Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of good product design , developments in colour printing , trading up , increased marketing by museums and galleries and perhaps above all the ‘ image ’ culture promulgated by television and the media more generally , calendars have come out of the office and potting shed and into prime sites in the home — and they need to be replaced every year . |
| 2 | The eight to 10 weeks after schools have broken up for the summer are the peak period for tour operators , and it is only around mid-September that they can judge how successful they have been . |
| 3 | Over the past decade , lasers able to generate ultra-short pulses have moved out of the laser physicist 's laboratory and onto the chemist 's bench . |
| 4 | According to CUP , the trade in the UK and Ireland has been ‘ magnificently supportive ’ , with almost 200 window displays of the Oxford Cambridge Book Race design , and entries have flooded in for the competition to win a holiday in Pompeii . |
| 5 | The strong tactics have paid off in the case of the prison officers , who went back to work last week , but there is increasing concern on how to deal with the tax collectors . |
| 6 | As a rough guide two strands wound together make something approximately like three-ply in thickness and three together are usually reckoned to be about a four-ply. these fine industrial yarns used to be in the ‘ odds and ends ’ bins , but the manufacturers have caught on to the fact that they are popular with machine knitters , so now they can be bought under a brand name . |
| 7 | It must be the first time ever in the Five Nations Championship that two referees have dropped out of the opening games , with England 's Ed Morrison missing the Ireland v Wales game through a rib injury , and Yours Truly having to watch the England v Ireland game on television through a ‘ flu virus . |
| 8 | I was very pleased with the finished result , but I must confess , after wearing it several times , a few of the cut floats have worked through to the front . |
| 9 | Resident outside the airfield 's motel for nearly 30 years , it was beginning to look very much the worse for wear and , as other Ouragons have given in to the ravages of time , attract the nearest of museums . |
| 10 | Up to 20 of the bogus MOT certificates have turned up across the province in the last year , prompting a major investigation by detectives . |
| 11 | What 's happened is , of course , that as the costs have fallen and the micros have come in through the door so they 're very much smaller , erm it all becomes possible for the whole of society and not for a tiny elite . |
| 12 | The Boomtown Rats have exploded out of the country , but there is little lingering after-effect . |
| 13 | I like the way the lambs have settled down in the field have n't they ? |
| 14 | ‘ Aga-sagas have taken over from the steamy sex bonkbusters of the Eighties . |
| 15 | Scores of multinational companies have set up in the industrial parks on either side of the giant bridge that links Penang island to the mainland . |
| 16 | Most of the Arabs have stayed out of the fratricidal wars of the victorious Afghan factions in Kabul . |
| 17 | And the effects have rippled down through the years into just about every local music scene in America , from the blues players to the hillbillies up in the mountains . ’ |
| 18 | Yesterday 's valedictory speech by Lord Donaldson was the first time that judges have spoken out about the treatment of Lord Lane at the hands of the media after a series of controversial court decisions . |
| 19 | Some churchmen have gone along with the new permissiveness by conceding that as long as two people love each other that is all that really matters . |
| 20 | Fortunately for this particular hippy , she picked a merchant with a well-earned reputation for consistently high quality , because since the early Seventies a bewildering number of organisations have sprung up with the intention of guaranteeing a wine 's organic credentials . |
| 21 | These advances have grown out of the ‘ natural ’ desires to produce live , healthy babies , and to promote fertility in women who have difficulties in getting pregnant . |
| 22 | In both Nicaragua and Mozambique , the governments have come up against the question of choosing which language or languages to teach in . |
| 23 | The clothing and electronics factories have closed down in the Northeast , and the shifts specially designed for mothers , the part-time and twilight , were the first to go . |
| 24 | But with the base set to close , the planes have flown out for the last time . |
| 25 | OVER the past two years , Swedish investors have come in from the cold . |
| 26 | ‘ Prices at the top end have fallen quite dramatically and now unemployment fears have filtered through to the middle and lower end of the market . ’ |
| 27 | Over the years , texts and commentaries have grown up around the hexagrams . |
| 28 | The results confirm the so-called Standard Model , the theory which physicists have built up over the past 15 years to explain both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it . |
| 29 | Our housing market is a disaster , our businesses have gone under by the hearseload . |
| 30 | Guitarist 's Readers ' Ads have taken over as the foremost private buying , selling , swapping and personnel advertising service around . |