Example sentences of "and they have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they have been in a position to determine the way they are investigated and the manner of their public exposure . |
| 2 | And they have been pushing hard to shake money out of any European Community project that looks remotely applicable . |
| 3 | But the links have commonly been flawed in two ways : they have involved little risk of penalty for poor performance ; and they have been tied to short-term measures ( generally year-by-year ) . |
| 4 | These two treatises gave classic expression to the opposing arguments about the eucharist , and they have been of great interest to theologians ever since . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've played Bristol three times this season and they have been the better side each time . |
| 6 | In the author 's constituency , for example , there is a company whose main competitor in Germany has been given switchgear free of charge by the local electricity board , and they have been given a twenty-year loan at no interest for generating plant . |
| 7 | New thinking in rural development planning in general has only been taken up piecemeal by conservation planners and commentators in the international literature and they have been idealistic and exhortative in tone . |
| 8 | And they have been renewed on an alarming scale since the crisis started . |
| 9 | Many other examples of Peleean eruptions are now known , especially among the volcanoes in the Philippine Islands , and they have been closely studied , since there is considerable interest in how these eruptions occur and in particular how the material in a nuee is actually transported . |
| 10 | Alum Pot and its attendant caves were amongst the earliest to attract the curiosity of local explorers and they have been known in intimate detail since the middle of last century . |
| 11 | Indeed , French doctors believe that if left untreated ( and they have been treating women with cellulite for forty years ) it can lead to serious disorders such as arthritis . |
| 12 | The qualities of beef and dairy types of Shorthorn have been appreciated worldwide and they have been used extensively in creating new breeds or improving existing ones and native types . |
| 13 | Above all we must disregard any traditional idea and never , never , be put off by statements of ‘ practical men ’ who say it has been tried before or it will never work ; these two feeble and slavish statements have destroyed countless ideas and they have been the rocks against which many brilliant minds have foundered . |
| 14 | Patients of this sort were first discovered in the late 1940s by Dr Theron G. Randolph , one of the founders of clinical ecology in America , and they have been reported by many other doctors since . |
| 15 | ‘ The success of drink drive campaigns hinges on urging society as a whole to reject this behaviour — and they have been particularly successful among younger drivers ; the same tactics should be employed to target unsafe driving . ’ |
| 16 | I have quite a few contacts — people who knew me when I was designing for Carnega — and they have been very encouraging . |
| 17 | These bear little relationship to any shape that might be termed traditional , they are generally very large and they have been in demand at seaside beach displays , city-organised festivals and internationally at sponsored functions . |
| 18 | Already the Canadian government has retreated from a plan to cull 300 wolves and they have been reintroduced into American national parks . |
| 19 | ‘ The boys are naturally worried and they have been phoning home to find out more about the situation , ’ Mathur said . |
| 20 | The Meikle family consists of David and Catherine , Robert ( 12 ) , Shona ( 7 ) and Johann ( 3 ) and they have been members of Kirkintilloch Baptist Church for four years . |
| 21 | They are , Hemingway writes , ‘ doing coolie labor for a top wage of $45 a month and they have been put down on the Florida Keys where they ca n't make trouble . |
| 22 | And they have been given a plastic card to carry itemising the major banned drugs . |
| 23 | ‘ They are old friends and they have been through a lot worse than this over the years . |
| 24 | But few dogs make better companions than a well trained Shepherd , and they have been used for a wide variety of tasks , aside from their traditional role of protecting flocks of sheep . |
| 25 | The romantic story of the creation of the wonderful gardens at Inverewe has often been told and they have been pictured frequently on television . |
| 26 | The famous late figurine of a goddess found in a small rural shrine at Gazi wears a diadem embellished with three carefully depicted poppy seed-heads , and they have been cut as if for the extraction of opium . |
| 27 | Some of these characters are also present in Dryopithecus , and they have been used to support a relationship of this genus with the living great apes , but their presence in Oreopithecus , which is so highly specialized cranially , must cast some doubt on this interpretation . |
| 28 | THE Ipswich Witches speedway team are currently tracking under strength sides — and they have been told it is Ipswich Town FC who are partly to blame . |
| 29 | The turkeys , actually , are by Meyer Vaisman one of the baddest of the art world bad boys and they have been set out in a big free-range area at Castelli until the 17th of the month . |
| 30 | He has set out the terms of his covenant and they have been agreed . |