Example sentences of "have [been] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strong points in their argument have been that they exhibit voluntaryism in its purest form , that they are free of any obligation to find a programme for the tutor-organiser to teach and that , in managing on voluntary effort alone , they are saving the District that portion of a full-time salary which would not be covered by government or local authority grant-aid . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most moving sentence in the whole book comes in the last chapter as he takes his leave of his reader : ‘ For it is not what you are nor what you have been that God regards with his most merciful eyes , but what you would like to be . ’ |
| 3 | Armstrong 's answer to this would , I think , have been that the cases were not similar . |
| 4 | The criticisms made by the informed opinion of Her Majesty 's Inspectors have been that too often the curriculum is narrow and pedestrian rather than promoting the full development of individuals . |
| 5 | The real objection to the use of the statement may in any event have been that it was self-serving rather than that it was protected by privilege , which could have been waived by the defendant . |
| 6 | The results of these factors have been that several of the new ‘ one-stop shop ’ security houses have withdrawn from market making . |
| 7 | Cruickshank believes that over the three years the results have been that ‘ so much of what we do is now being delineated by what the users want — the Patients ’ Charter is just one example of that — and health boards are taking much more time to get views , getting people like general practitioners contributing in strategy-setting and so on , so they are less likely to make mistakes . |
| 8 | The implications for selling as a result of these developments have been that salespeople of fast-moving consumer goods are no longer compelled to sell the products in the old-fashioned ‘ salesmanship ’ sense , as advertising has already pre-sold the goods for them . |