Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No complete census of dolphins has ever been carried out in India , although the total population is generally assumed to be between 4000 and 5000 . |
| 2 | Many fine Georgian houses in Bristol have specially commissioned windows by Grimshaw , including an imaginary underwater scene in a basement bathroom window . |
| 3 | The point-of-production resistance of workers has often been interpreted as being a problem of poor communications , of managers and workers unable to understand each other 's points of view , or as some other type of human relations difficulty . |
| 4 | Japan 's strong economic ties with Taiwan have largely withstood the shift in allegiance . |
| 5 | Deaf schools in Britain have traditionally had a long involvement in the Scout and Girl Guide movement , but Scouting has not been confined simply to schoolboys and schoolgirls . |
| 6 | Retrospective appraisal by clients has already been rejected as a lawyer-influenced criterion . |
| 7 | Robert himself disappeared , and it seemed that Scottish attempts at independence had yet again been humbled . |
| 8 | ( as if to attest to their virtual invisibility , homosexual acts between women had never even been covered by the law that was being repealed . ) |
| 9 | The state of English teaching in schools had obviously , by the late 1980s , become a cause of such radical complaint and discontent that it was not surprising to find a committee of inquiry set up to look into its proper aims and methods ( The Kingham Committee , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | The most pessimistic viewpoint is that the brains of different groups of mammals have very little in common because they evolved separately from a common ancestral form in which the brain was relatively formless , lacking the distinctive sub-divisions that can be identified in the brains of modern mammals . |
| 11 | Work on cultural change in Italy has traditionally placed emphasis on state provision and intervention as against the role of private cultural industries ( the cinema , radio , publishing , and music businesses ) and consumer demand . |
| 12 | ‘ Public support for Sarah has now vanished . |
| 13 | Incorrigible to the last , the high priest of scandal has even turned his worst moment into a punch-line . |
| 14 | As you may know the public seat on Snowhill has recently been removed from its base , as far as we can tell by vandals intent on stealing it . |
| 15 | These worms have a similar food-gathering strategy to the more familiar filter-feeding tubeworms , but instead of the feathery heads of fanworms have long , sticky tentacles which they wave in the current or drag over the substrate in search of food particles which are then carried back to the mouth as the tentacles are drawn in . |
| 16 | The public perception of Amnesty has also changed and this has not happened by accident . |
| 17 | Foreign direct investment by manufacturers has also grown rapidly over the past decade as firms chased lower costs , moved closer to their markets and tried to dodge protectionist barriers . |
| 18 | Although many sites and finds are still excavated , analysed and dated by the sorting of finds , and so on ( methods which are never likely to be completely replaced ) , numerous scientific methods of dating have now been developed . |
| 19 | Although the English law of libel has largely been adopted in Commonwealth countries , it is very different — and very much more onerous — than that which obtains in Europe and in America . |
| 20 | An all-party committee of MPs has strongly criticised government plans for energy conservation — citing current strategy as a shambles . |
| 21 | The British Institute of Embalmers has never ‘ stood still ’ in the past , so we must not let this happen now . |
| 22 | The High Elves of Ulthuan have never developed gunpowder technology as have the men of the Old World and Dwarfs — indeed they have never needed to do so as their marksmanship with the bow is superior to that of lesser races . |
| 23 | The Chartered Institute of Building has recently addressed these issues through its Northern Counties Region 's European Initiative . |
| 24 | The Rev Dr Fergus Macpherson of the British Council of Churches has just returned from Malawi , where he talked to the president for life , Hastings Banda . |
| 25 | The first was that authorised dissection of corpses had previously been restricted to felons as an ultimate retribution imposed by society . |
| 26 | A very large one , producing 150 000 tonnes of acetic acid per year has recently been commissioned by BP Chemicals at Hull . |
| 27 | The continued strengthening of the European and Japanese economies in the 1960s , the costs of Vietnam and of a large military arsenal , and demands for social reform at home had all taken their toll on American power . |
| 28 | Descriptive and historical studies of English have both undergone significant and rapid development in our own day . |
| 29 | Thus Pirenne ( 1914 ) , in his study of the development of capitalism , distinguished its various stages in terms of the principal directions of economic activity and the social groups which took the leading role at each stage ; and many historical studies of elites have similarly concentrated attention upon the rise and decline of particular economic groups . |
| 30 | Suburban residential development in Chiswick had already become noticeable by the end of the nineteenth century with Back Common load and the adjoining Bond Street , Holly Road , Clifton Gardens , Belmont Road and Grove on the north side of Chiswick high Road , and with Devonshire Road , Linden Gardens and Bolton Gardens — later renamed Duke Road-on the south side , and a few houses in Dukes Avenue , opposite to the end of Barrowgate Road , which itself had a number of houses , mostly at the Sutton Lane end , close to Dead Donkey Lane . |