Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] [conj] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unwin 's early place in British town planning has already been noted ( see pp. 63 ) : at New Earswick , Letchworth and Hampstead , where traditions of vernacular architecture , linked to new forms of residential layout dictated by informality , open space and densities lower than had been the norm , provided both a practical base for a newly developing profession and a rallying cry for the future . |
| 2 | In other words that and had been allowed to retain too many constituencies : 14 , instead of the 11 it should have had . |
| 3 | General elections in a broad sense are three centuries old and have been fully representative of adults since 1928 . |
| 4 | The resources of the NVC were limited , and they were not able to survey every vegetation type in the Outer Hebrides , so it is quite possible that there are more communities present than have been recorded . |
| 5 | The US regional telephone companies involved with the National ISDN project are to make more Integrated Services Digital Network lines available than had been previously forecast . |
| 6 | The purchaser and the vendors shall bear their own legal and other professional fees and costs and no such fees shall be charged to ABC or any of its subsidiaries other than has been provided for in the net assets at completion . |
| 7 | The purchaser and the vendors shall bear their own legal and other professional fees and costs and no such fees shall be charged to ABC or any of its subsidiaries other than has been provided for in the net assets at completion . |
| 8 | She was twenty-two years old and had been a nurse at the Princess Louise Clinic in new Cavendish Street . |
| 9 | Though the engine was 17 years old and had been used to pulling 40-tonne loads at 60mph , Mr Tomlinson did n't need to touch it . |
| 10 | He was sixty years old and had been the parish priest for over thirty years . |
| 11 | He was 6 years old and had been at the school for three terms when the head , knowing that I was a neighbour and friend of Balbinder 's mother , invited me to go with Mrs Singh to a meeting with the educational psychologist . |
| 12 | Gazzer was twenty-two years old and had been compared in looks to a pit bull , entirely to the dog 's advantage . |
| 13 | I am twenty years old and have been educated in Britain . |
| 14 | I am a male working with young children under eight years old and have been involved , to a greater or lesser degree for almost ten years . |
| 15 | Some of the vellum bound books are nearly 400 years old and have been read by successive generations of Oxford students . |
| 16 | It reaches 12″ long and has been bred in captivity — but in outdoor ponds where it can burrow its distinctive hiding place in the bank . |
| 17 | The effect has been that for most of this century Britain has had to hold interest rates higher than has been necessary or desirable . |