Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] that have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Motion pictures were to develop into the great mass entertainment of the twentieth century but they had first been shown in the cities of the late nineteenth century and both as an industry and as a social activity they were never to lose characteristics that had been determined at their birth . |
| 2 | To repair damage that 's been done would take |
| 3 | His thesis project involved experiments that had been anticipated by his exhibition model from school : he spent many months during his studies taking part in experiments at the world 's largest ( and working ! ) electron accelerator in Stanford , California , receiving his PhD in 1978 . |
| 4 | Our model , although it requires more than one site of learning , accounts for data from multiple laboratories and reconciles observations that had been thought previously to be contradictory . |
| 5 | Selections from the modern theatre may include characters that have been created over the last sixty years , from Noel Coward to Steven Berkoff . |
| 6 | He described details that had been forgotten . |
| 7 | Local people know the history of their surroundings well enough , but visitors may not recognise land that has been reclaimed unless it is pointed out to them . |
| 8 | She knew only , as they made their slow way along the beach back to the town , that she felt exhausted but peaceful , even momentarily carefree , as if she had shed burdens that had been weighing her down for a long time . |
| 9 | It is n't just a matter of minor errors , such as including lines that have been torn up , or ending main lines in the middle of peat bogs . |
| 10 | Damaged in transit : Mail-order companies belonging to trade associations generally agree to replace goods that have been damaged . |
| 11 | Their painted eyes seemed to be full of a malignant resentment , as if they 'd once been living horses that had been turned to wood by an enchantment . |
| 12 | The industry built up a new audience not by giving a social elite privileges but rather by suggesting that anyone who had paid their admission price would be given value for money and in particular would be given films that had been made with care and attention . |
| 13 | Amongst the many excellent and well researched books that have been written on the subject of bereavement the following are outstanding in their capacity to help those who have suffered a major loss : Grief and how to live with it by Sarah Morris ( published in 1971 by George Allen and Unwin ) ; A grief observed by C. S. Lewis ( published in 1961 by Faber and Faber ) — of particular interest to widowers — and Bereavement . |
| 14 | On May 25th EC development ministers met to discuss a new ‘ special Africa initiative ’ — yet another proposal to create a pot of money for Africa , this time to help countries that have been battered especially hard by war or drought . |
| 15 | However , although it is the ideal course of action for John — allowing him to take advantage of some of the excellent schemes around at the moment as well as releasing cash that has been building up in his home over the years — he should look out for excessive costs that a remortgage can incur . |
| 16 | In the early 1980s , the society began operating deficits , paying for its expenses by either liquidating chunks of its endowment or selling securities that had been donated in trust . |
| 17 | The Society reached an agreement with most tuna-canners in 1990 , setting up the labelling scheme in return for the canners ' agreeing not to buy tuna that had been caught through drift-netting or " setting-on-dolphins " ( where the mammals are rounded up to catch the schools of tuna which swim beneath them ) . |
| 18 | Are there differences in the experience of handling and owning materials that have been processed by hand and those processed by machines , tools and computers ? |
| 19 | Er we had er buy a bucket of water campaign and we did erm er you know I , we went in local shops selling little stickers and it all went to and the wells have been dug and I believe Afghanistan has got wells that have been dug with , through the er Womens ' Guild . |
| 20 | Beneath the graceful , almost sensual lines is a fearsome , sledgehammer power that has been described as ‘ just this side of reality . ’ |
| 21 | Wherever possible , re-use water that 's been used for washing vegetables , not-too dirty dishes , bathwater , rinse cycle of washing machine , etc ( again , only on outdoor plants ) . |
| 22 | The analysis of patterns of class based inequality that has been presented so far clearly indicates the existence of people who experience considerably disadvantaged life chances , those for example who are found among the lowest 20 per cent of income earners . |
| 23 | A vase containing flowers that have been left over is also put at the well so people can see for themselves how they have been incorporated into the picture . |
| 24 | Further , the claim is made that his criterion has withstood tests against episodes from the last two hundred or so years of physics in a superior way to rival criteria that have been proposed . |
| 25 | What I am doing is leaving that literature to one side and considering factors that have been found to affect performance at work . |
| 26 | Fax scanning Since the essence of OCR is a scanned image , WSP can cope with three types — direct scans , from a scanner connected to the PC , scanned files that have been created previously , and Fax files . |
| 27 | Since they involve the same Ernst equation , it is clear that all the solution generating techniques that have been developed for stationary axisymmetric space-times in recent years can also be applied to colliding plane wave situations . |
| 28 | If the amendment is seconded by another person who has not spoken on the original motion , the Chairman must accept it as a new motion , subject to the provisos that the amendment is not a simple negative of the motion ; is relevant ; does not cover ground that has been dealt with under a previous amendment ; and is not frivolous nor illegal . |
| 29 | Some other general qualities of schizophrenia can be appreciated by examining attempts that have been made to identify various subtypes . |
| 30 | She lost pearls that had been given to her for her 21st birthday . |