Example sentences of "that [noun] have be [adj -er] " in BNC.

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1 It is another sign of the long-term influence wielded by English scholar-reviewers that England has been swifter than some European countries to evolve away from the multiculturalism of the 1960s .
2 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 .
3 The group acknowledge that Scotland has been slower than the rest of the country to produce credible dance music .
4 For example , Drudy ( 1978 ) found evidence that depopulation had been worse in small settlements , and concluded that a low level of service provision , when added to the lack of a sufficient employment alternative to agriculture , could lead to a vicious circle of decline based on the theory of cumulative causation , already outlined .
5 She stumbled out of the car only to find that Rune had been quicker , waiting for her to emerge , offering her his supporting arm as her ankle momentarily twisted on the cobblestones , causing her to utter a sharp cry of distress .
6 At first , this largely involved the search for loop-holes in central government legislation : if , for example , the rules suggested that future grant depended on spending in a particular year , then it was possible with little difficulty to prepare the accounts to show that spending had been higher or lower that year ( whichever was the required answer ) , More important , perhaps , as time went on , it become common for councils and their treasurers to seek new sources of funding which were not covered by the rules or were covered by different rules .
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