Example sentences of "an [noun] that have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An election that had been fought by the Conservatives on the issue of , " Who runs the country — government or trade unions ? " , was won by a party that was seen by many as in the pay of the unions and there was the spectre of socialism via the ballot box . |
| 2 | As a minimum , it says , The Stock Exchange should require listed companies to publish an OFR that has been reviewed by its auditors for consistency with the financial statements . |
| 3 | Let us hope that it is Mr Clarke who needs an ambulance that has been stood down . ’ |
| 4 | We now shall take up an issue that has been touched on several times before : power transformation of the scale of a variable in order to make its analysis easier . |
| 5 | Whatever generalizations might have been true at the level of national policy , it was becoming evident towards the end of an era that had been marked by political consensus that in Greater London and some of the other metropolitan areas the public accountability and operational methods of the police were no longer consensual . |
| 6 | ‘ They 're currently assisting with an inquiry that 's been giving the police quite a few headaches for the last few months . ’ |
| 7 | We have an infrastructure that 's been built up over twenty years so er and you 've read our brochure and I hope it 's it was as impressive to you as it is to most people . |
| 8 | For them , last Saturday was an accident that had been waiting to happen . |
| 9 | An event that has been occurring for only five years before the enactment of the 1986 Act is of a more dubious standing . |
| 10 | But any engineer can recognize an object that has been designed , even poorly designed , for a purpose , and he can usually work out what that purpose is just by looking at the structure of the object . |
| 11 | That fits Waugh 's 1930s fiction well enough , and in an age that had been reading Proust , Joyce and Virginia Woolf it must all have looked startlingly diagrammatic and technically reactionary : a reactionary politics aptly matched by a technical reaction . |
| 12 | St Helena , in the South Atlantic Ocean , is another example of an island that has been transformed by human activity . |
| 13 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 14 | There 's a castle , and a cable car that soars up the mountains to an area that has been dubbed ‘ the botanical gardens of Italy ’ . |
| 15 | In the book I have attempted to give a practical interpretation of the soft systems approach , an interpretation that has been found to be of value in many studies with which I have been associated . |
| 16 | If it is difficult now to concur with the Bioscope reviewer 's judgement that the film ‘ surpasses in technical achievement anything of its kind ever made in Britain , and at times soars to heights of directorial brilliance ’ , it 's still possible to understand how an audience that had been accustomed only to silent films might warm to the various acts on display . |
| 17 | In fact there was a , I think some of the recent erm concerns about schools have come from an image that 's been built up over a period of time that the schools spend very little time on the , on the three Rs for example . |
| 18 | She is nursing a chipped elbow and an image that has been dented by allegations of party members taking kickbacks from the barons of pachinko , a form of pinball which is a national passion . |
| 19 | It is possible to break out of the straight-jacket by applying an idea that had been used for many years in thinking about the psychology of classification and aesthetics ( McLlelland & Clark , 1933 ; Berlyne , 1960 ) . |
| 20 | It was sexual excitement — an element that had been missing from her life for too long . |
| 21 | We divided the material into six programmes which we then had to clear with the Cabinet Office under an agreement that had been made with the Broadlands Archives Trust . |
| 22 | With my letter , I sent you two copies of an Agreement that had been drawn up for signature on behalf of AT&T , and asked for confirmation of your tape specification requirements . |
| 23 | Moreover , by choosing an option that has been shown to be the best in terms of quality of life days gained general practitioners would be more certain that they were acting with beneficence ; at present , using simply their ‘ unaided intuitive judgment ’ to make such decisions , they can only hope that this is the case . |
| 24 | They also have their ‘ Loudspeaker ’ 45 high in the UK indie charts and an LP that has been produced by Ministry man Al Jourgensen . |