Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Letterman confided to me after one of our tennis games that my pieces in Manhattan had always struck him as somewhat trivial — artifices — until he read my piece ‘ Drancy , Ante-chamber of Death ’ . |
| 2 | Her attempts at explication had only clouded her own contemporary voice , and led her far astray from the feeling heart of the matter . |
| 3 | The first global report on air and water pollution , food contamination and their effects on health has just been prepared by the United Nations Environment Programme . |
| 4 | Arrested in Ireland in 1987 and 1984 respectively [ see pp. 36238 ; 33940 ] , their appeals against extradition had previously been rejected by the High Court . |
| 5 | Except where a delay or derogation was allowed under the Directive — and the UK had now also accepted that its grounds for derogation had all along been invalid — ‘ all supplies of drinking water in the United Kingdom were required to be in compliance with the Directive by 20 July ’ . |
| 6 | Since 1952 his illustrations for plays had regularly appeared in the Radio Times where , as Rigby Graham has argued , Minton 's knowledge of costume , his sense of period and locale , made him invaluable . |
| 7 | Eventually he released her with what appeared to be reluctance , which was strange , she thought , because she would have expected a man with his inhibitions about women to have just brushed her mouth briefly and then dropped her like a glowing ember . |
| 8 | Man in his feelings towards man has now pretty well made up his mind on that head ; but in his choice of mountains probably he may like the tyrant best . ’ |
| 9 | It was the first real ballet of John 's to be seen at Covent Garden , since his dances for operas had so far all been on a small scale , and it was far from being a success . |
| 10 | His hopes of treatment have frequently been raised then dashed . |
| 11 | Professor Fred Last and his colleagues in Edinburgh have also observed effects on other aquatic animal and plant life . |
| 12 | He seems unaware that our exports in manufactures have recently been increasing their share of world trade . |
| 13 | Our expectations of teachers have as significant an effect on them as their expectations have on pupils . |