Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course I have vastly simplified the situation and the arguments . |
| 2 | With the first stroke I have already reached the end , said Picasso . |
| 3 | African National Congress ( ANC ) and government delegations , including respectively Nelson Mandela , the ANC deputy president , and de Klerk , met on Oct. 8 to discuss continuing violence which had particularly affected the Transvaal in recent weeks . |
| 4 | The government stated that the decision had been made in order to prevent the spiral of drug-related violence which had eventually persuaded the Colombian government to end extradition [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 38332 ] . |
| 5 | DEVELOPERS are planning to clone an historic Liverpool terrace which has just undergone the first phase of a multi-million pound facelift . |
| 6 | The chapter which had loyally defended the Imperial Palace on Earth against the berserk , corrupted fury of the Horus Rebellion . |
| 7 | To all this , Wilson believed , was added the swamping of the industry with cheap foreign labour which had also lowered the quality of British seamen applying for jobs , thereby providing the shipowners with an excuse to prefer the foreigner . |
| 8 | As Polly Peachum and Lucy Lockit , Elizabeth Renihan and Jenna Russell battle entertainingly for Macheath 's dark heart , and there 's strong support from Susan Jane-Tanner as an entertainingly sour Mrs Peachum , Anthony O'Donnell as a rotund Lockit , Nick Holder as a hilarious Brummie highwayman and from Alan Cox as the beggar who has supposedly written the opera . |
| 9 | In 1847 Richard Sheepshanks wrote of John Couch Adams , a Cambridge mathematician who had just predicted the new planet Neptune : ‘ I think there is a hope that Mr Adams will continue his astronomical career . |
| 10 | Mandy was peering through the binoculars with the intensity of an army scout who had just discovered the enemy , and with a defeated sigh Charity let her own gaze drift in the same direction . |
| 11 | Emile Verhaeren , the Belgian poet who had vividly chronicled the impact of the railways on the countryside , was killed in an accident at Rouen Station in 1916 . |
| 12 | Bishop Bell , who commissioned the play , was an influential British churchman who had consistently supported the German Confessing Church in its opposition to National Socialism . |
| 13 | Mr Pozsgay , the soft-spoken intellectual who had loyally served the party all his life , rebelled . |
| 14 | If the mount is an ordinary horse we have simply given the rider 's profile with the Movement characteristic altered to 8 . |
| 15 | Coupled with the development of the sanitizer we have significantly improved the internal workings of the airfresh unit . |
| 16 | They have cut the price , er of meals charged to the children , they 've er made some adjustments o c , to the menus offered , which was what the parents wanted , and as a result they 've actually increased the take-up of school meals by something like sixty percent . |
| 17 | He beat me 3–0 in a five-frame match , 2–0 when we doubled the money and then we played a final frame for double-your-money again and when he reached the yellow he had already won the match . |
| 18 | The tragedy is , we 've done nothing about the exclusive reliance on interest rates , we 've done nothing about the continuing erosion of jobs , and particularly so in the regions , er and this government has er wasted the summer months ; when it could have taken action it has merely compounded the problems that are of it 's own creation in the mismanagement of the economy . |
| 19 | For the next three years , Mr Hart searched for his story which has now reached the screen with Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman . |
| 20 | Any firm decisions on holding early elections to a new legislature ( the Seimas ) were blocked in June by the political split which had repeatedly left the current legislature , the Supreme Council , inquorate as a result of boycotts . |
| 21 | All went well until we saw the cow which had originally smashed the crush . |
| 22 | The combination of movement in the brick core , ingress of moisture and the corrosion of iron cramps has produced numerous cracks in the marble skin which have further weakened the structure . |
| 23 | Much knowledge has been accumulated since the antiquarians first started to take an interest , and archaeology has become an increasingly scientific discipline , using modern techniques such as aerial photography which has vastly increased the number of known sites , and carbon dating which has caused radical rethinking of accepted chronology . |
| 24 | With an average of 10,000 tennis playing members in his clubs alone , Lloyd has hit upon the formula which by its very success , is speedily replacing the ‘ traditional ’ tag which had so burdened the British tennis club over the years . |
| 25 | In short , during the past four hundred years the lemon has become , in cooking , the condiment which has largely replaced the vinegar , the verjuice ( preserved juice of green grapes ) , the pomegranate juice , the bitter orange juice , the mustard and wine compounds which were the acidifiers poured so freely into the cooking pots of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe . |
| 26 | In contrast with the technological fixation which had previously dominated the control strategies of many states , the EPA stressed that the state implementation plan ( SIP ) should consider incorporating transportation controls to reduce the distance travelled by all vehicles , new and old alike . |
| 27 | All the leading candidates were regarded as acceptable to the Army and to the business elite which had effectively run the country since the military coup of 1954 [ see pp. 13677-81 ] . |
| 28 | I have not been referred to any case which has directly considered the interplay between planning permission and the law of nuisance . |
| 29 | There was a gang of kids playing up on the embankment , just as Preston and William had , junior hangers-on , rookie spear carriers in the terrible Derek Sumter gang which had once ruled the neighbourhood , so far as was tolerated by the greater power of the nans . |
| 30 | To remove the fly-by-night and seasonal aquaria , and the bad zoos , the RSPCA was instrumental in bringing forward the Zoo Licensing Act which has dramatically improved the standard of zoos and the welfare of wild animals in captivity . |