Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [noun sg] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cossiga emphasized in a television interview that compromise had been necessary to avoid an early general election . |
| 2 | Sartre 's philosophical grounding of ‘ History ’ , therefore , foundered in the second volume when the logic of history inexorably brought him , not to totalization without a totalizer , but to the very reverse : the figure of Stalin and the conclusion that Stalinism had been indispensable for the development of socialism in the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | For example , Drudy ( 1978 ) found evidence that depopulation had been worse in small settlements , and concluded that a low level of service provision , when added to the lack of a sufficient employment alternative to agriculture , could lead to a vicious circle of decline based on the theory of cumulative causation , already outlined . |
| 4 | for , in her face and in her voice , and in her touch , she gave the assurance that suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham 's teachings , and had given her a heart to understand what his heart used to be . |
| 5 | The walk may be continued beyond the ruins to Swinner Gill where a track leads upstream to the site of the Swinnergill Lead Mine , a scene of industrial devastation , a scarred landscape that nature has been unable to heal . |
| 6 | It appears from Jean Piaget 's child psychology that perception has been inseparable from simulation right from the start , and that instead of learning to project my inwardness on to other persons I had to unlearn the habit of projecting it on to the rising sun or a bouncing ball . |
| 7 | I now had the distinct impression that headvoice had been right all the time , that it was in fact down to me , or rather the old ‘ guilty conscience ’ ( which is well known to be capable of playing up without proper cause ) , playing tricks with my head . |