Example sentences of "that have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trend towards equality of attainment is especially marked in schools that have been comprehensive for a long time . |
| 2 | In practice , however , progression has been difficult to achieve , and the rites of passage that have been such a feature of our educational organisation — at 11 plus , at the options stage at 14 , and again at 16 — have compounded the problem . |
| 3 | There would be no reason to expect either the ‘ gap ’ or the clear commitment to deviant values that have been such persistent stumbling blocks for the traditional versions of these theories . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Fatigue fractures , by their very nature , are more prevalent in structures that have been subject to stress over a long period of time . |
| 7 | you see , I mean what they do is soon as they 've kicked them out in the mental homes they 're having to put them in to erm , I mean erm , there are people who are not able to be on their own , I mean the ones they 've kicked out are people that have been depressed and say well you 've got to find , get your family to help , I mean , when you 've got somebody depressed in your family you try and help them |
| 8 | Er I 've always er , I do n't think I e I b th whenever I 've been unhappy with work it 's been work that I 've allowed myself to do for ulterior motives , for money or whatever I m The things I 've done er even th the things that have been unsuccessful th if I 've wanted to do them , I 've been able to live with that . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As a result , hundreds of would-be joystick junkies have been climbing the walls with frustration , as the only compatible datarecorders that have been available lately are of the decidedly dodgy import variety and wo n't work with many games — especially budget releases . |
| 11 | If we now look at the different animals and crops that have been available over several thousand years , we will begin to see how basic systems of land exploitation worked in the landscape . |
| 12 | Several devices that have been successful in modern surgery include hip replacements , contact and intraocular lenses , heart pacemakers and so on . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You can all see that it is imperative that we all maintain the efforts that have been successful in 1992 right through 1993 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | My company has a large number of creditors in its balance sheet that have been outstanding for between two and four years . |
| 19 | Authorities that have been rate-capped and lost grant have had to cut services or put off planned improvements . |
| 20 | The evidence from the few areas that have been bored or surveyed geophysically supports this view , but other evidence does not fit so well . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For surely it can never be accepted by any normal thinking person that the bloody battles and massacres that have been necessary to establish even a tentative hold on any part of that unhappy , and anything but ‘ holy ’ , land can possibly represent a successful implementation of that promise . |
| 23 | Given the social changes that have been necessary , and the consequences of those changes , I doubt whether any incoming Government would have looked after the coal industry as the present Government have . |
| 24 | Because I also do a fair bit of crochet and these cones ( white ) are excellent for the crochet collars that have been fashionable for a couple of years . |
| 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 | There must be some dimensions that have been more thoroughly checked than than er |
| 27 | Guitars that have been MIDI'ed do n't really branch away from a guitar player 's technique . |
| 28 | The high-ups at Drury Lane are anxious to send whole companies — actresses as well as actors — in plays that have been popular London successes . ’ |
| 29 | I WAS so pleased to read that people are reverting to real Christmas trees instead of the ghastly , glittering artificial things that have been popular for so long . |
| 30 | 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 ? |