Example sentences of "and have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 2 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
| 3 | Lee makes firm judgements , as in this comment on a cave painting from the seventh century : ‘ The most famous figure at Ajanta is in Cave 1 and has been often described as the ‘ Beautiful Bodhisattva ’ . |
| 4 | The earwig is not immediately recognisable as a gardener 's friend , and has been known to damage fruit . |
| 5 | Often the pilot is lost and has been worrying for the past half an hour about where he is . |
| 6 | The statistical expansion of recorded crimes and a success largely determined by detection rates support the inevitable institutional contention that more control is a necessity , and has been a corner-stone in police ideology for the whole of my service . |
| 7 | And has been ever since . |
| 8 | This apparently backward causality , if true , would cause problems for identity theories of mind and has been used by dualists like John Eccles to support their position , with the backward step in time made by a non-physical mind . |
| 9 | Finally , the Gatwick Express service between London ( Victoria ) and Gatwick Airport was launched by InterCity in May 1984 and has been a great success . |
| 10 | But Mark 3 stock in its conventional form has been involved in accidents , and has been found to stand up with little crushing and buckling in potentially horrific situations where in older stock casualties might have been high . |
| 11 | Amongst the most important of these carefully plotted works are : de Falla 's The Three-Cornered Hat ( 1919 ) which originally accompanied a mime play and so fascinated Diaghilev that he commissioned the composer to enlarge it for Massine 's ballet ( see page 59 ) ; Vaughan William 's Job , commissioned by Diaghilev , was unused until de Valois created her important ‘ Masque for Dancing ’ ( 1931 ) ( this marked the inaugural performance of what has become The Royal Ballet ) ; Arthur Bliss ' Checkmate ( 1937 ) was choreographed by de Valois after both composer and choreographer had worked on the plot ; Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet was composed with the help of a Shakespearean theatre expert and has been used notably by Lavrovsky , Ashton and MacMillan ( see page 26 ) ; and Ashton provided a roughly outlined plot for Hans Werner Henze 's score for Ondine ( 1958 ) . |
| 12 | The above approach towards any type of character role is a very typically English trait and has been used in music halls , pantomimes and comedies fur many years . |
| 13 | The other site has showed a commendably restrained policy in its charge levels for many years , and has been rewarded by a regular and large climbing clientele . |
| 14 | This is a common rhetorical device in contemporary theoretical writing , and has been usefully analysed — and condemned — by Roger Poole as ‘ Hegelian grammar ’ , which is ‘ the use of verbs of decision , movement , or responsibility which are illegitimately coupled to grammatical subjects which are neither animate nor conscious . ’ |
| 15 | Admittedly , the politically radical implication of poststructuralist and deconstructive theory is a highly problematic idea , and has been resisted by some on the Left such as Terry Eagleton and Frank Lentricchia , and the contributors to a largely Marxist collection of essays , The Theory of Reading . |
| 16 | This can be , and has been , taken in all sorts of ways . |
| 17 | It estimates it will need about £200,000 and has been pledged £65,000 by the millionaire property developer Godfrey Bradman , chairman of the society 's Education Research Trust . |
| 18 | Mr James was brought in by Eagle 's creditor banks — the group has debts of over £80m — and has been given until the end of next year to turn the business around . |
| 19 | Mr Fitzwater reiterated President Bush 's denial earlier in the day that the United States , which has indicted General Noriega on drug trafficking charges and has been seeking to oust him for nearly two years , had initiated the revolt . |
| 20 | They are now certain an explosion was caused by Pentrite , a plastic explosive which requires much less skill to handle than Semtex and has been used by a far wider range of terrorist groups . |
| 21 | Mr Guerin has not been seen since the scandal broke , and has been communicating with the authorities through his lawyer in Philadelphia . |
| 22 | The Washington attorney was a close friend and adviser to Guinness 's former chairman , Ernest Saunders , and has been a major target of the SFO 's investigation of the corporate scandal . |
| 23 | Mr Berecz , on the other hand , has still not given up his seemingly futile struggle , and has been plaguing the congress with constant interruptions . |
| 24 | He has no chance of facing the tourists after suffering his fourth shoulder dislocation in Llanelli 's narrow home win over Neath and has been warned by doctors that unless he has a second operation he may never play again . |
| 25 | He leads Khmer Rouge delegations at international conferences , and has been promoted as the moderate face of the Khmer Rouge . |
| 26 | The Patricof team met Hugh Neill , the chairman , in August and has been planning the bid since then . |
| 27 | This memorial exhibition combines his explosively colourful paintings with sculptures by his father , Jacob Epstein , and has been organised , following his mother 's death , by her friend , Beth Lipkin , to whom most of the pictures were left . |
| 28 | Mrs C W Crawford has retired from the post of Administrator at Richard Peck House and has been replaced by Mrs A Mulvey . |
| 29 | Mr W I Paterson has retired as the North Western Area Director and has been replaced by Mr D M MacInnes . |
| 30 | And the final reflection which suggests itself is that if this pattern of behaviour should prove to be normal , it should be assumed — at least until the contrary is demonstrated — that it is beneficial and has been evolved by trial and error as a preservative device or mechanism . |