Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agricultural base that had offered wealth and apparent stability to Sussex life was steadily weakened in the course of the eighteenth century . |
| 2 | Figure 15. ( a ) Cut the buds which will make your new roses from a good strong stem that has borne healthy flowers . |
| 3 | Happiness is an emotional response that has become built into us and the horse for doing the right thing biologically . |
| 4 | The technical trick that has made cheap laser-printers possible has also brought type design and typesetting to a far wider market . |
| 5 | Another change in agricultural practice that has helped to boost food production has been the increased use of pesticides . |
| 6 | You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Central Council is most grateful for the generous support that has led to this successful outcome . |
| 9 | The life review can provide a means of re-establishing and confirming individual involvement with current reality , and linking their past work and efforts with the social change that has occurred , for in a variety of subtle ways they will have been part of the changes and developments that they are witnessing . |
| 10 | In reflecting on the cultural change that has come about in Edinburgh and beyond , the professor voices concerns which sound remarkably like those of Pat Kane , not noted for his establishment views . |
| 11 | There have been few serious attempts to break away from this restrictive framework ; it is the absence of the application of any theoretical framework that has made such work so sterile , and it is doubtful whether evidence will be found for the social and economic developments during the period by studying art-styles , date and distribution alone , unless specific questions are formulated first . |
| 12 | His eyes , in their now puffy setting , came back to her , and there was a trace at last of the old look that had warmed her all those years ago . |
| 13 | Mike Gunnell finds a Scottish brewery that has bucked the trend to diesel away from petrol |
| 14 | This restriction on the scope of industrial goods markets has become more significant given the degree of industrial and commercial concentration that has taken place since , say , 1945 . |
| 15 | And he has given the club back its pride , passion , and the kind of penetrative football that has awoken the North East . |
| 16 | But it is their cumulative weight that has brought about an unprecedented , and critical , situation . |
| 17 | But Arsenal began to display some of the tidy , organised football that had brought them four consecutive victories and they were rewarded with a superb equaliser 16 minutes from time when Campbell latched onto Martin Keown 's long pass , ghosted past two defenders and hammered the ball home . |
| 18 | Historically , what has come to be known as the Third World has attracted only a tiny proportion of all the foreign investment that has taken place , while the economies of many poor countries , and even some rich ones , are commonly said to be dominated by foreign capital and/or foreign firms . |
| 19 | Peru was beginning to share in an increased flow of foreign investment that has benefited the whole continent . |
| 20 | The brisk social wind that had driven her lightly from guest to guest had dropped , stilled by telephonic contact with the tiny scratching clicking silence of the voiceless house of the long ordeal of her childhood : she found herself becalmed , for a whole dull stretch , talking to old Peter Binns , a charming old boy , but a bore , and so slow of speech that Liz could hardly restrain herself from finishing all his ponderous sentences . |
| 21 | ( d ) The massive body of historical research that has gone on throughout this century has gradually discovered new sources of information and refined our views of the early modern period , in all probability bringing them closer to the objective truth . |
| 22 | Throughout its three-hundred-year history the Church of Santa Maria has frequently been clothed in the wooden scaffolding that has allowed builders to attempt repairs after recent earthquakes . |
| 23 | Quite the opposite to the calm peacefulness that had existed in Heymouth prior to the flood . |
| 24 | And with that move the programme changed as the administrators began to pay more attention to the ultimate goal , a working power system , rather than the scientific research that had intrigued the scientists in the laboratories . |
| 25 | But Villa had not forgotten the enterprising football that has taken them second in the Premier League , and in an eight-minute spell before the interval , they twice worried Ipswich keeper Clive Baker . |
| 26 | Much of the detailed research that has made use of the concept of structured dependency has , however , focused on the relatively small and exceptional subgroup of elderly people living in institutions , for whom the concept of dependency seems more immediately relevant , and this may have biased the outlook of social policy analysts in their discussion of the much larger group of economically and socially independent elderly . |
| 27 | With the milled edge of the coin he chipped at the red-brown crust that had formed between the lower lip of the cap of the bolt and the metal sheet plate of the carriage flooring . |
| 28 | Our mountains have survived for millions of years , bearing witness to a history of violent , volcanic activity , glaciation and erosion , but ironically it 's the invention of the internal combustion engine and lightweight waterproof clothing that has put them under the most severe pressure yet . |
| 29 | After mopping up the mess-tin with a large piece of French bread that had accompanied the stew , I got to my feet and looked around the barn . |
| 30 | After the bass hamper that had held her belongings was refilled and strapped , Sister Cecilia said , ‘ Sit there quiet , my child , until they send for you . ’ |