Example sentences of "and [noun sg] have [been] [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people played an active rather than a passive role , and in which the old traditions of deference and subordination had been replaced by a sense of equality among the people — the feeling that one man , or even one person , is as good as another , or at least has an equal right to be respected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 . |