Example sentences of "and [noun prp] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already the ranks of the creative arts had been woefully thinned ; Braque badly wounded , Léger gassed , Derain unscathed but reduced to decorating shell cases ; Péguy and Alain-Fournier had been killed , and Apollinaire wounded in the head . |
| 2 | Counties such as Berkshire , Hampshire , Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire have been faced with increasing government demands to provide more new housing and this has produced vociferous opposition from local residents who see their traditional communities under threat . |
| 3 | For instance , Parvin and Sabina had been given the task of measuring each other with bricks . |
| 4 | When the Treaties of Rome creating the Common Market and Euratom had been signed in 1957 , de Gaulle had criticized them and told aides that , if he came back to power , he would " destroy " them . |
| 5 | Places like Welwyn Garden City and Crawley have been experiencing the relentless movement of these original cohorts of migrants up the ‘ age pyramid ’ . |
| 6 | Both Ter-Petrosyan and Manukyan had been imprisoned between December 1988 and May 1989 for membership of the Karabakh Committee , set up in 1988 to campaign for Armenian control of Nagorny Karabakh . |
| 7 | PEOPLE in London , the Thames Valley , Kent , Hampshire and Sussex have been asked to turn off the tap when brushing their teeth , take showers not baths , and to fix dripping taps to save water . |
| 8 | ( And Baden-Powell had been asked to become the first chairman of the Juvenile Organizations Committee , established by the Home Secretary , Herbert Samuel in 1916 . ) |
| 9 | Microsoft and DEC have been porting NT to Alpha for the last year : conveniently DEC has a facility just a mile away from the Microsoft campus in Belleview , Washington . |
| 10 | Where the work of Hume and Kant has been taken fully seriously , theology has faced a choice between two options . |
| 11 | On deck , Martha and Nenna had been joined by Maurice , who had decided to consider himself on holiday , and had not been to the pub for several nights . |
| 12 | She and Sarah had been sitting under the balcony and when the warning was given they moved forward but continued to enjoy the film in which John McCormack sang Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms and The Dawning of the Day . |
| 13 | The past eight years has seen a steady and clever manipulation of the so-called thinking minority : the wheezes and schemes of cheeky pop entrepreneurs like Morley and McLaren have been championed in the rock press and elsewhere as a perfect parallel to the upwardly mobile mentality of the calculator and computer generation , the complete full circle from sixties hippiedom . |
| 14 | The editors of two Socialist Party publications , Eyler and Teori have been told their magazines must stop publishing . |
| 15 | I think Newsome , Fairclough and Kelly have been playing brill . |
| 16 | Both Anwar and Abdullah had been re-elected as UMNO vice-presidents at the 1990 general assembly [ see p. 37919 ] . |
| 17 | ACET 's work with the churches in Africa and Romania has been recognised and supported by UNICEF , the World Health Organisation and by TEAR Fund . |
| 18 | Page makeup software such as Ready Set Go , PageMaker , MacPublisher and LetraPage have been used to illustrate the enormous potential of small computer systems to design and create artwork ready for printing . |
| 19 | Sega and Nintendo have been accused of monopoly practices , and charging ‘ excessive and extortionate ’ prices . |
| 20 | Everyone questioned by the police ( and Julia and Ian had been questioned twice ) knew the registration of Gray 's car . |
| 21 | I wanted my mum or Ian , but my mum was at home and Ian had been told to go into the waiting room . |
| 22 | Maguire had been acquitted by a Dublin court in February 1990 and Harte had been extradited from the Irish Republic to Northern Ireland in 1988 . |
| 23 | The Lake District , Dartmoor and Exmoor have been selected as top-priority sites for conservation . |
| 24 | Since the Trust was founded in 1960 Alton and Petersfield have been organised as one area ( the Trust have seven areas and the IoW ) . |
| 25 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 26 | The legal opinion obtained by CPRE and the Council for National Parks from Professor Francis Jacobs , one of the leading authorities on EEC law , makes it clear that both MAFF and DoE have been taking an unduly restrictive view in adopting their stance . |
| 27 | England and Germany have been told they will not be allowed onto the pitch to practice until Friday . |
| 28 | In recent months , the Independent Broadcasting Authority and Unisat have been negotiating over the use of low-power transmitters by the IBA . |
| 29 | Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are now in the Soviet Union ; east Turkestan is now part of China , and Baluchistan has been split between Iran and Afghanistan . |
| 30 | In making comparisons with a southern hemisphere ( Gondwana ) coal basin , the Cooper Basin of South Australia and Queensland has been chosen . |