Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Many of these have involved a comparison of rates of return on equity in owner- and management-controlled companies . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Some of those have got an origin I think Thursday is it 's , it 's got a thought is n't it , yeah ? |
7 | Our operating activities during 1992 have achieved a number of successes . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | The companies within the Food Product Division made progress and in particular have secured a number of new customers . |
10 | 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 ) . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Many legal executives and paralegals with no formal qualifications at all have acquired a wealth of experience in personal injury work over the years . |
13 | 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 . |