Example sentences of "and [noun] [been] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 This fact , and the decay-rate restrictions discussed below , lie behind the paucity of experimental evidence on Ikeda instabilities : only in two all-optical systems ( both pulsed rather than continuous-wave ) has 2tR oscillation and chaos been observed to date .
2 So what have George and Marie been skimping on ?
3 The International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine says that its target of 90 per cent reduction of waste from industry and water treatment plants has to all intents and purposes been met .
4 Rose should surely have reached Vetch Street by now and Eddie been sent on his way by Matey or McAllister after being summoned from his nearby home .
5 All the moveables have been removed , the roof has fallen in , the surrounding meadows and ploughlands been sold off . ’
6 It would have been entirely different had Carl and Sam been grown men .
7 Have inequalities of gender and race been widened or narrowed ?
8 It was an insult : they did n't need white nannies — did more than two black people in a room constitute a riot ? -were they to step back to the old plantation days ? — had Kinnock and Hattersley been drunk when they drafted the proposal ?
9 Have bonuses to directors and staff been considered ?
10 When checking , the drafter should ask : ( a ) Do the terms do what they were intended to do ? ( b ) Do the terms deal with all the points which the drafter wished to deal with ? ( c ) Have all necessary terms been defined ? ( d ) Have words and terms been used consistently throughout the terms ?
11 Yet how many times have Deborah or her brothers and sisters been refused secondment on the ground that they could not be spared either because ‘ there was no money ’ or because Peter , who could very thankfully be released , was sent off instead .
12 Have aims and objectives been identified in the early stages and are these goals related to managerial issues ?
13 In Kilarrow , a tile works has lately been erected for making drain-tiles ; a local Agricultural Society has been established for some years ( in fact 1838 ) and prizes been awarded for the improvement of the breed of black-cattle and sheep , and for the encouragement of green crop husbandry .
14 In Kilarrow , a tile works has lately been erected for making drain-tiles ; a local Agricultural Society has been established for some years ( in fact 1838 ) and prizes been awarded for the improvement of the breed of black-cattle and sheep , and for the encouragement of green crop husbandry .
15 One of the Queen 's bodyguards may have intervened and blows been exchanged .
16 Only through the sacrifice of a distant people had the Old Ones been vanquished , and order been returned to the universe .
17 The fact is that the lift worked for ten years with very little maintenance and little stoppage for repairs , except to the track — and even the track could evidently have been put to permanent rights had the study and expenditure been justified .
18 How have income difference between men and women been changing ?
19 How often has a peculiarly Arab sense of humour and face been evoked , as though American , British and French politics know nothing whatever of these strange notions ?
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