Example sentences of "has [be] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A main reason for this has been that developments have concentrated on creating ‘ single-purpose ’ areas , for example only office blocks , shopping areas or housing estates rather than a mixture . |
| 2 | The main difficulty has been that teachers allocated to rural schools , especially local district council schools , found themselves virtually without back-up . |
| 3 | Whether the party in office has been Conservative or Labour , the first consideration has been that Ulster policies must never injure electoral prospects . |
| 4 | The effect of these Standing Committees has been that debates have been of a much more highly focused and objective quality . |
| 5 | One outcome of these severe inequalities , sustained over many years by a small privileged élite , has been that opponents of these regimes have resorted to armed struggle . |
| 6 | A major impetus has been that users found this detailed budgetary accounting confusing . |
| 7 | The Government 's official position , dictated by the Prime Minister , has been that Britain will join the ERM when ‘ the time is ripe ’ . |
| 8 | The problem has been that descriptions of language in general tended to be based on these special cases . |
| 9 | The consensus among observers has been that IBM Corp will find it needs to cut many more than the 25,000 positions it is targeting for this year , so there was little surprise when both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal last week came out with independent stories saying the cuts would go much higher . |
| 10 | A frequent methodological problem in electrophysiological experiments has been that experimenters have either failed to exercise any control whatever over their subjects ' cognitive strategies or else have relied simply on instructions to subjects to engage in a particular mental activity . |
| 11 | The additional fear has been that properties sold in attractive rural settings may eventually become ‘ second homes ’ for rich urban dwellers . |
| 12 | An actual criticism of the ley theory , as opposed to mental attitude , has been that lines on the plane surface of a map can not accurately represent alignments on the curved surface of the Earth . |
| 13 | The only positive news has been that America 's Digital Equipment has raised its stake in Olivetti ahead of schedule , taking it to almost 10% . |
| 14 | My experience has been that entertainers who come for just the show have maximum impact and cause great excitement , especially if they arrive dressed up . |
| 15 | So far , the thrust of the analysis has been that firms are likely to want vertical integration and that , though in many cases it would be socially desirable , in some it may not be . |
| 16 | The lesson since Bismarck has been that France can not compete politically , militarily or economically with a united Germany . |
| 17 | The principal counter-argument has been that Essex has enjoyed the benefit of a former tutor-organiser as Federation chairman and that , in the absence of an equivalent person to give a lead elsewhere , tutor-organisers have continued to be essential . |
| 18 | Within this tradition , the argument has been that Simmel 's The Philosophy of Money provides an important critique of alienation , which , unfortunately , the author perceived as a condition of modernity itself instead of a specific attribute of capitalism ; but , once his philosophy is directed back to its proper object , there is much to be learnt from his examples . |
| 19 | The underlying philosophy has been that schools require more INSET to be school-focused , linking the enhancement of a teacher 's individual professional skills with the defined needs of the school as a whole ; and further that the capacities of a school staff to evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses must be improved and result directly in more effective forward planning to remedy recognized weaknesses . |
| 20 | Their strength has been that recruits came to them already vetted and character-tested through membership of a church or Orange lodge . |
| 21 | The prospect has been that atoms cooled to microkelvin temperatures , with an arrangement called an atomic fountain , would allow orders-of-magnitude improvements in frequency standards . |
| 22 | The BMA working party refers to ‘ alternative medicine ’ — misleading terminology since the medical establishment 's greatest fear in the past has been that therapists would influence patients to treat it as just that and reject orthodox medicine . |
| 23 | The result has been that sales of diesel cars in Britain last year reached a record 139,810 , or 8.8 per cent of a smaller total market , compared with 128,167 ( 6.38 per cent ) in 1990 . |
| 24 | In British social anthropology , the implicit assumption has been that humans are violent , and that society in various ways controls and constrains . |
| 25 | The result of all this has been that proponents in the press of the fashionable pro-government doctrine of ‘ new realism ’ have somehow found themselves spending most of their time constructing and then reporting on a fantasy world . |