Example sentences of "[adj] and have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had intended to learn French and had brought with him a set of books asserting that you could teach yourself French in two weeks , but he did n't open them . |
| 2 | He was sixty-eight years old and had suffered from cancer of the oesophagus for some time . |
| 3 | I am thirty years old and have lived in this country for twenty-one years . |
| 4 | I am eleven-and-a-half years old and have lived in this country for two years . |
| 5 | So far I have been very fortunate and have had at least one painting accepted each time I have tried . |
| 6 | Calum Macdonald , the Labour MP for the Western Isles — which lost £24 million as a result of the BCCI affair — said the committee had stated in the clearest and strongest terms that the Bank of England was negligent and had failed in its supervisory duties . |
| 7 | You have left a place where you are loved and accepted and have come into a strange environment where you do n't belong to a family unit anymore . |
| 8 | Long before , when he was in perfect health , we had watched a television programme concerned with the high cost of dying and had sent for the accompanying booklet , entitled , appropriately , It 's a R.I.P. Off . |
| 9 | Since then CART has been totally autonomous and has gone from strength to strength , developing a multi-million dollar organization . |
| 10 | The importance of these statutory provisions appears to me to be that Parliament has considered at various times and in various contexts the need for recovery of imposts paid but not due and has legislated in a manner which suggests that no such general principle as the Woolwich contends for was thought to be in existence . |
| 11 | Nonetheless our own business remained profitable and has succeeded in growing its market share to the point where it supplies over one third of the gold jewellery materials used in the UK . |
| 12 | Reception of the investigators was particularly friendly and has resulted in a great deal of data which is currently being processed . |
| 13 | Their role as the principal form of money for over two millennia means they can tell us about economies for which we have little or no written evidence , and the fact that they were mass-produced and have survived in such large numbers offers the opportunity to approach the economic history of some societies in a quantitative way . |
| 14 | But she 's also shy and has thought about quitting acting several times when she 's had a lukewarm review or been rejected for a role . |
| 15 | This has left morale and funds low and has resulted in schools having to turn to Parent-Teacher Associations and businesses , in order to provide bare essentials like textbooks . |
| 16 | Although , when the three friends reunite in 1959 after thirteen years , they have not achieved everything they hoped for as adolescents , we are left at the end of the play with a feeling of hope — not the kind of false hope prescribed by Soviet censors but the hope that comes from being young and strong and having lived through difficult times . |
| 17 | ‘ When you 're ill and have sunk to the depths of despair , black thoughts enter your mind . |
| 18 | However , even this cost control team was subsequently absorbed by the Treasury in 1983 because it was politically unpopular and had met with mixed success . |
| 19 | If your new employee falls sick and has worked for you for eight weeks or less , check whether they have any of these linking letters from the Department of Social Security : BF218 , BF220 , BM7 or BM8 ( or BF219 in Northern Ireland ) . |
| 20 | Oh , she was tired and had taken to declining |
| 21 | ‘ She is tired and has gone to her room . |
| 22 | In view of my evident misery , both at the onset and towards the end of the disease , the two statements may at first seem irreconcilable : I was desperately unhappy and had known for years that death can put an end to everything , including unhappiness . |
| 23 | ‘ Elements ’ are precise descriptions of what people need to be able to do to be considered competent and have associated with them ‘ performance criteria ’ , which are the key indicators used to judge the individual 's level of performance . |
| 24 | These Pleistocene oscillations of sea level have been superimposed on slightly earlier and usually downward movements of base level , so that the landscape in detail is complex and has developed under the influence of many and varied movements of base level . |
| 25 | For those who are knowledgeable and have thought about the subject , ( I do not include politicians of any party in this category , unless they are foxhunters ) foxhunting is not a cruel way of killing foxes ; long may it flourish , for the sake of the fox . |
| 26 | Daisy knew little about them ( Lily and Ethel even less ) , except that they were numerous and had formed by now a ghetto in the Leylands district of Leeds . |
| 27 | Nick had seemed concerned and had agreed at once to convene the security subcommittee . |
| 28 | She lived alone and had fallen off a ladder in her sitting-room . |
| 29 | Alt 's book on The Politics of Economic Decline has explored the nature of political business cycles in Britain alone and has dealt with the possibility that governments might run the economy to their own electoral advantage through manipulating the rate of inflation , disposable incomes , and unemployment in such a way as to rally short-run popular support at election time . |
| 30 | London-based MicroMuse Ltd has found that selling Sparc compatible workstations alongside vanilla Sun Microsystems Inc kit was getting too complicated and has reigned in the clone side of the business . |