Example sentences of "of [noun] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though the Ministry of Defence has already drawn up plans to pull Britain 's 2,400 troops out of the danger zone swiftly , they could find themselves caught in the crossfire very quickly . |
| 2 | Up to now this demarcation of activities has only come about by delegation , no control system could enforce these roles . |
| 3 | Too busy , Hamilton added drily , to be informed the Deputy Fuhrer of Germany had just dropped in . |
| 4 | A committee at the Ministry of Labour had also worked out with industrialists methods of shifting the hours of work to avoid the winter peak times , and this load spreading helped a lot to contain industrial peak demand at these crucial times . |
| 5 | The representative there of the Bosnian Serbs , Misha Milosevic , told the commission ( i ) that no concentration camps existed in Serbian territory in Bosnia-Hercegovina ; ( ii ) that no hidden camp had been created ; ( iii ) that the [ self-proclaimed ] Serbian government of Bosnia-Hercegovina had never carried out operations of " ethnic cleansing " on its territory ; and ( iv ) that the same government had never refused international control over the prison camps in its territory . |
| 6 | The most tantalising of opportunities has thus opened up for Mr Takeshita : the chance to be prime minister again . |
| 7 | ‘ The subject of marriage has never come up in our relationship . ’ |
| 8 | While it certainly can not be claimed to be a panacea for all ills , and no system of therapeutics has yet turned out to be that , it is an approach which I would not like to be without . |
| 9 | some some extra layers on this , I mean I think that 's very valid and the extra layers include er one , the fact that since then there have been a number of royals who have divorced and so it is not unique for royals to be divorced and the Church of England has not jumped up and down about the fact that there are royals who are divorced particularly given that the , you know the Church of England are opposed to divorce . |
| 10 | As far as can be made out , systems of fingerspelling have always come about by hearing invention . |
| 11 | In this more tolerant environment several newspapers representing different shades of opinion have already sprung up , especially in the urban areas . |
| 12 | Until 1974 the British House of Commons had virtually given up all but the slightest influence in the disposition of executive proposals . |
| 13 | Boundary changes , opposition to routes and a lack of cash have all held up progress , but the project is set to start in autumn . |
| 14 | Stupidly , I presumed that the ancient axiom that females were put on this planet for purely decorative purposes or that being pretty ( or perhaps a spot of procreation ) were the pinnacles of achievement had forever died out alongside the bustle and/or the bubble car . |
| 15 | And a similar state of affairs had meanwhile come about on the other side of the lines . |
| 16 | This expansion of education has not brought about a similar increase in social mobility . |
| 17 | A lot of water had certainly gone down the burn since 6th of June . |
| 18 | And the fact that quite a lot of people had n't turned up on a certain day or that sort of thing . |
| 19 | But look a little more deeply and you will see that something else has happened too ; if a number of people have gone down with the cold , does not it mean that a number of people have not gone down with the cold ? |
| 20 | A lot of people have now moved on . |
| 21 | The Bank of Japan has already nudged down overnight rates ; if the spring pay round shows wage rises to be moderating , it could then cut the discount rate . |
| 22 | Obviously things have changed : not that long ago ‘ medium grade ’ meant VS and the centre of gravity has certainly moved up from there — but I bet the majority of climbers are still performing regularly at ‘ only ’ HVS/E1 . |
| 23 | Football clashes between the age-old rivals have ground to a halt partly because outpourings of nationalism have sometimes got out of hand . |
| 24 | In a sense that level of space has now loosened up . |
| 25 | Finally , despite statements about the importance of older workers , the Department of Employment have never carried out a specific study of the training needs of the over-50s . |
| 26 | But as the individualist man 's machine ticked over at idling speed , in desperate need of a new surge of power and aware that the world 's supply of oil had nearly run out , the collectivist machine was doing no better . |
| 27 | And despite ( or perhaps because of ) all the loans and all the aid , the net effect is that billions of dollars have actually moved out of the poor countries and into the rich countries . |
| 28 | When they returned , they discovered that the main body of men had already flown out and that a party of drivers under Scratchley was waiting for them to join the vehicle convoy south through the Great Sand Sea . |
| 29 | By the end of the 1920's Miss Lintorn-Orman 's brand of Fascism had not caught on and the Bolshevik revolution in England , which it had been formed to combat , had ceased to be an event worth waiting for . |
| 30 | My pair of Birchirs have now settled down in their new home and are feeding very well on a plentiful supply of garden worms . |