Example sentences of "be that it have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | One of the chief glories of this house is that it has been little altered since it was built around the middle of the sixteenth century . |
| 4 | One consequence of the breadth of this definition is that it has been held to cover psychological harm — where D causes V to become hysterical or to suffer substantial fear or fright , for example . |
| 5 | If the campaign has been logical to the strategists , the public perception is that it has been awful . |
| 6 | My main criticism of intensive agricultural production , and of animal farming in particular , is that it has been locked for too long into a model-T-Ford-type philosophy , geared to produce a standard commodity as cheaply as possible . |
| 7 | What is already clear is that it has been a success in developing our own AI-skilled personnel . |
| 8 | Perhaps the best that can be said of Mr Karimov 's treatment of dissidents is that it has been consistent . |
| 9 | One reason for this lack of information is that it has been difficult to obtain pure enzymes that are sufficiently active under in vitro conditions . |
| 10 | One of the main reasons that the display looks so good is that it has been configured to use typographic faces as opposed to conventional typewriter-like text and this advantage has been further heightened by using typographic measurements throughout , each dot on the screen corresponds to 1 point . |
| 11 | The ideological success of Thatcherism is that it has been adopted by many young people for the values which direct their life style . |
| 12 | The reason you have n't read about it , even in the official UFO journals , is that it has been kept so secret that not even the ufologists know about it . |
| 13 | ‘ All I can say is that it has been tried and tested over many years . |
| 14 | The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30 . |
| 15 | The worst thing about Pet 's body was that it had been badly crushed below the waist . |
| 16 | The problem SAVE faced was that it had been so disfigured by later alterations that many people doubted it was of sufficient interest to merit saving . |
| 17 | To Welford Beaton the great weakness of the movie industry was that it had been ‘ born without reasoning faculties ’ and had failed subsequently to develop any : since birth , he suggested , the industry had ‘ allowed the box-office to do its thinking for it ’ . |
| 18 | One hypothesis which had gained wide acceptance and which was consistent with the damage to the aircraft was that it had been hit in error by a NATO missile . |
| 19 | The verdict of the clerk to the select committee of 1824 which reviewed it was that it had been a dead letter so far as " those artisans on whom it was intended to have an effect " , namely printers , tailors , shoe makers and shipbuilders in London who continued " their regular societies and houses of call as though no such act were in existence " . |
| 20 | And the worst part of it was that it had been so wonderful that it would be hard to avoid doing it again . |
| 21 | The Downing Street line on the Home Office incident was that it had been a junior official who had gone through the files to help answer journalists ' inquiries about Clinton , not to help the Bush Administration . |
| 22 | what I most often heard when I phoned people a couple of days in was that it 's been the worst two days of my life ! |