Example sentences of "that it have [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four months later it was Legasov who led the Soviet delegation to the Vienna conference on the disaster , and it was the forcefulness of his opening five-hour speech that established the conventional wisdom about Chernobyl : that it had been caused by human error among the operators , that the measures taken to protect the population had been adequate , and that the Soviet Union had nothing to hide . |
| 2 | Believing still that the catastrophe had been caused by other people and the actions of other people , believing it as firmly as Kate believed that it had been caused by devils and Quentin that it was part of God 's mystery , Lavinia saw a spark in the gloom . |
| 3 | They suggested that it had been created by fusion within the metal and that muons from cosmic radiation might have been the catalyst . |
| 4 | When the same species was found occupying two separate territories , it made more sense to work out how it could have migrated from one to the other than to assume that it had been created independently in each area . |
| 5 | A new amenities committee had been formed within the parish council during the year , and chairman Ken Yeldham explained that it had been formed to deal with the things that fell outside the scope of the present committees . |
| 6 | We had often seen its crumbling ramparts from a distance , and had assumed it was Dutch , but now learnt that it had been built by the islanders , long before the Europeans . |
| 7 | Reporting the statement , Reuters said that it had been assumed that Pol Pot was directing the Khmers Rouges from secret bases . |
| 8 | He ordered the tomb of Cyrus at Pasargadear to be well preserved , and he was infuriated when he later discovered that it had been vandalized . |
| 9 | It took Donna a moment or two to realize that it had been activated by some kind of electric eye . |
| 10 | Charlotte chose one of the least ostentatious chairs , only to find , when she rested her hand on the rounded end of the arm , that it had been carved in the likeness of a naked woman bending forwards , between whose ample gilded buttocks one of her fingers was dangling . |
| 11 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 12 | Thus , whilst in 1953 Armed Forces support was invoked by the Party , in 1957 it might be said that it had been enlisted by a faction , albeit the First Secretary 's own . |
| 13 | In this case , the plaintiff purchased a painting of Salisbury Cathedral from the defendants who innocently misrepresented that it had been painted by John Constable . |
| 14 | He screamed again and again as it came closer , certain that it had been sent to judge him . |
| 15 | But this made it so obvious who had sent this copy that he was astonished that it had been sent at all . |
| 16 | Nonetheless the rebels immediately announced their rejection of the new Constitution on the grounds that it had been adopted by a National Assembly which the MNR considered invalid . |
| 17 | Since then the rumours have escalated : that the sister of Arkle had been remeasured by the Ordnance Survey ; that it had been resurveyed by satellite — that Foinavon , by virtue of its new stature , had joined the charmed 277 . |
| 18 | And went down into the kitchen , whose door she boldly opened , not caring that it had been shut to bar her out . |
| 19 | Blix , in Libya for the opening of the first Arab conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy , visited Libya 's one declared nuclear reactor , the small Soviet-built Tajura research reactor outside Tripoli , and found that it had been shut down since June 1991 because spare parts were no longer available and most of the Soviet scientists who had worked there had gone home . |
| 20 | The fact that the assassination coincided with the release in Lebanon of the British hostage John McCarthy [ see p. 38405 ] fuelled speculation that it had been sanctioned by opponents of the Iranian government critical of its current conciliatory attitude towards the West [ see pp.38212 ; 38309 ] and of its role in pressing for an early resolution of the hostage crisis . |
| 21 | A meeting of the Public Sector Pay Committee had been called for 8.45 a.m. — a sure sign that it had been called by Geoffrey Howe who was consistently the earliest ministerial starter . |
| 22 | However , the attack , which was thought to have been planned for Kiechle 's 60th birthday party on March 3 in Bavaria , had not taken place and a further letter from the RAF stated that it had been called off due to a " mistake in co-ordination " . |
| 23 | During the course of the campaign the Liberal leader failed to deflect charges that the early election was prompted by political opportunism , and that it had been called while the Liberals still enjoyed a lead in the opinion polls , but with an economic downturn in prospect . |
| 24 | It is the equivalent of a British government refusing to appear for questions in the House saying that it had been elected and therefore did not need to defend its decisions before parliament . |
| 25 | This was the first time since 1948 that the entire Legislative Yuan had been elected , and the first time ever that it had been elected entirely within Taiwan . |
| 26 | The thought that it had been inside his mouth , touching his tongue and gums and those rather small but perfect teeth , that it had been drenched in some of his most intimate fluids gave me an erotic thrill . |
| 27 | Who could be sure that it had been positioned correctly , that the first thick black line was exactly three feet and six inches from the green tiles of the floor ? |
| 28 | But , in this case , we must suppose that he was both immoral and stupid : immoral in producing evidence which he knew to be forged , and stupid in not going further and producing the letters with their forged additions , for he would have known that a similar forgery supporting the monastic community at Canterbury had recently been submitted at Rome , and that it had been accepted and solemnly quoted to him by the pope as genuine . |
| 29 | Many were guessing that it had been filled with pepper or castor-oil or some other foul-tasting substance that would make the boy violently sick . |
| 30 | A small proportion ( about 20 ) of the 660 people living in the hospital in 1984 were widely regarded as presenting such serious challenges that it had been planned to move them to new sub-regional institutions rather than community services . |