Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb base] [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | More recently fast-breeder reactors fuelled with a mixture of plutonium and uranium have been developed by some countries . |
| 3 | Vein deposits in Dinantian limestones and sandstones have been exploited in the Northern and Southern Pennine orefields for a total production exceeding 2 million tonnes . |
| 4 | Timber houses of several different periods and cultures have been reconstructed in various experiments , leading to a much better understanding of how such buildings were originally built . |
| 5 | From the bold opening words , in which Christian appears with his Bible in his hand and his great burden on his back , crying , ‘ What shall I do ’ , readers of all denominations and cultures have been entranced by the story right through to the end , when Mr Valiant-for-Truth gives his sword ‘ to him that shall succeed me … and as he went , he said , ‘ Death where is thy sting ? ’ and as he went down deeper , he said , ‘ Grave where is thy victory ? ’ |
| 6 | Different companies and cultures have been integrated within a short timescale , with fewer problems and better results than had been expected . |
| 7 | Pack sizes and colours extend the choice and labels and literature have been produced in eight languages , from English to Icelandic . |
| 8 | Very unusual pentacles and magic circles etched into the stone and traced with silver and mercury have been destroyed as if by something bursting up through them from below . |
| 9 | Since the early 1980s the army 's strength and budget have been cut in half . |
| 10 | Runners and riders have been selected for the new Permanent Secretarial jobs and buildings earmarked to house them , their masters and the unsung legions of civil servants doing new jobs almost overnight . |
| 11 | The history of ModE /a/ is a traditional bone of contention , and views have been expressed on it by a gallery of famous names from Henry Sweet onward ( for a review , see Lass , 1976 ) . |
| 12 | In the interim , however , a number of schemes have been devised in which instabilities and chaos have been predicted in experimentally realisable systems . |
| 13 | there is an asymmetry between the incumbent and the opposition parties : ‘ the incumbent 's policies and personnel have been put to the test of very recent practice at the time of election , while the oppositions ’ probable performance can be inferred only from its statements of intention and its previous performance in office ’ ( Kramer , 1977b , p. 699 ) . |
| 14 | In addition , in its role as a Designated Research Centre the scope of research has been widened and contacts have been made with researchers in many other countries , including USA , Sweden and France . |
| 15 | Trees and hedges have been deformed by the fierce salt spray and strong sea winds during winter . |
| 16 | Gifts and bequests have been exempted from Inheritance Tax . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Syrian forces , Lebanese troops , and militiamen have been poised for a week for an attack to seize the palace . |
| 19 | Syrian forces , Lebanese troops , and militiamen have been poised for a week for an attack to seize the palace . |
| 20 | The Committee has continued to press for a sensible Charter for the Courts as an adjunct to the Citizen 's Charter and meetings have been held with officials in the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor 's Department . |
| 21 | Leases and contracts have been entered into , but I have seen nothing which would prevent the regulation of operating hours . |
| 22 | The remains of water-mills have been consistently removed ; the weirs which hold up river levels have been dismantled ; and mill-ponds and mill-races have been filled with the dredgings . |
| 23 | Sega and Nintendo have been accused of monopoly practices , and charging ‘ excessive and extortionate ’ prices . |
| 24 | A brief has been prepared and proposals have been invited from consultants with acknowledged expertise in the road safety field . |
| 25 | And plans have been revealed for a £16 million shopping market as part of the redevelopment scheme for Gloucester Docks . |
| 26 | As my hon. Friend rightly said , the construction of the 08 , the fourth boat , is currently under way and authorities have been given for the long lead items . |
| 27 | RECENTLY I have been dragged , most unwillingly , into a ludicrous debate about whether hi-fi systems sound better if the room , records and electronics have been treated with coloured inks to convert the adverse effects of the gravitational field of the Earth into beneficial effects . |
| 28 | In the USSR it is now officially recognized that the party should be organized more democratically , and attempts have been made at the level of primary organizations to involve the rank and file more in decision-making ( Hill , Dunmore and Dawisha 1981 , p. 201 ) . |
| 29 | Finally , Purkinje cell responses inconsistent with the flocculus hypothesis in monkeys and goldfish have been observed under visual cancellation of the VOR . |
| 30 | The Lake District , Dartmoor and Exmoor have been selected as top-priority sites for conservation . |