Example sentences of "[noun sg] that have been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the frontal , main attack towards the Mort Homme had barely moved from its point of departure ; stopped by a veritable wall of gunfire from the French artillery that had been anticipating attack from this direction for many days . |
| 2 | A pub that 's been painted pink is making villagers see red . |
| 3 | A pub that 's been painted pink is making villagers see red . |
| 4 | She smiled to herself , reflecting that this was the question that had been torturing Richard all his life . |
| 5 | In October 1987 the edginess that had been afflicting stock market dealings in London , New York and Tokyo grew steadily until it was a fully-fledged panic . |
| 6 | Amsterdam Travel Service Ltd is part of a City Specialist Group that has been arranging holidays for over 36 years and as a Professional Tour Operator undertakes to act with thoroughly professional care in arranging your holiday . |
| 7 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 8 | Some people may suggest that the absence of Ireland 's top three drivers might actually be a good thing for Cork , making it a much more competitive event , but it will do little to improve the profile of a rally that has been losing ground for the past few years . |
| 9 | That fits Waugh 's 1930s fiction well enough , and in an age that had been reading Proust , Joyce and Virginia Woolf it must all have looked startlingly diagrammatic and technically reactionary : a reactionary politics aptly matched by a technical reaction . |
| 10 | By the summer the paper that had been interviewing Paul Johnson continued its move into youth , with a dose of Australian cultural snobbery directed against the ‘ Alfs ’ : ‘ This bizarre cult of grey , short-haired nine-to-fivers ’ , who worked as ‘ account executives , journalists , bank managers , doctors , lawyers , salesmen , dentists , insurance clerks , civil servants … |
| 11 | 1991 , 27 , 1151 ) failed to mention that the special exhibition on the work of Sir William Henry Perkin was in addition to a poster exhibition that had been touring Essex and east London over the previous six months . |
| 12 | In the early 1970s the local firm that had been producing soap since 1943 was closed down by the action of its major shareholder , who also owned an import agency . |
| 13 | These cold statistics do not show one important trend that has been taking place since 1945 . |
| 14 | What happens if we 've got an emergency situation and how come when you got about three or four different authorities to deal with that matter and the other thing that has been said people said it to me , the question of building and in some parts of West Sussex we 've got concrete jungles and that itself can cause flooding because water does n't drain would do through natural resources through its natural well drain away . |
| 15 | Roy Mackintosh is MD of a local foundry that has been supplying Pringle 's with castings for many years . |
| 16 | The issue was sexual not physical abuse — a problem that had been gaining momentum in terms of recognition and response throughout the 1980s — and it also concerned not just one child tragedy but many . |
| 17 | Houseplants are good for you , according to Californian a laboratory that has been doing research for NASA into the use of plants in space . |
| 18 | The hot and humid weather that had been suffocating Paris continued the next two days . |