Example sentences of "and [noun prp] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laing and Costain had been medium and small building firms respectively in the north of England before both moved south to London and prospered … |
| 2 | Already the ranks of the creative arts had been woefully thinned ; Braque badly wounded , Léger gassed , Derain unscathed but reduced to decorating shell cases ; Péguy and Alain-Fournier had been killed , and Apollinaire wounded in the head . |
| 3 | And Ben had been a shadowy figure representing that other world ; the world into which Johnny could not pass . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For instance , Parvin and Sabina had been given the task of measuring each other with bricks . |
| 6 | When the Treaties of Rome creating the Common Market and Euratom had been signed in 1957 , de Gaulle had criticized them and told aides that , if he came back to power , he would " destroy " them . |
| 7 | This was a further blow for Adolph Zukor ; both Arbuckle and Taylor had been under contract to him . |
| 8 | Places like Welwyn Garden City and Crawley have been experiencing the relentless movement of these original cohorts of migrants up the ‘ age pyramid ’ . |
| 9 | They frequently flew together in the two-seater bi-plane , covering large sections of the south coast and Keitel had been able to indulge in his interest for aerial photography . |
| 10 | Both Ter-Petrosyan and Manukyan had been imprisoned between December 1988 and May 1989 for membership of the Karabakh Committee , set up in 1988 to campaign for Armenian control of Nagorny Karabakh . |
| 11 | ‘ You never did tell me just exactly what you and Marianne had been to each other in the past . ’ |
| 12 | Kylie and Jason have been inseparable since their teens |
| 13 | By the end of the Middle Ages , the marshes in Kent and Sussex had been sufficiently reclaimed to reveal an abiding characteristic of such operations : that in certain circumstances land drainage contains the seeds of its own destruction . |
| 14 | PEOPLE in London , the Thames Valley , Kent , Hampshire and Sussex have been asked to turn off the tap when brushing their teeth , take showers not baths , and to fix dripping taps to save water . |
| 15 | Both her mother and Lisa had been cross with her ; they both had felt she ought to settle down . |
| 16 | And Trent had been correct as to the Kalashnikovs — one more failure for British exports . |
| 17 | ( And Baden-Powell had been asked to become the first chairman of the Juvenile Organizations Committee , established by the Home Secretary , Herbert Samuel in 1916 . ) |
| 18 | Microsoft and DEC have been porting NT to Alpha for the last year : conveniently DEC has a facility just a mile away from the Microsoft campus in Belleview , Washington . |
| 19 | Her father was a rich and respected solicitor — not quite the right breeding , socially speaking , in County Westcommon , but Lalage 's charm and silly looks guaranteed her welcome in many houses to which her mother had never been invited : she and Nicandra had been " best friends " at their English school . |
| 20 | Where the work of Hume and Kant has been taken fully seriously , theology has faced a choice between two options . |
| 21 | On deck , Martha and Nenna had been joined by Maurice , who had decided to consider himself on holiday , and had not been to the pub for several nights . |
| 22 | She and Sarah had been indignant and sad to see a picture of Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia on the Pathe News Gazette at the cinema after Mussolini had invaded his country . |
| 23 | She talked freely about the many young men she and Sarah had been out with , and sometimes had the women in fits of laughter , but she never mentioned John . |
| 24 | She and Sarah had been to the cinema the previous night and when the air raid warning sounded some people had left but most stayed . |
| 25 | She and Sarah had been sitting under the balcony and when the warning was given they moved forward but continued to enjoy the film in which John McCormack sang Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms and The Dawning of the Day . |
| 26 | Although the flow and use of information about TVEI and NCVQ have been patchy and limited , the aims , in contrast , of Training and Enterprise Councils ( TECs ) are all-embracing . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The editors of two Socialist Party publications , Eyler and Teori have been told their magazines must stop publishing . |
| 29 | It had been a rough race and Kelly had been glad that she had elected to be among the leaders throughout . |
| 30 | I think Newsome , Fairclough and Kelly have been playing brill . |