Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [verb] been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think Newsome , Fairclough and Kelly have been playing brill . |
| 2 | Thus if Davies and Dennis had been studying other cities with different political and administrative structures , they would have found different results — as would Saunders and Newton ! |
| 3 | ‘ Russian and Lithuania have been dumping cheap products on the UK market , and our understanding is that the Commission has now found that they have caused material damage to the UK industry . |
| 4 | ‘ Russian and Lithuania have been dumping cheap products on the UK market and our understanding is that the Commission has now found that they have caused material damage to the UK industry . |
| 5 | He was not , in fact , the first to work with the Longhorns : a blacksmith named Welby living on the borders of Leicestershire and Derbyshire had been attempting systematic improvement of the type using animals from the Derbyshire herd of Sir Thomas Gresley of Drakelow House , Burton-on-Trent ( a herd which by 1720 was already uniform and impressively well matched for shape and colour ) , and a Mr Webster of Canley , near Coventry , bred animals from the same herd with stock from Westmorland and Lancashire . |
| 6 | It was a few weeks after his marriage and Stephen had been feeling unsure of himself , unsure of life itself . |
| 7 | On May 26 it was announced that Vladimir , Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk had been elected new head of the UOC . |
| 8 | Anne Keddy Hector , Robert Seyfarth and Michael Raleigh at the Universities of California and Pennsylvania have been studying parental behaviour among captive vervets to see if males ' parental ability affected the females ' choice of mate . |
| 9 | Mindful of the manner in which the fortresses of Liege and Namur had been taken prior to the Battle of the Marne , at relatively little cost , by the use of the new and highly effective howitzer , General Erich von Falkenhayn ordered up a 42cm version of this formidable weapon and commenced the bombardment of the city 's outer fortifications on the night of 27/28 September . |
| 10 | In recent years , even the paddle steamers linking Hull and Barton have been made obsolete by the building of the magnificent single span Humber Bridge , completed in 1980 — the north bank approach of which is just three miles east of North Ferriby . |
| 11 | For some fifteen years now researchers wishing to have special tabulations compiled from the 1961 census of England and Wales have been refused due to ‘ technical difficulties ’ , and more recently it has been discovered that the machine-readable ten per cent sample of the 1971 census for Scotland is no longer accessible ( Marsh 1980 ; Schürer 1985 ) . |
| 12 | The officers believe Elizabeth and Julie had been sunbathing naked on the remote beach , confident they would not be seen . |