Example sentences of "that [art] [noun] have [be] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ It must be the full moon , ’ Lee grumbled , melting butter in a saucepan , and then remembered that the moon had been but a sliver the previous night . |
| 2 | It was a repeat of the result of the first Fourball series at Muirfield village two years ago but only the second time that the Americans had been shut out since the fourball format was introduced at Atlanta in 1963 . |
| 3 | Given this stark choice , the jury decided that the policeman had been deceitful rather than that the woman had been ‘ wicked and false ’ in her evidence . |
| 4 | Initial investigations suggested that the crash had been caused by a combination of bad weather and either pilot error or a failure in the communications system . |
| 5 | A survey of the wreckage was said to have proved that the helicopter had been carrying combat weapons and armed personnel as well as civilians ; the Georgian side attributed the crash itself to overloading , with 64 passengers on a 24-seat helicopter . |
| 6 | The labelling of cans of tuna as " dolphin-friendly " should be discontinued , since no importer can be sure that the tuna has been caught in a way which has does not threaten dolphins , according to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society ( WDCS ) . |
| 7 | When asked how it was done , Ruysch simply said that the corpse had been put in cold water for a day or so , the aorta and venae cavae were then opened , the blood cleared out and the whole put in hot water for four to six hours ; for the injection he had used suet or tallow in the winter , and added wax , turpentine and resin in summer . |
| 8 | I later learnt that the corpse had been badly mauled in battle , the face disfigured by a crashing axe blow . |
| 9 | The Ministry of Agriculture statement said that the warning had been intended as preventative advice . |
| 10 | that the premises in respect of which the grant was made have been completed in accordance with the plan thereof lodged with the board , or ( b ) that the premises have been completed and that such deviations from the said plan as exist are of minor importance and have not materially altered the character of the premises or the facilities for the supply of alcoholic liquor thereat . |
| 11 | Many police officers were angry that the cases had been brought at all , since the methods employed by the defendant constables were said to have involved no more than what was set out in the Home Office-approved Tactical Options Manual . |
| 12 | Now that the subject had been opened , each wanted to have his say . |
| 13 | Cotinine in the urine is a reliable indicator that the subject has been exposed to passive smoking . |
| 14 | The journalist spends time on the story and then discovers that the subject has been around for years . |
| 15 | It was understood that the UK had been guaranteed three of the quota of 15 tests authorized by Congress over the next three years under new test-ban legislation passed in September [ see p. 39121 ] . |
| 16 | It has been reported for example that the UK has been identified as the main European culprit as far as sulphur emissions and the killing of Norway and Sweden 's lakes is concerned , yet the UK 's sulphur emissions have been in decline since 1970 while acidification has not . |
| 17 | The result of all these changes is two-fold , that the UK has been getting richer , but not as fast as the rest of the industrialized world . |
| 18 | A Moma spokeswoman indicated that the decision had been reached by the Pushkin and Hermitage museums , the two principal lenders to the New York show , together with the Pompidou and MoMA itself . |
| 19 | In the second appeal the committee said that the decision had been made in the light of the admission criteria and that they felt ‘ unable ’ to override section 6(3) ( a ) . |
| 20 | Lord Arbuthnott , who presented a plaque and scroll to the Nevis Range directors , said that the decision had been unanimous . |
| 21 | Bhanu Pratap ( Singh , the state Governor , declared that the decision had been taken largely because of the serious law and order situation , but in his statement he openly defied convention by issuing a political message which questioned Gandhi 's right to be involved in the state 's politics . |
| 22 | Although it was officially denied , commentators suggested that the decision had been taken in order to settle the lingering controversy surrounding the referendum of 1946 , widely believed to have been rigged by the communists , whereby the monarchy had been abolished . |
| 23 | The government stated that the decision had been made in order to prevent the spiral of drug-related violence which had eventually persuaded the Colombian government to end extradition [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 38332 ] . |
| 24 | Claiming that the decision had been prompted by popular demand , Kuwait 's ambassador to the USA , Shaikh Saud Nasir al Sabah , said in an interview with the Washington Post that only 50,000 to 60,000 out of an estimated 380,000 Palestinians living in Kuwait were working . |
| 25 | In response to the Sept. 11 announcement by the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that 11,000 Soviet troops were to be withdrawn from Cuba , an editorial in the official Communist party newspaper Granma declared that the decision had been " unilateral " , had broken historical and legitimate bilateral accords and was the equivalent of giving a " green light " to the United States to carry out " aggressive plans against Cuba " . |
| 26 | The US State Department said that the decision had been taken in response to " positive steps " by Vietnam on the MIA issue as well as Vietnam 's continued support for the Cambodian peace plan . |
| 27 | When he believes that Tom is not guilty of the rape of which he has been accused , we know that Tom is innocent so when he is found guilty of raping Mayella Ewell , it is quite clear that the decision had been heavily prejudiced . |
| 28 | Reasons can assist the courts in performing their supervisory function , can help to ensure that the decision has been thought through , and can aid in the control of administrative discretion . |
| 29 | Why his Lordship should have concluded that the facts did not give rise to the issue is unclear , but subsequent events have shown that the decision has been of much greater importance for the scope of the right of public meeting than his Lordship imagined it would be . |
| 30 | In his view it was disgusting that the union had been forced to battle for four years to win the day . |