Example sentences of "and [vb base] [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same passion , pride and hurt is in the playing and , illuminatingly , the purpose and intricate invention of the blues suddenly starts to take shape . |
| 2 | Most of the horses I have bought in the past have been five or six years old , and have been at the stage of jumping around Discovery and Newcomer classes . |
| 3 | Most leading merchant banks have established their own property investment departments and have been at the forefront of developing innovative methods of financing projects through equity and long-term debt . |
| 4 | Spectators are there in thousands and have been since the previous day , before the roads were closed for the Tour 's progress . |
| 5 | Does he not realize that the people of Ulster are quite passively tolerating Dublin rule and have been since the 15th of November 1985 . |
| 6 | ‘ Considerable amounts are being spent on replacing them with better services , and have been for the past few years . |
| 7 | Both men are American and have been among the best-paid executives of a British quoted company since the merger three years ago of SmithKline , an American drug company , and Beecham . |
| 8 | Make and have are at the top of the binding hierarchy and take the " highly non-verbal " bare infinitive ; order is lower on the scale and takes the to infinitive ; next comes insist , which is followed by a subordinate clause containing a finite subjunctive form , and then think , construed with a subordinate clause in the indicative . |