Example sentences of "[noun sg] that have [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Christianity is a religion that has always been open to rational criticism when its critics have been granted the freedom to make their challenge known . |
| 2 | After correcting the posture we will find that movements become easier and we will sense a lightness that has not been present since childhood . |
| 3 | And somehow , in a setting that had once been rural , it seemed yet more dire . |
| 4 | There was a cotton shirt that had once been cream-coloured , but was now a sodden , muddy grey . |
| 5 | Adjustment to their customers ' needs compelled them to establish an international presence that had hitherto been unnecessary . |
| 6 | Bulford , where the Avon and the Nine Mile River meet , is just a short distance from Stonehenge , and was one of the first sites on Salisbury Plain to be bought by the War Office at the turn of the century and turned into a garrison , bringing new industry to a village that had previously been dependent on agriculture . |
| 7 | It 's a magical place that 's never been open to the public . |
| 8 | The reason for this quiet revolution was simple , the combination of hardware and software provided a management tool that had never been available before whilst being sorely needed in a world of ever increasing financial pressures . |
| 9 | The difference between short and long rates has produced a yield curve that has rarely been steeper . |
| 10 | Zapp is the supreme professional , who embodies , albeit comically , those ideals of professionalism that have long been dominant in the North American academy and are becoming so in the British . |
| 11 | He pointed out my Marvin as being a prototype he had made in 1964 , and said how the beech neck on my model was later fitted with a trim , and how the position of the 3-way selector switch was altered from vertical to horizontal following a request from Hank himself , knowledge that had hitherto been unknown to me . |
| 12 | It should be a mounting series of difficulties , only here the difficulties are not major confrontations but small incidents such as a foot caught in a briar root or a gate that has always been open now proving to be locked . |
| 13 | Given the fact that many of the old people concerned are of a generation , class and gender that has traditionally been deferential , it is small wonder if they are characteristically timid and grateful in these exchanges ! |
| 14 | A secret valley that 's never been open to the public could soon be taken over by the National Trust . |
| 15 | The shabby coat that had once been old Mr Jarman 's strained across his broad shoulders , the short sleeves exposing a good length of arm ; the hands looking bigger than ever . |
| 16 | The theory is that the only thing that has ever been wrong with the health service is a lack of resources . |
| 17 | The 1975 definition was an exceptionally pure version that had not been current previously and only lasted a year or two . |
| 18 | But immediately , the burden of the territorial and other material possessions of his church weighed upon him in a way that had never been evident at Bec under the relaxed rule of Duke Robert of Normandy . |
| 19 | This signalled the arrival of the half of the school that had NOT been early for assembly , who tried to enter the sports hall at the same time as the half that had just been thrown out tried to exit . |
| 20 | A country that had once been central to itself was on the periphery : it needed to become central again . |
| 21 | A general reading of the book encourages the suspicion that the principle of verification is being used , not simply to exclude some clear and obvious errors , but to cut out swathes of philosophical tradition that have never been guilty of the crude misconceptions of which they are accused by Ayer . |
| 22 | A company that had always been paranoiac about labour unions , it should have noticed that it was suddenly at the mercy of customers ' unions . |
| 23 | In the countryside farmers began to claim as their own the land that had previously been state-owned . |
| 24 | The counsellor may be able to facilitate communication between the couple that has not been possible at home . |
| 25 | Former Environment Secretary Jose Lutzenberger argues that the government 's first priority should be to regenerate the soil of the 400,000 square kilometres of the Amazon basin that have already been deforested , rather than encourage the opening up of virgin forest land . |
| 26 | I fell hard against the asphalt playground and I felt the pain that had not been visible on film . |