Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] have been [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | … his wretched father , who had each year sunk lower and lower in the underworld , had been a gentleman once , a man who had been familiar with good manners and had been educated in the customs of good breeding . |
| 2 | Bargains are available provided you can be sure that the animals come from good stock and have been kept in good condition . |
| 3 | She had long shapely legs and had been known in Moscow by her nickname , ‘ The Smooch ’ . |
| 4 | Acarbose is a pseudotetrascaccharide and has been used in clinical trials with insulin dependent and non-insulin dependent diabetes to control hyperglycaemia , improve the diabetic metabolic condition , and , if possible , to reduce the insulin requirements . |
| 5 | His father , also named Rudolf Slansky , had been general secretary of the CPCz and had been executed in 1952 after a show trial at which he was accused of being an agent of imperialism . |
| 6 | Franco 's failure to assist them undoubtedly contributed to that result and had been calculated in political rather than exclusively military terms . |
| 7 | Hersh 's book attracted libel suits in the UK over its claims that the UK newspaper proprietor Robert Maxwell had close links with the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and that he , together with a member of his Daily Mirror newspaper staff , had helped Mossad to track down Mordechai Vanunu , a nuclear technician who leaked details of Israel 's nuclear programme and had been imprisoned in Israel since 1986 [ see p. 35922 ] . |
| 8 | Proliferative abnormalities in normal looking colorectal mucosa are believed to represent an early phase of colorectal carcinogenesis and have been found in a number of conditions associated with a high risk for these malignancies . |
| 9 | The Roller , however , had developed some fault and had been left in the hands of the Grand Hotel 's garage mechanic . |
| 10 | They had already become British subjects and had been trading in corn from the United States of America and morocco to Madeira . |
| 11 | The paradigm which is described originates from doctoral research into generic probation practice and has been presented in a book Adult Probation and Juvenile Supervision : Beyond the Care-Control Dilemma ( 1989 , Gower ) . |
| 12 | The dictum of Byles J. in Cooper v. Wandsworth Board of Works , 14 C.B.N.S. 180 , 194 , is clear to this effect and has been followed in many subsequent cases . |
| 13 | The bodies of 10 men and a woman had been found by a roadside with their hands ties behind their backs ; they bore signs of torture and had been shot in the head , a hallmark of right-wing paramilitary groups whose members included military personnel . |
| 14 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 15 | At least the powers are there in the statute and have been used in some cases . |
| 16 | Thereafter they were more widely spaced in both chronology and geography but have been recorded in 1817 – 18 , 1831 ( confined to Cornwall ) , 1847 ( again confined to Cornwall in England , though extensive in Scotland ) and final episodes in Devon in 1854 and 1867 . |
| 17 | Whether you have just moved into a new home or have been living in the same place for years the main thing is that you are alone and you must make your home your pride , your joy , your sanctuary . |
| 18 | The same typewriter had been used to address it , it bore a second class stamp and had been posted in London WC1 . |
| 19 | Monopoly policy was comprehensively reassessed in the 1973 Fair Trading Act and has been amended in the 1980 Competition Act . |
| 20 | The former is based on Greek cross plan and has been included in Volume I but Angoulême , despite its layout and domes , is fundamentally Romanesque . |
| 21 | Bahamas has arrived from Keighley the previous day , travelling in tandem with ‘ Princess Margaret Rose ’ from Blackburn and had been kept in light steam . |
| 22 | Halford had made nine unsuccessful applications for promotion to deputy chief constable and had been suspended in December 1990 . |
| 23 | The above approach towards any type of character role is a very typically English trait and has been used in music halls , pantomimes and comedies fur many years . |
| 24 | It will be offered in conjunction with the Department of Environmental Health , Edinburgh District Council and has been designed in collaboration with the Royal Environmental Health Institute for Scotland . |
| 25 | The same applies , of course , to other denominations and has been recognised in Britain as qualifying for state support . |
| 26 | While Paddy Mayne and his men were busily raiding , Stirling had finally succumbed to his desert sores and had been hospitalized in Cairo . |
| 27 | He had grown up in Weston-super-Mare and had been working in local radio in Bristol before joining us in the mid 1970s . |
| 28 | He has already paid a brief visit to Middlesbrough and Hull and has been briefed in general terms on the hopes and needs of our diocese . |
| 29 | The ancient Penny Hedge ceremony , which dates from feudal times and has been promoted in recent times by the English Tourist Board , takes place in Whitby tomorrow . |
| 30 | Yoshida was a former diplomat of Anglophile inclinations ; he had firmly disapproved of the ascendancy of the military before and during the Pacific War and had been imprisoned in the latter part of the war . |