Example sentences of "[that] [ex0] have [be] " in BNC.

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1 Nonetheless , the fact that there have been up to a score of document leaks in the past month means the report is being given widespread credence .
2 Nonetheless , the fact that there have been up to a score of document leaks in the past month means the report is being given widespread credence .
3 Bromley admits that there have been reductions in ITV 's coverage .
4 He is unlikely to be satisfied with an offer to re-run the reselection procedure if it can be proved that there have been any serious breaches of the party 's rules .
5 While non-evangelicals and atheists might agree that there have been historically specific benefits from Protestantism , and that we ought to preserve such benefits , the evangelical adds a more direct link with the belief that God will punish us if we deviate further from his commands .
6 Jenny Dereham , editor of the Wainwright series , acknowledges that there have been protests , and says that Michael Joseph will consider a meeting with the objectors to discuss the possibility of republication , with revisions , at some future date .
7 However , historians and contra-cyclical investors may argue that there have been few five year periods since the Second World War when deposits have outperformed equities — and stock markets should revive over the next five years .
8 No precise data exists ; it is known , however , that there have been no significant declines in French breeding birds associated with farmland generally since the 1936 Inventory of French Birds .
9 An interesting finding which may also be relevant is that there have been reports of a triglyceride-enriched LDL present in diabetics , regardless of type and treatment ( Schonfeld et al , 1974 ; Mancini et al , 1980 ) .
10 Despite research into some aspects of the error propagation issue in spatial data processing ( e.g. Blakemore 1984 ; Chrisman 1984 ; Drummond 1987 ; Goodchild and Dubuc 1987 ; Walsh et al. 1987 ) , Burrough ( 1986:103 ) correctly points out that ‘ It is remarkable that there have been so few studies on the whole problem of residual variation and how errors arise , or are created and propagated in geographical information processing , and what the effects of these errors might be on the results of studies made . ’
11 It is not surprising , given the political climate of the 1980s , that there have been moves to improve the administration of public services by introducing management techniques more often associated ( in the eyes of government supporters at least ) with private enterprise .
12 We 've had various explanations , including the British Post Office telling us that Australia 's strike record is as bad as Britain 's and that there have been numerous disputes that have delayed the mail to that country .
13 It is just that there have been ‘ colossal changes in the transfer mechanisms ’ , he says , and widespread use of blood products , and increased homosexual promiscuity are but two of them .
14 As a final note on the range of legal options , it should be pointed out that there have been several suggestions that a new form of incorporation should be introduced to combine some of the features of company and partnership but without the problems associated with limited partnerships .
15 I know it 's on the grapevine that there have been problems with the cars , but nothing 's ever been said officially .
16 You will have noted the additional appointment of at least one wine waiter : the fact that the total wages bill has n't increased by more than about 2.2 per cent suggests that there have been some compensating reductions , probably in the part-time staff , and almost certainly in view of the decline in trade .
17 I am told that there have been further incidents since the system reopened but so far nobody has come along with any details .
18 1421–2 finds him once more using a dialogue convention to describe his woes , and it is now evident that there have been serious developments in the interim .
19 ‘ One faces a decision , I guess at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to actually damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding , corporate statements can evidence the fact that there have been poor profits during all these years …
20 By contrast , Richard Smith and David Thomson have argued , on the basis of long-term demographic evidence , that forms of retirement have existed throughout history and ( particularly if one excludes the high birth-rate nineteenth century ) that there have been many periods in which a simple dependency ratio of the elderly to the non-elderly population has been high .
21 It is not that they are not capable of competing ; it is simply that there have been no great black performers in these areas in history ( due to lack of opportunities and facilities ) and no tradition exists .
22 Although there has been intermittent interest in this area since that time , it is only more recently that there have been suitable techniques for more effective study .
23 There are modern history books which ostensibly focus on periods of great social change but the reader could be forgiven for reaching the conclusion that there have been no social changes which have involved/ affected women .
24 Wall 's ( 1986 ) evidence suggests that there have been fluctuations over time in patterns of who actually shares households , but that these have not been in a single direction .
25 Radiogenic studies indicate that there have been metasomatic enrichment events of comparable antiquity in the mantle .
26 As far at I could judge it , the general feeling among the present day staff is that there have been some gains to both the prisoners and the system , and some losses , but the gains have been bought dearly and slowly and the losses may be irreversible .
27 Henderson ( 1990 ) reports that there have been over 50 population studies of dementia prevalence and Jorm et al .
28 Unfortunately , the very fact that the study of inequality is the central issue means that there have been a great variety of competing theories and concepts attempting to describe and explain it .
29 The fact that women have decided to participate in the difficult but just struggle of El Salvador has meant that they have developed politically and ideologically and that there have been many changes in men 's attitudes , After the triumph , I believe these changes will become more apparent .
30 The use of the leap-frog appeal has been surrounded by considerable caution and the very stringent conditions to be met before such an appeal can be taken has meant that there have been very few such appeals .
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