Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] have been [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lonely : The spiritual isolation of the disease is lonely enough but add to this the " Jekyll and Hyde " behaviour ( depending upon whether or not a drink or drug has been taken that day ) causing untold damage to family and other relationships and the loneliness becomes intense . |
| 2 | But all too often , they do n't have to use force to get into a house because a door or window has been left open . |
| 3 | In over 30% of domestic burglaries , the burglar simply walks in without using any force because a window or door has been left open . |
| 4 | Wheldon & Wesley has been appointed sole distributor for Europe and America by Yasaka Shobo Inc , Japan . |
| 5 | If , in the original solution , the functions f , g and M have been chosen such that the terms in ( 12.47 ) have already cancelled the terms and in S , then the new solution for M will be given by . |
| 6 | Madam Speaker , this announcement is now almost a year delayed the firm of Coopers and Lybrand have been paid one point six million pounds to come up with this ass access charging fiasco , surely this house in entitled to the , as entitled as the press to a full statement of the government 's intentions so that they can be answered by . |
| 7 | Employees and contractors have been given preferential treatment and get the total amount applied for . |
| 8 | Their credibility and confidence has been stripped bare after three successive Premier League defeats and an embarrassing 4-4 Coca-Cola Cup draw with Chesterfield . |
| 9 | He greeted Sir Thomas courteously too ; he greeted every damn person lined up with similar courtesy though his private thoughts were on the likelihood of a stiff brandy and soda having been placed ready in his suite . |
| 10 | The activities of building societies and banks have been given prime consideration when assessing the appropriate definition of money and the problem of implementation of monetary control ( Bank of England , Dec. 1984 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Almost everyone I met had lost at least one relative , some had lost several , and families had been scattered hundreds of miles apart , ’ said Mr Thomas . |
| 12 | Graham Tennant , 81 , has been writing poetry for a hobby since he was 10 and his poem Looking Back taking a humorous look at the Biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorrah has been judged one of the top ten funniest poems in a national competition judged by comedian Ronnie Corbett . |
| 13 | On May 26 it was announced that Vladimir , Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk had been elected new head of the UOC . |
| 14 | After four years of rigorous quality control , only beans and chilies have been found unfit to eat , copper and molybdenum tending to concentrate in leaves and stalks rather than fruits . |
| 15 | Also , domestication of dogs and cattle had been undertaken some twelve hundred years ago in southern Europe by Azilian hunters who had used dogs to corner their prey . |
| 16 | Loughlin , out until Christmas , broke his arm playing for Great Britain against New South Wales Country , and Saints have been told that insurance does not cover players on international duty . |
| 17 | Further on he writes : " Istanbul , Bursa and Edirne are recorded in the defter each as 300-akce Damascus and Aleppo have been recorded each as 500-akce . |
| 18 | Considerable quantities of Ecstasy and LSD have been seized this year from buses and cars along the Derry-Donegal border . |
| 19 | My ma and da have been divorced ten years . |
| 20 | The fight we have witnessed between eagle and man has been fought many times in many places and will be fought again . |
| 21 | For each of the four sub-groups of Games and Sports , Aquatics , Outdoor Pursuits and Dance greater continuity and progression has been made possible by the introduction of five modules extending from the very basic introductory level to performance , tactical awareness , and knowledge and understanding commensurate with good club standards . |
| 22 | Following an agreement with the St Lucian government , electronic equipment and chandlery have been granted duty-free status . |
| 23 | Doctors ( psychiatric and general practice trainees ) and nurses had been given special instruction in the assessment of deliberate self-poisoning patients . |
| 24 | Mindful of the manner in which the fortresses of Liege and Namur had been taken prior to the Battle of the Marne , at relatively little cost , by the use of the new and highly effective howitzer , General Erich von Falkenhayn ordered up a 42cm version of this formidable weapon and commenced the bombardment of the city 's outer fortifications on the night of 27/28 September . |
| 25 | Some time after dark , when the cans which had held chicken and plum pudding lay cold in a shallow pit , and when our plates and dishes had been scraped clean , we wrapped ourselves up and sat out of the wind , behind the Land Rover . |
| 26 | And , according to KPMG Forensic Accounting 's ‘ fraud barometer ’ , the South East and London have been hit heaviest , accounting for 69% of all charged cases worth over £100,000 between January 1987 and August 1992 . |
| 27 | In recent years , even the paddle steamers linking Hull and Barton have been made obsolete by the building of the magnificent single span Humber Bridge , completed in 1980 — the north bank approach of which is just three miles east of North Ferriby . |
| 28 | The report says applications to mine at 652 new sites in England and Wales have been made this year . |
| 29 | For some fifteen years now researchers wishing to have special tabulations compiled from the 1961 census of England and Wales have been refused due to ‘ technical difficulties ’ , and more recently it has been discovered that the machine-readable ten per cent sample of the 1971 census for Scotland is no longer accessible ( Marsh 1980 ; Schürer 1985 ) . |
| 30 | A lot of erm group one plans are , there are about ten thousand plans that are showing an arrears status at the moment , and premium has been missed some time ago , it 's not a , not a current premium , which means on the fifteenth of June or the first of July we will automatically go in and pick up two premiums , we 'll t we 'll try and collect the arrears without having notified the client of it in any way at all . |