Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [pron] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 2 | In [ 17 ] the author writes that he had been saying that Gardner looked very square : But of course Carver had not actually said that Gardner looked very square , at least not in the Gricean ( Grice 1981 ) sense of the word . |
| 3 | He accepts that there have been changes , in particular the modern office has grown in size , but he denies that this has led to clerical workers becoming proletarian . |
| 4 | By the end of it , Theridamas accepts that he has been ‘ won with thy words ’ , and this shows how influential Tamburlaine is with his words over other people . |
| 5 | But in accounting , at least , Mr Aimetti thinks that there has been considerable progress over the past 10 years : ‘ With some adjustments , we are all following the Americans . ’ |
| 6 | Yeah , she thinks that she 's been big already |
| 7 | Peter Brooks , for instance , insists that there has been a metafictional dimension to the novel since its very beginnings but now finds a new degree of emphasis among postmodernists , ‘ a greater explicitness in the abandonment of mimetic claims , a more overt staging of narrative 's arbitrariness and lack of authority , a more open playfulness about fictionality ’ ( Brooks 1984 : 317 ) . |
| 8 | Swan agrees that there has been an embarrassing decline in portraiture , which he ascribes partly to its labour-intensiveness : ‘ Someone like Millais was earning the equivalent of two to three million a year . |
| 9 | Derek Malcolm , The Guardian 's film critic , agrees that there has been a gradual shift in perception and suggests it began as movie moguls realised women were no longer being ‘ taken ’ to the movies by their menfolk , hot on the trail of Rambo . |
| 10 | Mike says that they 've been working hard to organise the trip — and is not bothered about the risk of visiting the country . |
| 11 | In addition to normal responsibilities , which include making new investments , approaching new potential customers and keeping existing customers happy , Mr Queen says that they have been trying to educate the professional community to recognise when a company is going to need more working capital . |
| 12 | He says that they have been using the shaft for dumping substances . |
| 13 | He says that everything has been laid on tonight , no expense spared . |
| 14 | He says that it has been the foundation of Europe 's post-war success , the implication being that we must adopt the same system in Britain if we are to become a modern , prosperous nation . |
| 15 | Fosse believe that the Advantage system is the first such system to be designed specifically for tennis and says that it has been its most successful introduction into the game with over 200 installations in the last four years . |
| 16 | In designing the system , NuTek says that it has been very careful to avoid any contact with former Apple employees , and kept under constant review the status of Apple patents and copyrights throughout the world . |
| 17 | The system is based around Siemens ' Vision Optimised Network Evolution programme , although GEC Plessey says that it has been the developer of the services to be offered and will manage the planned Asynchronous Transfer Mode evolution . |
| 18 | Rainow , Cheshire-based Eden says that it has been working with unnamed telecommunications operators and user groups on the design of the phone , and envisages both business customers and consumers being interested in the device . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , he says that it has been difficult to avoid the wholesale abandonment of a fascinating liturgical and musical tradition which had sound scholarly foundations . |
| 20 | It says that it has been urging motor manufacturers to make cars more secure since 1961 . |
| 21 | He says that it has been known for drugs to be smuggled in large packages . |
| 22 | He says that it 's been very delicate work , but they think that they have found all the bones . |
| 23 | Tore Godal , the head of the Norwegian trials says that there has been no problem in finding altruistic Norwegians to volunteer . |
| 24 | Since its launch last November , says that there has been a good deal of interest in the scheme from all sectors of the industry and added , ‘ Through controlled and managed expansion the benefits in terms of new business to the Company are tremendous ’ . |
| 25 | He says that there has been a lot of overseas interest , from as far away as Japan . |
| 26 | The Labour party won control of Derbyshire with a substantial majority in 1981 and the inspector of constabulary says that there have been at least eight years of progressive underfunding by the police committee — 1.8 per cent . |
| 27 | He says that there have been occasions when he 's had a gun held to his head and been told to operate on someone 's brother first , or he 'd be shot . |
| 28 | He says that there 's been a revival in the popularity of stuffed animals . |
| 29 | However , Sally Kuenssberg , a specialist in children 's panel training in the department of adult and continuing education , says that she has been appointed as an individual with experience of the needs of children . |
| 30 | She says that she 's been flying for three years . |