Example sentences of "that [noun] have be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She knew that Hugh had been wrong in what he had tried to do , but she also knew that no real intimacy had taken place . |
| 32 | In that case he refused to hold that directors had been negligent on the ground that he was satisfied that they had made ‘ a real exercise of discretion and judgment ’ . |
| 33 | No doubt it is because of the vision to train in this way that Ichthus has been able to grow in the way that it has done . |
| 34 | To cover the areas of special interest that Gould had been unable to investigate personally , he had to rely on a network of collectors he had recruited in the course of his travels . |
| 35 | From then onwards , ‘ Fred T. Jane ’ became a recognized signature on bold black and white illustrations in a number of books and magazines ; so realistic was the picture in the Illustrated London News of the torpedoing of the ironclad Blanco Encalada in the Chilean revolutionary war of 1891 that a legend grew that Jane had been present at the action . |
| 36 | for , in her face and in her voice , and in her touch , she gave the assurance that suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham 's teachings , and had given her a heart to understand what his heart used to be . |
| 37 | The document also alleged that Montazeri had been involved in a gang whose members had been executed in Iran in 1987 after smuggling explosives to Saudi Arabia during the pilgrimage to Mecca the previous year [ see pp. 35541-42 ; 35677 ] . |
| 38 | The Medellín drug cartel in a message broadcast on Inravision Television , Bogotá on April 27 denied responsibility for the assassination , stating that Pizarro had been opposed to the government 's current policy of extraditing drug traffickers to stand trial in the United States . |
| 39 | Punch published two harsh cartoons and , when at the end of February 1858 the government was defeated , The Times , with possibly a touch of exaggeration , declared that Clanricarde had been able by his ‘ mere presence ’ in the cabinet to destroy an exceptionally strong administration . |
| 40 | History shows that sport has been one of the two major areas in which blacks have been allowed or even encouraged to do well . |
| 41 | The group acknowledge that Scotland has been slower than the rest of the country to produce credible dance music . |
| 42 | What he did not mention was the fact that Scotland has been involved in the processing of vegetable raw materials of medicinal use for some 200 years . |
| 43 | Italian bankers also welcome the introduction of universal banking , though some grumble that regulators have been slow to bring the country into line with other European states . |
| 44 | So we 're very lucky indeed , I say without any hesitation whatever , that Jeffrey has been willing to take on this |
| 45 | The Miller spokeswoman confirmed that Sainsbury had been aware of the plans , and that as it was a non-retail development , there would be no conflict of interest . |
| 46 | The ploy had worked surprisingly well , especially when Candy had learned that Bernie had been successful and that Ace Elliot was to be the star guest . |
| 47 | ‘ I am delighted that HCIMA has been instrumental in its formation and look forward to a closer working relationship with our partners . ’ |
| 48 | A contemporary physician in Barcelona , Dr Diza de Isla , wrote that syphilis had been unknown until that date and that he had treated members of the crew for ‘ bubas ’ and the ‘ serpentine disease ’ . |
| 49 | While problems of partiality and bias in news-reporting are , rightly , matters of concern , various issues that have attracted Western media attention have excited public opinion in the United States and Europe to the extent that governments have been obliged to respond . |
| 50 | Usually the most that governments have been prepared to do is to publicise their activities and/or to seek voluntary undertakings . |
| 51 | Defending Emmanuelli in a radio interview prior to his indictment , Prime Minister Pierre Bérégovoy said that Emmanuelli had been obliged to receive donations in his role as party treasurer and that his personal honesty was not in doubt . |
| 52 | Belinda blurted dismissively , disturbed to find that Tom had been aware of at least some of Greg 's attentions to her that evening . |
| 53 | It was largely due to her that Fred had been able to secure the leasehold of the cafe and build up trade by extending the seating arrangement and brightening up the fare on offer . |
| 54 | One ingenious convict , Alfie Hinds , sued a police officer for stating in the " News of the World " that Hinds had been guilty as charged . |
| 55 | Warsaw police confirmed on April 24 that arsonists had been responsible for a fire on April 22 at the home of Jerzy Jachowicz , a journalist on Gazeta Wyborcza , in which his wife had been killed and his daughter injured . |
| 56 | Besides , I 'd began to think that Mala had been right . |
| 57 | This is not to suggest that boards had been idle . |
| 58 | She put her head on one side , trying to make him understand from the look in her eyes that Stephen had been upset by the references to his mother 's death . |
| 59 | On one level I knew that Robert had been unfaithful to Lili and on another I knew that he could n't possibly have been . |
| 60 | The police suspected that Samuel had been involved in a serious armed robbery at a building society in Birmingham . |