Example sentences of "have [be] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't say what it would 've been , you know what the outcome would 've been but it would 've been different . |
| 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 major criticisms of the battery cage has been that it is so small that the hens have no room to move or to perform their natural behaviour patterns . |
| 4 | For most of the two centuries since that phenomenon began the conventional explanation has been that it was the new technology ( the spinning-jenny , the new weaving frames , and the steam engine ) which gave rise to the factory . |
| 5 | Throughout , our view has been that it is teachers who are closest to children , and together with parents they are responsible for deciding how to use the tools at hand . |
| 6 | But my argument has been that it is not difficult to defend something roughly resembling the status quo rather than being bludgeoned into a guilty conscience by accepting that one is a covert elitist or racist . |
| 7 | For the Governor , though , the main benefit has been that it gives prison officers ‘ permission to be concerned ’ in a structured and consistent way . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Working within this international world it is , of course , a great help if one speaks several languages , but my own experience has been that it is not the ability to speak another language , rare enough this essential tool of international business is amongst British people , but the experience of having lived and worked with people in another country which is the decisive factor . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It er it , we , certainly the expansion of Tadcaster has been looked at quite thoroughly , though not only by the local authorities , but by the private sector , and the , and I think the the agreement has been that it it is not possible at the scale which is required to meet the needs of Greater York . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I think that there 's a lot for your Lordship to read but I think it might be beneficial in the long run , it was certainly , our experience has been that it certainly would take time in the long run but to deal with it this way . |
| 15 | One of the criticisms levelled at the board has been that it fails to consult properly or listen to objections to proposals . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A standard monetarist prediction of that decision would have been that it would produce two years of boom , followed by growing inflation and balance of payments deficit . |
| 18 | ‘ If proper thought had been given to that , I think the conclusion must have been that it would not be beneficial … |
| 19 | The answer was he usually ignored them , which meant of course that some entries were obscured and the whole was not as clean as it may have been but it was certainly speedy . |
| 20 | No it could have been but it is n't . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | That was like the day I had them out was the day that my first N H S appointment would have been and it it 's like , you know |
| 23 | Uzès was and is a town out of another time , a yellow town on a gently conical hill , geometrical roof on roof , a town that must have been as it now is when Shakespeare wrote Antony and Cleopatra . |
| 24 | The room may well have been as it was then , twenty years ago . |
| 25 | If your original application was rejected by some or all of the institutions you listed , this might have been because it was delayed and did not reach the admissions tutor until after the course was full . |
| 26 | There has been some confusion — I do not know why there should have been because it was made clear last night by the Secretary of State for Wales — about the position of students . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It would be idle to speculate on what the figures might have been if it were not for the security situation . |