Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] have [adv] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An explanation for the phenomenon ( sometimes known as Kondratiev waves after the economist who first identified them in 1925 ) was proposed by Joseph Schumpeter and has since been adopted , extended , and supported by empirical studies by Christopher Freeman and some of his colleagues at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University . |
| 2 | These movements have occurred chiefly in the United States and have generally been anti-suburban in tenor . |
| 3 | The Pontormo , a Mannerist masterpiece painted in 1537 , belonged to the late Chauncey Stillman and had long been on loan to the Frick collection in New York . |
| 4 | Toledo was of no military value to the Nationalist advance , but it had considerable religious , historic and emotional significance , for it was the seat of the head of the Catholic Church in Spain and had once been the hub of the Spanish empire . |
| 5 | Michael Manley , who had resigned as Prime Minister for health reasons in March and had also been replaced as leader of the ruling People 's National Party ( PNP ) [ see p. 38808 ] , gave up his parliamentary seat in mid-April . |
| 6 | One friend was Randolph Churchill , who had come out to Cairo originally with Layforce and had then been given a job of liaison with the press . |
| 7 | Blue eyeshadow , much reviled for the past five years , is back at Chanel , Lancôme and Rubinstein and has never been out at Lauder — Mrs Lauder is a firm believer in the power of blue . |
| 8 | A mountainous enclave of about 4,400 square kilometres , Nagorno-Karabakh had originally been assigned to Armenia but had then been transferred to the jurisdiction of its traditionally Muslim neighbour . |
| 9 | She is the Santa Maria del Sud and had recently been brought down under tow from the Argentine naval base near Buenos Aires where she has been undergoing a complete refit . |
| 10 | He has been jailed for explosives offences in Ulster and has previously been denied a visa . |
| 11 | THE COUNTY now known simply as Lothian is an amalgamation of what used to be East Lothian , Midlothian , and West Lothian , with a few bits chipped off the edges here and there : for example , the little settlement of Stow with its packhorse bridge over the Gala Water was once in East Lothian but has now been lured into the Borders region . |
| 12 | The previous law relating to covert action , the Hughes-Ryan amendment enacted in 1974 , had applied only to actions undertaken by the CIA and had never been rigorously applied . |
| 13 | He maintained his innocence and claimed he had been willing to give his life for Castro but had never been a communist . |
| 14 | Thereafter the play received a few critically acclaimed performances in Birmingham but has otherwise been unperformed in this country . |
| 15 | He was recently banned from the directors ' room at Newcastle and has also been shifted from his seat in the directors box to the back of the stand . |
| 16 | One lady who was working in the Smithy and had recently been directed to Wolverton , kept pestering him for one , and at times was quite verbal about it . |
| 17 | The latter is owned by America 's Citibank and has just been refurbished . |
| 18 | This was effectively the same as the Spanish Pyrenean of northern Navarre and had already been crossed to a large extent with Limousin and Garonnais before it finally disappeared into the Blonde during the 1960s , leaving only the rare Béarnais as a purebred remnant . |
| 19 | The Salvation Army was established in the town in 1881 by Captain and Mrs Preston and has always been in Edward Street . |
| 20 | A peace agreement signed at Kourou in French Guiana in June 1989 [ see p. 36811 ] had been denounced at the time by Bouterse and had never been implemented . |
| 21 | The control of consumption theory was developed in the 1950s by a French demographer , Sully Ledermann and has since been adopted by many neo-prohibitionists , notably in Scandinavia . |
| 22 | It was originally a farming settlement in Haryana but had recently been absorbed into the Delhi suburbs . |
| 23 | It is the oldest place of worship in Madeira and has recently been converted into a small museum . |