Example sentences of "thing that have [been] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Yes , it is true that much has been gained , but we need to understand from the perspective of pre-modern rural England some of the things that have been lost .
2 It sounded like a remarkable vindication of the NHS in the face of all the disagreeable things that have been said about it recently .
3 Many people have been outraged by some of the things that have been said and done by the rugby players . ’
4 ‘ People do n't use pubs like they used to do and that 's the demise of the country pub , not so much the other things that have been said .
5 I would like to thank Councillor , Councillor , Councillor er Councillor for the kind things that have been said about me in proposing my nomination as Lord Mayor .
6 In actual practice you could find an analysis that very often the things that have been repressed have not been repressed in the sense that they 've been totally submerged from your consciousness and totally forgotten without any trace , but what often happens is they 've become isolated or , or divorced from their context in your memory .
7 You could run down a list of things that have been done under the title of reform , and they all look good , but the net result is that the Congress has really lost its capability to respond . ’
8 what sort of things that have been done .
9 And the sort of things which we need in order to calculate this are the quantities of things that have been done , because you 've got the allowances all you need is the quantities that have been done .
10 So what I think , that 's another thing about this , I have erm , there 's something about the plainness of design that I like if it 's erm the things that have been done that are erm like Adobe typefaces or Bertol typefaces , that are really beautifully , you know , sandpapered and finished to me are boring and when you get into , if you take a look at the schedule that A T F produce typefaces in it 's not unlike it , I mean the modern equivalent is the Font Bureau do 'em and try to sell 'em .
11 My position on what 's happening in the women 's movement at the moment is that it 's really in dire need of reconstruction , and that there would be no possibility of having a sort of joint togetherness as it were with Black women and white women because of some of the things that have been mentioned already — the racism that exists , the fact that feminism as a guiding ideological force remains a sort of tool of imperialism .
12 Thus the expedition is neatly manipulated to include many of the requirements of the national curriculum : ‘ We are very keen to make sure that we do n't lose all the good things that have been going on in schools , ’ she says .
13 Right , I just thought the Chair would like to thank Councillor for the immense amount of work I know that he 's been putting in over certain things that have been going on lately and I now take councillors ' questions if any of you got any for me .
14 and outside the porches , to light their number up outside their house , erm people do n't seem to have erm , really changed their ideas very much , we still sell the same type of fitting to people , er the one that goes over the garage doors , on the corner of the , of the house wall , er lanterns er outside the front door with coloured glass in them er things that have been going for
15 Frankly some of the other things that have been going on weeks .
16 There 's an image of fire on the screens and they 're piled up like a bonfire with er natural things that have been brought in from the outside , and there 's slide tape projections of the forest around the gallery .
17 They 're all things that have been found in York .
18 The use , as materials , of things that have been discarded , abandoned or neglected : from lost shoes and combs to the forgotten histories of women , characterises much of the best work .
19 Their works have disappeared as a result , and there are many more interesting things that have been consigned to oblivion .
20 Stéphane Dumas looks for a soul in things that have been thrown away to continue their life as rubbish .
21 It requires courage and support from sympathetic colleagues to admit that the things that have been happening in classrooms or schools over the past 20 years have been wrong , pigheaded or simply inefficient .
22 of the things that have been associated with feminism .
23 ‘ They 've given me a lot of furniture and other things that have been passed down through the generations .
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