Example sentences of "[vb infin] that it have [be] " in BNC.

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1 She did not know that it had been spiked with tranquillisers until she woke up some time later .
2 How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " .
3 I do not consider that it has been shown that she exercised her discretion inappropriately or wrongly .
4 they did not think that it had been a whole school effort ;
5 Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated .
6 awards monies for specific purposes , your offices for specific and confirm the expense of those purposes , annual auditors to actually confirm that it has been so spent .
7 For example , if a school has attempted to improve its image in the neighbourhood it may feel that it has been successful if the number selecting the school for the following academic year increases .
8 However I do feel that it has been somewhat claustrophobic , and I was very limited in the scope of my function due to our geographical location .
9 and the money for your daughter in the future so do you feel that it 's been of some benefit to you today to have had this discussion ?
10 It could n't be simply The History of Wimbledon ( there was a book with that title — it did n't matter that it had been published nearly two hundred years ago ) .
11 In places , the bone was exposed and , in the uncertain light , Nuadu could nearly believe that it had been nibbled .
12 You must always remember that it 's been a fairly small percentage of the frail elderly people who 've actually ever had to go into homes .
13 I could see that it had been an upsetting experience .
14 Place the text block back onto the page and you will discover that it has been converted into a graphic which can be stretched and distorted as much as you want .
15 Those who forget the virtues of solidarity in order to protest against the downgrading of individual agency might recall that it has been intellectuals who have been most prone to inflate the significance of individuals — particularly intellectuals — to the same degree that their theories propose universal categories and claim universal effects .
16 If he can prove that it has been exercised for 20 years before the date of an action , it will be presumed that it has existed from ’ time immemorial ’ .
17 Can not concede that it had been possible and neither will shift in how we communicate and view the place of the Royals in our society and what the are and how those P R shifts a phrase in terms of let's make ourselves more public , let's make ourselves more accessible , have resulted in that because their very their very accessibility is the those kind of radio programmes to happen .
18 As the Daily Express noted : ‘ Much as I disliked this film and its cheap exploitation of suffering and illness , I must concede that it has been made with the dead-on professionalism that is characteristic of the other ‘ Carry Ons . ’ ’
19 It moved two things which put it into operation , you know and er I could turn the knob and it 'd get the whole thing going , it 'd get you inside , it 'd register that it 'd been , when you shut the door , as soon as you shut , in the toilets , as soon as you shut the door the penny dropped down , see what I mean .
20 Er , in a number of ways I think everybody will agree that it 's been improved by er the er demolition of the terrace blocks , rather than refurbishment and the opportunity has been taken to create erm perhaps a a more comfortable relationship between bungalows that are about to be refurbished and the new houses , because the new houses are designed in such a way as to keep the scale down so whereas the terraced blocks were anything up to four storey , the new houses will only be two storey and in a number of cases they will they will be a relatively low two storey so that erm I will just point out on the front elevations that the roof comes down fairly low relative to the first floor windows so that it 's not too much above the , the roofs on the bungalows , we 're not talking about compromising people 's heads on the internal though !
21 A stranger could never imagine that it had been the scene of such horror .
22 Could she not say that it had been her own choice to leave the Longhills , that they were not suited to one another ?
23 Today we might say that it had been shown to be different from itself .
24 De Niro does n't seem particularly keen to discuss his reasons for wanting to run a restaurant , and will only say that it 's been a vague dream of his for a while .
25 I ca n't honestly say that it 's been a pleasure , but it has been an experience … one I most definitely do n't want to repeat ! ’
26 Er , can I say that it 's been a great pleasure coming er , to you and to say that erm that there 's far more to say , of course , about Canberra er , but I hope that that taster will help you to try and appreciate what went on there .
27 But if there is a distinctive female verbal culture — and here we need to bear in mind that women themselves are not a homogeneous group — I would argue that it has been shaped by patriarchal conditions , including the restrictions placed on women 's lives and words .
28 ‘ I think I could take a barrister 's brief for arguing that up to , say , 1985 the squeeze was a necessary remedy for the rather free expansion which had taken place in the 1960s , and early 1970s , ’ says Sir Eric , ‘ but I do n't believe I could even theoretically argue that it has been justifiable since then .
29 for what you 're doing or you might even find that it 's been left in reverse and you go all the way from here to Glasgow in reverse .
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