Example sentences of "[verb] been that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interesting thing has been that each time we have revised the strategy we have been partially right , but it has only been as a result of a whole series of revisits , reorganizations and reassessments , as well as changing people , perspectives and systems , that we seem to have got enough right to be able to fight our corner . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ The problem this season has been that many of the sites have not fished very well at all . |
| 4 | The experience of the European Convention has been that this procedure has been little used , with most allegations of violations of the Convention commenced through individual petition . |
| 5 | The reply has been that this converts effects into what they are not : chance or random events , and inexplicable events . |
| 6 | The non-lexical task most intensively studied is reading nonwords aloud , and the most commonly advocated view has been that this task is accomplished by using a system of rules relating spellings to sounds . |
| 7 | Again , the assumption has been that this took place in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , because that is when documents mention the activities of lords and peasants in these areas . |
| 8 | MAFF 's view has been that any support for conservation measures must be purely as an adjunct to agricultural works , a view supported by DoE . |
| 9 | For 40 years the policy has been that some contribution should be made towards the cost of sight and dental charges — that was agreed by both parties . |
| 10 | The only real sadness in my life has been that both my parents died young , and within a comparatively short time of each other . ’ |
| 11 | One of the main barriers between the development of general purpose systems has been that few existing systems can be re-used . |
| 12 | Juliet Mitchell in her work Psychoanalysis and Feminism has pointed to the significance of this task , but the problem , as suggested above , has been that most analyses have not been sufficiently historically specific to make them usable . |
| 13 | Erm but er certainly the record to date has been that these power stations are erm extremely erm well run and that they ha they 've had no major incidents at all . |
| 14 | The conventional wisdom has been that those who left the countryside were the energetic and the intelligent , leaving only a residue of the old and the inert , but we also ought to note that the urban view has often been the exact opposite : that the towns have received the rural dregs — the drifters , the shiftless , the work-shy , the unattached flotsam of agricultural change . |
| 15 | The danger is when they 're the ones that if they 're the ones that stop other people sorting out their own feelings and emotions erm and I think in the work that I 've done in schools and in other situations following disasters one of the biggest problems has been that those expressing denial or saying that we should be able to cope with this , children are resilient , they do n't have these problems , erm they 've often stopped people getting the help that they need ; often stopped other teachers getting the help that they need . |
| 16 | But somebody else 's judgment might have been that this was a geographic clash . |
| 17 | The idea seems to have been that this bombing would last only until the Bosnian government had the armaments it wanted to fight its own war . |
| 18 | Until then , he had been that most inhuman of creatures — the public figure described by others as ‘ very human ’ . |
| 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 | The prediction had been that these elections would result in more women and fewer Scots around the shadow cabinet table as a result of the voting system . |
| 22 | The results of these factors have been that several of the new ‘ one-stop shop ’ security houses have withdrawn from market making . |