Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be able to detect the entire NCSA virus library , but it 's still oblivious to some viruses that have been common knowledge for many months . |
| 2 | Finally , there are a few killers that have been able to develop a special tolerance for certain poisons , enabling them to eat the noxious prey without ill-effects . |
| 3 | The evidence from the few areas that have been bored or surveyed geophysically supports this view , but other evidence does not fit so well . |
| 4 | Being one of those select few companies that have been able to secure access to initial deliveries of Texas Instruments Inc 's SuperSparc RISC processor ( UX No 384 ) , it is understood that ICL last week totted up numbers required by its various departments and placed its order with TI for the part , which will feature in the DRS6000 workstation range from the fourth quarter . |
| 5 | Vadinamia has its own ultra-tight security that has been frustrating spies for a long time . |
| 6 | Given the social changes that have been necessary , and the consequences of those changes , I doubt whether any incoming Government would have looked after the coal industry as the present Government have . |
| 7 | There must be some dimensions that have been more thoroughly checked than than er |
| 8 | ‘ What have you done in school this week that 's been interesting ? ’ is a question that we should put to other members of staff , and ourselves at every staff meeting . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's the trust and familiar surroundings of this ward that have been vital to Thomas . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We are now getting close to the flanks of Akka , a seven-peaked mountain that has been visible for four or five days . |
| 12 | We move on next day over hard packed snow that has been wind-blown into flutes and columns . |
| 13 | Rune had treated her body with a considerate respect that had been faultless , ensuring her safety , even as he had ensured her ecstasy . |
| 14 | A COLLECTION of unusual antiques that has been 30 years in the making will go under the hammer this weekend . |
| 15 | World spatial systems afford an enormous scope for review but perhaps the dominant trend has been towards the differentiation of the earth 's surface on a more realist dynamic basis to replace a more static arid functional treatment that had been current previously . |
| 16 | There would be no reason to expect either the ‘ gap ’ or the clear commitment to deviant values that have been such persistent stumbling blocks for the traditional versions of these theories . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I WAS so pleased to read that people are reverting to real Christmas trees instead of the ghastly , glittering artificial things that have been popular for so long . |
| 20 | Political culture is a vague abstract concept that has been subject to various definitions . |
| 21 | 8. ‘ … are the only organizations that have been able to do what they do at all , even though it might seem that what they do is not that difficult or mysterious a thing ’ . |
| 22 | As a result , hundreds of would-be joystick junkies have been climbing the walls with frustration , as the only compatible datarecorders that have been available lately are of the decidedly dodgy import variety and wo n't work with many games — especially budget releases . |
| 23 | A dead small dog that 's been all dressed up and everything . |
| 24 | The H3 building had been put up hastily in the early 1950s to get the scientists out of their first accommodation that had been little more than Nissen huts . |
| 25 | Prescriptives , an American range that has been available here for 10 years , offers a unique collection of very wearable , natural colours . |
| 26 | Most expensive are hand-built kitchens that have been tailor-made to fit your room . |
| 27 | With the precious metal that has been undetected for so long in the folds of these hills , disseminated through the rock in an average ratio of half an ounce to a ton of stone , the sheer volume of likely debris is worrying . |
| 28 | Several devices that have been successful in modern surgery include hip replacements , contact and intraocular lenses , heart pacemakers and so on . |
| 29 | Silence fell as Creggan and the other eagles that had been listening thought about what Minch had told them . |
| 30 | Wool-sucking seems to be most common among young cats that have been orphaned or have for some other reason been deprived of the maternal nipple too soon . |