Example sentences of "have [vb pp] that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( " You have heard that it was said " was the traditional rabbinic formula for introducing their interpretation . ) |
| 2 | The high proportion of royalists looks embarrassing not only for Merton 's thesis but for variants of it which have claimed that it was the political radicalism ( not the puritanism ) of the parliamentary radicals that made them receptive to revolutionary science . |
| 3 | We have seen that it was often difficult to isolate the various sub-domains condensed and subsumed under the general categories of morality and immorality . |
| 4 | While few serious historians have defended Communist excesses , some have argued that it was only the strategy in whose name they were committed that enabled the Republic to fight on for as long as it did . |
| 5 | There were , undoubtedly , people with AIDS before 1981 , but careful retrospective studies have shown that it was rare and affected few people compared to the numbers now involved . |
| 6 | erm I have two children and I have found that it was quite a full-time job persuading them of the virtue of certain old-fashioned ways of going about things . |
| 7 | Most historians have assumed that it was the aftermath of Prasutagus ' death alone that caused the Revolt and that the Druids were not involved , but I have always taken the view that it was the threat of their imminent extinction which concentrated all their efforts on arresting the progress of the army , with the probability of a great British victory . |
| 8 | You have admitted that it was I who caused all the evidence to fall into a pattern . |
| 9 | However , some scholars have maintained that it was not unusual to save a remnant of one 's swaddling clothes — particularly the chrysom cloth — for this purpose . |
| 10 | I have mentioned that it was the pope 's consecration of Thurstan as archbishop of York without submission to Canterbury in October 1119 , followed by the failure of Archbishop Ralph 's letter to the pope stating the Canterbury case , which made stronger measures necessary . |
| 11 | We must remember , too , that Dissenters in the 18th century were not the political revolutionaries they had been in the 17th — there was a sense in which the rabid Nonconformity of one generation became the established respectability of the next , and commentators like Halevy have suggested that it was precisely the innate conservatism of the new dissent , Methodism , which helped stave off revolution in England in the early 19th century — a real opium of the people , in effect . |
| 12 | Indeed , some people have suggested that it was so difficult as to have been impossible , but this is to underestimate the intelligence and ingenuity of our forebears . |
| 13 | Many of the commentators on the ‘ permissive era ’ , discussed in Chapter one , have suggested that it was a period characterised by radical changes in both behaviour and the rules that govern behaviour . |
| 14 | Several historians recently have suggested that it was certainly not in the way that had been intended . |
| 15 | It is quite clear against the background that I have described that it was intended that it should be an exceptional power and that it should be used only when there are no other ways in which the individual applicant may consider the case himself through the planning process . |