Example sentences of "and [noun sg] have [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 More recently fast-breeder reactors fuelled with a mixture of plutonium and uranium have been developed by some countries .
2 A democratic society was one in which the mass of the people played an active rather than a passive role , and in which the old traditions of deference and subordination had been replaced by a sense of equality among the people — the feeling that one man , or even one person , is as good as another , or at least has an equal right to be respected and listened to .
3 Pack sizes and colours extend the choice and labels and literature have been produced in eight languages , from English to Icelandic .
4 In recent years much energy and ingenuity has been poured into the task of showing that such markets do in fact exist and can be made to force managers to profit-maximize .
5 A great deal of erudition and ingenuity has been exercised by art historians of this persuasion to demonstrate interconnections of this sort .
6 Very unusual pentacles and magic circles etched into the stone and traced with silver and mercury have been destroyed as if by something bursting up through them from below .
7 Since the early 1980s the army 's strength and budget have been cut in half .
8 In the interim , however , a number of schemes have been devised in which instabilities and chaos have been predicted in experimentally realisable systems .
9 A course of ampicillin and metronidazole had been taken by this subject within four weeks of endoscopy .
10 The first Plan identified twenty action points and progress has been made on them all .
11 As the need for lexical resources has grown , greater numbers of machine-readable dictionaries have become available , and progress has been made regarding the issues of standardisation and format .
12 He returned to find that his mother and sister had been murdered by the Nazis .
13 Not realising that the documents on discharge and assessment had been produced in a hurry to meet the government 's suddenly imposed deadline of 31 December , he criticised the two weeks he had been given to consult his 200 consultant colleagues .
14 A considerable amount of time and money has been spent in pursuing the study of river basin dynamics .
15 RECENTLY I have been dragged , most unwillingly , into a ludicrous debate about whether hi-fi systems sound better if the room , records and electronics have been treated with coloured inks to convert the adverse effects of the gravitational field of the Earth into beneficial effects .
16 ‘ Our condolences and sympathy have been sent to Captain Stewart 's family . ’
17 Throughout the Andes their toil and genius had been cut into the land itself .
18 An integral part of the development will be the reorganisation of the University 's associated library holdings , and funding has been obtained for the institute 's library .
19 Various gastrointestinal hormones such as glucagon and calcitonin have been investigated in studies on the prevention of ERCP induced pancreatitis .
20 May we have an urgent inquiry into why , over the past three years , the number of complaints against the health service in Lewisham and North Southwark has gone up by 100 per cent. , why there have been 30 complaints already this year and why serious complaints of maladministration and negligence have been made against Guy 's , King 's College and St.
21 Gas Turbine Fuel Systems enjoyed continued success , thanks to growth in our traditional market and investment has been made in line with this growth .
22 A total of 44,000 Soviet troops plus vehicles and materiel had been withdrawn from eastern Germany between Jan. 1 and May 12 , 1991 ; a further 22,000 service personnel left in June .
23 ‘ Tata was killed in the raid last night and Mummy has been taken to the London hospital . ’
24 Local lawyers , police and judiciary have been primed for the test case by a series of seminars organised in conjunction with BSA Europe .
25 Furthermore , fibrosis and cirrhosis have been produced in the baboon model of alcoholic liver disease in animals fed diets purportedly high in nutritional value , although this has been disputed .
26 If thought and study had been restricted to whatever held out the visible prospect of material advantage , that explosive corruscation of human achievement which is European civilisation would never have occurred .
27 So wrote Dorothy L. Sayers in 1935 in Gaudy Night , describing the ‘ Shrewsbury ’ graduate whose brilliance and scholarship had been dulled by marriage and children .
28 Usually , the supposed relationship between inheritance and crime has been inferred from experimental methods designed to distinguish between the effects of heredity and environment .
29 Mrs McMullen 's face and neck had been covered in a thick layer of mud and Dr Wayte suggested that an attacker had sat astride her , possibly grabbing soil and pushing it along the body and into her mouth .
30 For example oestrogen and trinitrin have been administered in a patch applied to the skin .
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