Example sentences of "[adj] and have [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our local starling population is a race apart in that they are non-migratory and have been isolated in the islands for long enough to have developed their own characteristics . |
| 2 | GPSG is computationally economical and has been developed to a point where a large number of interesting syntactic phenomena may be dealt with in an integrated formal framework . |
| 3 | The volume of complaint about the difficulties encountered by pedestrians is certainly high and has been recorded in a number of surveys in recent years . |
| 4 | The overall electron transfer from the anion is particularly high and has been calculated at approximately 0.8e . |
| 5 | Gazzer was twenty-two years old and had been compared in looks to a pit bull , entirely to the dog 's advantage . |
| 6 | The jail is less than a year old and has been hailed as a model prison . |
| 7 | I am twenty years old and have been educated in Britain . |
| 8 | Some of the vellum bound books are nearly 400 years old and have been read by successive generations of Oxford students . |
| 9 | When the VDU is free and has been allocated to the current Offline run , the Offline System will present a display similar to that shown in Figure 2.1 . |
| 10 | A " procession of silence " for the restoration of constitutional rights , declared illegal by the government on April 1 , had proceeded in Caracas on April 2 and had been dispersed by police using water cannon , tear gas and birdshot . |
| 11 | He accepted they had thought the flat was empty and had been put under pressure by Allen to start the fire by squirting petrol through the letterbox . |
| 12 | Getty , 59 , had been Premier since 1985 and had been re-elected in 1989 . |
| 13 | At all material times he and his family have been homeless within the meaning of section 58 of the Housing Act 1985 and have been living in temporary accommodation provided by the council , the local housing authority , under section 63 of the Act . |
| 14 | Pilkington , the brother of Gloucester 's retainer John , had been a royal servant since the early 1460s and had been rewarded with land in the north midlands , bringing him within the duchy connection . |
| 15 | Pilkington , the brother of Gloucester 's retainer John , had been a royal servant since the early 1460s and had been rewarded with land in the north midlands , bringing him within the duchy connection . |
| 16 | Stone recurrence after extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy is expected to be similar and has been reported as 9% in the first year . |
| 17 | Trinity Mill , near Bagendon , is one such and has been put to a number of different uses . |
| 18 | D. D. Thakur had resigned as governor in March 1991 and had been replaced by Loknath Mishra . |
| 19 | Suppose , for example , a text ( such as the Bestiary : thirteenth century , East Anglia ) exhibits 3rd singular verb-form variation in -es , -ep ( such as standes , standep ) and syncopated forms ( such as stant ) : this may indicate that the text is composite and has been copied by scribes from different dialect areas ( for discussions of these scribal questions , see especially McIntosh , Samuels and Benskin , 1986 ; Laing , 1989 ; McIntosh and Wakelin , 1989 ) . |
| 20 | It 's all part of a commitment by Central to subtitle as many programmes as possible and has been welcomed by campaigners for an improved service for the deaf and hard of hearing . |
| 21 | Some £75,000-worth is still thought to be outstanding and has been traced to Germany , Syria , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia , Kuwait and Jordan . |
| 22 | In particular , the fossil Anatolepis , which first occurs in the Upper Cambrian and has been interpreted as the dermal scales of a heterostracan fish , is more likely to have belonged to an arthropod . |
| 23 | Sister Marcus said Mr Francis was rather poorly and had been moved from the Seriously Ill to the Dangerously Ill List . |
| 24 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 25 | After early victories , the new unionism was in rapid retreat by 1891 and had been routed by , 1892–1893 . |
| 26 | The prime candidate for the job was General Henri Giraud , a courageous soldier who had opposed the armistice in 1940 and had been imprisoned by the Germans before escaping early in 1942 . |
| 27 | Well Tony Primmer 's an Australian and has been riding at Eastbourne and we were looking at him prior to this erm sort of amalgamation that came in because erm with our friendship with Bob Dugard , and looking for younger riders , he was sort of earmarked to come here at some stage . |
| 28 | The buildings referred to include Holmwood at Cathcart , which was built between 1857 and 1859 and has been described as a priceless national treasure . |
| 29 | The Islamic Republic of Mauritania , formerly part of French West Africa , gained full independence in 1960 and has been ruled since a military coup in 1978 by a Military Council of National Salvation ( Comité militaire de salut national — CMSN ) , headed by a chairman ( currently Col. Moaouia Ould Sidi Mohamed Taya ) who is President of the Republic and whose executive power derives from a Constitutional Charter published in 1978 . |
| 30 | ( He retired from AIB in December 1984 and has been succeeded by Don Cooper , another graduate of ETPS and a helicopter specialist . ) |