Example sentences of "[been] [that] " in BNC.

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1 The result of all this has been that proponents in the press of the fashionable pro-government doctrine of ‘ new realism ’ have somehow found themselves spending most of their time constructing and then reporting on a fantasy world .
2 His hope has been that better use of woodlands will give the trees greater value , and so farmers and landowners will have an economic reason for managing their woods .
3 The problem had been that there was no ceremony the first time around .
4 Haines himself admitted that as an outsider his preconception had been that the Jockey Club was ‘ An old-fashioned , creaking organisation of part-timers . ’
5 The British line has been that there is a huge difference between the image of Britain accepted in South Africa and the reality .
6 ‘ The mood of this conference has been that there is a light at the end of the 10-year tunnel — we are a party again . ’
7 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 .
8 The Government 's official position , dictated by the Prime Minister , has been that Britain will join the ERM when ‘ the time is ripe ’ .
9 The traditional ‘ trade-off ’ for the secure tenure of senior British civil servants has been that they are anonymous and politically impartial .
10 In recent years there has been considerable discussion of the role of the Sovereign in the eventuality of a hung Parliament , such as that of 1929–31 , and the general conclusion has been that her role is essentially a passive one .
11 The most fundamental difference to me has always been that the private sector is so much more dynamic — the rate of change is so great .
12 I suppose one of the key factors of my whole industrial career has been that if an opportunity comes up , I grab it .
13 My opinion has always been that fishermen , at least those who fish to catch and return , are on a par with the hunting fraternity .
14 Up to this point the only political significance of racism had been that it provided a divided work force for employers .
15 Right from the early 1960s the attitude of local authorities and housing departments has been that ‘ ghettos ’ must be avoided at all costs , and even a handful of Asian families can make an area into a ghetto .
16 It may have been that the editor did n't know how to cut a scene , or that the financiers called in a hack to re-edit the picture .
17 The account he gave just after his release was that the threat had been that a British soldier might ‘ accidentally ’ shoot one of the women .
18 The lesson since Bismarck has been that France can not compete politically , militarily or economically with a united Germany .
19 Its success had been that both the people of West Germany and its central bank , the Bundesbank , had a deep-seated fear of inflation .
20 Its success had been that both the people of West Germany and its central bank , the Bundesbank , had a deep-seated fear of inflation .
21 ‘ If proper thought had been given to that , I think the conclusion must have been that it would not be beneficial …
22 In the past , whenever he has erred on the side of too much order , the judgment inside the Soviet Union and outside has been that ‘ Gorbachev is as good as we 'll get ’ .
23 One persistent idea has been that the two main moderate right-wing parties , the Rassemblement pour la République and the Union pour la Démocratie Française , must get together if they are to have any chance of regaining power .
24 Japan 's stance over what it calls its Northern Territories has been that there can be no peace treaty between the two countries until all four of the islands ( Etorofu , Kunashiri , Shikotan and Habomai ) are returned .
25 A side effect of the Act , however , has been that many owners of leasehold property no longer regard such investments as sound and they have voluntarily negotiated the sale of freeholds even where the property concerned did not fall within the provisions of the 1967 Act .
26 In some quarters , of course , he was enormously popular , and it may have been that as a young man in his early twenties he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans .
27 These companies had traditional links with the railways and their raison d'être had been that they were a natural extension of the business .
28 The significant feature of privatization has been that the transformation has usually been carried out by broadly the same teams that had worked under nationalization .
29 With the election of Margaret Thatcher , the assumption among some lobbyists had been that we would institute a new round of ‘ Beeching cuts ’ .
30 Half those questioned had not heard of SERPS — which might not have been surprising had it not been that most were members of it .
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