Example sentences of "[verb] [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most common reasons given are that although the complaint is within scope , there is no realistic remedy , or there is no real evidence of the complaint being well-founded . |
| 2 | The result of all this has been that proponents in the press of the fashionable pro-government doctrine of ‘ new realism ’ have somehow found themselves spending most of their time constructing and then reporting on a fantasy world . |
| 3 | His hope has been that better use of woodlands will give the trees greater value , and so farmers and landowners will have an economic reason for managing their woods . |
| 4 | The British line has been that there is a huge difference between the image of Britain accepted in South Africa and the reality . |
| 5 | ‘ The mood of this conference has been that there is a light at the end of the 10-year tunnel — we are a party again . ’ |
| 6 | The Government 's official position , dictated by the Prime Minister , has been that Britain will join the ERM when ‘ the time is ripe ’ . |
| 7 | The traditional ‘ trade-off ’ for the secure tenure of senior British civil servants has been that they are anonymous and politically impartial . |
| 8 | In recent years there has been considerable discussion of the role of the Sovereign in the eventuality of a hung Parliament , such as that of 1929–31 , and the general conclusion has been that her role is essentially a passive one . |
| 9 | I suppose one of the key factors of my whole industrial career has been that if an opportunity comes up , I grab it . |
| 10 | Right from the early 1960s the attitude of local authorities and housing departments has been that ‘ ghettos ’ must be avoided at all costs , and even a handful of Asian families can make an area into a ghetto . |
| 11 | The lesson since Bismarck has been that France can not compete politically , militarily or economically with a united Germany . |
| 12 | In the past , whenever he has erred on the side of too much order , the judgment inside the Soviet Union and outside has been that ‘ Gorbachev is as good as we 'll get ’ . |
| 13 | One persistent idea has been that the two main moderate right-wing parties , the Rassemblement pour la République and the Union pour la Démocratie Française , must get together if they are to have any chance of regaining power . |
| 14 | Japan 's stance over what it calls its Northern Territories has been that there can be no peace treaty between the two countries until all four of the islands ( Etorofu , Kunashiri , Shikotan and Habomai ) are returned . |
| 15 | A side effect of the Act , however , has been that many owners of leasehold property no longer regard such investments as sound and they have voluntarily negotiated the sale of freeholds even where the property concerned did not fall within the provisions of the 1967 Act . |
| 16 | The significant feature of privatization has been that the transformation has usually been carried out by broadly the same teams that had worked under nationalization . |
| 17 | The result has been that the minority Free Democrats ( FDP ) , with only 79 seats in the Bundestag , can maintain their grip on the balance of power for decades . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | The result has been that sales of diesel cars in Britain last year reached a record 139,810 , or 8.8 per cent of a smaller total market , compared with 128,167 ( 6.38 per cent ) in 1990 . |
| 21 | The principal counter-argument has been that Essex has enjoyed the benefit of a former tutor-organiser as Federation chairman and that , in the absence of an equivalent person to give a lead elsewhere , tutor-organisers have continued to be essential . |
| 22 | A common observation has been that there are soils in which some diseases never seem to occur and it is presumed that microorganisms that are antagonistic to pathogens naturally occur in these ‘ suppressive soils ’ . |
| 23 | One suggestion has been that the Government would agree to amendments in December 1991 , with the reservation that these would not be binding upon the United Kingdom unless and until they had been ratified and approved by the United Kingdom parliament . |
| 24 | The result has been that a century which has seen so much development in terms of resources and method in historical research , has also seen a recurrent historical scepticism in theology . |
| 25 | My claim has been that there are parallels to be observed between the theism of the Western religious traditions and that of the main Eastern religious tradition . |
| 26 | Another suggestion has been that the only solution would be the fitting of a Rover SDI engine which I understand would also give much better mpg . |
| 27 | The effect of this change in responsibility has been that in many schools the provision of meals and the supervision of children during the mid-day break has drifted out to the margins of importance and there has been , in general , a gradual decline in the numbers of children receiving cooked meals on school premises . |
| 28 | ‘ One of my problems over the last few years has been that I 'm amazingly optimistic — really stupid in fact ! |
| 29 | The argument has been that the geography of poverty and the geography of voting are interconnected and thus party politics and public policies are interconnected too . |
| 30 | Our presumption has been that the police adhere to them . |