Example sentences of "[adj] and [noun sg] have be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent advances in knowledge of thrust belts based on seismic and drilling have been made easier to apply to frontier areas by published descriptions of typical geometries , improved understanding of the mechanisms involved , and the establishment of standard terminology ( see , for instance : Hossack 1979 ; Berger and Johnson 1982 ; Butler 1982 ; Boyer and Elliot 1982 ) . |
| 2 | A CONTROVERSIAL £270 computer game condemned as filthy , violent and evil has been given a mild 15 rating by British film censors . |
| 3 | I think it 's rather important in connection with the north eastern A sixty four sector to realize that and reference has been made to the M A F F Central Science Laboratory , that it was a condition specified by M A F F in nineteen ninety , that their site should be a green field site free of airborne pollution . |
| 4 | BR did not lodge a defence until it was too late and judgement had been made . |
| 5 | In schools , O level and CSE have been replaced by GCSE in England , Wales and Northern Ireland ; and O grade has been replaced by Standard grade in Scotland . |
| 6 | The seemingly random and jagged-edged pattern of blue , black , silver , green and white had been designed to disguise a boat 's shape from the prying eyes of U-Boat captains , so it seemed somewhat fanciful to thus camouflage a pleasure boat in the Bahamas . |
| 7 | Thus older people predominate among long-term claimants : 75 per cent of people aged 60 and over have been receiving Income Support for three years or more , compared with 40 per cent of those under 60 ; elderly people comprise 60 per cent of those receiving this benefit for five years or more . |
| 8 | A crass hybrid of the profit-motive and art has been shown not to work for anyone . |
| 9 | Undoubtedly the succession was an important issue ; the terms Whig and Tory had been coined in the first place to describe different sides taken during the Exclusion controversy , whilst for a long time after the Glorious Revolution Whigs continued to be able to embarrass the Tories by alleging that their attachment to the divine-right , hereditary succession meant that deep-down they were Jacobite sympathisers . |