Example sentences of "[adj] that [pron] has [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one of the central episodes in the novel , Humberto not only cuckolds his employer , but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender , and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is , in reality , no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Peñaloza line into the oligarchy . |
| 2 | She thanks Jenny and her previous Medau teachers for their leadership and is grateful that she has been blessed with an ability to keep up her sport . |
| 3 | If merely set at a given focal length , the zoom lens will simply act as a normal though infinitely variable lens ( between its limits ) and the viewer will be unaware that it has been used at all . |
| 4 | He called for a reduction in the special car tax , and I am sure that he will be delighted that it has been halved . |
| 5 | The transcript of the " trial " is so unique that it has been reproduced here in full … |
| 6 | Even if you are confident that your present arrangements are adequate can you be sure that nothing has been overlooked ? |
| 7 | If we conduct an interventive experiment , and inject a drug which results in an animal not performing some task on which it has been trained ‘ correctly ’ ( I wo n't bother putting that word into inverted commas henceforward ; I have already spelled out that what we read as correct in an animal 's behaviour is interpreted by our criteria , not necessarily by its own ) , how can we be sure that what has been blocked or disturbed is the memory rather than the motor or sensory activity on which its expression depends ? |
| 8 | However , the powerful US tuna industry lobby has made sure that it has been given an annual ‘ dolphin kill' ’ quota . |
| 9 | I am confident that what has been agreed will enable us to achieve that without spending any cash over and above that already in our normal annual budget over the next two years . ’ |
| 10 | But three years later on 27 July 1795 the new head of the Macclesfield company , Abraham Mills , wrote to the new agent Thomas Harrison of Kendal , advising him , alas , that " … the Coniston Mine has for some time been so unproductive that it has been determined to discontinue the working … " |
| 11 | He vacillates between describing the connection between creativity and psychosis as ‘ folk-loristic ’ and ‘ clearly exaggerated ’ , and confessing to be puzzled that it has been documented so often . |
| 12 | Terry Clarke , branch secretary of the Netherton and Sefton British Legion Club , said : ‘ I 'm really pleased that it has been found . |
| 13 | It followed that no individual should boast of his role ‘ but be thankful that he has been permitted to be useful ’ . |
| 14 | In fact it is probable that it has been repopulated several times . |
| 15 | It is little short of tragic that she has been cut off , while still at the peak of her singing power . |
| 16 | A TEACHER who quit a North-East City Technology College is outraged that she has been used in election literature by one of the CTC 's biggest supporters . |
| 17 | This was to have travelled to and from Waterloo via Havant , Fareham and Eastleigh and no doubt many enthusiasts in that area will be disappointed that it has been cancelled . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I 'm disappointed that she has been hijacked by the Scots . |
| 19 | If satisfied that everything has been completed successfully then it should be dated in the Completion Confirmed on Date section of the form . |
| 20 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that it has been calculated that there is one racial attack every 30 minutes and that the savagery of such attacks has increased ? |
| 21 | Is not the Minister aware that it has been known for some time that four times as many women as men suffer the chronic pain that comes from the loss of movement in and the fracture of hip joints ? |
| 22 | It is true that it has been forecast as being upon us for a long time , but things are now really moving in some areas . |