Example sentences of "that what have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired rather late in the planning of Overlord that what had been thought to be beaches of hard sand actually had bands of exposed clay . |
| 2 | But this had been increasingly called into question : women campaigned for equality , divorced people and unmarried parents became more assertive , and theologians showed that what had been claimed as universal truths often arose from particular cultures and societies . |
| 3 | Paul Lee , Orkney 's Social Work Director , consistently said that what had been done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 4 | He stuck rigidly to his statement that what had been done was absolutely essential in the best interests of the children . |
| 5 | The Bishop finished by praying that what had been discussed would become an apostolic thrust of the diocese . |
| 6 | The results of what followed have led Ivan Koltsov , who led the research and was a Member of the Geographical Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences , to announce that there was no longer any doubt that what had been found beneath the monastery at the Alexandrov settlement was indeed Ivan the Terrible 's library containing priceless works of art . |
| 7 | I decided to apply for some help , so my daughter Lilya ( Aliki ) and I wrote a letter to Andropov and Brezhnev , and I explained in these letters that what had been stolen was a large number of works from the collection that I had intended to give to the Tretyakov Gallery . |
| 8 | On the whole I bore the strictures with courage in the firm belief that what had been done was the best that could be done . |
| 9 | The result was that what had been a small-sized cheap labour force became a large well-paid labour force . |
| 10 | It soon became disappointingly clear to the NVA that what had been conceived as a two-way process between voluntary bodies and the state , in practice placed the burden of day-to-day regulation on private initiatives . |
| 11 | In a few hours she would come face to face once more with that same man who was responsible for his death and this time she was intent on making absolutely sure that what had been a teenage crush on her part remained just that . |
| 12 | Their inclusion was a clear sign that what had been the order of the regime 's stated priorities since the end of the Civil War must now be reversed . |
| 13 | In one of the central episodes in the novel , Humberto not only cuckolds his employer , but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender , and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is , in reality , no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Peñaloza line into the oligarchy . |
| 14 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 15 | It was out of these that what has been hypothesized as postmodernist organization developed . |
| 16 | I have come to the conclusion that the law of libel is one and the same as to all plaintiffs ; and that , in every action of libel , whether the statement complained of is , or is not , a libel , depends on the same question — viz. , whether the jury are of opinion that what has been published with regard to the plaintiff would tend in the minds of people of ordinary sense to bring the plaintiff into contempt , hatred , or ridicule , or to injure his character . |
| 17 | ‘ … I have come to the conclusion that the law of libel is one and the same as to all plaintiffs ; and that , in every action of libel , whether the statement complained of is , or is not , a libel , depends on the same question — viz. , whether the jury are of opinion that what has been published with regard to the plaintiff would tend in the minds of people of ordinary sense to bring the plaintiff into contempt , hatred , or ridicule , or to injure his character . |
| 18 | It is only at the end of the term of copyright that what has been protected passes into the public domain . |
| 19 | We believe that what has been described as paradoxical pain is what we would refer to as ‘ opioid poorly responsive ’ pain and that opioid responsiveness is a continuum that may be influenced by any of a large number of factors related to the patient and the drug as well as the pain . |
| 20 | If we conduct an interventive experiment , and inject a drug which results in an animal not performing some task on which it has been trained ‘ correctly ’ ( I wo n't bother putting that word into inverted commas henceforward ; I have already spelled out that what we read as correct in an animal 's behaviour is interpreted by our criteria , not necessarily by its own ) , how can we be sure that what has been blocked or disturbed is the memory rather than the motor or sensory activity on which its expression depends ? |
| 21 | I should explain to the Secretary of State that what has been involved is not so much a loss of dignity as a destruction of credibility . |
| 22 | Much as I sympathise with the plaintiffs , it would , in my opinion , be extending the implications based on the maxim … to an unreasonable extent if it were held that what has been done in this case was a breach of an implied obligation . |
| 23 | I am confident that what has been agreed will enable us to achieve that without spending any cash over and above that already in our normal annual budget over the next two years . ’ |
| 24 | And even if you 're more likely to favour M&S than Montana , Mugler or Miyake , do n't imagine for one moment that what has been shown on these mammoth runways wo n't affect what you buy next winter . |