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

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1 But at least the new developments should ease the diplomatic impasse that has kept relations between Japan and the Soviet Union frozen for 46 years .
2 Manners that have gone by the board
3 His hands shake ant his balance is cruelly uncertain , a fly wheel that has lost its rhythm .
4 Expelled from the Commons as a result of giving false statements , he was returned unopposed in 1734 for Great Grimsby , a venal borough that had elected other disreputable financiers and in which Sutton owned considerable property .
5 Erm Harrogate er is a borough that 's enjoyed an enormous er growth in prosperity and economic activity during the erm exciting er yuppie years of Mrs Thatcher the mid eighties and erm er was indeed one of the I think one of the most wealthy boroughs , one of the highest economic activity rate levels , the Civic Society tell us in their papers it was paying the highest rates and all these sort of indicators , but with as so much of that period it turned out to be er a bubble and a chimera and er the borough has experienced some very severe erm er closures in recent years .
6 The moral values of the Protestant religion that had fuelled Bacon 's belief that science would enable humankind to dominate Nature were reformulated , not abandoned .
7 First , when there has been confrontation , it has been religion that has yielded in the end .
8 Sad to say , the neighbourhood had been pulled down as ‘ a slum ’ in 1927 , a council action that had staggered the rest of Galway .
9 And when Parliament eventually turned back the tide of opposition to Eyre and voted financial support to the former Governor , it was poetically appropriate that those who had been most vocal in their support for the Garotter 's Act — such as Mr Adderley and the rampant Colonel North — should be in the thick of it again , shouting their praise for Eyre 's loyalty to the Crown and his firm action that had saved a colony .
10 At the same time , a nasty backward glance , a creeping suspicion suggested a consultation with Anderson might have been a wise idea before taking the practical action that had ended in such discouraging disaster …
11 The declining importance of religion in social life in general , and in particular the declining influence of Christianity on the great moral questions of the day was ( and is ) the spur to action that has kept the NVALA going for over twenty years .
12 At home the action that has drawn most attention in the past year was his vote in favour of war in the Gulf .
13 Criticism ( like praise ) should be related to the particular action that has earned it ( 'I do n't like it when you swear' ) .
14 One of the main characteristics that has distinguished all radical art , from that of the Soviet revolution to the art of South Africa , from the art of our movement to the work of the AIDS practitioners in the United States , is its proximity to an active audience .
15 Quite the opposite to the calm peacefulness that had existed in Heymouth prior to the flood .
16 Millions Of Honey opened Saturday night with a sparky set of robust , melodic guitar songs that have toughened and matured over the last year of line-up shuffles , and should justly set them up for a spot of national service .
17 In more recent times , Al Stewart has donated ‘ Here 's To Warren Harding ’ , recalling how the 29th President was ‘ Alone in the White House , watching the sun come up on the morning of 1921 ’ ; Elvis Costello has resurrected bluesman J B Lenoir 's ‘ Eisenhower Blues ’ ; Tom Paxton advising that ‘ Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation ’ ; while , only a week ago , U96 released ‘ I Wan na Be A Kennedy ’ , just another of the scores of Kennedy songs that have proliferated through rock since ‘ 62 .
18 Of course he had asked her if she was quite certain and she said she was , quite certain , but now he wondered if it was mere association that had made her agree , association and horror .
19 The close association that has existed over many years between geophysicists and engineering geologists in multidisciplinary projects at BGS will be enhanced by bringing these staff into one group .
20 Nevertheless , the proliferation that has occurred is serious , since it entails an acquisition of nuclear weaponry by states whose ruling groups may become desperate enough to use it .
21 Formulation of Labour Government policies to support the Third Pillar — the projection and protection of British interests overseas — needed least reorientation of traditional British military thinking that had evolved from three centuries of global geo-political experience .
22 But on the other hand private care suffers from not being part of the mainstream thinking that has gone in to helping to move away from those bad practices and towards better practices in the statutory services and I think that these are the things that we really have to try and address .
23 This disconnection between aims and curricular plans seems to be an endemic disease of curricular planning and , unless amended , the National Curriculum will show that in the late twentieth century the policy makers still could n't get out of the rut of traditional thinking that has dogged education throughout this century .
24 I have run ahead of chronology however and in particular of the First World War , which the peoples that had entered it as parts of the Empire ended as free-standing independent nations .
25 Chesarynth washed , stuffed her torn and dirty hospital gown into the recycling chute and stole another , even brushed her hair ( she checked again ; no tower growing through her skull yet ) and then had to find a place to hide the dead leaves and twigs that had cascaded from the tangles .
26 As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week .
27 That weeping was his weeping ; the grief that had overwhelmed him for so long .
28 But animals that had received NGF as well lost fewer cells than those that had not .
29 In order to verify his electrical recording findings , Thompson made lesions in the cerebellums of animals that had learned the conditioned eyeblink response , Rabbits that learned with their left eye and had lesions made to the left half of their cerebellum no longer blinked when they heard the tone but continued to blink to the puff of air .
30 The breeding males of a particular unit are all animals that have transferred into it from elsewhere .
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