Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] have [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One passage ran : ‘ The battles of the Great Civil War of 1642–46 have captured the imaginations of the historians in plenty , while the sieges of the period have been largely neglected . |
| 2 | But regulatory and structural upheavals in the City ahead of and after the ‘ big bang ’ in the British securities markets of 1986 have sparked a revolution within the life insurance industry that the Pearl has often found difficult to keep up with . |
| 3 | Most farm workers over the age of forty have witnessed the disappearance of a predominantly horse-and-hand technology and its replacement by one based upon the internal combustion engine . |
| 4 | The changes in the Soviet Union since the arrival in power of Gorbachev in 1984 and its abolition at the end of 1991 have left a number of subjects for scrutiny in the economic field . |
| 5 | Since then , new benefits have been bolted on to Beveridge 's structure and some of these have compounded the ageism of the system . |
| 6 | Some of these have developed a taste for human flesh , perhaps as a result of feeding on bodies washed down by the Ganges during the ever more frequent floods . |
| 7 | Many of these have involved a comparison of rates of return on equity in owner- and management-controlled companies . |
| 8 | The main prey of predatory birds are the hundreds of different rodent species and the vast majority of these have evolved a protection system based on a quick scamper down a tunnel . |
| 9 | Some of those have got an origin I think Thursday is it 's , it 's got a thought is n't it , yeah ? |
| 10 | Ever since Kashmiri Muslim fundamentalists launched their armed struggle for independence in January 1990 , tens of thousands have fled the valley leaving homes they have occupied for generations . |
| 11 | The trainers of both have confirmed the pair are likely to line-up for the £14,000 Nottinghamshire Novices ' Chase . |
| 12 | Our operating activities during 1992 have achieved a number of successes . |
| 13 | Farmers involved in set-aside have reported a drop in partridges breeding on land which previously enjoyed healthy populations of the birds when it was used to grow wheat and barley . |
| 14 | The companies within the Food Product Division made progress and in particular have secured a number of new customers . |
| 15 | It is important , too , that close attention is paid to image building ( e.g. banks and insurance companies must be seen to be stable , reliable institutions , but with a friendly , non-intimidating attitude — an image which banks in particular have spent a lot of money fostering over the past decade ) . |
| 16 | The things we have in common have outweighed the problems of communication , culture and education . |
| 17 | Scientists who have monitored the local environment since the oil spill caused by the Exxon Valdez in Prince William Sound in Alaska in 1989 have reported a range of unsuspected effects on wildlife . |
| 18 | But the policies of the Conservative government since 1979 have changed the nature of the debate in that equality in any of its forms is not to be pursued ; it is not only unachievable but also undesirable . |
| 19 | All the information available shows that the Brent flocks in these two harbours remain largely separate , except to the north of Hayling Island , and counts of the entire Chichester/Langstone complex since 1972/73 have shown the peak populations to reach 10,000 to 12,000 birds . |
| 20 | Many experiments since 1973 have confirmed the existence of weak neutral currents . |
| 21 | Many legal executives and paralegals with no formal qualifications at all have acquired a wealth of experience in personal injury work over the years . |
| 22 | He 's disappointed the firm he joined at 13 have tarnished the start of his retirement . |
| 23 | RECENTLY , 12 WOMEN who accused Barclays Bank of sex discrimination for forcing them to retire at 60 have won a total of £160,000 , and their jobs back . |