Example sentences of "and [noun pl] have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prices of the Kanga range of dresses and accessories have been dramatically reduced by up to 50 per cent . |
| 2 | The cycloaddition reactions of SNS+ with alkynes and nitriles have been thoroughly investigated and these ‘ reverse electron demand ’ cycloaddition reactions would fit well into elementary organic chemistry courses . |
| 3 | Gabriel saw at once that a bell-shaped shift of her own design was being wrongly displayed , while Rose saw to her fury that a whole line of trousers and tabards had been wrongly priced . |
| 4 | So what happens if a purchaser claims that he wishes to acquire only the basic wordprocessing part of the sophisticated package , perhaps because he or she wishes the output to be compatible with a machine on which all the bells and whistles have been legitimately installed ? |
| 5 | These 15 champions and contenders have been deliberately chosen to cover all eras of the modern game . |
| 6 | Then France had commanded without question , while Kings and Emperors had been only too eager to please . |
| 7 | Laybacks and handjams have been especially efficient at suckering me into their grip only to spew me out into airborne humiliation . |
| 8 | Names and schools have been freely suggested , but where one guess is as good as another one had better ignore them all . |
| 9 | As such , their own life-styles , societies , and schools have been relatively protected , but perhaps at the expense of political action . |
| 10 | Drawers and cupboards had been completely emptied , and everything had been broken , ripped and destroyed . |
| 11 | If we sample one of these cavities in which the process is er which produce boils er are going on , almost inevitably we find this organism staphylococcusorius and offspotulates have been clearly fulfilled with organism and this disease most notably by a bunch of of medical students who are subjected to all sorts of tortures by their professor of microbiology back in the nineteen fifties . |
| 12 | Yet there is striking evidence that carts and wagons had been much improved , and that bridges were being built in many parts to make it possible for them to go longer distances . |
| 13 | Moving with extraordinary ease , as though all her muscles and sinews had been somehow loosened , Julia got herself out of bed and into her clothes and then went to open the shutters . |
| 14 | As many as 44 military planes and helicopters had been badly damaged , he acknowledged . |
| 15 | New wards and accommodation blocks , laboratories and car-parks have all but masked the original building , whilst within it spacious airy wards , huge staircase halls and corridors have been extensively partitioned and bear no resemblance to their original plan . |
| 16 | Since about 1750 , except in the most expensive and exclusive type of work , most head and tailbands have been purely decorative and functionally useless , used to give a respectable air of antiquity and good craftsmanship . |
| 17 | Whole forest of trees and plants have been specially cultivated to adorn the site and protect visitors from the blistering Sevillian sun . |
| 18 | Agricultural land and buildings have been completely free of rates since 1929 . |
| 19 | However , where attempts are made to build up monopoly by merger there has been a heightened awareness of the inherent dangers , and governments have been more willing to take direct action to prohibit them . |
| 20 | While this reform is specifically designed to prevent many of today 's disgruntled education consumers joining the ranks of tomorrow 's underclass , it will of course have implications for a much wider group of young people , whose talents and needs have been all too little met by the emphasis on the reorganization of secondary education to the exclusion of all other considerations . |
| 21 | Fantastic carriages in silver and gilt , musical clocks , gramophones and thermometers have been painstakingly built around delicate eggshells in his Antrim home . |
| 22 | The institutions and banks had been immensely supportive in helping save the company . |
| 23 | However , Japan said that the visit did not mark a return to business as usual , even though Japanese banks and businesses had been rapidly reviving business activities . |
| 24 | The impact of poverty and disadvantage on children and families has been amply recorded in reports such as Born to Fail ? |
| 25 | So in the past few years since Big Bang we have seen dealers chasing every hare , especially since dealing volumes declined and firms have been more desperate to do business . |
| 26 | It also requires showing that it was necessary for such behaviour and beliefs to have been formerly defined as crimes . |
| 27 | He had been abroad , and things had been too much for his younger brother , he having been deserted by his partners . |
| 28 | th th the building went ahead and people every year or two sometimes twice in a year get flooded and they get sewages the the sewer with the volume of rain water they ca n't otherwise get away , but it brings to light what happens i i i in the ditches and , and the waterways that are spread across the direction of Airport and then out into the river when the tide is low because the switches close when the tide comes in and basically er and this is up to date information the information that I have is that the channels are the responsibility of the er you know responsibilities are either kept cleared or not clogged up and in connection with the , with the incident I , I did hear it said that in , in a place where once said it usually counts that possibly and more than the that the first flood was due because the drains and the ditches could n't take the volume of water after they were cleared and things have been pretty reasonable erm since that time , so it would seem to confirm what , what I have to say about keeping clear erm but it may be that authorities that were n't responsible had the job of cleaning them , I do n't know . |
| 29 | Her work and studies had been so all-consuming that she had never even had a boyfriend ! |
| 30 | fossil fuel combustion , for instance , has led to increased concentrations of sulphate in precipitation ( ’ acid rain' ) and many rivers , lakes and estuaries have been greatly affected by phosphates from agricultural , urban or industrial sources . |