Example sentences of "and [pron] have been the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then a long time after that , it was May , and I 'd been the night before , but he was out ( or in bed with someone ? ) and that evening he was in and alone , and we talked some time ( he was telling me about John Minton ) and then he put on an Indian record and we were quiet . |
| 2 | And I 've been the leader of of that party for the last four and half years , I am ready to step down from that , and ready to take up this challenge , and I believe that those experiences , and what I 've done there , will stand me in good stead . |
| 3 | I have been working at the playgroup in Middleton St George for about seven years now , and I 've been the leader for about two . |
| 4 | Sitting on a stone in the middle of the water was the large frog that Mildred had often seen , and which had been the inspiration for the tale which had scared Ethel 's sister . |
| 5 | During the winter of 1908–9 , however , Picasso produced two very large canvases ( larger than any he was to produce until the summer of 1914 ) which seem to stand out from others that surround them and which have been the subject of much stimulating argument and discussion . |
| 6 | Settlements can best be examined by considering personal injury claims , in which they play a major role , and which have been the subject of research and critical assessment . |
| 7 | This is somewhat ironical in that , as we shall see , it is Engels 's anthropological enthusiasm and his trust in Morgan which has been the source of many of the points in his work which appear now as unacceptable to anthropologists and which have been the cause of some of the most damaging objections to his theories . |
| 8 | There were many theories about how it had been carried out and who had been the accomplices . |
| 9 | And there had been the journalism course at secretarial college , taken by a reporter from the evening paper . |
| 10 | Neil had taken their advice , and there had been the exchange of missives which , I gathered , served in Scotland as a binding contract . |
| 11 | And there 's been the wine bar , the symbol of the eighties . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And it had been the experience of that war that convinced Richard Cobden of ‘ the utter uselessness of raising one 's voice in opposition to war when it has once begun . ’ |
| 14 | The girl 's body had been laid out just as the others , and it had been the work of a moment to discover the tiny stab wound under the soft left breast . |
| 15 | Last night a spokesman for Scottish Enterprise denied there was any question of either its or LiS 's abusing power and insisted that they were not actively marketing Rosyth and it had been the market that has sought out the opportunities . |
| 16 | Anyway , as they were summer clothes , and it had been the start of winter , that had helped make the decision an easy one . |
| 17 | And it had been the truth . |
| 18 | The Act is of mammoth proportions with profound implications for every sector of education , and it has been the subject of intense discussion both inside and outside Parliament . |
| 19 | He now knew what had happened , how it had happened , and what had been the effect . |
| 20 | And what has been the effect of the reforms ? |