Example sentences of "[num] and have [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Getty , 59 , had been Premier since 1985 and had been re-elected in 1989 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | D. D. Thakur had resigned as governor in March 1991 and had been replaced by Loknath Mishra . |
| 7 | After early victories , the new unionism was in rapid retreat by 1891 and had been routed by , 1892–1893 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The buildings referred to include Holmwood at Cathcart , which was built between 1857 and 1859 and has been described as a priceless national treasure . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( He retired from AIB in December 1984 and has been succeeded by Don Cooper , another graduate of ETPS and a helicopter specialist . ) |
| 12 | Although he had had a distinguished military record as a young man , he was sixty-two and had been engaged in predominantly civil duties for the previous twenty years . |
| 13 | Deene was acquired by Sir Robert Brudenell in 1514 and has been lived in ever since by his descendants including the 7th Earl of Cardigan who led the Charge of the Light Brigade . |
| 14 | A phased return of responsibility from the army to the civilian police was begun in 1976 and had been completed for most of the region by early 1977 . |
| 15 | Raine was then 46 and had been married to the Earl of Dartmouth for 28 years . |
| 16 | That structure of international regulation broke down in the 1970s and has been followed by a period of instability where it is uncertain whether US hegemony can be re-established or whether a different mode of regulation under Japanese or European domination will be constructed . |
| 17 | But Craven is already in his eighties and has been plagued by ill-health for some time . |
| 18 | A similar price is expected for Cezanne 's ‘ Still life with apples ’ from the early 1890s which was last sold at auction at the Goldschmidt sale of 1958 and has been consigned for sale by a European collector . |
| 19 | These are conveniently set out in Duncan & Neill on Defamation , 2nd ed. , p. 3 , para. 2.03 and have been summarised in the judgment of Balcombe L.J. ; I do not propose to repeat them . |
| 20 | Engraved with a crest and supported on a cylindrical stem , the eye-bath was made in London in 1818 and had been discovered in the collection of a West Yorkshire couple . |
| 21 | Bonior , 46 , renowned as a blunt-spoken liberal , had represented a blue-collar district of Michigan since 1977 and had been appointed as deputy chief whip in 1987 . |
| 22 | Observers believe the confusion may have arisen because the original KGB ceased to exist as on January 1 and has been replaced by two separate agencies , both of which entered into negotiations to sell the files . |
| 23 | The seat had been Tory since 1970 and had been held since 1974 by Sir Charles , who retained it with a sizeable personal vote . |
| 24 | He had n't achieved much since his Commonwealth Games gold medals in 1982 and had been eliminated in the semi-finals at the Los Angeles Olympics . |
| 25 | One of the first initiatives of the new regime was British Deaf Awareness Week ( BDA Week ) which was first mounted in the autumn of 1982 and has been organised by Bob Peckford annually ever since . |
| 26 | Suitable for all solid fuels and gas , it meets BS 715 and has been certified by British Gas |
| 27 | But after he collected a CBE he declined to be drawn into detailed discussion about the new BBC show which began with a healthy 13 million viewers three weeks ago , but is now believed to have dropped to around eight million and has been panned by the critics . |
| 28 | This body was established by Harold Wilson in 1974 and has been retained by his successors . |
| 29 | The economy was undergoing its worst recession since 1945 and had been hit in particular by a fall of over 50 per cent in trade with the Soviet Union in the first three months of 1991 , and by a low dollar and over-valued Finnish markka , which seriously affected the forest industry . |
| 30 | Mr Telford , who took redundancy from the pit in 1988 and had been working as a mining contractor at Rossington , near Doncaster , allegedly threatened a man with the gun to gain entry . |