Example sentences of "and [noun prp] have [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Counties such as Berkshire , Hampshire , Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire have been faced with increasing government demands to provide more new housing and this has produced vociferous opposition from local residents who see their traditional communities under threat . |
| 2 | When the Treaties of Rome creating the Common Market and Euratom had been signed in 1957 , de Gaulle had criticized them and told aides that , if he came back to power , he would " destroy " them . |
| 3 | Both Ter-Petrosyan and Manukyan had been imprisoned between December 1988 and May 1989 for membership of the Karabakh Committee , set up in 1988 to campaign for Armenian control of Nagorny Karabakh . |
| 4 | On deck , Martha and Nenna had been joined by Maurice , who had decided to consider himself on holiday , and had not been to the pub for several nights . |
| 5 | She and Sarah had been sitting under the balcony and when the warning was given they moved forward but continued to enjoy the film in which John McCormack sang Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms and The Dawning of the Day . |
| 6 | The past eight years has seen a steady and clever manipulation of the so-called thinking minority : the wheezes and schemes of cheeky pop entrepreneurs like Morley and McLaren have been championed in the rock press and elsewhere as a perfect parallel to the upwardly mobile mentality of the calculator and computer generation , the complete full circle from sixties hippiedom . |
| 7 | Locally the struggle was seen as a defeat , with the workers reportedly being blacklisted for their efforts to defend their safety and health , and the communities at both Ovens and Ringaskiddy having being defeated despite their strong opposition . |
| 8 | Sega and Nintendo have been accused of monopoly practices , and charging ‘ excessive and extortionate ’ prices . |
| 9 | Maguire had been acquitted by a Dublin court in February 1990 and Harte had been extradited from the Irish Republic to Northern Ireland in 1988 . |
| 10 | The Lake District , Dartmoor and Exmoor have been selected as top-priority sites for conservation . |
| 11 | In recent months , the Independent Broadcasting Authority and Unisat have been negotiating over the use of low-power transmitters by the IBA . |
| 12 | Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are now in the Soviet Union ; east Turkestan is now part of China , and Baluchistan has been split between Iran and Afghanistan . |
| 13 | Lafford is a prebend of Lincoln Cathedral , and Richard has been assumed to be also identifiable as Richard de Bello ( of Battle , probably Battle in Sussex ) who was prebendary of Lafford in 1277 and who was also treasurer of Lincoln Cathedral by October 1270 , until at least April 1278 . |
| 14 | Wise Speke analyst John Dean , says : ‘ Whessoe and Varec have been known to one another for some considerable time although given their emphasis on different geographical markets they have rarely found themselves in direct competition . ’ |
| 15 | The world has turned to places it regards as more important , and Afghanistan has been left to its civil war . |
| 16 | A joint communiqué issued on May 19 said that the talks between Jiang and Gorbachev had been held in a " friendly , frank and businesslike atmosphere " and had covered " the whole range of Soviet-Chinese relations " . |
| 17 | The rhyme 's historical references demonstrate how completely blackness and Britishness have been made into mutually exclusive categories , incompatible identities . |
| 18 | They had no reason to lack confidence in their own assessment — Holland was the home of Fokker and KLM had been established since 1919 , each company producing generations of highly competent aeronautical engineers . |
| 19 | Ken and Orton had been introduced by Michael Codron in 1964 . |
| 20 | Talking of worthwhile investments , the new flats constructed by Norman and David have been put to good use this year and indeed Nor indeed Norman 's sets get better and better . |
| 21 | Jasper and Bert had been gone for ten days . |
| 22 | The Caledonides of Britain and Ireland and the Hercynides of France , Spain and Portugal have been selected for study as representatives of the two main stratigraphic and structural domains of western Europe . |
| 23 | 13 1 ) that a man from Sybaris and another from Siris , both Italian towns , were among Agariste 's suitors at Sikyon ; and some of the poets patronized by the western Greeks had experience of mainland monarchy — Pindar and Simonides both wrote for Sicilian patrons : Pindar composed the Tenth Pythian , his earliest poem , for the Thessalian Thorax of Larisa , and Simonides had been patronized by Polykrates of Samos and Pisistratus of Athens in turn . |
| 24 | Jean is Stella 's daughter , and Lucy has been acting as hostess in her place . ’ |
| 25 | While Jessica and Karen had been helping with the salmon mousse , the dark-eyed alien had been lurking at the gate … |
| 26 | When she reached there she found that Ann and Ruth had been joined by several other girls , including Sarah , and were just about to start their game . |
| 27 | A £15m scheme to upgrade the A1 between Bramham and Wetherby has been extended by nearly 1km at a cost of £1m to allow traffic to move freely by widening more of the southbound carriageway to Spen Common Lane . |
| 28 | The river avon between Tewkesbury and Pershore has been put on red flood alert , it 's banks swollen by torrential rain . |
| 29 | This project is looking at the way in which plant-breeding at public sector institutes in Scotland , Wales and England has been influenced by various interest groups : government ( via the Agricultural Research Council ) , the private sector ( including farmers ' organisations and seed companies ) , and the academic community . |
| 30 | In that short period , a profit of £5m , tax-free , has gone to secret investors , and Telecom has been landed with a lemon . |