Example sentences of "that have been " in BNC.
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| 31 | The snow had drifted deep over the path that has been carved down to the chasm and we soon lost it , progressing by kicking steps into the hard snow . |
| 32 | We are now getting close to the flanks of Akka , a seven-peaked mountain that has been visible for four or five days . |
| 33 | All morning it has been calm but now we are threatened by a storm that has been brewing out to the west . |
| 34 | We move on next day over hard packed snow that has been wind-blown into flutes and columns . |
| 35 | Beneath the graceful , almost sensual lines is a fearsome , sledgehammer power that has been described as ‘ just this side of reality . ’ |
| 36 | In fact , there is only one car that has been around long enough to have reached an affordable price on the secondhand market — the Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.8i . |
| 37 | The view that hooligans actually learn how to behave from the papers and reflect back to the public the image that has been created for them is not really borne out in personal interviews . |
| 38 | This is what seems to have been behind the ‘ skinhead ’ or ‘ boot-boy ’ phenomenon that has been a part of football hooliganism . |
| 39 | Another method that has been tested upon some blind people is the regular use of the hormone melatonin , a product of the pineal gland . |
| 40 | The farmers from this village own land in the Buffer Zone that has been lying fallow for fourteen years , but which is now being opened up . |
| 41 | Where these projections of the formerly open central bay of the building are not glazed , they are finished in dark-stained timber , a treatment that has been applied to all new external and internal timberwork and is a conventional finish for the external woodwork of many local farm buildings . |
| 42 | The riverside warehouses of the London docklands have become favourite subjects for this treatment during the last decade and an outstanding conversion of one such building — Thames Tunnel Mills — is described in this chapter , while the final chapter of the book contains an analysis of a similar building that has been converted to house a range of new uses , including sixty apartments . |
| 43 | To some people the fox is the worst type of vermin ; to others it is a gentle creature that has been much maligned . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Measure 6 level tbsp of the syrup into a small bowl that has been rinsed out with hot water . |
| 46 | Earlier , the director of the United Nations Transitional Assistance Group ( Untag ) , Irish-born Mr Cedric Thornberry , described the election as freer than any poll that has been held in West Belfast . |
| 47 | As a former reporter I devour newsprint with the appetite of a motorised refuse truck , but some of the garbage that has been written about myself and other women MPs deserves instant binning . |
| 48 | Behind this lies the problem of an economy that has been largely stagnant since the mid-1970s . |
| 49 | The top seed won 15-11 , 15-11 , 15-7 with a display of sustained violence that has been less characteristic of the heavier , more creative but slower Jahangir than the earlier version . |
| 50 | Drug testing also may disproportionally victimise members of racial minority groups whose subcultures sanction casual marijuana smoking , reversing much of the progress that has been made in eliminating employment discrimination . |
| 51 | Let us hope that it is Mr Clarke who needs an ambulance that has been stood down . ’ |
| 52 | But Cooper was unfortunate to appear before the disciplinary committee at a time when it was under increasing pressure to eradicate the high , late tackle that has been such a scar on the game this season . |
| 53 | This gives women equal access to a pavilion that has been a male preserve for 125 years and leaves Lord 's as English cricket 's last bastion of discrimination . |
| 54 | Bradford showed little of the enterprising approach that has been helping them shed a dour image this season , but it was not until the 64th minute that they began to slide out of the contest . |
| 55 | Composing himself , Sir Michael pressed on : ‘ Would my Right Honourable Friend reflect on the great progress that has been made during the last 10 years in the well-being of our country and the competitiveness of our industries and … |
| 56 | Probably anticipating the enhancing of the already considerable temperature that might ensue from a stretch of proven hell-raising , Pukwana called for a blues , and set about declaring his intent with that impassioned alto cry ( the instrument in his hands displaying the weight of the tenor as well as the wild , wayward quality of the higher horn ) that has been thrilling British audiences since the Sixties . |
| 57 | For a band that has been performing for around a decade , their output is remarkably small , but perfectly formed . |
| 58 | Mr Trippier was one of a number of European government ministers who attended the conference and spoke of their committment to compensate developing countries for the expense they would have to entail in order to avoid adding to an ecological disaster that has been created by industrialised states . |
| 59 | In a letter to the Australian Stock Exchange , the company said it would ‘ vigorously oppose the appointment that has been made and will do everything in its power to have the receivership rescinded . ’ |
| 60 | Normally , airlines and governments keep quiet about terrorist threats , a silence that has been criticised since the Lockerbie disaster a year ago , when secret service information on suspected sabotage was kept back . |