Example sentences of "and [adj] have [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although statistics show that many benefits paid to the old , poor and unemployed have maintained their real value ( ie kept pace with inflation ) under the Conservative government during the 1980s , these calculations are based on the rate of inflation for the average person . |
| 2 | ( 1 ) Changes in the ways that schools are managed and funded have made it more difficult for Christian Aid to relate to schools . |
| 3 | ‘ In recent weeks , businesses large and small have told us of their fundamental worries both about their immediate problems of the cost of finance and their treatment by the banks . |
| 4 | It is a car town and it is a city of immigrants , white , brown and black : Scots and Irish have staffed its militant shop stewards ' movement , and the races came together in the city 's wondrous two-tone band , the Selector . |
| 5 | The Queen says : ‘ The prayers , understanding and sympathy given to us by so many of you in good times and bad have lent us great support and encouragement . |
| 6 | The prayers , understanding and sympathy given to us by so many of you in good times and bad have lent us great support and encouragement . |