Example sentences of "the [noun] have been that " in BNC.
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| 1 | A political storm which had developed in September around the proposed sale of 35 small islands in the Bay of Argolis and the Saronic Gulf abated after a government official , Byron Polydoras , on Oct. 14 assured journalists that the proposals had been that " certain rocky islets " should be leased — not sold — " on a long-term basis for tourist development " . |
| 2 | The basic premise of the meetings has been that ‘ co-operation between the various agencies which comprise the criminal justice system is crucial to the successful operation of the system as a whole ’ . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The result has been that recent chancellors have been able to give free rein to their tax-reforming ambitions . |
| 7 | The result has been that major reforms are completely avoided and every minor reform is weakened or sabotaged . |
| 8 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 9 | The result has been that solar panels are now comparable in price to wind generators . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The rule has been that young people intending to study medicine must forsake the humanities and social sciences for physics , chemistry and biology . |
| 12 | The effect has been that for most of this century Britain has had to hold interest rates higher than has been necessary or desirable . |
| 13 | ‘ The argument for the reformers has been that punishment simply does not work . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ The consequence has been that for some time , by mutual agreement , we have led more separate lives . ’ |
| 16 | But the only obvious truth of this kind in the UK has been that foreign supply creates domestic demand , the measure of which is import penetration . |
| 17 | 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 . " |
| 18 | The criterion governing the choice has been that which has directed Ortiz 's own collecting : aesthetic quality , with the additional requirement that the works of art should be representative of the best of their culture . |
| 19 | He could have sworn that the voice had been that of Christine Ashdown . ) |
| 20 | ‘ If the mistakes had been that obvious there were people around me to tell me where I had gone wrong , but they did n't . |
| 21 | Suspicions have sometimes been voiced that , whenever government has supported civic education , the reason has been that learning of this kind has been interpreted as supportive of a respectful attitude . |
| 22 | Typical of the complaints had been that of David Fletcher , a Wirral councillor , who said his constituents ‘ objected most strongly to subsidising the extravagancies of hard-left councils like Liverpool ’ . |
| 23 | Indeed , her pose by the fire had been that of the consummate temptress , and yet … there it was again , the feeling that something did n't add up . |