Example sentences of "[pron] [be] that [pron] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , we make an effort not to use the phrase for a number of reasons , one of which is that we have been unable to figure out what it means ’ . |
| 2 | One is that he has been in the ring with Michael Gerard Tyson . |
| 3 | One is that there has been far more kicking with sides belting the ball downfield and then hoping to block the attacking position . |
| 4 | What Alice could not forgive herself was that she had been taken in by it all well , she had had the sense to get out in time , and meet people who could lead her on the right path … |
| 5 | All we know of him was that he had been involved in RAF mountain rescue in Anglesey , and had quite recently been on a posting in Lincolnshire . |
| 6 | The appropriate procedures for investigation were followed and the opinion of the consultant paediatrician who examined her was that she had been chronically abused sexually . |
| 7 | English will basically be er Chaucer or whatever , or whatever it is that you 've been doing . |
| 8 | But whatever the reason , whether it was that everyone had been so busy reassuring everyone that no one had bothered to talk to the crematorium , whether they had got the time wrong , or whether the vicar had simply had a brainstorm , he now , you could tell , was dimly aware that he had not given an exemplary performance . |
| 9 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 10 | The little jokes , the smiles , the anecdotes about his childhood , about his city , had been nothing but clever prelude to her seduction but the worst of it was that she 'd been so damnably easy to seduce . |
| 11 | Still she wondered who it was that she had been responding to . |
| 12 | The verdict of the clerk to the select committee of 1824 which reviewed it was that it had been a dead letter so far as " those artisans on whom it was intended to have an effect " , namely printers , tailors , shoe makers and shipbuilders in London who continued " their regular societies and houses of call as though no such act were in existence " . |
| 13 | And the worst part of it was that it had been so wonderful that it would be hard to avoid doing it again . |
| 14 | I went and told them , ‘ One way or another , what 's happened to me is that I 've been burgled … ’ . |