Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have a very strong smell that has been likened to a variety of disagreeable substances , from stale sweat to rotten onions . |
| 2 | As a control , sections from all patient and control lungs were stained with ET-1 antiserum that had been immunoabsorbed with synthetic ET-1 overnight at 4°C , or incubated with normal goat serum instead of the primary antisera . |
| 3 | And then she said : ‘ Mebbe he 's one of that gang that has been holding up grocery stores . ’ |
| 4 | I have already explained , I think three times , in the hearing of President Delors why this Government are not prepared to put at risk the striking progress that has been made in industrial relations in this country since 1979 . |
| 5 | Er , so i it 's er changes of that kind that have been looked at because if you move production work out of one nation into the other to get a nice rationalised allocation of work , you build this wing , you build that wing and so on , you then have got to do something with the minor components to get back to you original erm work share allocation and percentage times . |
| 6 | Editor , — Paradoxical pain is a new and confusing term that has been defined in different ways . |
| 7 | Thus , from the late 1970s parts of Sheffield began , very rapidly , to experience that deterioration of the economic fabric that has been felt in other parts of the county of South Yorkshire for much longer ( Walker 1981 ) . |
| 8 | W what I go for are two major points I think which actually demonstrate the fallaciousness of this budget that has been proposed to us as an amendment . |
| 9 | As part of a wider plan to restore Naples ' historic centre and bring back into public use an artistic and historical heritage that has been shut up and neglected for too long , the Soprintendenza per i Beni Artistici e Storici in Naples has announced a programme of restoration of twenty-six churches to start on 5 December . |
| 10 | The ceremony at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was for the presentation of an old Spitfire that had been hauled out of an English lake and identified as belonging to 71 Squadron the first of the Eagle squadrons formed from American volunteers back in 1940 . |
| 11 | As I crouched in the slit trench in the semi-darkness I could hear the odd British shell that had been intended for the Germans but had dropped short in the orchard explode with a terrific roar close at hand , causing a shower of dirt to fall from the roof of the trench . |
| 12 | I find difficulty believing that they will be able to do that , simply because the detailed assessment that has been done to date , as we 've heard so many times is is incomplete . |
| 13 | Children were playing on the green , a wet labrador that had been swimming in the beck was drying out by the village cross , and there was just room amongst the people sat at the table outside the pub for one man and his dog . |
| 14 | Situation : A is a police-officer investigating some damage that has been done near the school A thinks that B may have had something to do with it . |
| 15 | ‘ When you did not come to see him I made myself a vow that you would face reality and not some story that has been hammered into you since childhood . |
| 16 | However the frontal , main attack towards the Mort Homme had barely moved from its point of departure ; stopped by a veritable wall of gunfire from the French artillery that had been anticipating attack from this direction for many days . |
| 17 | While there is no official price , $400,000 is a ball-park figure that has been bandied about . |
| 18 | The Doctor recognized the signs of an unstable metabolism that had been forced into accelerated decay . |
| 19 | Because that 's the old term that 's been used for however many years , and it 's still used by industry . |
| 20 | He was smarting from the clerical opposition that had been marshaled against his nonsectarian charter for Cornell University . |
| 21 | Recent estimates of the size of the slick put it at 2.5m-3m barrels of oil , not the 7m-barrel monster that had been feared . |
| 22 | Like Jane Austen , he is also well aware of the social divide that had been created by such villages , for he observes that ‘ the possessors of extensive parks abhorred the appearance of a human habitation , however humble or however distant ; and the first object of a new settler , of the rank of a gentleman , was , generally , to purchase everything around him ; and to seclude himself in a sort of artificial forest , for his own exclusive enjoyment and that of his friends ’ . |
| 23 | How she loathed this web that had been spun so swiftly round her . |
| 24 | We operate a full range of specialised equipment that has been modified for aircraft application . |
| 25 | The Proceedings of the Royal Society completely overlooked Lear 's beautiful Parrots when it decided that , ‘ The so-called Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains ’ was ‘ by far the most accurately illustrated work on foreign ornithology that had been issued up to that period . ’ |
| 26 | She should n't be allowed to stay there if , how old is this girl that 's been chucked out of the house ? |
| 27 | But with both in place , Russia will at last be able to make full use of the $13 billion in foreign help that has been promised . |
| 28 | Portfolio is organising a Women in Management seminar for the hospitality industry on May 13 and this fits into a much broader campaign that has been launched by the Government , Opportunity 2000 . |
| 29 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 30 | Another insight that has been coming to me consistently is that instead of beseeching God to undertake certain actions or to grant certain mercies or blessings we should state our faith that He is already and always at work in the way that we desire , so that our petition becomes an expansion of our address to Him , a relative clause expressing our conviction of faith that He is already doing what we were about to request Him to do . |