Example sentences of "[noun] have [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 2 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 3 | For those who wish to weaken the hold that transmission teaching has within the educational system , this more sociological approach to understanding the conditions of teaching quality suggests not a tightening-up of selection procedures , an improvement of training , and an emphasis in training and staff deployment on the strengthening of subject expertise , but policies such as the following : |
| 4 | Germany has in the past year alone accepted some quarter of a million refugees from the former Yugoslavia . |
| 5 | We shall consider in a moment the grip this kind of thinking has on the conservative mind , not merely the politically Conservative , but traditionalists of all kinds . |
| 6 | Being a costly enterprise and having many uses to the modern state , research has at the same time come under increased scrutiny from the paymaster . |
| 7 | Prick 'd from the lazy finger of a maid ; |
| 8 | ‘ The expression ‘ mercantile agent ’ shall mean a mercantile agent having in the customary course of his business as such agent authority either to sell goods or to consign goods for the purpose of sale , or to buy goods , or to raise money on the security of goods . ’ |
| 9 | Veterinary historians still differ sharply about the effect his long spell in charge of the College had on the emerging profession . |
| 10 | However , Syrian officials contended that with the signing of the treaty Syria had for the first time formally acknowledged Lebanon as an independent state . |
| 11 | As far as noise reduction is concerned , sealed double glazing units have about the same value as having the window reglazed with glass twice as thick as the original glass . |
| 12 | However , the technology is moving very fast and , as pen computers come into common usage , prices will fall as dramatically as the prices of conventional computers have over the last couple of years . |
| 13 | This attractive hill village has in the past decade become favoured as a " dormitory suburb " for people employed in Thun . |
| 14 | I accept that the law has from the first appearance of corporations , in the absence of any relevant statutory direction , considered the question of a corporation 's right to sue for defamation by reference to the nature of the corporation itself and the need for the corporation to protect its lawful activities and property . |
| 15 | Moya Hood has for the last year been teaching weekly classes at Stroud Court in Gloucestershire , a sheltered community opened in 1983 for autistic adolescents and adults . |
| 16 | Then that might had to the worst side of the American trustee system developing . |
| 17 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 18 | General Giap had about the same number of soldiers , but these were reinforced by para-military elements . |
| 19 | You may ( or may not ) be interested to see what fixtures the scum have over the festive season . |
| 20 | ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ . |
| 21 | The best chance Town had in the first half came from this corner and it came from skipper Colin Calderwood . |
| 22 | Johnson may be a forlorn , pathetic creature who was never clever enough to emulate more sophisticated cheats who can mask the effects that steroids have on the human system . |
| 23 | We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route . |
| 24 | This separation of the responsibilities of public office from the personal qualities of the incumbent has in the long term had a number of important consequences on decision-making in rural areas . |
| 25 | My personal feeling is that this would be a very good service to have in the rural area but I doubt if you will get enough passengers to make it profitable without a subsidy from the County Council . |
| 26 | Professional families in Liverpool had about the same age at death as labourers in Wiltshire ( table 2.2 ) . |
| 27 | But also by 1967 , expenditure on education had for the first time in history equalled that on defence . |
| 28 | Instead , he promoted a ‘ Disraelian sense of the obligation of local businessmen to exercise leadership in the big cities as their predecessors had in the Victorian heyday ’ ( Parkinson and Duffy , 1984 , p. 81 ) . |
| 29 | It seems to us that a market economy depends upon the confidence investors have in the perceived fairness of the market process . |
| 30 | Mothers and daughters tend to develop a close grooming association which tends to persist so that these close relatives have about the same rank , the daughter 's being contingent upon that of the mother . |