Example sentences of "that [noun] have been the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Official sources were quoted by the Agence France-Presse news agency ( AFP ) on Jan. 14 as alleging that Aref had been the financial backer of an attempt to assassinate political and military leaders ; if the plan had succeeded , they claimed , a " civil war " between the Afar and Issa communities " would have been inevitable " . |
| 2 | Lack of incentives , bureaucratic mismanagement and other well-publicized ills of the Soviet economy may bear much of the responsibility for the disparity between the superpowers , but Robert Paarlberg 's Food Trade and Foreign Policy confirms that climate has been the chief factor : |
| 3 | This is the second year that Guinness has been the chief sponsor of the event , following Murphy 's unsuccessful attempt to gain the right to the event back in 1992 . |
| 4 | Would the shed 's inhabitant necessarily guess that Mungo had been the uninvited visitor ? |
| 5 | During his visit to London , President Yeltsin noted that Britain had been the first country to denounce the August coup , and the first to recognise Russia ; the first to propose Russian membership of the International Monetary Fund ; the first to propose an April deadline for that membership ; and the first to support a stabilisation fund for the rouble . |
| 6 | Smith argues that Britain has been the classic case of this . |
| 7 | It does not make it any easier to do what we have to do , but it makes seeing what we have to do much clearer , because it then becomes obvious that Serbia has been the blatant aggressor in the war and that its aggression simply can not be tolerated by the international community . |
| 8 | It 's been certainly true er , Chair , that America has been the largest source of inward investment in this country consistently . |