Example sentences of "[art] [adj] have [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1811 or 1812 he returned to Edinburgh to set up practice , and by the 1820s had become the leading country house architect in Scotland . |
| 2 | ‘ The Spanish have elected the Popular Front to government . |
| 3 | I understand that the Spanish have made a specific point of seeking to ensure that outcome . |
| 4 | The Centre for the Unemployed has done a great deal for us . |
| 5 | The US state of Hawaii suffered severe damage on Sept. 11 when it was struck by Hurricane Iniki , the strongest to have hit the Hawaiian islands during the 20th century . |
| 6 | In his opinion , the British had supported the fifth freedom before 18 November and then refused to accept it . |
| 7 | ( The British had cornered the khaki-drill market for the Boer war . ) |
| 8 | The British had launched a powerful attack , and first Mersa Matruh ( which Mussolini had planned to enter in triumph ) fell , then Bardia and Tobruk . |
| 9 | The French have gone a long way towards providing a road and water supply and members of the ‘ Pater Nostra ’ organisation are studying in Budapest , Vienna and Germany to obtain qualifications in medicine , physiotherapy , occupational therapy and other skills which will enable them to provide the day-to-day care of the residents in the future . |
| 10 | In consumer electronics , the French have had a more than usually protected market because of the SECAM colour television standard . |
| 11 | The French and British governments are following exactly the opposite policies on production in the public sector ; the French have nationalised an additional 12% of industrial output while the British have begun to sell public assets to the private sector and to plan a vigorous programme of privatisation over the next few years . |
| 12 | During the period of Chinese disunity the Japanese had supported the powerful warlord , Zhang Zuolin , who ruled Manchuria as his private province for much of the 1920s , but Zhang 's position , like that of the other warlords , began to come under threat from the rise of the Nationalist movement under Chiang Kai-shek ( Zhiang Jishe ) . |
| 13 | The Japanese have commissioned a British company to build a replica Elizabethan village to help its students appreciate English culture . |
| 14 | The accused had fixed a new glass fibre wing on his car the day after the accident , and he said he could n't remember what he 'd done with the old one . |
| 15 | ‘ did unlawfully , wilfully and ’ This point will depend on the circumstances of each case , but if the accused has done the same act on a number of occasions , if he admits he did it intentionally or if he draws attention to himself etc. then unlawful and wilful conduct may be proved . |
| 16 | Trading in the second has shown a clear improvement and since Boxing Day sales of fourteen per cent ahead of the previous year . |
| 17 | Too often the leadership 's victories over the left have had an unsavoury , pyrrhic quality . |
| 18 | If fear of nonconformity and the unusual has driven the cultural evolution of incest taboos , then a comparable argument should apply to taboos on marriages with strangers or members of other castes and races . |
| 19 | Roughly speaking , the country with the highest mortality rate in the 1940s had achieved a level comparable with that of England , but not as good as the lowest rate , in 1880 . |
| 20 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 12 reported that some 80 former student leaders who were active in the pro-democracy movement in the 1970s had formed a new political party , Pracha Dhamma . |
| 21 | The isolation of ephedrine from ma huang in 1923 and more recently a group of antimalarial drugs qing hao from Artemisia in the 1970s has exemplified the important compounds in the armamentarium of traditional Chinese herbs . |
| 22 | Despite his humbling defeat for the governorship of California in 1962 , the latter had made a remarkable comeback . |
| 23 | Eventually he sent it to Baldwin immediately after the latter had received a further damaging and depressing blow . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , the government filed a law suit against the Westinghouse Corporation claiming that the latter had built a defective 620-MW generating plant in Bataan after having first offered commission to the previous government in order to win the contract . |
| 25 | It was obvious that the latter had brought no great changes in the problems of poverty and inequality facing the working class in Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora reported that during his May meeting in Washington with US President George Bush the latter had shown a serious attitude to the drug problem ( the US government having agreed almost to double Bolivia 's anti-drug aid , to $33,000,000 ) . |
| 27 | The latter have shown a conservative judiciary interpreting legislation and developing the common law in ways which government and Parliament sought to reverse . |
| 28 | The latter have lacked an effective spokesman partly because the Polytechnic of Wales which , in other circumstances , might have been able to give a lead , is in an isolated position , being the only one of its kind in the Principality . |
| 29 | The latter has become the major occupation for women , for about one quarter of Latin America 's female workforce are maids — 25.5% of the female labour force in Bogotá in 1985 were domestic servants ( López & Pollack 1989 ) and 32 per cent of the total Brazilian female workforce are live-in maids ( Filet-Abreu Souza 1980 ) . |
| 30 | However , as it was formerly part of the University and wished to revert to that status , the former has merged with University College , Cardiff — with the exception of its Social Work courses and its Higher National Diploma in Institutional Management which have been transferred to the South Glamorgan Institute — and the latter has remained a separate institution . |