Example sentences of "[conj] this have [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I soon found that this had been a dubious choice . |
| 2 | Of the 23 disabled professionals who had been accepted for training as disabled people , eight reported that their entry qualifications were better than average , and five thought that this had been a major factor in their acceptance for training . |
| 3 | Although Perot refused to endorse the candidacies of either Clinton or Bush , he conceded that the Democratic Party had done " a brilliant job " in reviving itself , and that this had been a key factor in his decision to withdraw . |
| 4 | It should be clear to everyone that this has been a genuine and productive consultation . |
| 5 | They suggest that public expenditure growth has led to a transfer of productive resources from the private sector to a public sector producing largely non-marketed output , and that this has been a major factor in the UK 's poor performance in the post-war period . |
| 6 | Once this had been a thriving town , prospering on fishing and tourism and the naval college . |
| 7 | As Wayne Gossage has said : " Patricia Knapp was one of the few people in the inner circle of the library-college vanguard who was in any way critical " ( Gossage 1975 : 8 ) and this has been a sad weakness in a movement which , with its enthusiasm and provocative reversal of traditional priorities , has aroused much interest and thought amongst educators , librarians and administrators . |
| 8 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 9 | ‘ If this had been a Serbian place you would have sent 500 troops here , I guarantee it , ’ Mr Delimustafic said . |
| 10 | I hope the Lord will forgive me but this has been a great experience and you would n't know Mabel , she is brown in the sun here , it is very nice , but I do n't like the dust . |
| 11 | But this has been a mere flirtation with the market . |
| 12 | As this has been a recurring theme in the literature , it warrants further attention when the more general question of rural population change is discussed in the following chapter . |