Example sentences of "that have been [adj] in " 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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | If you doubt this , talk to any private oil company that has been involved in the North Sea . |
5 | When I was approached over Westland , it was by some of the banks and institutions that had been involved in the John Brown affair . |
6 | The second defendant also drove negligently and collided with the vehicles that had been involved in the first accident , killing the plaintiff . |
7 | But all addressed the themes that had been crucial in other traditions . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | The generation of 1898 redressed in literature the balance that had been upset in the economic development of Spain : with some exaggeration the rediscovery of the desolate attractions of Castile by poets and essayists , many of whom came from peripheral regions , can be seen as a repentant gesture to the centre , devastated for the greater glory of Spain . |
10 | When Pound revised and expanded this to make The ABC of Reading ( the title is still a misnomer ) , he winkled out of it most of the anti-Englishness that had been present in the first version , when Pound was still smarting from what he took to be England 's rejection of him eight years before , in 1920 . |
11 | But two of the mediating factors that had been present in his triumphant Pennies From Heaven and Singing Detective had gone : no independent director or challenging producer . |
12 | In one of his experiments , lie detectors were connected to two house plants that had been present in a room at the time of a murder . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | As to the wider dissemination of culture , the few cells that had been active in this respect seemed to equate success with the regular dispatch of newspapers and made no personal contacts to follow this up . |
17 | It was woven to represent a field that had been horse-ploughed in the old narrow stetches . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Ridiculously , a song that had been popular in her childhood flooded her mind . |
20 | Several devices that have been successful in modern surgery include hip replacements , contact and intraocular lenses , heart pacemakers and so on . |
21 | In proposing hypotheses , people are guided by knowledge of past failures , by analogies with theories that have been successful in handling related subject matters ; Peirce 's ‘ affinity ’ between mind and nature is an allusion to something which is required to explain the speed of the growth of knowledge ; and testing theories is an intentional activity which appeals to general cognitive aims — to describe reality , anticipate experience , solve problems , produce elegant and simple formalisms , etc . |
22 | There is good news for smaller companies , with government support for both the network schemes that have been successful in other parts of Europe , and one-stop shops . |
23 | The finalists of the 1981/82 and 1982/83 Competitions for the Prince of Wales Award for Industrial Innovation and Production provide a self-selected sample of firms that have been successful in innovation , ie in developing commercially viable new products . |
24 | You can all see that it is imperative that we all maintain the efforts that have been successful in 1992 right through 1993 . |
25 | Despite the occasional spectacular accident , cannons are extremely deadly weapons that have been instrumental in winning more than one battle on behalf of their users . |
26 | Yes , well that only , only from the point of view that they 're being used so often , that they 're also almost becoming well can you think of any words that , that are that are that have been introduced recently into our vocabulary that have that have that have been acceptable in common language ? |
27 | Lakatos 's theory gains support if it can be shown that episodes in the history of science , that have been inexplicable in terms of rival methodologies , are explicable in terms of the methodology of research programmes . |