Example sentences of "has [vb pp] that [pron] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court has heard that she was arrested after police found out that one of the men she named appeared to be in Scotland at the time of the alleged incident . |
| 2 | In 1950 a polled Finnish bull was imported — and more than one Irishman has claimed that it was in fact an Irish Moiled , in the firm belief that all polled Scandinavian cattle were descended from polled Irish cattle seized by raiding Norsemen and Danes . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , a self-declared ring-leader , Paul Taylor , shouting from the roof tops , has claimed that it was all just a sit-in protest that got out of control . |
| 4 | Well David said that we were at the end , everyone believed that they were that the time has come that we was at the end of the world . |
| 5 | Now the local press has reported that he was ‘ involved ’ with unnamed politicians on the coast , an interesting remark considering that the country is in the middle of two rounds of parliamentary election voting . |
| 6 | Monza was to be decisive for his championship , and Ken Tyrrell has written that it was Jackie 's finest race , not least because he knew he led the championship and because , having already decided to retire , he needed to do no more than the minimum , particularly since he was starting only from sixth place on the grid . |
| 7 | Professor Hurstfield has argued that they were not , and that , provided no harm was done to the state , it would be anachronistic for the historian to object to them . |
| 8 | Jacqueline de Romilly , Professor of Greek Literature at the Sorbonne , in her Messenger Lectures at Cornell University in 1967 on ‘ Time in Greek Tragedy ’ , has argued that it was no coincidence that Greek tragedy was born at the same time as historiography . |
| 9 | Robert Kidder has argued that there was no clash of values , but that on the contrary the attraction of the courts was that they were in theory able to pass down clear-cut and decisive decisions . |
| 10 | In a recent analysis of the garotting panic of 1862 , Jennifer Davis has argued that there was in fact no startling upsurge in crimes of violence which could justify the extent of the alarm . |
| 11 | Edward Thompson has argued that there was a change in popular sentiment in that after 1791 it was no longer possible for the " establishment " to pressure radicals by raising " Church and King " mobs against them and their property . |
| 12 | Heavy taxation was a major factor here , as various sources ( discussed in Chapter 5 ) are at pains to stress , and Dr Gem has argued that there was a recession in church building as a result . |
| 13 | IMRO , the City watchdog responsible for regulating fund managers , has revealed that it was already probing Dumenil 's administration following complaints from investors that they were receiving their income late . |
| 14 | Indeed , archaeologists now believe it was due to agricultural mismanagement combined with a booming population , for investigation of a major palace in the site at Copan , Honduras , has revealed that there was only a small contingent of specialist workers employed in constructing the elaborate structure , in other words that this was not enough to overburden the economy as is sometimes alleged to be the cause of the collapse of that civilization . |
| 15 | The manager of the Ljubljana branch of the Belgrade Bank has revealed that he was asked by a high official of the National Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina to purchase 3 billion dinars of Agrokomerc bills of exchange ( Politika , 27 August 1987 ) . |
| 16 | The management team had , I 'll sit down if you do n't mind , the management team has decided that we were going to go for quality because it was a matter of survival . |
| 17 | Mr Tam Bayoumi has calculated the average size of capital flows each year in the major economies under the Gold Standard from 1880 to 1913 , and has shown that they were much larger than during the post-war period from 1965 to 1986 . |
| 18 | Finally the chapter has described the achieved action and control samples and has shown that they were well matched and that the response rate was good . |
| 19 | The excavation of Upper Palaeolithic burials has shown that they were already being sewn onto clothing in positions which suggest that their role was symbolic as well as decorative . |
| 20 | A mile to the west of Loch Gorm the road to Gruinart cuts through a settlement at An Sithern of about a dozen round houses which were constructed in the late Bronze Age and which a cursory examination has shown that they were used at least three times . |
| 21 | Careful examination of ancient Egyptian cloisonné work has shown that what was once claimed as enamel was in reality coloured glass skilfully cut to fit the cloisons . |
| 22 | The incidence study has shown that there were more older patients and relatively more patients with colonic disease during the 1980s . |
| 23 | In Somerset , Roger Leech has shown that there was a Romano-British settlement about every 1 kilometre ( 2 mile ) across the landscape . |
| 24 | There is evidence for a minor advance in European glaciers during the period AD 700–900 ( Denton and Karlén 1973 ) and Tooley has demonstrated that there was a period of climatic extremes in addition to a complex marine transgression sequence at this time ; sea-levels rose to a maximum of + 1.2 m above sea-level in c . |
| 25 | Drescher , however , has demonstrated that there were at least twenty-seven public meetings for anti-slave trade petitioning in 1788 . |
| 26 | At times , it has seemed that it was . |
| 27 | Often it has seemed that there was not too much difference between the major parties . |
| 28 | I spent hours trying to answer that query — and I 'm pleased to say that experience has proved that we were n't entirely loony . |
| 29 | The girl in fig. 69 is a kore , no different in dress or in formal structure from her sisters , and no one has doubted that it was before 480 that Euthydikos , whose name appears on the very simple base , dedicated her ; but she evidences a revolutionary change of spirit . |
| 30 | A broader assessment of fiscal policy has concluded that it was positively destabilising but , as has been suggested above , this was probably of marginal significance [ Dow , 1964 ; Blackaby , 1978 ] . |