Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [noun sg] have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the start of 1991 , however , the Stockholm market has risen by 16% , outstripping London , Tokyo and New York . |
| 2 | Growth in the size of the EEC budget has accelerated in a steady curve over the last three decades . |
| 3 | An object 's appearance is the first way we recognise where it comes from : a Volkswagen ‘ Beetle ’ is an instantly recognisable shape even if the VW badge has fallen off the car ; likewise we recognise a Rolls Royce . |
| 4 | The HFS League has reverted to its original title of the Northern Premier League following the withdrawal of their sponsors . |
| 5 | Of late , the Laney range has focused on solid state technology to fuel its best-selling Linebacker range , resisting the current fetish for sticking a single valve into the preamp section in an attempt to provide the best of both worlds . |
| 6 | To her horror , when she returned the Vauxhall Cavalier had vanished with her young daughter still inside . |
| 7 | Incidental , but significant for environmental change , is the effect that the Aswan Dam has had on the fertility of the land situated in the lower reaches of the Nile . |
| 8 | It is important that the purpose of this criticism should not be misunderstood ; the theoretical and experimental contributions that the Aplysia group have made to the cellular study of memory over the past two decades have been substantial , but the very intellectual certainty of the group and the charisma of its leader have tended to suppress some of its problems and sideline those who have articulated them . |
| 9 | By now , several more MPs were embroiled in the row over whether or not the Princess of Wales was dangerously underweight , and the death toll in the Cardiff fire had risen to four . |
| 10 | Board demands : Trustees representing the interests of the Ferranti family have written to chairman Sir Derek Alun-Jones asking for the board to be replaced or supplemented by new directors . |
| 11 | The sapling trees had grown tall in the twenty-five years since the Beeching axe had fallen on the single railway track , and , even leafless as they were , they effectively screened the view from the top . |
| 12 | The Sunderland manager has lived with speculation over his job since signing a one-year contract at the end of last season . |
| 13 | The TQM strategy has developed from an earlier corporate planning exercise carried out in 1986 and more recently from a comprehensive survey conducted by an external quality consultant with support from the SDA . |
| 14 | Co-operation between Ballistic and Performance Composites and the Shildon site has led to plans for a joint stand at the Royal Navy and British Army Equipment Exhibition in Aldershot in September . |
| 15 | Members of the Doyle family had worked for a company operating a fleet of ice-cream vans in the city . |
| 16 | Members of the Doyle family had worked for a company operating a fleet of ice-cream vans in the city . |
| 17 | Members of the Doyle family had worked for a company operating a fleet of ice-cream vans in the city . |
| 18 | The Leicestershire company has sold off many of its loss-making businesses to cut debts , but they remain at £76.6 million — more than double shareholders ' funds . |
| 19 | Thus , the Dundee tribunal has decided in the unreported case of Cox v Dundee Corporation ( 1974 ) that a man dismissed following a conviction in the Burgh Court for breach of the peace , for which he was sentenced to thirty days , had been treated unfairly . |
| 20 | He was too depressed even to care about travelling back on the tube with his right wrist in a sling during a period which the Tooting Guardian had described as a peak time for knife attacks . |
| 21 | The government 's policy of dividing the different ethnic groups among the African population has in some cases encouraged particularist nationalisms , nowhere more so than in Kwazulu , where the ‘ Zulu nationalism ’ of the Inkatha movement has contributed to a polarization of black society in Natal , with highly detrimental effects on the education system and on the lives of young people ( Chapter 13 ) . |
| 22 | The Saul Syndrome had settled upon me and I was wrapped tightly in his mantle . |
| 23 | According to the French art magazine , Connaissance des Arts , the Picasso painting has belonged for more than 50 years to a collector who kept its existence secret — even from members of his family . |
| 24 | Mr Cavaco Silva tried put the brakes on his currency by cutting key interest rates by 1 p.c. to just under 18 p.c. and by selling escudos but the pound ended the day less than 1 p.c. away from its floor of 241.5 against the Portuguese currency , despite successful British efforts over the weekend to force Portugal to join at a higher rate than the Lisbon government had planned on Friday . |
| 25 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 26 | In the documents that the hon. Gentleman is quoting from , did he notice the statement that unemployment in the TEC area has risen by 81 per cent . |
| 27 | The real problem is , as the Carnegie Foundation has realized since establishing the Ageing Society Project of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1982 ( Pifer and Bronte , 1986 ) , that we know surprisingly little about what happens to a society and its economy when its age structure changes significantly . |
| 28 | He did talk about his time as the Dauphin in a way that made people fairly sure that if the Stratford management had come to him with an offer , he would have grabbed it . |
| 29 | Now the Derbyshire tradition has crept into Yorkshire , it seems it may be spreading . |
| 30 | The Hudson family have lived in the Manor House in the picturesque village of Wick for centuries . |