Example sentences of "that have been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This , in theory , saves lives on the other side — a concern that has been rare in recent wars , but seems to carry some weight in this one .
2 We are now getting close to the flanks of Akka , a seven-peaked mountain that has been visible for four or five days .
3 ‘ I was a bit worried about taking a show that has been one of the great musical hits of all time , which I felt was a bit of fluff with one big smash song , ’ he said .
4 Surely that has been one of the major changes of Government policy over the last few years .
5 Throughout industry this election day , a host of trade unionists are waiting with acute anxiety , nursing their hopes : a Labour victory will enable them to reassert their influence on factories throughout the land , in a manner that has been impossible for a decade .
6 Political culture is a vague abstract concept that has been subject to various definitions .
7 It was Esquire 's dubious achievement to be born into an economy that has been unkind to all , but one in which the advertising business has been particularly hard-pressed .
8 After months of pursuing its quarry , it looks like IXI Ltd has finally nailed down the OEM agreement with DEC for its X.desktop manager that has been long in the making .
9 We move on next day over hard packed snow that has been wind-blown into flutes and columns .
10 This type of index is used in the Indexed Sequential Access Method ( ISAM ) that has been available on IBM mainframe computer systems since the late sixties , and is now available on some microcomputers .
11 Any management training that has been available for ryokan has been almost entirely ‘ in house ’ up to now , although the whole area of hotel management training is being rethought in Japan .
12 I 'm the fifth generation of a family that has been involved in the theatre … they 've built theatres , run companies , been actors , married actresses .
13 If you doubt this , talk to any private oil company that has been involved in the North Sea .
14 It quite frequently happens that a horse that has been used to drinking out of a dam or stream , will always refuse water from a trough or bucket , irrespective of how thirsty it may be .
15 The second attraction is that the Town and Country Planning Association is a fascinating case study of a pressure group that has been active over a long period .
16 Both Tustian and Pardoe are among the 600 farmers who are approved by the Soil Association , the largest organic farming body in Britain , whose main criterion is that certified produce must be grown on soil that has been free from artificial additives for at least two years .
17 One of the things that has been hardest for me to deal with in coaching is runners who want to train for both the marathon and the mile at the same time .
18 Yet few audit firms have chosen to protect themselves by becoming limited companies , an option that has been open to them since October last year .
19 Is could be seen as a classic example of the muddle that has been prevalent at the top of Welsh rugby except that the pressures here — unrecognisable from those in other home unions — are so many and varied that it is impossible to respond to them all , let alone resist them .
20 Then the king will say to those on his right hand , ‘ You have my Father 's blessing ; come , enter and possess the kingdom that has been ready for you since the world was made .
21 With the precious metal that has been undetected for so long in the folds of these hills , disseminated through the rock in an average ratio of half an ounce to a ton of stone , the sheer volume of likely debris is worrying .
22 We shall continue to put pressure on local authorities with stock that has been empty for more than a year .
23 The history of the whole of the Church shows that having been full to overflowing in times of crisis , in times of war for example .
24 Only nineteen MPs were heirs to peerages and of these seven were from families that had been Liberal before 1886 and another five were new creations since then ; thirty-eight MPs were related to peers by blood and another forty by marriage .
25 When applicable , these two sources of law provided shippers with benefits that had been unavailable under the Harter Act .
26 When I was approached over Westland , it was by some of the banks and institutions that had been involved in the John Brown affair .
27 The second defendant also drove negligently and collided with the vehicles that had been involved in the first accident , killing the plaintiff .
28 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 .
29 The danger of internal dispute was recognised and the KPR strove to achieve coalescence of all elements whether right or left , that had been opposed to the Japanese .
30 But all addressed the themes that had been crucial in other traditions .
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