Example sentences of "[be] that [pers pn] have [been] " in BNC.

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1 All the indications are that he 's been , that he does not wish to be involved with any disputes .
2 IF you are a celebrity of some kind then the odds are that you have been asked to endorse a product of some kind .
3 So , if the horse rears or puts its tongue over the bit , the chances are that it has been hurt in the mouth by a rider with bad hands .
4 But the most important flaw in the instruction has been that it has been too often divorced from the classroom itself and from the active involvement of the teacher .
5 It may be that they have been healed ; it may be that they have known the manifest presence of God as the church has drawn near to him in worship .
6 It may be that they have been without God and alone and lost in the world and that through the preaching of the word they have become Christians .
7 It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them .
8 Yeah well at the end of the day I mean I I was n't there but a the facts at the end of the day were that they 'd been buggering about with that radio system which they should n't do .
9 Jarvis Stringer 's grandparents ' qualifications for keeping a school were that he had been up at Oxford where he had read Greats and she had left Goldsmith 's College halfway through her teacher training .
10 The only good news to offset my ‘ disgrace ’ was that Father had proved such a success at Marconi 's that he had been appointed an assistant manager in the research department dealing with radio materials .
11 It was no fault of Harry 's that he had been mistakenly put in the care of such people , although there was nothing to be said against the Pritchetts — a decent , hard-working family — other than their class .
12 Kevin Irving 's ‘ father ’ writes to admit that he 's Pope , Chas F Garvey 's that he has been faithful to his wife for 42 years , and Mark Ambrose 's that he has a dash of myxomatosis ( to be fair , the father is a rabbit ) .
13 ‘ The saddest thing is that we 've been persuaded that true travellers know how to haggle .
14 And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements .
15 But I mean , one of the things that we 've got on with at the moment is that we 've been saying for ages , you 've got to get your you 've got to get us involved at design stage .
16 is that we 've been involved in health strategy for the past over five years .
17 The job of communicating is very important indeed and maybe one of our problems is that we have been doing so much within the business that we are not ready to communicate to the outside world that it perhaps does n't understand sufficiently what our targets are .
18 ‘ What has happened is that we have been clawed back from the disastrous level of whitefish we started at to a position in line with the top end of scientific advice . ’
19 Indeed , we make an effort not to use the phrase for a number of reasons , one of which is that we have been unable to figure out what it means ’ .
20 The drama for women , of course , is that we have been encouraged to become dependent and hold others in dependent relationships and have rarely sought to differentiate : womens ' groups can be as tyrannical as any other when they do not allow diversity and disagreement .
21 The inward grace is that we have been born to a new relationship with God .
22 The optimistic reading is that we have been successful , in that the number of men convicted of rape has increased over the last decade by 39 per cent in the case of rape , 2 per cent in the case of sexual assault , and 55 per cent in the case of incest .
23 The result is that we have been steadily betraying mentally-ill people for at least a century .
24 The second point is that we have been told that we in Wales would return to the rates .
25 What we have been successful at and particularly important in point of view is that we have been successful in keeping Whitchurch within the rural development areas , and , and retaining the status of the available which that gives .
26 Now the trouble is that we have been the victim of those successes .
27 ‘ The major problem in the North-East is that we have been savaged by cuts in the timetable following on from totally unreliable services .
28 ‘ One of our strengths is that we have been making catalysts for many years and only market those which we have used in our own plants , ’ explained Dr Barrie Pearce , commercial assistant for ICI Catalysts at Billingham , Cleveland .
29 What I really love about these guitars — the 12-strings especially — is that they 've been set up with the lowest , most buzz-free actions imaginable .
30 Yeah but the fact it 's come out is that they 've been honest .
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