Example sentences of "[coord] the [adj] have been " in BNC.

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1 The well-born and the well-off have been apt at such times to turn , for diversion and instruction , to foreigners and to members of the working class .
2 Turkish and Greek Cypriots , for example , Jewish people and the Irish have been unable to find a voice within a political and cultural space marked out as ‘ black ’ .
3 Children and the elderly have been the main victims .
4 There , funerals for the martyred and the massacred have been a daily fact of life .
5 Although the old and the young have been gradually denied access to the formal labour market and hence to wages , they have acquired increased rights to sources of income independent of their families .
6 The squared limits of the 95% confidence intervals for the mean of the square root transformed values of the blood transfusion donors and resulted in the upper and lower normal value for serum pepsinogen A and C. For the pepsinogen A:C ratio these limits and the mean have been calculated with values transformed by the decadic logarithm .
7 One of the problems with fighting the war is that the Americans and the British have been offering more and more arms to the Saudis and the Gulf states .
8 It is up for sale and the Chinese have been here for a fortnight having a look around it .
9 The crossbow bolts and the arbalest have been hidden away .
10 The village of Stoke Row in south Oxfordshire might seem a world away from India , but the two have been connected for 130 years .
11 Japan has provided substantial economic and technological assistance to the PRC , but the Chinese have been wary of accepting all that Japan has offered .
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