferreri , who settled in the abbey of Kinloss , close to the university of Aberdeen , Girolamo Aleandro , teacher of Greek and Hebrew at Paris , and Girolamo Cardano , physician of Milan , Scottish scholars were welcome members of the academic community of Europe . |
| 2 | Answer guide : The point being illustrated here is that although we have been told the finite life of the machine and we are aware of the reasons for the loss in utility we still have to make estimates of when the machine will cease to be useful . |
| 3 | The Government said then that although they have been told that they are in the wrong , they will do nothing about it . |
| 4 | Credit Suisse said that although it had been decided that none of the managers could represent the bondholders , it would be advising them and providing them with information . |
| 5 | I sent the cheque back , saying that although it had been immensely good of them to bring me up , I must have been a great burden and was now a disappointment , so I would prefer them to keep this money as some repayment for all they had done . |
| 6 | Like many graduates stimulated by their experiences , he discovered that although he had been of sufficient calibre to acquire the offer of the scholarship in the first place , he now faced the inevitable service obsession with a rejection of academic prowess in preference for ‘ practical skills in the real world ’ ( ibid. 157 ) : |
| 7 | Official accounts of the trial noted that although he had been involved in plotting the occupation of Tiananmen Square , he had given himself up to the police and had shown " repentance " . |
| 8 | In his resignation speech , Gorbachev asserted that although he had been in favour of " the independence and self-determination of peoples and the sovereignty of republics " , he had also believed in " preserving the union state and the country 's integrity " . |
| 9 | On Harper 's behalf it was said that although he 'd been reckless , dangerous and stupid by starting the fire , there 'd been no evil or mischief in his mind . |
| 10 | Erm do you have cases where the where the girls or same faces keep popping up or do you do you feel that once they 've been pulled in they it puts them off ? |
| 11 | I think we have to be a little bit careful about this because , of course , erm the feeling is not that once they 've been in the job for a little while that they are still amateurs , it 's merely that we do n't require them to know a great deal about what they 're going to do before they start . |
| 12 | Many of the Act 's provisions , at the time of writing , are only beginning to be put into operation , but it is clear that once they have been fully implemented they will completely transform the educational system in Britain . |
| 13 | She found , however , that once she had been formally initiated into the movement , she was expected to spend all her time with other female devotees and could no longer speak to , let alone question , the leaders ( who were all male ) . |
| 14 | Urine production naturally declines while the puppy is asleep , so that once it has been put outside at night , then the young dog should be able to last quite comfortably through to the morning . |
| 15 | The other reason for looking for an approximate solution is that once it has been found such an approximate solution can then be worked upon and modified to give a much better solution . |
| 16 | Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written . |
| 17 | He and his friends would have seen that if they 'd been allowed to talk for a bit . |
| 18 | They may feel responsible for adding to the dead person 's problems or may feel that if they had been more alert they would have noticed their friend 's or relative 's distress . |
| 19 | On the eve of their presentation to the Women 's International Professional Council , a group of British tennis writers , plus two from France , were summoned to hear Gerry Smith suggest that all they really wanted to do was to give the women players the same sort of voice in the game as the men ; that they had no intention of tearing the women 's game apart and that if they had been able to carry on negotiations quietly and in confidence , there would have been no problems . |
| 20 | The description of the facts is somewhat exiguous and I can not help feeling that if they had been fully stated the case would fall to be treated as involving a demand colore officii rather than as supporting the Woolwich principle . |
| 21 | I actually said that there were relatively few anomalies and that if they had been addressed the tax would have found favour . |
| 22 | Their case is that if they had been properly and correctly advised as they were entitled to be under the contract , they would not have proceeded to exchange or to completion . |
| 23 | Good d Good does in fact do what you said and his recommendation er for final salary schemes is er a third of the trustees should be or have the right to be er from the , the members and er er we 've in our er comments to you have er looked at a global point of view and said no not are these proposals worthy in themselves , but using a different criteria that if they had been law as Ken said earlier , would they have stopped Maxwell and a situation where a third of the trustees were er were they members er would have made no difference er cos typically in our cases there were originally about four trustees er and unfortunately for us , three of them were named Maxwell . |
| 24 | I 'm firmly convinced that if we had been operating under the old style of management , making a consensus decision , the clinicians would have got to their clinical representative and said there 's no way we want that — we want everything twice as big and gold-plated taps because patients will die , etc. , and their rep would say , " I 'm sorry but it 's completely unacceptable to my colleagues ' . |
| 25 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
| 26 | So that if you 've been really rough , and you 're ninety nine , you can look at the figures and you 've still got nearly four years left . |
| 27 | The argument that if you 've been born a tortoise , it is difficult to become a hare because some official insists , is flawed , though the imposing of fines must be done in a responsible manner and not by self-appointed officials with heavy-handed habits . |
| 28 | I will I would say that if you had been speaking to me on the phone , and this is not a criticism of John it 's just a an observation , you would n't be here . |
| 29 | Now you can work out for yourselves that if you 'd been betting a pound on each of those horses you 'd have finished up substantially down . |
| 30 | She argues that if you have been assisted by relatives yourself , this imposes a strong obligation to provide similar support for others , even if that means giving a temporary home to someone whom you do not particularly like ( p. 89 ) . |