Example sentences of "that have [been] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind this lies the problem of an economy that has been largely stagnant since the mid-1970s . |
| 2 | One of the issues that has been rather distorted in the debate over Howie is the need to look beyond crude distinctions between ‘ academic ’ and ‘ vocational ’ qualifications . |
| 3 | CCG was awarded the £1 million contract for North Yorkshire schools last January , and since then we have implemented the healthy eating policy that has been so successful in other school contracts . |
| 4 | To take a particular example , an aspect of doctrine that has been very effective in enforcing religious observance is the threat of hell fire . |
| 5 | British trade unions in their blanket rejection of such change have let employers initiate flexibility in a way that has been very damaging to the interests of workers and unions . |
| 6 | The top seed won 15-11 , 15-11 , 15-7 with a display of sustained violence that has been less characteristic of the heavier , more creative but slower Jahangir than the earlier version . |
| 7 | If physics is to be taken as the acme of scientific knowledge , then it would make sense to try to emulate the methods that physics uses to gain its knowledge , and where else could one go for this by way of a shortcut but to philosophy , the discipline that has been endlessly preoccupied with the foundations of human knowledge . |
| 8 | During Queen Victoria 's reign , many that had been formerly open to the public closed their gates , preferring to cultivate the sanctity of ‘ home ’ . |
| 9 | Yet in racing , in export credit guarantees and elsewhere , the Chancellor was reacting late in the day to complaints that had been clearly audible for some considerable time . |
| 10 | They were spoken in those parts of the country that had been massively subject to Scandinavian settlement in the late OE period , and they were subsequently used in areas where the elite language became Norman French . |
| 11 | A minority of the children — the exact proportion can not be established — displayed symptoms of the poverty and deprivation that had been quite commonplace in the 1930s , and significantly under-recorded by government reports ; these medical and social symptoms horrified many hosts in the reception areas precisely because they seemed to epitomise wider rural-urban cultural differences . |
| 12 | In 1972 , 41% of women over 16 were daily cigarette smokers ( a figure that had been fairly constant since the 1950s ) whilst in 1986 that figure was 31% , compared with 52% and 35% for men [ 1 ] : this has given rise to the assumption that women find it more difficult to give up smoking than men . |
| 13 | In the Portuguese elections of 1984 , where I was an adviser , it was quite a problem — it had always been done from the second floor — so I suggested the flatbed truck concept that had been so successful in Malta . |
| 14 | Gone were the colourful historical scenes that had been so much in favour with the Hung Mao . |
| 15 | It was not a friendship of the kind that had been so frequent in Anselm 's early life . |
| 16 | If there was to be a common external policy , economic and strategic , which appeared more and more desirable , as between the parliamentarily self-governing populations around the world that were deemed all to be parts of one empire , the logical but crazy conclusion must be to defy the impracticability that had been so clear in the eighteenth century and to envisage an imperial parliament . |
| 17 | A perfect oval face , thick , glossy hair and the same bright sparkle in the wide brown eyes that had been so evident in the photograph at Seaview . |
| 18 | Too many different players were winning odd caps and the continuity that had been so important under Ron Greenwood seemed to be disappearing . |
| 19 | It just felt like somewhere that had been absolutely clean for a very , very long time . |
| 20 | An economy that had been virtually self-contained for 20 years after 1945 suddenly found itself severely tested by international competition . |
| 21 | She did need a shower to wash away the tension from a day that had been too full of emotion . |
| 22 | Will he take note of the number of Arab countries that have been strongly opposed to many Libyan terrorist activities over the years ? |
| 23 | Banks that have been repeatedly successful with mergers have a blueprint for consolidation ready to be used the moment a merger is complete . |
| 24 | Amongst the equations or sets of equations that have been particularly significant in the development of ideas about chaos are the Lorenz equations , introduced in Section 17.3 . |
| 25 | The slowest-evolving molecules , like histones , turn out to be the ones that have been most subject to natural selection . |
| 26 | Second , we will set-down the perspective of the Liberals and SDP — the parties that have been most active in pressing the case for a new constitution precisely because they do not think they can win within the rules of the old one . |
| 27 | But the number of people that I 've had in erm both customers and visitors like yourselves , that have been so impressed by the standards of housekeeping and cleanliness and tidiness , for an engineering facility . |
| 28 | It is arms races of this kind that have been mainly responsible for the apparently progressive quality of evolution , for the evolution of ever-improved running speed , flying skill , acuity of eyesight , keenness of hearing , and so on . |