Example sentences of "[coord] have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since one main aim of the interventions was to delay the onset of smoking , never smoking was considered an appropriate primary indicator given the age of the pupils at baseline ( relatively few were current smokers or had previously experimented with smoking ) . |
| 2 | The Act made provision for such an office , which has now been established and has already contributed to increased efficiency in the division . |
| 3 | The system is said to be the most advanced in the world , and has already led to several arrests . |
| 4 | Amnesty International considers all of them to be prisoners of conscience and has repeatedly called on successive Greek Governments to release them and introduce alternative civilian service of non-punitive length . |
| 5 | Ms Urizio has worked with the FCEI since 1977 and has also taught at various mass media seminars and courses in Turin . |
| 6 | In recent years , the Inspectorate has been seen as understaffed and underfunded and has allegedly suffered from low morale . |
| 7 | In 1971 , 601 went to California U.S.A. for preservation , and has since operated in downtown San Francisco for the Trolley Festival . |
| 8 | Council tenure , almost non-existent in 1914 , grew to a maximum or 34 per cent of households in 1980 and has since declined to 24 per cent , plus 2 per cent of households which rent from housing associations . |
| 9 | As a result he joined the Royal Manor of Portland Athletics Club and has since run in several races for the club in the Dorset Road Racing League , although he has yet to catch up with his friend Tony Coleman from B40 Workshop ! |
| 10 | The technology was invented in the early 1920s by Anton Flettner , a German naval engineer , and has since fallen into undeserved oblivion . |
| 11 | The number of mental hospital beds trebled to over 300,000 in 20 years and has since risen to 340,000 . |
| 12 | He is still very young and has only played for one season ( Wilko let him do a degree first , a 1st in chemisty ) . |
| 13 | Mr Graves joined the firm in 1988 and has recently served as technical manager before becoming technical director . |
| 14 | Such are the complexities of the three-year allocation of points in the Sony world rankings that Faldo lost everything he had gained from his Masters victory of 1989 and has consequently dropped to fourth . |
| 15 | He is indeed an international figure and is respected so and he 's one of the few people to have actually addressed the Security Council on the question of apartheid and has indeed spoken at many United Nations conventions on the question of apartheid . |
| 16 | The Health Ministers of Argentina , Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Cuba , Ecuador , Peru , Venezuela and Spain met in the Bolivian city of Sucre on April 20-23 to discuss possible joint action to stem the cholera epidemic which first broke out in Peru in late January [ see p. 38002 ] , and had since spread into neighbouring Brazil , Colombia , Chile and Ecuador ( but not as yet into Bolivia or Venezuela ) . |
| 17 | They had remained wrapped in their own separate thoughts ever since leaving the hunting camp earlier in the day and had barely spoken to one another . |
| 18 | Some 1,500 high-school students had been protesting against the reintroduction of mid-term examinations and had also called for increased government spending on education . |
| 19 | Bordeaux had not taken kindly to competition from what it dismissed as ‘ the hinterland ’ , and had even insisted at one point on Bergerac wines being shipped in smaller casks , thus forcing the Bergerac vignerons to pay more tax on their exports , the money being levied per cask . |
| 20 | It is true that not every subject or application yielded work we thought matched the excellence we hoped for and had already found in some areas . |
| 21 | They had also been joined here by a number of " White " emigres from outside the USSR , that is to say anti-Communists who had gone into exile during or after the Civil War of 1918–20 and had subsequently lived in various European countries . |
| 22 | Edmund Sparkler born there during a ‘ mighty frost ’ in which , his companions say , ‘ his brain had been frozen up … and had never thawed from that hour ’ . |
| 23 | Simonds , who was to give three to five lectures a week , admitted that , coming from practice in Twickenham , he was not an experienced teacher , and had never lectured to such an audience as attended his inaugural discourse . |
| 24 | In its 1991 annual report published on July 10 , the human rights organization Amnesty International claimed that human rights violations had occurred in 141 countries and had actually worsened in some cases . |
| 25 | They were in a dark corner behind the bandstand in the park and had quickly gone through all the other stages , including the one Sally liked best , kissing and pressing the lower half of their bodies close together as if they were dancing . |
| 26 | It applied equally to the Galapagos Archipelago where the ancestors of Darwin 's finches had on arrival resolutely stuck to their islands and refused to travel short distances across water to interbreed and had consequently evolved into thirteen distinct species . |
| 27 | By 1914 , Maurice Woods was able to announce that the committee had completed its immediate programme in every field but one and had therefore embarked on several secondary projects . |
| 28 | Nurse Geeson said she had been a staff nurse on the children 's ward for ten years up to 1991 and had only come across four or five occasions when children suffered heart or respiratory attacks . |
| 29 | Investigations of processes initially functional in nature have begun to remedy deficiencies perceived in the early 1960s , have led to some new visions , and have also led in two directions . |
| 30 | We 've tried to keep the newsletter as light hearted as possible without going into the realms of indecency , and have even printed in black and white so those of your who are colour blind wo n't feel left out . |