Example sentences of "and [be] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seen slides and been to lectures on it . |
| 2 | ‘ I have been around certain bands and been in bands and I 've never actually seen a groupie . |
| 3 | As he had already been interviewed four times and been in police custody for over 24 hours , the expectation would be that a solicitor might well consider that , at least for that evening , enough was enough and that he ought to advise his client not to answer further questions … . |
| 4 | As one who has shared a platform with Chris Baines and been in audiences when his oratory and enthusiasm for the natural world have captivated those present , I am reluctantly prompted to write to correct his distorted and unfair portrayal of the fee-basis and motivation of landscape architects ( The Baines Report , November ) . |
| 5 | Just because courses are attended by women , taught by women and are about women , does not in itself make them feminist . |
| 6 | Two are large , with life-size figures , and are to members of the Maynard family at Little Easton , Essex , and at Hoxne , Suffolk . |
| 7 | Adult prisons ( for those aged 21 or over ) are divided into ‘ local ’ prisons , which receive people from the courts , whether on remand or at the start of a sentence ( and where short sentences may be served in their entirety ) ; closed ‘ training ’ prisons of which Maidstone is one , and ‘ open ’ prisons , which have a minimum of security and are for prisoners perceived as posing no real risk to the public . |
| 8 | Both the enlarged access facility and the supplementary financing facility are available to members of the IMF only in conjunction with the use of resources in the upper credit tranches ( i.e. they are special arrangements when normal credit lines are insufficient ) and are for countries which are facing serious payments imbalances that are large in relation to their quotas . |
| 9 | Manager Mr Cutts said : ‘ Provided they 're with their owners and are on leads , they 're welcome , but to be honest , we do n't get many in . ’ |
| 10 | According to Anna Bowes , of independent financial advisers Chase de Vere 's Moneyline , most companies have halted sales at their present rates and are in discussions about dropping rates . |
| 11 | All the sites are above the deep wells used for drinking water and are in areas either paved over or not open to public use . |
| 12 | They no longer strike you however quite as ramparts because they have been planted with grass and shrubs and are in places penetrable on foot or even by traffic ; they are now a pleasance more than a deterrent . |
| 13 | The first three have already been handed over and are by artists not formerly represented in east German museums : Ernst Wilhelm Nay , Emil Schumacher and Fritz Winter . |
| 14 | ‘ For people like my father the City was a lovely environment where you could meet for a drink , or have lunch and be with friends . |
| 15 | Players must be Under 18 on August 1 and be with clubs affiliated to the Co Antrim FA . |
| 16 | Once inside the shop , however , acrimony faded ; they were so alike that it was impossible for them to work together and be at odds . |
| 17 | In November 1872 , the Board received an application from Cambridge Medical School for the bodies of paupers who had died in the workhouse , and were without funds or relations , to be sent there for the study of anatomy . |
| 18 | Group 1 , as we have seen , had cleared the south coast villages and were in positions on the south side of the town . |
| 19 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |
| 20 | It now attracts international drivers from all over Europe and is worth points in the European Championship . |
| 21 | Spit and polish and the mindless regime of kit preparation have never been guiding principles in the Light Division ; nonetheless , each recruit takes a pride in his appearance and is at pains to ensure that his turnout is of the highest standard . |
| 22 | Her Maria blossoms and is by turns sweetly protective and vulnerable , generally very sexy and completely convincing . |
| 23 | Sun is said to be going into direct competition with Apple Computer Inc spin-out General Magic Inc and has already licensed designs for its nomadic computer to two Japanese companies , and is in talks with French and German consumer electronics companies . |
| 24 | Cray Research Inc , which says its scaled down C90s ( see front ) start at $3.25m , reports that it has taken five orders for the smaller systems and is in discussions with more than a dozen other prospects ; an eight-processor version C98 will be leased to the San Diego Supercomputer Center in the fourth quarter ; the model starts at some $12m . |
| 25 | Dun & Bradstreet is currently developing a skeleton object-based framework and is in negotiations with several object software vendors to license technology . |
| 26 | D&B is currently developing a skeleton object-based framework and is in negotiations with several object software vendors to license technology . |
| 27 | Most of the rolling stock used by miners was well smashed up inside , and was without windows . |
| 28 | His chief importance to Edward was that he was a substantial landowner in Normandy and was at odds with John II over the succession to the counties of Angoulême and Mortain . |
| 29 | She taught in a racially mixed school and was at pains to correct simple stereotypes and unthinking prejudices . |
| 30 | But Wilson had been immeasurably kind to him , found a place for a very square peg in his government and , in 1967 , when he no longer had room in his government for Wigg , created him a peer and was at pains to find him a suitable job as chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board . |