Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh adv] the [noun] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In schools where the head had encouraged the staff to take part in decision-making , leading to finance allocation , he/she was frequently disappointed by the apparent unwillingness of the staff to get involved . |
| 2 | Fiery itches tormented him — in his arse , below his armpits and inside his thighs where the fleas had bitten most . |
| 3 | In the video ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ Jones talks about players ' illegal use of the elbow , the gouging of eyes , punching , pulling hairs under the armpits and deliberately studding opponents legs when the ball has gone . |
| 4 | Elite theory accounts of state organization are developed and detailed , and we first review five aspects where the approach has made a distinctive contribution : the role of political leaderships in liberal democracies , the predominance of bureaucracies in shaping policy-making , the reasons for fragmentation ( or centralization ) of governmental tiers and sectors , the role of law , and the strong policy connections between government activities and major economic interests . |
| 5 | On the floor beneath the handles was a series of white blobs where the cleaner had dripped . |
| 6 | — The nerves like dull burns where the sheet has pressed — |
| 7 | Within a few hours , a team of very brave men descended into the crater and entered the workings where the disaster had begun ; the danger of further subsidence from the surface and the extremely unsafe condition of the underground workings meant that they were knowingly putting their lives at risk . |
| 8 | Mark was covered in blood with serious wounds where the dog had bitten . |
| 9 | Yes , but will the Minister say how he could ever expect to balance exports and imports when the Chancellor has forecast growth of only 1 per cent ; when we have rising unemployment , falling investment and companies going bankrupt ? |
| 10 | Sunderland Council has been praised by the district auditor in his annual appraisal where he pointed to several areas where the council had given value for money . |
| 11 | There have been five main areas where the transformation has taken place : |
| 12 | It established a capitalist economy , produced urban migration and left women doing the men 's work as well as their own in areas where the men had departed for the cities . |
| 13 | Presently they were ready at the place of meeting , and the gate was opened which was nearest the gardens where the Moors had entered , without order ; and they fell fiercely upon them , smiting and slaying . |
| 14 | On those rare days when the weather has run out of rain and the sun has driven away the clouds , the wrong packed lunch can be just as disastrous . |
| 15 | There were places where the plaster had chipped and no repairs had been done . |
| 16 | Elizabeth , meanwhile , had managed to get down the lane and had reached her father-in-law 's farm , even though the narrow cart track was blocked in several places where the snow had drifted up against the hedge . |
| 17 | Fine creases where the colour had flaked off the shoes were painted in with a rich reunite of permanent rose and white , whilst permanent rose was used alone for some minor details like the punchmarks on the orange strap loops and the stitching around the edges of the straps themselves . |
| 18 | Three years later the TUC attitude to black workers , and more specifically black women workers , was shown by its lack of action on such simple and bland recommendations ( from the Camden Council for Community Relations ) as that the trade union movement should press for compulsory language training at work ( ie. in the employer 's time , not after hours ) or co-operate ‘ more positively ’ in agreeing to English classes where the management has taken the initiative , or that there should be ‘ more positive participation in supporting any industrial action taken by minority group workers in their fight to achieve equal opportunity ’ . |
| 19 | However , this Government have frozen , deliberately , purchase grants even in the past three years when the Minister has had funds at his disposal . |
| 20 | In those long years when the war had taken priority , Dr Tariq had rethought the detail of the programme . |
| 21 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 22 | What about future pension rights when the Government have ended the scheme , abolished TOPS and transferred the employees into new pension schemes with new companies ? |
| 23 | What about future pension rights when the Government have ended the scheme , abolished TOPS and transferred the employees into new pension schemes with new companies ? |
| 24 | He took a mapping pen and wrote on to the markers the dates when the killings had occurred . |
| 25 | THERE IS A LIGHT popping out of the holes where the tiles have slipped on the roof of the Big Barn nowadays . |
| 26 | An informant is not required to register a death which is the subject of a coroner 's inquest , but the coroner 's officer may inform the relatives when the coroner has issued his inquest certificate to the registrar so that the relatives can obtain any death certificates from the registrar . |
| 27 | Eighteen per cent of the professionals had fathers with incomplete primary schooling , and 27 per cent came from families where the father had achieved no more than a primary level of education . |
| 28 | The long ridge to their left looked particularly bleak and lifeless , the heavy clay sitting solidly in the ridges where the plough had left it months before , no trace of last year 's crop , nothing to indicate that this was good cereal country . |
| 29 | With a net population gain in the South and West — regions where the Republicans had polled strongly in recent elections — it was widely believed that the effect of reapportionment would be to cost the Democrats at least 25 seats in the House . |
| 30 | For example , if a breach were to affect the profitability of the Business , it would be unfair to compensate the Purchaser by simply paying back the lost profits when the Purchaser has paid a price calculated by reference to a multiple of profits . |