Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , conversely , a part of the point for Scots has always been that Scotland is a nation equivalent to England , not merely the equivalent of an English region . |
| 2 | The standard answer to that has always been that submarines are growing more vulnerable to detection and bombers to preemptive strike . |
| 3 | My opinion has always been that fishermen , at least those who fish to catch and return , are on a par with the hunting fraternity . |
| 4 | Even though Darwinian evolution is represented as a competitive process , the outcome has often been that animals ended up working with each other . |
| 5 | The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend , but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time , perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood , unseen , outside a bedroom door … |