Example sentences of "that [pron] have [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't help feeling , ’ says Howard , sticking his head forward ruefully , ‘ now I know who you are , that I 've been a bit outspoken in some of my remarks about the system . ’ |
| 2 | In answer to Merrill 's questioning face , he went on , ‘ I think I once told you that I 'd been a bit — wild . |
| 3 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 4 | I am acutely conscious that I have been a source of aggravation to Pa recently over my stupid allergy to vegetables ; it can not be pleasant to see the products one has slaved over summer and winter being regurgitated on to the dinner plate of one 's elder child . |
| 5 | Regular readers will know that I have been a fan of Stephen Coonts since I reviewed his first novel Flight of the Intruder ( now a major ( ? ) film , as they say , though I 'd make do with the book if I were you ) . |
| 6 | He also suggested that their had been a clash of opinions . |
| 7 | In the afternoon , when only her mother was with her , she stated spontaneously to a nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she had been a Jehovah 's Witness and retained some beliefs . |
| 8 | We learn from a visit Emilia made to Simon Forman [ q.v. ] , astrologer , in 1597 , that she had been a favourite at the court of Elizabeth , had become mistress of Henry Carey , first Baron Hunsdon [ q.v. ] , and had been ‘ maintained in great pomp ’ until 1592 , when , becoming pregnant , she was married to Captain Alphonso Lanier , of the other leading family of court musicians , the Laniers , who came to London from Rouen in 1561 . |
| 9 | She knew that she had been a success and that Ludo was proud of her . |
| 10 | The two ladies had each paid 500 dollars for the privilege of a ten-minute consultation , during which one was told that she had been a quartz crystal in a former life while the other was informed that she had been an E flat ! |
| 11 | It was a cruel trick that she had been a dream , that he could not join her yet . |
| 12 | But she was not to know that he had had this desire , and went into the house with head bent , feeling that she had been a failure . |
| 13 | Mrs Johnston made a claim to an industrial tribunal that she had been a victim of sex discrimination ; but the Secretary of State issued a certificate ( which the relevant statute said was ‘ conclusive ’ ) that she had been dismissed on grounds of national security . |
| 14 | She feigned enthusiasm , but what she was really thinking was that she 'd been a fool to hope he 'd come here on a more personal mission . |
| 15 | It was not necessary for him to know that she 'd been a widow for years . |
| 16 | You 'd have known that , would n't you , that you 'd been a twin ? ’ |
| 17 | You 've extended courtesy , patience , and fair-mindedness to all , so that you 've been a tribute to the enquiry process if I may say so . |
| 18 | When he was accused , quite erroneously , of siphoning money from school funds he honestly believed that everyone would realise that there 'd been a mistake . ’ |
| 19 | The Court of Appeal held that there had been a dismissal . |
| 20 | ( Bush on June 3 denied , however , that there had been a linkage between the trade agreement and the Lithuania issue . ) |
| 21 | The Israeli human rights group Betselem issued a report on Dec. 8 which claimed that there had been a reduction in the number of casualties inflicted by the security forces in the occupied territories during 1990-91 . |
| 22 | The company admitted that there had been a delay in installing new screening equipment at the plant , which produces boiled sweets . |
| 23 | In a further speech in August 1987 he complained that there had been a tendency both in the USSR and outside it to see the socialist construction of the 1930s as no more than a series of mistakes . |
| 24 | The problem had been that there had been a mix-up over my return tickets from Oslo and I could n't get back . |
| 25 | Stating that there had been a £207,000 overspend , Mr Hindmarsh warned any office managers continuing to go over budget would be made to explain why . |
| 26 | Hawke did receive a boost from the unemployment figures , however , which showed that there had been a fall in May to 9.4 per cent , the first reduction for five months . |
| 27 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 28 | He quotes Hennock who wrote , ‘ It seemed to many observers that there had been a change for the worse since 1835 ! ’ |
| 29 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 30 | The Secretary of State did not tell us that there had been a change in circumstances since the Government rejected the Prior report . |