Example sentences of "that have been [adv] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , one of the catchwords that has been widely heard in Washington and elsewhere during the run up to the war has been the need to create a democratic environment in the Middle East after the war is over . |
| 2 | A recent source of data about the ethnic minorities in Britain that has been extensively used in this chapter is Brown ( 1984 ) , which is based on a large-scale survey for the Policy Studies Institute . |
| 3 | This stricture is one that has been variously repeated in a large number of literary and critical theories in this century . |
| 4 | This is a point that has been commonly overlooked in the past , even by geologists , since there is a general tendency to assume that the only rocks worth bothering about are ‘ hard ’ rocks , which can be hit with a hammer ! |
| 5 | But not only did the war raise the question of state power and economics ; for Bukharin and the Bolsheviks it signalled the beginning of the end of imperialist capitalism , the first act in the collapse of the system as a whole , a collapse that had been hotly debated in the pre-war Marxist movement in Europe . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , they caused concern among employees , especially in sections of the new set-up that had been hard hit in the recession only a few years before . |
| 7 | He picked at another piece of raw wood that had been crudely cut in the workshop across the compound in preparation for the finishing work of the lathes . |
| 8 | The motivation and advantage of using such a method as a research tool is that it finds a middle way between idiosyncratic subjectivism and claims to objectivity that have been increasingly questioned in the past twenty or so years ( by writers from Derrida ( 1975 ) to Lakoff ( 1987 ) ) . |
| 9 | The dichotomy between appearance and reality , the continuity of metaphors for usurpation applied to Macbeth , the incredible number of antitheses ( some 400 odd ) : these are aspects of the play that have been well studied in modern criticism , and all show its persistent operation on two linguistic levels . |
| 10 | The former is itself a fascinating tale that will surely be told in full elsewhere , of how interested parties helped to orchestrate the episode and stimulate financial investments in ways that have been widely criticised in the scientific community . |
| 11 | The success was based on good utilisation of staff and equipment , particularly during periods that have been seasonally affected in previous years . |