Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [verb] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The professions and impairments represented were as shown in Table 1 . |
| 2 | And there were the two , four , six dark patches where the feet , hands and eyes had been and the water had yet to dry out … |
| 3 | Thick , sluggish blood seeped from the great jagged holes where his arms and legs had been and , with them , a watery pus . |
| 4 | So much depends on the camera and quality of materials , the processes used , the conditions in which negatives and prints have been or may be preserved , and so on . |
| 5 | I wondered what the place with towers and searchlights had been that we passed in the night . |
| 6 | One conclusion to emerge from a recent conference at which the Italians and Egyptians met was that the existing Cairo Egyptian Museum should be maintained . |
| 7 | In some past cultures , and among some races today , sexual relations between adults and children have been or are acceptable . |
| 8 | The reason for keeping women and men separated is that it is felt that a man can not concentrate on prayer when women are in close proximity . |
| 9 | The evolutionary view is that the only explanation for certain practices being adopted and others discarded is that these practices enable the group which adopts them to survive and gain mastery over others . |