Example sentences of "[noun] that have been [adj] in " in BNC.

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1 That unhinging extended back at least as far as the Japanese attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in December 1941 , a crisis which allowed Franklin Roosevelt finally to break free from the congressional restraints on executive action that had been operative in the inter war period .
2 He spelt out a clear conception of force as the cause of acceleration rather than motion , a conception that had been present in a somewhat confused way in the writings of Galileo and Kepler .
3 When I was approached over Westland , it was by some of the banks and institutions that had been involved in the John Brown affair .
4 Elsewhere he referred to it as ‘ developing socialism ’ , differentiating it from the ‘ developed socialism ’ that was supposed to have been constructed in the Brezhnev era and still more so from the utopian vision of a society rapidly advancing towards full communism that had been current in the Khrushchev years .
5 It was woven to represent a field that had been horse-ploughed in the old narrow stetches .
6 Despite all of these changes , the leaders of the change effort consciously supported and maintained those values and ways of work that had been productive in the past , such as joint consultation with the unions .
7 Even four successive nights seemed an almost too generous slice of happiness , and on that fourth night , with the waning moonlight glittering on the sea and the crickets noisy in the hayfield on the other side of the wall , she gazed sadly up at him and asked the question that had been uppermost in their minds for some time .
8 In one of his experiments , lie detectors were connected to two house plants that had been present in a room at the time of a murder .
9 Despite the occasional spectacular accident , cannons are extremely deadly weapons that have been instrumental in winning more than one battle on behalf of their users .
10 You can all see that it is imperative that we all maintain the efforts that have been successful in 1992 right through 1993 .
11 The finalists of the 1981/82 and 1982/83 Competitions for the Prince of Wales Award for Industrial Innovation and Production provide a self-selected sample of firms that have been successful in innovation , ie in developing commercially viable new products .
12 In proposing hypotheses , people are guided by knowledge of past failures , by analogies with theories that have been successful in handling related subject matters ; Peirce 's ‘ affinity ’ between mind and nature is an allusion to something which is required to explain the speed of the growth of knowledge ; and testing theories is an intentional activity which appeals to general cognitive aims — to describe reality , anticipate experience , solve problems , produce elegant and simple formalisms , etc .
13 After months of pursuing its quarry , it looks like IXI Ltd has finally nailed down the OEM agreement with DEC for its X.desktop manager that has been long in the making .
14 But all addressed the themes that had been crucial in other traditions .
15 Several devices that have been successful in modern surgery include hip replacements , contact and intraocular lenses , heart pacemakers and so on .
16 Ridiculously , a song that had been popular in her childhood flooded her mind .
17 This , in theory , saves lives on the other side — a concern that has been rare in recent wars , but seems to carry some weight in this one .
18 The second defendant also drove negligently and collided with the vehicles that had been involved in the first accident , killing the plaintiff .
19 But two of the mediating factors that had been present in his triumphant Pennies From Heaven and Singing Detective had gone : no independent director or challenging producer .
20 There is good news for smaller companies , with government support for both the network schemes that have been successful in other parts of Europe , and one-stop shops .
21 If you doubt this , talk to any private oil company that has been involved in the North Sea .
22 The generation of 1898 redressed in literature the balance that had been upset in the economic development of Spain : with some exaggeration the rediscovery of the desolate attractions of Castile by poets and essayists , many of whom came from peripheral regions , can be seen as a repentant gesture to the centre , devastated for the greater glory of Spain .
23 I 'm the fifth generation of a family that has been involved in the theatre … they 've built theatres , run companies , been actors , married actresses .
24 As to the wider dissemination of culture , the few cells that had been active in this respect seemed to equate success with the regular dispatch of newspapers and made no personal contacts to follow this up .
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