Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A democratic society was one in which the mass of the people played an active rather than a passive role , and in which the old traditions of deference and subordination had been replaced by a sense of equality among the people — the feeling that one man , or even one person , is as good as another , or at least has an equal right to be respected and listened to . |
| 2 | The attacks continued after ibuprofen and cimetidine had been stopped and recurred three days later , after chemotherapy in conjunction with intravenous dexamethasone , metoclopramide , and oral dexamethasone . |
| 3 | Pictures of the Führer and Party emblems , uniforms , and literature had been thrown away or burnt before the arrival of the Russian , American , or British troops . |
| 4 | Well , I mean , we had the opportunity , you know chit-chat job and mum said are we gon na go down over the weekend ? |
| 5 | BR did not lodge a defence until it was too late and judgement had been made . |
| 6 | Yesterday 's jeans and shirt had been tossed on to the rumpled heap made by his sleeping-bag and two dented pillows . |
| 7 | Its failure to provide the counselling and support needed was unfair to her and her parents . |
| 8 | In the discussions which had led to the creation of the ECSC , other economic sectors such as transport and agriculture had been highlighted as being ripe for similar developments . |
| 9 | The pharmaceuticals business — which was bound to suffer when the US patents expired last year on Tenormin , a beta-blocker and one of the world 's most successful drugs has been further hit by the failure of two products in which a lot of money and hope had been invested . |
| 10 | The layers of horn and yew had been blended together with such care that it was hard to tell which was set upon which . |
| 11 | Every shed and garage and outbuilding had been searched . |
| 12 | A course of ampicillin and metronidazole had been taken by this subject within four weeks of endoscopy . |
| 13 | The Sultan had since abdicated , the Caliphate had been abolished , the Dervish orders had been suppressed and most traditional ceremonies and pageantry had been done away with . |
| 14 | After the suspender belt , suspender welt and foot had been cut off , the stocking was tied round the head and the hair rolled over and tucked into a v shape . |
| 15 | For others it implied that the centuries-old problems of poverty and inequality had been swept away in the tide of prosperity . |
| 16 | He returned to find that his mother and sister had been murdered by the Nazis . |
| 17 | Not realising that the documents on discharge and assessment had been produced in a hurry to meet the government 's suddenly imposed deadline of 31 December , he criticised the two weeks he had been given to consult his 200 consultant colleagues . |
| 18 | A lot of time and money had been spent rebuilding the works necessary to complete the job but such were the difficulties experienced that the whole project became completely impracticable and the LNWR conceded defeat and altered the route of the line to exclude the land at Tunstead Farm . |
| 19 | By the end of the year universal support and enthusiasm had been received . |
| 20 | Aunt Emily and Michael Swinton spoke to her together and then laughed and she saw that he looked quite different , much younger , that his hair and beard had been trimmed , that his expression was full of vitality . |
| 21 | He told Rufus to drive a bit more slowly and this time he spotted the six-foot-wide gap in the hedge with , on the right-hand side , almost hidden by cow parsley growing up and elderflowers hanging down , the wooden box on legs with its hinged lid into which Hilbert's-mail and newspapers and milk had been delivered . |
| 22 | Throughout the Andes their toil and genius had been cut into the land itself . |
| 23 | Under Rufus , the alliance of king and archbishop had been broken because the king was unmanageable ; under Henry , it broke down because of Anselm 's loyalty to the papal decree of 1099 . |
| 24 | Briar roses and honeysuckle had been cunningly trained to festoon the trees , until the whole effect there was one of enchantment . |
| 25 | The well-tried Roman policy of divide and rule had been the basis of Augustan diplomacy and continued during the conquest . |
| 26 | A total of 44,000 Soviet troops plus vehicles and materiel had been withdrawn from eastern Germany between Jan. 1 and May 12 , 1991 ; a further 22,000 service personnel left in June . |
| 27 | An Expert Committee on Compensation and Betterment had been set up in January under the chairmanship of Mr Justice Uthwatt with terms of reference ‘ to make an objective analysis of the subject of the payment of compensation and recovery of betterment in respect of public control of the use of land ’ . |
| 28 | we were gon na go down there , but erm nan and granddad had been down there about a fortnight ago and they said they had n't got a lot out yet , they said they would n't be out for about another three weeks , so about |
| 29 | His home and car had been fire- bombed and Mr Reynolds had been attacked in the past . |
| 30 | He said after the case that the Department of Trade and Industry had been ‘ rather petty ’ in prosecuting him in the first place . |