Example sentences of "that have [adv] been [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As these teachers realized they were not to get the major posts of responsibility , that their objective career progression had come to an end , that their own subject expertise was being compared unfavourably with that of their colleagues from former grammar schools , and that they were to be allocated the ‘ dirty work ’ of teaching the lower-ability groups in the lower streams — they formed a staff counterculture which set about resisting the initiatives of the head , and they withdrew that commitment and enthusiasm in the classroom that had previously been a major part of their secondary modern identity :
2 As a result of these mixed forces the resistance movements that had previously been the exclusive domain of irresolute Annamese intellectuals began , as the decade drew to a close , to stir the mass of the people toiling in the rice fields , the mines arid the rubber plantations .
3 Her looks and her vibrant personality had always won the day for her — but perhaps in the long run that had n't been a good thing , because now those weapons had failed her she was floundering , rudderless .
4 She could defend herself — that had n't been an empty boast .
5 He 'd closed his eyes once in the last forty hours , and that had only been a restless doze in the back of the car on the way to the border .
6 He was a tall man — not quite as tall as Tom Russell , but still over six feet — with slightly thinning hair that had once been a dark brown but was now streaked with grey .
7 Esther shook her head , oblivious of the stray wisp of hair that fanned to and fro across her forehead ; hair that had once been a soft shade of brown , but which now was streaked iron grey .
8 In much of his fiction , early and late , Waugh turns from comedy to the haunting thought of a lost Eden ; and in a nation that had once been the first industrial civilisation that can only mean a pastoral world .
9 St Ebba 's , the maternity hospital , was a good way farther down North River Street from Hilderbridge General , but there had been no room left in St Ebba 's car park and she had used the car park of the rambling , foinstone , turreted building that had once been the Three Towns workhouse .
10 An influence strong enough to rob her of the natural exuberant self-confidence that had always been a central , unthinking part of her personality .
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