Example sentences of "that have been [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ There is a need for fish that has been on the market a couple of days . |
2 | He much prefers to drive something that has been on the market for two or three years , reasoning that most of the initial problems should have been ironed out . |
3 | SongWright 5.1 is the latest version of a package that has been on the market for several years . |
4 | Equality of opportunity — the idea that everybody should have a fair chance of doing themselves justice — is a notion that has been at the basis of public provision of education and indeed of much educational charity for a long time indeed . |
5 | It is only the most recent work that has been of an acceptable standard in this respect , and the finding may be summarised as showing a modest correlation between the level of lead in the blood and hyperactivity in children , and between high blood levels and low intelligence , with the latter conclusion more firmly established . |
6 | Simply expressed , the accountability , or responsibility , of single-party government to the people a responsibility that has been of the very essence of our system of parliamentary democracy-would be rendered less likely with proportional representation . |
7 | A marvellous opportunity to visit a forge that has been in the same family for five generations to see a working blacksmith . |
8 | As a general rule , it is sensible to select a large , well-known company that has been in the market for a long time . |
9 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
10 | She said I do n't know what your there 's a missing , so I it said Mr G , so dad said why does it say Mr and er , she said it 's a court order she said , court order , she said er that has been in the yard |
11 | raises yet again a problem that has been before the Court of Appeal on a number of occasions over the past 10 years or so . |
12 | Certainly those who came for a meal with Dorothy Mellings — while Alice was there , with Jasper — tended to come in ones or twos , mostly women , perhaps needing Dorothy 's advice , or even to borrow money ; divorced friends — so many of the couples that had been to the Mellings 's in the good days had split up . |
13 | She had recognised him instantly , though she had seen him in the flesh only once before and that had been across a crowded ballroom . |
14 | Only then did it strike me that there was indeed a role that a further staff member could crucially play here ; that it was , in fact , this very shortage that had been at the heart of all my recent troubles . |
15 | In spelling out its arguments for the proposed pattern , the Council was once again reinterpreting the balance that had been at the centre of its concerns from the beginning : there was nothing in the Charter and Statutes ‘ which prevented greater recognition from being given to an institution 's own internal procedures where these could be shown to be rigorous and effective . |
16 | First of all , there was the problem that had been at the root of France 's defeat in 1940 — the decay of the republican state , which had been so powerfully symbolized by the Third Republic 's abdication to Pétain in July 1940 . |
17 | After a while she sat up and slowly began to undress to her camisole and her waist petticoat ; then , turning up the gas that had been on a low jet , she went across the room to the wash-hand stand and poured water from the jug into the basin . |
18 | But , when asked in 1947 to replace an old dirty power station that had been on the site since 1891 , he soon forgot such idealism and , like any architect , was glad to have the job . |
19 | Marie , sick and trembling , overwhelmed with fear and guilt at her own actions , was already kneeling down with a dustpan and brush , sweeping up the broken glass from the tomato-sauce bottle that had been on the table . |
20 | During the same month the Young Republicans barricaded themselves into a house in Harvey Street to resist the eviction of a family that had been on the housing list for eighteen years . |
21 | The dunes that had been on the left were replaced by a sandstone ridge and the sand on that side of the road was now black . |
22 | The Paddington Bear wallpaper that had been on the walls for years was mocking her . |
23 | The were taken by limousine through the streets of Manhattan , observing with awe the eight magnificent structures that had been on the market for many months and which no one had wanted to buy . |
24 | He went into his bedroom , returned almost at once with the oil-lamp that had been on the table when we had dinner . |
25 | And saved : The ice rink that had been on the skids . |
26 | But now he was n't making excuses , stating facts that had been under the surface all the time . |
27 | On one of the trials , Ray placed a popsock over the end of a pipe delivering water that had been through an Eradicator and , in 72 hours , collected a golf ball-sized piece of limescale from the mesh … in East Anglia , the water is so hard that it will give a kettle an internal fur coat in no time , and here was the proof . |
28 | that had been through the fire and they were taken out and you know whoever . |
29 | Only once had I feared the heat of Egypt and that had been in a waking dream . |
30 | You would n't want one that had been in a smash anyway , it could |