Example sentences of "[that] have [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then again , his fast-bowling policy , more than any other factor , has hastened the decline of the spinner , a decline that has been hugely to the game 's detriment ; and with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of young speed men reaching the Test team and creating further successes , there is little sign that the decline might be halted . |
| 2 | Both her looks and personality came from a ride to stardom that has been far from comfortable . |
| 3 | When they first moved far enough into the courtyard to glimpse Gabriel sitting on his cloud , the morning sunshine dazzled eyes that had been indoors for days on end . |
| 4 | And after that we shipped — me and another feller , an Irish feller , a Belfast man — we shipped in an owd schooner called the Mount Blairie : it was an old thing that had been ashore at — in a little shipyard ; and they 'd done her up during the winter to give them men a job . |
| 5 | He had realised it before she had , and somehow the sympathy that had been briefly in those blue eyes , that she had mistaken for some sort of liking , was far more disturbing than his hard , cool look . |
| 6 | Catering that had been so under threat in the later seventies suddenly attracted new importance ; indeed , the single Manchester Pullman that looked almost certain to be a casualty of further standardisation in the eighties was joined by a bevy of Pullmans if only Pullman service on HSTs and Mark 3s . |
| 7 | I 'd been sexually abused and all of a sudden the poison that had been there for years started boiling to the surface . |
| 8 | The sun was setting , making the dogs pink , like the pink wine that had been there on the table . |
| 9 | There were none of the crowds that had been there during the day and we could really pray . |
| 10 | She brushed away the dullness that settled itself on her whenever she thought too hard about his death , about the way he had chosen to live parts of his life , the worries that had been there within her , deep below the surface , and forced herself to concentrate on finding the right numbered exit to this magnificent part of Gloucestershire . |
| 11 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 12 | He was wearing the leather shoes that had been only for best until they grew too small for his feet and now had to be worn for school . |
| 13 | You know a lot of the erm shops that have been here for many years |
| 14 | The flesh itself ranges from the blood red of the arriviste joint to the dull browny-purple bloom of those that have been there for the full three weeks . |
| 15 | that have been there for years have n't they ? |
| 16 | It was very good very very good for women that have been home for a long time and want to get their confidence back . |
| 17 | There 's a sign at the top of the road that 's been there for years , ever since they opened the new road , and it says ‘ Strome Ferry — no ferry ’ , and that just says it all . |