Example sentences of "and [verb] [be] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the largest trade deficit ( relative to national income ) in recent history and has been caused largely because of the sustained growth of domestic incomes and spending since 1981 . |
| 2 | In Latin America a second wave of nationalism , which may be regarded as a continuation of the national independence struggles against the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the early nineteenth century , has developed vigorously in the present century in opposition to American economic dominance , and has been connected more or less closely with socialist and reforming movements directed against the internal domination of these societies by an upper class composed of landowners , and more recently , of elements of a national bourgeoisie . |
| 3 | The popular press could not compete and has been pushed more and more into the ‘ human interest ’ dimension , interviewing friends and relations of players , stoking up dressing-room feuds and seizing upon the sex lives of the young , virile , and wayward . |
| 4 | John has devised a system of tooling for turning nests of bowls , which he presented at the Loughborough seminar and has been taken up and will be marketed in the near future . |
| 5 | ‘ He has come on nicely since the Hennessy and has been working well but he could do with a run this week , ’ he added . |
| 6 | The neck is maple and has been designed so that the infamous timber saving scarf joint under the third fret can be avoided in favour of an equally conservationally sound one-piece affair . |
| 7 | Gum shields are one thing ( having rattled my teeth on many a South African hard field in bygone days , and having been bitten more than once in scrums , I wish they had appeared long ago ) , but shoulder pads are entirely different and their acceptance could change the game for the worse , in my opinion . |
| 8 | The bundle was tied together with string and had been left there and forgotten one morning when Lavinia was in a hurry . |
| 9 | I certainly respect the genuine ones that have been organised in response to industrial injuries , and have been conducted properly and sensibly , and the Government have responded to them . |
| 10 | Provided your ferrets are trained and have been handled well and you have developed a good relationship with them they will not bite you . |
| 11 | I could not be bled and have been dealt more than a hundred blows so that I got a thorough grinding . ) |
| 12 | Pghorbol esters such as 12- O -tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate ( TPA ) can substitute for diacylglycerol and have been used extensively as tools to investigate actions of protein kinase C. |
| 13 | they 've identified offenders and have been attacked verbally and physically by these yobs |