Example sentences of "[that] have [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A relatively old rug that has been well looked after may be in far better condition than a newer item that has seen less considerate use , and some contemporary items are deliberately made to look old by the use of chemical washes ( p. 27 ) . |
| 2 | It is the number of first-time overseas holidaymakers , ‘ new ’ consumers for this particular market that has remained surprisingly stable through the late 1970s and early 1980s , increasing by about 1 per cent per year . |
| 3 | For it is the personality of Law that has remained as elusive to historians as it was to his own contemporaries . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , Hysen , in his last season with Second Division Gais in Gothenburg before retiring for full-time TV work , believes Limpar , 27 , can help rescue a season that has gone badly wrong for Arsenal and Graham . |
| 5 | His solicitor , Gareth Peirce , said after the hearing : ‘ This is a major situation that has gone badly wrong . |
| 6 | This sort of dramatic display of Judaism is the public face of Lubavitch — an ultrareligious movement that has become increasingly powerful over the past ten years . |
| 7 | When we are dealing with the literature on voting behaviour , we are dealing with a literature that has come to display turbulence in the face of electoral behaviour that has become increasingly volatile and unpredictable . |
| 8 | ‘ Saxtet ’ have cleverly combined outstanding musicianship , boundless energy and visual as well as aural stimuli to create an exciting performance that has become increasingly difficult to define . |
| 9 | He offers a view of the Gulf war that has become increasingly fashionable even though it is probably wrong . |
| 10 | SUPPLEMENTARY benefit beckons for seven fillies today in Newmarket 's Cheveley Park Stakes , the early 1,000 Guineas trial that has become more valuable than the Classic itself . |
| 11 | And think that has become very problematic , and it has become very paralysing . |
| 12 | Such disdain for something that has become almost universal in the first-class game clearly helps in his psychological battle with the bowlers ; disdain is , in fact , an important part of his armoury , combining with his might and skill to cement his authority . |
| 13 | One can find examples of paper that has become so brittle that pages break away from their binding at a touch , and if anyone tries to handle the pages pieces break off . |
| 14 | Equally we might take " nature " as being so predominant in Alison 's whole being and actions that we thus recognize church-going to be a part of medieval culture that has become so instinctive an act as to be part of the essential rhythm of medieval life . |
| 15 | I have said a good deal more on Government Back Benches than I have on Opposition Back Benches and very often it has been what has been done on Government Back Benches that has saved even Labour Governments from some of their follies . |
| 16 | Secondly , at the time when the flight from the land became a cultural European fact , a time evoked in rural England by Laurie Lee in Cider with Rosie , David Thomson witnessed the same poignant development in Ireland , but with undertones of old scores and the curious mixture of religion and politics that has taken so long to biodegrade . |
| 17 | Indeed , I consider it more opportune than ever to extend to the entire ecclesiastical community an initiative already observed in some countries and regions that has yielded truly valuable pastoral results . |
| 18 | Eubank 's 1993 aim was to tackle the cream of the 12-stone division , but achieving that has proved initially impossible for his promoter , Barry Hearn . |
| 19 | The use of non-standard typefaces , such as gothic , to produce historical material is a simple device that has proved highly successful at Key Stage 2 . |
| 20 | But first a word about the basic notions of quantum mechanics , the mathematical theory that has proved extremely successful in describing and predicting quantum effects . |
| 21 | Some of the EC 's other governments will soon have to start explaining why they deny their voters a remedy for recession that has proved so effective . |
| 22 | The solar wind originates in the atmosphere of the Sun , and consists of a tenuous gas that has acquired sufficiently high outward speed to escape from the Sun . |
| 23 | When Nathan ordered her to set up and engage the auto-helm she tried , desperately searching a mind that had gone totally blank for the sequence which would ensure that the boat remained on course . |
| 24 | She went to Indooroophilly because she lived there now , and in an evening that had turned rather sad and sour she did n't know what else to do . |
| 25 | Symbolism had been fun in his early days with her , but it was something that had turned very sour in a live-in situation . |
| 26 | This first wave of West Walians to the new industrial areas of north-eastern South Wales brought a distinctive radical , nonconformist , and Welsh-speaking element to a pastoral community that had remained largely conservative and unchanged from the late seventeenth century and was slowly losing the old Welsh language — rapidly so in Monmouthshire — and along with it any acute sense of separate national identity . |
| 27 | Share prices that had remained nervously stable during the morning fell dramatically once interest rates began to rise . |
| 28 | Moorlands , mountains and hills crowded round on every side ; seas shimmered azure , emerald , green and blue in August sunlight ; the scent of peat smoke filled the air and we drove through a landscape that had remained almost unchanged for a thousand years . |
| 29 | A packet of barley sugar that had become very sticky . |
| 30 | So tight that children were securely fastened to their parents , some with leather baby reins that had become too small , others were in prams , trolleys or just held by the firm grip of an adult hand . |