Example sentences of "[noun pl] and have [be] [verb] [prep] " 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 | She had long shapely legs and had been known in Moscow by her nickname , ‘ The Smooch ’ . |
| 3 | The opposition National Front for the Salvation of Libya stated that several of those promoted had taken part in purges of dissidents and had been expelled from European countries . |
| 4 | They had already become British subjects and had been trading in corn from the United States of America and morocco to Madeira . |
| 5 | It was covered in weeping pustules and had been isolated from the group . |
| 6 | He received his certificate which stated : ‘ These are to Certify that Mr Edmund Bond has attended the Veterinary College as a resident pupil for 18 months and having been examined by us , we consider him as qualified to practise the Veterinary Art ’ . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Foreigners , since the earliest times , have been required to live in special residential areas and have been treated with a good deal of suspicion and hostility by ordinary Russians as well as by government officials . |
| 9 | Since 1986 Gotti had faced three previous trials and had been acquitted on all charges . |
| 10 | Both men had leapt to their feet and had been restrained from using violence by the mates of the shop steward , who just happened to be on hand . |
| 11 | Her fabulous products for face and body contain a wealth of natural ingredients and have been formulated without animal testing . |
| 12 | The method was used first by Kröner ( 1958 ) for the elastic moduli of cubic polycrystals and has been applied to composite materials by Hill , Walpole and many others [ see , for example , Laws & McLaughlin ( 1978 ) for references ] . |
| 13 | Over the years I have had an interest in medical matters and have been involved from a legal viewpoint on a number of occasions . |
| 14 | This politics matters and has been addressed by a series of locality studies , notably that of Dickens et al. |
| 15 | They have been revised at regular intervals and have been improved with members being contracted out of the state earnings-related pension scheme with subsequent savings in national insurance compensation . |
| 16 | The same applies , of course , to other denominations and has been recognised in Britain as qualifying for state support . |
| 17 | Three additional parents reported that they worked on contract at nuclear sites and had been monitored for exposure to radiation before their child was diagnosed ( one father of a case , after conception ; one father of a control , before conception ; one mother of a control , before conception ) . |
| 18 | She knew who he was , for she had observed him at lectures and had been informed of his parentage . |
| 19 | While Paddy Mayne and his men were busily raiding , Stirling had finally succumbed to his desert sores and had been hospitalized in Cairo . |
| 20 | The bream appear to be ravenous as they recover from spawning activities and have been joined by tench , carp and roach to give several outstanding catches . |
| 21 | In those days the paper had sold 5.25 million copies and had been respected for its powerful , picture-led campaigning journalism , its commitment to the Labour Party , and the chord it struck with its primarily working-class readership . |
| 22 | Even if it be true that the Roman system of water supply survived in Perugia and a few other cities into the Middle Ages and has been believed to be better than anything the modern world has yet provided — in most places water was hard to come by and almost as expensive at times as wine . |
| 23 | Delay was nowadays , perhaps too often , a feature in both civil and criminal cases and had been considered by courts countless times . |
| 24 | This intercommoning by a number of vills seems to be another indicative factor of early estates and has been used by Della Hooke and William Ford in their study of such estates in the Midlands . |
| 25 | If I chose not to reap the benefits of this scheme then I might consider the fate of a few ungrateful citizens who had thought likewise and then seen their homes repossessed , had been inflicted with uncanny storms that ripped tiles from roof and threw chimney stacks into the street , had undergone torment at the hands of timeshare salespeople , had been billed for new and exorbitant taxes and had been struck off their doctors ' registers . |
| 26 | A crucial factor in Cade was that the terms were on a standard form prepared by the National Association of Seed Potato Merchants and had been negotiated by the Association with the National Farmers ' Union . |
| 27 | He is a key figure in Graham Taylor 's England World Cup qualifying plans and has been valued at £3million . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A two hour dialysis time does not achieve equilibrium values of the eicosanoid measured but reflects epithelial values and has been used by other authors . |
| 30 | It 's our biggest insurer of local authorities and has been hit by huge payouts , including those for schools burned down by young arsonists . |