Example sentences of "[noun pl] that have been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He built his shed which , made as it was of old floorboards from a couple of hovels that had been empty for years , resembled a shack . |
| 2 | The trend towards equality of attainment is especially marked in schools that have been comprehensive for a long time . |
| 3 | When I was approached over Westland , it was by some of the banks and institutions that had been involved in the John Brown affair . |
| 4 | His social and economic situation continues to be regulated by the kind of disciplines that have been familiar to successive generations of workers on the land — ; poverty , the lack of alternative employment opportunities , the intense localism , the dependency for jobs and housing on local farmers . |
| 5 | Rats that had been pre-exposed to a tone were trained on a task in which presses on a lever in the presence of the tone yielded reward but responses in the absence of the tone did not . |
| 6 | In their experiment , rats that have been pre-exposed to a noise prior to noise-shock conditioning trials showed latent inhibition in that , on a final test session , the noise elicited only a weak CR . |
| 7 | In one of his experiments , lie detectors were connected to two house plants that had been present in a room at the time of a murder . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A collection of essays edited by Ellen Kennedy and Susan Mendus , Women in Western Political Philosophy ( 1987 ) , presents a feminist perspective on questions that have been central to political philosophy and raises questions about the philosophical underpinning of political theory . |
| 10 | And I remembered too the guns they 'd shown me , with the barrels roughly brazed to patch holes that had been blasted-out by home-made bullets too misshapen to find a smooth passage through when the gun was fired . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Fatigue fractures , by their very nature , are more prevalent in structures that have been subject to stress over a long period of time . |
| 13 | Only nineteen MPs were heirs to peerages and of these seven were from families that had been Liberal before 1886 and another five were new creations since then ; thirty-eight MPs were related to peers by blood and another forty by marriage . |
| 14 | You can all see that it is imperative that we all maintain the efforts that have been successful in 1992 right through 1993 . |
| 15 | The finalists of the 1981/82 and 1982/83 Competitions for the Prince of Wales Award for Industrial Innovation and Production provide a self-selected sample of firms that have been successful in innovation , ie in developing commercially viable new products . |
| 16 | In proposing hypotheses , people are guided by knowledge of past failures , by analogies with theories that have been successful in handling related subject matters ; Peirce 's ‘ affinity ’ between mind and nature is an allusion to something which is required to explain the speed of the growth of knowledge ; and testing theories is an intentional activity which appeals to general cognitive aims — to describe reality , anticipate experience , solve problems , produce elegant and simple formalisms , etc . |
| 17 | Qualities such as the physical condition of the member of the opposite sex , the resources it holds and the extent to which it bears characters that have been subject to sexual selection can all affect whether or not it is chosen ( see Halliday , 1983 ) . |
| 18 | But all addressed the themes that had been crucial in other traditions . |
| 19 | Several devices that have been successful in modern surgery include hip replacements , contact and intraocular lenses , heart pacemakers and so on . |
| 20 | Friends that had been kind to me . |
| 21 | The second defendant also drove negligently and collided with the vehicles that had been involved in the first accident , killing the plaintiff . |
| 22 | Because I also do a fair bit of crochet and these cones ( white ) are excellent for the crochet collars that have been fashionable for a couple of years . |
| 23 | But two of the mediating factors that had been present in his triumphant Pennies From Heaven and Singing Detective had gone : no independent director or challenging producer . |
| 24 | The history of the whole of the Church shows that having been full to overflowing in times of crisis , in times of war for example . |
| 25 | There is good news for smaller companies , with government support for both the network schemes that have been successful in other parts of Europe , and one-stop shops . |
| 26 | Nor would it have occurred if her aunt had not written several gloomy letters to Mother — letters that had been full of pathos and self-pity . |
| 27 | If we now look at the different animals and crops that have been available over several thousand years , we will begin to see how basic systems of land exploitation worked in the landscape . |
| 28 | Always hang out clothes that have been dry-cleaned to air before putting them back in your wardrobe . |
| 29 | When applicable , these two sources of law provided shippers with benefits that had been unavailable under the Harter Act . |
| 30 | 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 . |