Example sentences of "and be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Astrophil has been trying in the sonnet to proceed by imitation and been singularly unsuccessful in doing so . |
| 2 | Campus bookselling had existed in splendid isolation and been largely unmoved by the 1980s high street revolution , he argued . |
| 3 | When she had been little , temporary lapses and been easily passed over . |
| 4 | As Lord Hill replied to an outraged Lord Derby , whose TWW had ‘ stood on its record ’ and been brusquely dismissed , newcomers such as Harlech could offer only promises , ‘ but if promise is never to be preferred to performance , then every television company will go on for ever ’ ( Sendall , 1983 , p. 359 ) . |
| 5 | And been here before so he probably thinks they 're alright . |
| 6 | It had taken a bad beating from the RAF and been widely rebuilt , much of it as copies of the original high-pitched medieval buildings . |
| 7 | Within a few weeks of the payout , Mr Curtis claimed , £1 million had vanished from their Inca Gemstones company , and been partly used for ‘ unlawful or improper purposes , ’ hidden from shareholders . |
| 8 | Having tried it here in our own studio and been most impressed , I have also spoken to JMP-1 converts Geoff Whitehorn and Phil Hilborne who say it 's been a godsend to their recording . |
| 9 | Attendance at meetings of the Family Fellowships , such as Al Anon or Families Anonymous , brings one among people who have had similar experiences and feelings and been equally confused , hurt , angry or depressed and taken similar actions out of confusion or despair . |
| 10 | It must have pleased the powerful church of Canterbury , with which he seems to have wished to be on good terms , and been gratifyingly displeasing to that of London . |
| 11 | Only once , last autumn , had there been an unnerving lift , a well-dressed man in a Mercedes , who had wanted Luke to drive on towards Devon with him , had offered him dinner and a night at a hotel , had put his hand high up on Luke 's thigh , and been altogether menacing . |
| 12 | Joe had once taken Rose Macaulay to a Billy Graham revivalist , fundamentalist mass meeting and been utterly revolted by all the rabid emotionalism and the militant Christianity , and he reminded me what Graham had said about Kinsey : ‘ It is impossible to estimate the damage this book will do to the already deteriorating morals of America . ’ |
| 13 | He said : ‘ I am very pleased that this operation , which has involved a whole range of bodies and been well co-ordinated by Scottish Natural Heritage , has been so successful . ’ |
| 14 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 15 | She 'd been there and come back , and been again . |
| 16 | Arkle had won six races ( including the Irish Grand National , the Hennessy Gold Cup , a second Cheltenham Gold and the Whitbread Gold Cup ) and been narrowly beaten once , when conceding large amounts of weight to top-class horses Flying Wild and Buona Notte in the Massey-Ferguson Handicap Chase at Cheltenham . |
| 17 | By 10.10 the men have still not eaten , although by this stage they should have ‘ stood down ’ for an hour and been more than half-way through the second training session . |
| 18 | Looking back on the community 's experience of opposition , she reflected ‘ If we had got going earlier , and got support from all the locals , if we had n't waffled for ages , and demonstrated properly , and been more vocal — we had difficulty raising money , we just could n't raise money — we would have made an impact . |
| 19 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 20 | One of the arguments of the present paper is that the reforms would have made more sense and been more appropriate for our purposes had we successfully translated and adapted the lessons learned from the North American experience with case management , focused on the real messages of the PSSRU experiments , and waited until the RDP case management evaluation was complete ( Cooney , 1992 ) before contemplating the introduction of the reforms . |
| 21 | If he had n't been , I should have made many more mistakes than I did and been more unhappy than I was . |
| 22 | Tom Newman , who had managed the Manor and been so instrumental in the creation of Tubular Bells , was among those urging Oldfield to seek an improved arrangement . |
| 23 | Cecilia had passed Cambridge School several thousand times and been inside it several hundred times but she had never got over her feelings of loathing it . |
| 24 | He had been born in Coatbridge , Glasgow in 1962 and been inside periodically from the age of seventeen . |
| 25 | How would he explain , for example , the fact that Roman Catholics and Protestants have fought one another , and been mutually hostile to one another , for long periods , as in Ireland in the twentieth century , even though they both have Christ as a figure who loves them ? |
| 26 | He talked about events in the Middle Ages as if they 'd happened-yesterday and been fully aired on the nine o'clock news . |
| 27 | Having led the world into polyester fibre and been highly profitable for many years , we lost the lead position due to a combination of circumstances . |
| 28 | He said that no-one from Europe had moved from Formula One to Indycars and been consistently successful . |
| 29 | Originally built by the Jaccarino family ( who also own the renowned Hotel Tramontano ) , the hotel has now returned to their ownership and been beautifully refurbished . |
| 30 | Plenty of evidence for the misbehaviour of , in this case , a very substantial minority ( have you ever , like me , driven at 30 in a 30mph zone and been constantly overtaken , even glared at for going too slowly ? ) ; yet this is never put forward as a reson for stopping road construction . |