Example sentences of "that [noun pl] have be [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Indeed , it is only since 1965 that mergers have been subject to public scrutiny at all . |
2 | Nikki Richardson , head of Digital 's information directorate , said only that discussions had been candid . |
3 | Thus one often encounters the claim that a large number of Quakers ( and other dissenters ) contributed significantly to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physical science and that Jews have been preeminent in mathematics , physics , and psychiatry in the twentieth century . |
4 | Saddened that polytechnics have been unable to throw off the second-class public image , Teesside University 's director , Dr Michael Longfield said : ‘ The three polytechnics in the North-East have been universities in all but name for many years . ’ |
5 | But the development of the law does seem to show that judges have been able to dispense from the necessity of justification under a public policy test of reasonableness such contracts or provisions of contracts as , under contemporary conditions , may be found to have passed into the accepted and normal currency of commercial or contractual or conveyancing relations . |
6 | 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 ’ . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Usually the most that governments have been prepared to do is to publicise their activities and/or to seek voluntary undertakings . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | This is not to suggest that boards had been idle . |
12 | Best , for example , argued that changes had been immense : " In just five years ( the NHS ) has been transformed from a classic example of an administered public sector bureaucracy into one that increasingly is exhibiting the qualities that reflect positive , purposeful management " ( Best 1987 : 4 ) . |
13 | The source/migration/entrapment model suggests that conditions have been favourable for gas accumulation in Palaeozoic reservoirs contained within rift-related fault-blocks and more subtle stratigraphic traps . |
14 | Nevertheless , Debord 's place within a reified history of ‘ political modernism ’ is assured , more by virtue of what is claimed for the work than by its testing in public — Levin admits that screenings have been rare , especially outside France . |
15 | It 's just since I had Donna that things have been different for me . |
16 | In many areas , the recovery has been so slow that cultivators have been able to move in , while fires have been an added retardant to recovery , sometimes resulting in the familiar Imperata savanna . |
17 | Health watchdogs such as Hereford Community Health Council , say that patients have been confused by the NHS reforms . |
18 | So perhaps it is because they have angular gyri that chimpanzees have been able to sign successfully . |
19 | Although Mesmer 's crises have little in common with modern hypnosis and his explanation for the phenomenon was soon discredited , he did obtain cures that physicians had been unable to achieve ; so scientists and therapists remained mesmerised by the phenomenon . |
20 | Mr McEwan said that police had been unable to trace any members of the missing girl 's family still living in the Coatbridge area . |
21 | Very painstaking stratigraphical work put it beyond doubt that men had been contemporary with animals now extinct , and that human history must therefore go back long before the 4004 BC computed from Genesis . |
22 | ‘ The use of bed and breakfast is still hovering close to record levels , ’ says Pawson , ‘ It is only through the boom in short-term leasing that boroughs have been able to avoid further increases in hotel placements . ’ |
23 | Looking at examples of day-to-day practical assistance , it is apparent that women have been involved in exchanging this with other women much more commonly than men have been involved in exchanges with women , or with other men . |
24 | She enables women today to see that women have been historical agents in the past , and to envisage the past from the perspective of women . |
25 | The Romanian government on March 8 denied a Moscow television report that Romanians had been involved in the fighting . |