Example sentences of "that have been [adj] to " in BNC.
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1 | Political culture is a vague abstract concept that has been subject to various definitions . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Following the government retreat over the terms of the Directive in 1988 it was estimated that Anglian would have to spend £60-£70 million over the following 10 years to clean up the water supplies of Bedford and Norwich , along with a total 25 supplies that had been subject to derogations . |
8 | 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 . ’ |
9 | Gen Noriega 's provocations may simply have accelerated a plan that had been ready to be unleashed at any time . |
10 | He was returning to a world that had been kind to him , a past he could be sure of . |
11 | Friends that had been kind to me . |
12 | Rats that had been pre-exposed to a tone were trained on a task in which presses on a lever in the presence of the tone yielded reward but responses in the absence of the tone did not . |
13 | Was it because everything that had been precious to him had been torn from him that he had to find someone to blame for his losses , someone to take advantage of , someone from whom he could derive consolation ? |
14 | I have omitted , with reluctance , references to a few natural features of interest that have been subject to abuse of privilege by a minority of visitors . |
15 | Qualities such as the physical condition of the member of the opposite sex , the resources it holds and the extent to which it bears characters that have been subject to sexual selection can all affect whether or not it is chosen ( see Halliday , 1983 ) . |
16 | Fatigue fractures , by their very nature , are more prevalent in structures that have been subject to stress over a long period of time . |
17 | This is not to say that the Government has not also been pursuing other policies , such as the wider spread of home ownership , that have been beneficial to many working-class people , but the approach has been implemented in a way that has isolated the underclass still further . |
18 | His social and economic situation continues to be regulated by the kind of disciplines that have been familiar to successive generations of workers on the land — ; poverty , the lack of alternative employment opportunities , the intense localism , the dependency for jobs and housing on local farmers . |
19 | A collection of essays edited by Ellen Kennedy and Susan Mendus , Women in Western Political Philosophy ( 1987 ) , presents a feminist perspective on questions that have been central to political philosophy and raises questions about the philosophical underpinning of political theory . |
20 | Always hang out clothes that have been dry-cleaned to air before putting them back in your wardrobe . |
21 | ‘ It 's the trust and familiar surroundings of this ward that have been vital to Thomas . |
22 | In their experiment , rats that have been pre-exposed to a noise prior to noise-shock conditioning trials showed latent inhibition in that , on a final test session , the noise elicited only a weak CR . |