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 | 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 . |
| 11 | Stone recurrence after extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy is expected to be similar and has been reported as 9% in the first year . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Some £75,000-worth is still thought to be outstanding and has been traced to Germany , Syria , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia , Kuwait and Jordan . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Sister Marcus said Mr Francis was rather poorly and had been moved from the Seriously Ill to the Dangerously Ill List . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Many of the problems associated with the uncontrolled access to farmland are long-standing and have been enshrined in the Country Code , the list of ‘ do 's and don'ts ’ concerning open gates , litter , dogs which worry livestock , fire risks and so on . |
| 20 | It is also very effective and has been practised in Holland for centuries . |
| 21 | Ebenezer Scrooge would appear to be alive and well and has been reincarnated in the guise of the Court of Bank of Ireland . |
| 22 | This exercise proved useful and has been repeated for the 1990/91 survey . |
| 23 | Key personnel profiles — should not name individuals unless they or both key and have been informed of the sale . |
| 24 | The behaviour of the Ministry was illegal and has been condemned by the Parliamentary ombudsman . |
| 25 | It reaches 12″ long and has been bred in captivity — but in outdoor ponds where it can burrow its distinctive hiding place in the bank . |
| 26 | BELOW : The site was originally quite complex and has been used for cloth manufacture , flock and shoddy production . |
| 27 | Most of these criteria are measurable and have been measured in management research in quantifiable terms . |
| 28 | SCOTVEC 's Annual Report for 1987/88 is now available and has been sent to all centres and to other bodies with an interest in vocational education and training . |
| 29 | New student recruitment literature is now available and has been distributed as part of an on-going campaign to encourage closer links between students and their Institute . |
| 30 | In the case of joint submissions a letter will be needed confirming that methods of resourcing are available and have been agreed between the two parties . |