Example sentences of "that have been [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend raises a point that has been raised many times before . |
| 2 | As long ago as 1915 Scott published the first research on interviews showing that 6 personnel managers could not agree about a common set of applicants , a finding that has been replicated innumerable times and will be reflected in the personal experience of most interviewers . |
| 3 | It is this basic human right that has been denied deaf persons and their families for hundreds of years . |
| 4 | One of the many highlights is the view down Loch Shiel from Glenfinnan , a vista that has been reproduced many times on gaudy retouched 60s ' postcards , and on calendars handed out at Christmas by firms who manufacture ball-bearings . |
| 5 | It was also through Bede that the AD system of reckoning the years from the Incarnation of Christ , that had been devised two centuries before by Dionysius Exiguus , was introduced into England . |
| 6 | At three o'clock in the morning of Tuesday 20 May , Frank Foley and Edward Carrington watched a Dornier 217 taxi to a halt between the lines of flares that had been lit ten minutes previously at RAF Lincoln . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the corporate-finance deals that had been generating big bucks for Wall Street 's investment bankers were starting to dry up . |
| 8 | The roof was slightly unusual due to the relative heights of the eaves and the ridge , but to a structural engineer the design was sound and anyway was one that had been used many times before . |
| 9 | Within was a colour photograph of Nicola that had been taken several years before : her face was chubbier and her hair , although still a remarkable blonde , was straight and parted down the middle . |
| 10 | He favoured less one that had been taken ten years before in which his bowler hat and suit are typical of a provincial businessman . |
| 11 | A favourite a couple of years ago was a letter issued from an American bank that had been issued three years previously . ’ |
| 12 | These became , in fact , the almost exclusive preserve of Hammer Films , a company that had been making skilfully-marketed pictures with an eye on the US B-movie market since the late 1940s . |
| 13 | There 's a stand-pipe that 's been erected two streets over that way , ’ she said , pointing . |
| 14 | The idea , one that 's been adopted many times since , was to ‘ camouflage ’ the door handle so it did n't interfere with the body lines . |