Example sentences of "been that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haines himself admitted that as an outsider his preconception had been that the Jockey Club was ‘ An old-fashioned , creaking organisation of part-timers . ’ |
| 2 | The most fundamental difference to me has always been that the private sector is so much more dynamic — the rate of change is so great . |
| 3 | It may have been that the editor did n't know how to cut a scene , or that the financiers called in a hack to re-edit the picture . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The only change in the intervening period had been that the government had prepared for the threatened dispute while the Samuel Commission deliberated about the way in which to make the industry more efficient and profitable . |
| 7 | A key component of Hitler 's image had formerly been that the buildup of Germany 's military might would bring the strengthening of defence against outside threat : a policy of ‘ peace through strength ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But it could have been that the whole truck was a set-up : corral the gringos then fleece them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Ian Hay told me the lady 's last wish had been that the Colonel should scatter her ashes in the headwaters of the River Laxford : ‘ But , you see , his new young wife was not the sort of lady to enjoy much walking and the poor Colonel just did n't know how he was going to get the job done . |
| 14 | Our presumption has been that the police adhere to them . |
| 15 | It has been suggested that the reason for this choice may have been that the longer of the two annual intervals between successive zenith-transits of the sun in the neighbourhood of Copan ( one of the most important Maya cities ) at latitude 15 degrees north is 260 days . |
| 16 | The result has been that the majority of boards produced today fall under the blanket description of being funboards , although there are in fact a number of different designs . |
| 17 | The consequence of this has been that the Coal Board has been forced to borrow substantial sums from the National Loans Fund , and from other sources under Treasury Guarantee , to finance the new and redeveloped capacity considered necessary by the NCB . |
| 18 | In fact a common complaint over the past decade has been that the high level of data content included in entries for the benefit of cataloguing records has been achieved at the cost of timeliness , and the BNB has certainly lost ground as a selection source for this reason . |
| 19 | The only difference has been that the old decisions were about small sums of money and fewer workers , while the decisions today involve vast sums of money and thousands of workers , and also the welfare of their families and other townsfolk . |
| 20 | Thirdly , a recurrent theme of much criticism of local government has been that the division and allocation of responsibilities have always been unclear . |
| 21 | Their main concern has been that the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — a by-product of our dependence on energy from fossil fuels — could trap infrared radiation near the surface of the Earth and warm the planet through the so-called ‘ greenhouse effect ’ . |
| 22 | If all members of the human race had arrived roughly at the same time at the point when the need for a ‘ god ’ had started to influence human behaviour , it may well have been that the existence of a disastrous diversity of ‘ gods ’ , all of whom according to their worshippers conferred privileges , would never have become established . |
| 23 | The paramount mistake has been that the intelligence of the individual has been permitted to be clouded by childhood teaching to such an extent that he has been persuaded that the religious writings came from some other source which renders them inviolate . |
| 24 | Her main fear had been that the mare would stumble over an unseen obstacle and they would both be pitched headlong into the snow . |
| 25 | The conventional wisdom has been that the nature of the job being done by the organisation determines the requisite amount of rules and procedures . |
| 26 | The other trend has been that the midfield is more cluttered than it ever was . |
| 27 | Although occasionally Dutch finance companies with Antillean parents ( taxed at a turn on the interest in the Netherlands ) are still seen , for the past few years the perceived wisdom has been that the Swiss finance branch structure is superior . |
| 28 | Could it have been that the upholders contested the undertakers ' application to join their guild , on the pretext that the furnishing of funerals was the prerogative of their members ? |
| 29 | The difficulty with so many problems in materials science has been that the algebra and arithmetic , though theoretically soluble , are too laborious to be done by traditional methods . |
| 30 | One suggestion has been that the energy output of the Sun itself fluctuates over a long period . |