Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] have [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes without saying that both sets of institutions have benefited enormously from this symbiosis : the former from its continued popularity and support and the latter from a continuous stream of royal copy which appears to ensure increased sales . |
| 2 | The number and proportion of remarriages have risen sharply in the last two decades . |
| 3 | Fortunately for this particular hippy , she picked a merchant with a well-earned reputation for consistently high quality , because since the early Seventies a bewildering number of organisations have sprung up with the intention of guaranteeing a wine 's organic credentials . |
| 4 | Given that suspended particulates have been the subject of pollution control policies dating back to the nineteenth century , it is not surprising that total emissions and average urban concentrations of particulates have decreased markedly during the past few decades . |
| 5 | H. For centuries , groups of farmers have lived together in villages and worked the land around each village to a distance of about 1.5–2.0 km . |
| 6 | A number of myths have grown up about David 's relationship with me — one of them being that I wanted him to be another Tommy Steele or another cabaret star , but this was not true . |
| 7 | The numbers and types of printers have increased rapidly in the last three years , but we would not expect any rapid increase in numbers in the next three years . |
| 8 | A lot of gargoyles have deteriorated more in the last 70–80 years than in the preceding 200 years because of the pollution . |
| 9 | I think it 's necessary to stress this since a number of representations have referred specifically to the constraints which the locational strategy embodied in policy I five on the ability to deliver the proposed structure plan on employment land allocation . |
| 10 | Word has it that an unlikely combination of forces have come together in a bid to establish a new standard for installing Unix software from graphical user interfaces and will be showing their stuff next month 's Uniforum show in San Francisco . |
| 11 | Because of this pedigree , the opinions of the Left and of liberals have shied away from examination of the issue of morality in relation to crime . |
| 12 | Many hundreds of Londoners have moved out into the central south region , opting for a cheaper home at the cost of the long journey to work . |
| 13 | THOUSANDS of pensioners have missed out on the prosperity brought about by Margaret Thatcher 's administration and remain caught in ‘ massive poverty traps ’ , the conference was told yesterday . |
| 14 | A group of soldiers have gone across to East Berlin for an evening 's entertainment . |
| 15 | The Institute seems to be rather vaguely organized , as they still have n't been able to tell me what students I am teaching — my teaching , it turns out , does n't start until Monday , but I have heard that an abnormally large number of students have signed up for my course , so I shall have a lot of marking of papers to do at the end of four weeks . |
| 16 | Resistance , the sparsity of new compounds and the exaggerated opposition of environmentalists have led inevitably to considerations of alternative methods of control . |
| 17 | In education and health , social class inequalities in the geographical distribution of services have declined slightly over the years , apart from the inner areas of the large cities where these inequalities may have widened . |
| 18 | Instead what seems to have happened is that groups of adults have sat around in various political and educational ivory towers , deciding in an arbitrary and subjective manner what they think a 14-year-old should be able to achieve . |
| 19 | Sex crimes against women have emerged on to the political agenda over the last twenty years . |
| 20 | Now the County Councils and the City Council 's assessment of the capacity of the Greater York study sites are roughly the same , you can see , sir , that as things have moved forward in only a six month period , the City Council calculate there 's a residual requirement of nine hundred and forty seven dwellings , only twenty five percent of the migration assumption , none hundred and forty seven dwellings left , compared to the County Council 's outdated information which suggested it 's one thousand three hundred and thirty five . |
| 21 | By contrast the incomes of couples with children have risen significantly above the rate of inflation . |
| 22 | COCAINE seizures by Customs have gone up by 50 per cent this year , Home Office minister Mr David Mellor told the Commons yesterday during a debate on the misuse of drugs . |
| 23 | According to Durex , whose condoms account for 80% of the British market , purchases made by women have risen steadily over the past 10 years . |