Example sentences of "have [be] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consensus of modern liberal thinking has been that it does not ; it has preferred to stress the " inherently pluralistic and diverse " nature of modern societies , and the consequent need to reach a consensus or compromise among the various competing interests and groups within society . |
| 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 | According to Carl Chilley , principal business services consultant , the problem with distributed computing has been that it has encouraged the development of technology for technology 's sake , without real thought as to how to implement it effectively in a business environment . |
| 4 | This proved to be a fateful oversight since one of the most devastating criticisms to be levelled at Keynesian macroeconomics in recent years has been that it has such shaky foundations in microeconomics . |
| 5 | For the Governor , though , the main benefit has been that it gives prison officers ‘ permission to be concerned ’ in a structured and consistent way . |
| 6 | A disadvantage of team teaching , of course , has been that it required the teacher , normally an individualistic person accustomed to complete authority within the four walls of his classroom , to sink his authority and his subject speciality within a group . |
| 7 | One of the criticisms levelled at the board has been that it fails to consult properly or listen to objections to proposals . |
| 8 | CONSIDERING the vast worldwide market that exists for sexual material of all kinds , it is remarkable just how bad mainstream cinema has been when it comes to portraying sexual passion . |
| 9 | It was not without its problems — co-operation between the individual producers was not always as effective as it might have been and it lacked a satisfactory system of ensuring that the quality of productions was kept uniformly high — but it was an influential scheme , and the bias towards the tape-slide medium amongst audio-visual teaching aids in the UK remains to this day . |
| 10 | How much easier and clearer it might have been if it had been possible to say that both parents and husband were equally concerned and that they might all talk together . |
| 11 | This is in part due to practice ; but there is also an influence of maturation , for if a chick is prevented from pecking at food during its second day , it will still be better at pecking on its third than on its first day ( Figure 3.5 ) but it will not be as accurate as it would have been if it had been allowed to practise . |
| 12 | The Chief Constable fussed around the Bishop , the press had been shut up , or anyway given a damn sight less than they would have been if it had n't been a priest 's body , or rather , head . |
| 13 | Dr Neil made vain attempts to stifle the bleeding , his own face now as grey as the bedlinen had been before it turned red . |
| 14 | His major criticism of Murder in the Cathedral had been that it contained too much obvious " poetry " , and in the new play he wanted to create a more flexible and less ostensible verse line which could handle demotic or rarefied material equally well . |
| 15 | Up to this point the only political significance of racism had been that it provided a divided work force for employers . |
| 16 | The Irish Times quoted Craig as claiming that a reason for banning the march had been that it posed a threat to the United States military base in Derry : |
| 17 | like it , now but it 's alright where you 've been but it belongs to someone else does n't it ? |
| 18 | erm I found it self-indulgent , I suppose in the sense that perhaps it was too long and the film maker , I think , was reluctant to erm chop some of that material , but I think the great advantage that the film had was that it reached a very wide audience by being shown on BBC South . |
| 19 | and it 's been and it 's been beaten to hell . |
| 20 | Erm , amendment that need to be made to this words housing waiting list , we in fact no longer have a standard housing waiting list but have a housing needs register erm that says a great deal about the system that we have is that it 's judged on people 's housing need and not on their income . |
| 21 | The one consolation that the adventurers have is that it stops raining , and the sun breaks through the clouds — although its light is watery and without warmth . |