Example sentences of "that have been [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I was a bit worried about taking a show that has been one of the great musical hits of all time , which I felt was a bit of fluff with one big smash song , ’ he said . |
2 | Surely that has been one of the major changes of Government policy over the last few years . |
3 | Throughout industry this election day , a host of trade unionists are waiting with acute anxiety , nursing their hopes : a Labour victory will enable them to reassert their influence on factories throughout the land , in a manner that has been impossible for a decade . |
4 | After months of pursuing its quarry , it looks like IXI Ltd has finally nailed down the OEM agreement with DEC for its X.desktop manager that has been long in the making . |
5 | I 'm the fifth generation of a family that has been involved in the theatre … they 've built theatres , run companies , been actors , married actresses . |
6 | If you doubt this , talk to any private oil company that has been involved in the North Sea . |
7 | The second attraction is that the Town and Country Planning Association is a fascinating case study of a pressure group that has been active over a long period . |
8 | Is could be seen as a classic example of the muddle that has been prevalent at the top of Welsh rugby except that the pressures here — unrecognisable from those in other home unions — are so many and varied that it is impossible to respond to them all , let alone resist them . |
9 | When applicable , these two sources of law provided shippers with benefits that had been unavailable under the Harter Act . |
10 | When I was approached over Westland , it was by some of the banks and institutions that had been involved in the John Brown affair . |
11 | The second defendant also drove negligently and collided with the vehicles that had been involved in the first accident , killing the plaintiff . |
12 | And further , he said that it was his determination to see me again , to persuade me to live with him , that had streng-thened in him the desire to go on living , a desire that had been weak since the death of Montaine . |
13 | The danger of internal dispute was recognised and the KPR strove to achieve coalescence of all elements whether right or left , that had been opposed to the Japanese . |
14 | They reflected a concept that had been current for a number of years , that experiments in planning free zones ought to be devised ( Banham et al . , |
15 | Elsewhere he referred to it as ‘ developing socialism ’ , differentiating it from the ‘ developed socialism ’ that was supposed to have been constructed in the Brezhnev era and still more so from the utopian vision of a society rapidly advancing towards full communism that had been current in the Khrushchev years . |
16 | The generation of 1898 redressed in literature the balance that had been upset in the economic development of Spain : with some exaggeration the rediscovery of the desolate attractions of Castile by poets and essayists , many of whom came from peripheral regions , can be seen as a repentant gesture to the centre , devastated for the greater glory of Spain . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | He spelt out a clear conception of force as the cause of acceleration rather than motion , a conception that had been present in a somewhat confused way in the writings of Galileo and Kepler . |
19 | When Pound revised and expanded this to make The ABC of Reading ( the title is still a misnomer ) , he winkled out of it most of the anti-Englishness that had been present in the first version , when Pound was still smarting from what he took to be England 's rejection of him eight years before , in 1920 . |
20 | On that second and final dinner of the conference — most guests were expected to disperse after lunch the following day — the company had lost much of the reserve that had been noticeable throughout the previous days . |
21 | De Gaulle 's foreign policy had restored a level of national self-respect and consensus that had been absent since the First World War . |
22 | The coolers had been a stumbling block , an item that had been impossible for the restoration crew to find . |
23 | After all , that had been one of the major problems in their marriage . |
24 | Probably that had been one of the things which Aunt Ruth , who had little dress sense , so disliked about her . |
25 | He enclosed the green that had been open to the villagers for years , and he bought up Hooper 's farm just to tack on his land , this land you 're living on . ’ |
26 | That unhinging extended back at least as far as the Japanese attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in December 1941 , a crisis which allowed Franklin Roosevelt finally to break free from the congressional restraints on executive action that had been operative in the inter war period . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | It was woven to represent a field that had been horse-ploughed in the old narrow stetches . |
29 | Despite all of these changes , the leaders of the change effort consciously supported and maintained those values and ways of work that had been productive in the past , such as joint consultation with the unions . |
30 | The trend towards equality of attainment is especially marked in schools that have been comprehensive for a long time . |