Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] and have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They pre-date modern income taxes and have developed in their present form since the Poor Relief Act 1601 ( Foster et al .
2 Attention to detail and our high level of engineering integrity has been recognised by the top yacht designers and has led to constant involvement in rigs for all yacht projects from seventy to three hundred feet .
3 In other words , party leaders in the UK are selected from experienced national politicians whose competence and party loyalty have been regularly tried and tested , who have been subject to a careful process of peer review and have come to the fore not as a result of their electoral appeal , but because they have won the confidence of the people with whom they would have to work in government .
4 He has been a member of a number of college committees and has acted as Head of Department .
5 Others are said to be re-examining their positions in light of the latest industry consolidations and have baulked at a large scale media event to mark the signing of a common Unix document .
6 The students on the Corporals ' course have solved most of the command tasks and have returned to their syndicate rooms to be debriefed .
7 It is magazines such as The Face , i-D , Blitz and Arena which have been engaging with football culture and have succumbed to the Latin promise of theatre , spectacle and carnival .
8 A not untypical background of an early headhunter was someone who had had general management experience and had worked in one or more functional roles , and then found themselves , for the best of reasons , on the market .
9 He holds a Master of Theology Degree and has worked within the ecumenical movement in the Pacific for more than ten years .
10 This perspective was recognizable in the Poor Law era and has reappeared in its modern form in contemporary welfare ( Pinker , 1982 ; Dale et al . ,
11 BDO Binder Hamlyn ( phone 071–489 9000 ) has recently expanded its investment management service and has embarked on a joint venture with Matheson Investment managers to give a broader base and access to greater research and expertise .
12 As a result Leroy was as loyal as a hound dog and had undertaken to ‘ look after ’ Sir Ralph at election campaigns .
13 Previous experiments with gene therapy , involving one Italian and two American children , have so far only altered blood cells rather than bone marrow cells and have had to be repeated monthly because of the cells ' limited life span .
14 Univel Inc has outgrown the offices it was leasing from its parent Novell and has moved to new premises in the neighbourhood also belonging to Novell .
15 Negligence can be thought of as an early form of product liability and has developed over the years to its present wide scope , although this is tempered to some extent by the growth of insurance .
16 I had worked there , and that was when I was sixty five , so I 'd worked there all my working life , apart from the , the war years and had served under quite a number of people really .
17 It seems clear that what has happened here is that Johnson has forgotten about the problem of finding ways of making meaning plain and has shifted to a different lexicographical problem , namely how to provide an exhaustive definition of words so that their entire meaning is made explicit .
18 The School has responded positively to the technological demands of the new Standard Grade courses and has installed in the Department ten ‘ Applemac ’ computers adding to the not inconsiderable quantity of equipment already there .
19 The strike had involved at least 44,000 of the country 's miners in wildcat sympathy actions and had resulted in 3,700 arrests and 71 casualties .
20 If you are a self starter and have decided on your own initiative that your boss needs yet another report , then check that you do possess convincing evidence that the issue is significant and it is not merely you that wishes to seem important .
21 At the same time , the Institute worked on a survey of field names and has rescued from oblivion such field names as Strums , Honeypots , Knagsfield and Skitterdale .
22 Pavlov , 53 , had started his career as a district auditor and had risen through the ranks of the Finance Ministry and the State Planning Committee ( Gosplan ) and State Pricing Committee , being appointed Minister of Finance in 1989 .
23 Comment : ‘ Council is committed to the preparation on a Local Plan and has started with the preparation of a series of village working documents .
24 He had held a number of minor Cabinet posts and had served as Chief Cabinet Secretary under Takeshita .
25 FRENCH socialist millionaire Bernard Tapie has sold his 1.6 p.c. stake in Societe Television Franaise and has resigned as managing director of Bernard Tapie Communication .
26 I had been asked for a full text of the sermon , to be printed in the society minutes and had gone to some trouble to prepare for the occasion .
27 This has been particularly remarked on in government contracts and has led to pressure to move towards fixed-price contracts .
28 He spent a year in the wilds of Canada working with the air ambulance and has cycled through Iceland , Finland and Sweden .
29 We had completed our map reading and compass work and had tramped across the moors at night on a freezing combat endurance test where we map read our way from rendezvous to rendezvous .
30 The Foreign Ministry claimed that the ship , which was flying the Greek-Cypriot flag and had sailed from the Bulgarian port of Varna , was found to be carrying arms including grenade launchers and mortars , which were not registered in its documentation and were probably destined for " terrorist groups " .
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