Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [pron] have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New York cabbie Jimmy said : ‘ It 's been a long , awful struggle that we 've been fighting since we were kids . |
| 2 | There are , however , different levels of publication that could be developed which would eventually help more material to become available at the professional level that we have been discussing . |
| 3 | It was a cruel trick that she had been a dream , that he could not join her yet . |
| 4 | Well before 1330 the Angevin Empire had ceased to be the dynamic and significant political force that it had been in the mid and late twelfth century . |
| 5 | Such is the wealth of historical literature that it has been difficult to decide what to give in notes in this chapter . |
| 6 | She heard Ben come into the market-room , but when the kitchen door did not immediately open , she went over to it and saw him throwing off a wet sack that he had been wearing over his head and shoulders like a cape . |
| 7 | One final point I would make is is that there has been a a little bit of an impression given I think in some comments this morning that we have a a virtual free for all as regards the availability of agricultural land and er the marked change that it has been said to occur since nineteen eighty . |
| 8 | — The supergroup Six of the Best is so popular at Seaham 's Westlea Social Club that they have been booked to appear for three nights as part of the club 's 39th birthday celebrations on June 12 , 13 and 14 . |
| 9 | He boasts in the Tory-backing Daily Mail that she has been proved right in her warnings against the European exchange rate mechanism . |
| 10 | In the long run I think this is probably the most exciting investment that we have been privileged to have in the town , and this really confirms Telford 's position as number one Japanese investment in the United Kingdom ; we now have 20 companies here . |
| 11 | The struggle to understand everything showed clearly on her face , and slowly , surely , she found a ray of hope in the mess , something to compensate for the painful discovery that she 'd been ignorant of her own roots . |
| 12 | Beth Stubbs was a Quaker , a member of that old Mafia that I had been so wary of . |
| 13 | According to Advanced Micro , the 210 has proven such a popular architecture that it has been chosen for the first speed and power upgrades . |
| 14 | It 's hard to believe that the first meeting of the Galway Races took place at Ballybrit Race Course in 1869 ; and it immediately so fired the public imagination that it has been a major fixture on the Irish racing calendar ever since . |
| 15 | Their inclusion was a clear sign that what had been the order of the regime 's stated priorities since the end of the Civil War must now be reversed . |
| 16 | ( He is certainly the first pope for whom we have direct evidence that he had been at a centre of learning . ) |
| 17 | I can confirm to the hon. Gentleman that there have been no serious discussions yet about the location of the European system of central banks . |
| 18 | Lisa and Phoebe shared the painful knowledge that they had been conning themselves as well as their men . |
| 19 | ( The assumption that large ( absolute ) shocks are less likely than small ones makes it irrational to infer from an unexpectedly high price that there has been a negative shock to , say , aggregate demand outweighed by a large positive shock to relative demand . ) |
| 20 | And has he seen any particular kinds of treatment of the Kuwaiti people that we 've been hearing about ? |
| 21 | Once amongst the world 's greatest blue-water navigators , guided by wave patterns and the clues in seaweed and bird droppings , the Bugis had now lost so much confidence in their old ways that they had been reduced to coast-hugging , on the principle that if their ships sank they at least had a chance of making it ashore alive . |
| 22 | Er it it is I can remove it from the rest of the the sales that er even from the direct sales that you 've been |
| 23 | That 's two different kinds of love though then , love , loving your neighbour I suppose is the widest sense and er and the love between a parent and child , are those more recognisable as , as true love if you like than the kind of romantic love , sexual love that we 've been talking about , yes |
| 24 | ‘ So I 'll get clobbered if people read suddenly in the Daily Mirror that I 've been giving some away . ’ |
| 25 | Mr Harrison said : ‘ Following the closure of the Swan Hunter yard the Government has finally agreed to talk to the EC about getting the same subsidies for all British shipyards that we 've been giving to our competitors in the EC for years . |
| 26 | He added : ‘ Following the closure of Swan Hunter 's , the government has finally agreed to talk to the EC about getting the same subsidies for all British shipyards that we have been giving to our competitors in the EC for years . |
| 27 | Although the details of Clinton 's draft record were tortuously complex and , by common consent , of limited relevance to the presidential campaign , Republicans made some effective political capital from the repeated suggestion that he had been evasive over admitting the truth of the matter . |
| 28 | The , the direct debits that you 've been paying for years but you 're not sure where they go to , that sort of thing ? |
| 29 | But when she announced in a maddeningly off-hand way that she had been deputed to look after him while Clarissa was away , she got another very swift question indeed . |
| 30 | This did not prevent subsequent British complaints that they had been let down by Washington . |