Example sentences of "that have been [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simply expressed , the accountability , or responsibility , of single-party government to the people a responsibility that has been of the very essence of our system of parliamentary democracy-would be rendered less likely with proportional representation . |
| 2 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
| 3 | A marvellous opportunity to visit a forge that has been in the same family for five generations to see a working blacksmith . |
| 4 | The dunes that had been on the left were replaced by a sandstone ridge and the sand on that side of the road was now black . |
| 5 | Although the two firms are still expected to cement an agreement covering Hewlett-Packard taking a 20% stake in Taligent Inc , the Common Operating System Interface announcement is now likely to be toned down , with the participation of other firms that had been in the same swim , such as Santa Cruz Operation Inc and SunSoft Inc , looking increasingly unlikely by the day . |
| 6 | One crucial element in this was the resumption of centre stage by a type of music that had been in the dominant culture throughout Punk rock — black disco music . |
| 7 | Two whaling nations that had been among the largest , the United States and Britain , gave up whaling , and others have recently given up or are showing signs of doing so . |
| 8 | It had been the Jews , together with Prussian militarism , that had been behind the Russian Revolution . |
| 9 | For it was the procedures and practices that have been at the very core of racing tradition for generations that were on trial here , and there was little realistic chance that they should have been found wanting . |
| 10 | A country pub that 's been in the same family for more than a hundred years is about to be sold off . |