Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [vb past] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But there was humour in her tone , and a sparkle in her lovely eyes , and the mouth that had been unhappy for so long now curved in a smile . |
| 3 | It was less crowded at the rear of the room and he thought of pausing there , where he could watch la Principessa and still draw a breath of air that was not perfumed half to death , but then he patted the slender cigar in the breast pocket of the dinner-jacket that had been hand-tailored to fit his sinew-hardened body and decided that only a whiff of tobacco would fully cleanse his nostrils of the mix of scents that hung in the over-heated room . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In 1963 , Butler and Stokes began a series of surveys which set a new pattern , and a new standard , for the study of voting behaviour in Britain : their sample was large , nation-wide , and was interviewed several times between 1963 and 1970 ; and the authors were concerned to apply a rigour that had been absent from most of the earlier single constituency studies of electoral choice . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was woven to represent a field that had been horse-ploughed in the old narrow stetches . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Gen Noriega 's provocations may simply have accelerated a plan that had been ready to be unleashed at any time . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Even four successive nights seemed an almost too generous slice of happiness , and on that fourth night , with the waning moonlight glittering on the sea and the crickets noisy in the hayfield on the other side of the wall , she gazed sadly up at him and asked the question that had been uppermost in their minds for some time . |
| 13 | Generally , the products were made of plane/sycamore wood that had been seasoned for about 6 months . |
| 14 | Anxious that Lally should not return to find her naked , she huddled into a blue satin kimono that had been one of Aunt Tossie 's many over-grand presents . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . , |
| 17 | There were no signs anywhere of Wolski 's background , of the fact that he spoke Polish or had once been Jewish , or of the God that had been present at his birth but on whom he had turned his back before the godlessness in a death camp called Sobibor . |
| 18 | It was an argument that had been simmering for two days , and it was clear he was beginning to waver . |
| 19 | Rune had treated her body with a considerate respect that had been faultless , ensuring her safety , even as he had ensured her ecstasy . |
| 20 | His great oak coffin that had been ready for him for years was set up like a cupboard at the head of the bier , fresh lined with red and gold damask , its silver handles polished bright . |
| 21 | In 1983 , in order to extend the international scope of our work , a survey questionnaire that had been pre-tested with social work educators from Australia , India , Israel , and the United States was mailed to all member colleges , universities , and national affiliate associations of the International Association of Schools of Social Work and to a list of individuals who had been identified as experts on paraprofessional social welfare personnel in their own countries or internationally . |
| 22 | Men and women who are now in their forties and fifties grew up in a society that had been first shocked , then revolutionized by the ‘ revelations ’ of American sex researcher Alfred Kinsey . |
| 23 | In the spring of 1937 , June went to Bellevue in Manhattan to have the baby , and returned quietly and resolutely to begin the charade that had been pre-determined , that the child had been born to her mother and father , Ethel and John . |
| 24 | Ridiculously , a song that had been popular in her childhood flooded her mind . |
| 25 | But the training that had been such a part of his life , the long hours of studying the Twelve Books of Honour for entry into the Fiana at the age of eleven ; the days and the weeks spent schooling his mind so that all situations could be calmly appraised , came to his aid and , at length , exhausted and drained , Fergus began to look about him and assess this strange , out-of-the-world fortress . |
| 26 | He was returning to a world that had been kind to him , a past he could be sure of . |
| 27 | The coolers had been a stumbling block , an item that had been impossible for the restoration crew to find . |
| 28 | The H3 building had been put up hastily in the early 1950s to get the scientists out of their first accommodation that had been little more than Nissen huts . |
| 29 | World spatial systems afford an enormous scope for review but perhaps the dominant trend has been towards the differentiation of the earth 's surface on a more realist dynamic basis to replace a more static arid functional treatment that had been current previously . |
| 30 | De Gaulle 's foreign policy had restored a level of national self-respect and consensus that had been absent since the First World War . |