Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [be] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another difficulty has been that such councils are attuned to providing finance for the creation of specific works , while the need for support in popular music is not at the point of creation , but for help in reaching audiences . |
| 2 | My experience has been that for many people there is not all that difference between bringing ‘ God ’ in and touching wood . |
| 3 | Dutch experience has been that close cooperation is needed between planners and all of these groups as well as others such as the police , mandating a cautious , incremental , flexible and thus costly style of planning . |
| 4 | Our experience has been that to create a new expression of the body of Christ has been to create a new possibility of conversion for many such people . |
| 5 | Yes it is , er I mean , what we tried to do was to write er a comedy on a big scale that was n't a marshmallow , er in fact it er the , the comedy deepens and it gets pretty sour , and I think some of the criticism of the play has been that ‘ is it a comedy , or is it a serious play ’ . |
| 6 | One of the problems with traditional remedial teaching has been that spelling and neatness are fetishes . |
| 7 | The result has been that sterling has become very expensive to borrow , but there is still far too much of it , and the supply is still increasing too fast . |
| 8 | The result has been that ‘ investment at the highest levels ever ’ has come from fares , not from any public purse , and that an ‘ economic ’ system has become unsafe as BR and LRT weigh up commercial investment needs against the cost of safety measures and the cost of paying wages sufficient to maintain a safe level of staffing . |
| 9 | The result has been that recent chancellors have been able to give free rein to their tax-reforming ambitions . |
| 10 | The result has been that major reforms are completely avoided and every minor reform is weakened or sabotaged . |
| 11 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 12 | The result has been that solar panels are now comparable in price to wind generators . |
| 13 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |
| 14 | In the twentieth century the most dramatic political collapse has been that of the Liberal Party . |
| 15 | A recurring complaint from industry has been that pension funds are too short-term orientated , to the detriment of the companies in whose shares they deal . |
| 16 | The effect has been that for most of this century Britain has had to hold interest rates higher than has been necessary or desirable . |
| 17 | The rule has been that young people intending to study medicine must forsake the humanities and social sciences for physics , chemistry and biology . |
| 18 | The most comprehensive research has been that carried out by Dingwall , Eekelaar and Murray ( 1983 ) , based on participant observation in social services departments , NHS child health services and casualty departments , and juvenile courts . |
| 19 | Another rare loss has been that of Mark Weedon , the Managing Director in London until the autumn of 1988 , now at Heidrick and Struggles . |
| 20 | In more recent times , the most highly developed exposition has been that of Wilhelm Reich ( 1897–1957 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ The consequence has been that for some time , by mutual agreement , we have led more separate lives . ’ |
| 22 | The outcome has been that , over the past fifteen years , there has been ‘ a huge expropriation of accumulated labour , several times greater than the expropriation which immediately followed the war ’ . |
| 23 | Whilst the potential here looks considerable , there is just a slight concern that initial reaction has been that medical audit requires a rather more in-depth review of each case than is provided by routine data collection approach . |
| 24 | However , his appearance had been that of an eighteen-year-old , which makes nonsense for a second time of the press claims that Lord Haw-Haw was as puny in appearance as he had been in his human sympathies . |
| 25 | It is perhaps not surprising , therefore that from the early days when the state became involved in the education of the masses one of the principal aims of the curriculum enunciated by successive Presidents of the Board of Education , Ministers of Education and Secretaries of State for Education has been that of the preparation for citizenship . |
| 26 | But the major tradition which has queried this view of self has been that which derives from psychoanalysis . |
| 27 | The key or ‘ entrée ’ to the new development has been that problematic aspect of school work — projects and assignments . |
| 28 | An important explanatory concept has been that of ‘ divergent thinking ’ ; or what de Bono in a different context has called ‘ lateral ’ thinking . |
| 29 | In the last decade a new basis for argument has been that of consumerism and accountability . |
| 30 | This has sometimes been justified on security grounds but often the argument has been that disclosure is not in the public interest , that " secrecy is at all times the condition in which the best men make the best decisions . " |