Example sentences of "[Wh det] they have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the sixth scene those poor French wretches on the raft were represented in very much the same posture as that in which they had been first delineated by Monsieur Jerricault . |
| 2 | It would be an ironical stroke if investigations into the affair resulted not in the discovery of those happenings in which they had been guilty but only in those where they had been blameless . |
| 3 | Figure 3.4 shows the results of an experiment by Channell and Hall ( 1983 ) in which rats received appetitive conditioning with a light CS — some subjects in a context to which they had been pre-exposed , others in a novel context , differing in its smell and the level of a background noise from that with which they were familiar . |
| 4 | In some cases , particularly the non.engineering companies , the extent to which they had been able to shape these plans as opposed merely to sanction them was very limited indeed . |
| 5 | Part of the art of curriculum development — for it is , indeed , an art and not a science — is to gauge the extent to which teachers are secure enough to forsake the safety and familiarity of the categories into which they have been accustomed to divide learning . |
| 6 | Or they were the wings of that sweet-faced Gabriel who appears in so many pictures , whose scarlet plumes brush the ceiling of the bedroom in which he has alighted ; whose shadow fills the whole of the bedroom wall , whose robes cover half the bedroom carpet and whose single , beckoning finger silences the virgins of history , making them forget the books which they have been surprised reading , and sends them sinking to their knees . |
| 7 | With great difficulty I obtained a copy of this document and while it stated that ‘ public servants should not reveal the opinions and attitudes of colleagues as to the government business with which they have been concerned ’ , another section said quite clearly that a reasonable timescale for a public servant 's silence would be ‘ fifteen years or for the service life of the adviser , whichever is the longer ’ . |
| 8 | Because er it 's marvellous what they 've been able to do . |
| 9 | Shipowners were eventually compelled to concede to the force of circumstances what they had been unwilling to concede either to reason or to industrial muscle . |
| 10 | People live in tents , and customs are so different from what they have been used to , that I really wonder how they reconcile themselves to their new mode of life . |
| 11 | I did wonder at first whether or not they realized what they were taking on because Baldersdale is another world compared to what they have been accustomed to — very different indeed . |
| 12 | As people evaluate and celebrate the successes of their actions , they will identify what they 've gained and what they have been unable to attain through the particular action . |
| 13 | This helps them to produce work substantially more creative and thoughtful than what they have been able to do before . |