Example sentences of "ground [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | One set of interviews , with the literary editors of national newspapers , was carried out using half a dozen ‘ topic headings ’ simply to ensure that at each interview I covered the ground I had decided beforehand was important for my purpose . |
| 2 | ‘ Old Trafford is the one ground I have wanted to play at more than any other , ’ said Johnson , 21 . |
| 3 | Nora realised how much ground she had lost to the attitudes of the Hall . |
| 4 | But things had changed ; the ground she had thought she was so sure of had shifted a little . |
| 5 | Sometimes I think I grew interested in it because it was the only common ground we had . ’ |
| 6 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
| 7 | There are several stand soundproofed and one dug into the ground we 've done everything in our power |
| 8 | To find common ground we have to be ready to disclose information about ourselves and to point out shared interests through chit-chat : ‘ I heard you went to London University . |
| 9 | Let me be more certain before we go trekking over ground we have already covered . ’ |
| 10 | WIMBLEDON 'S Crazy Gang are returning to Plough Lane , the happy hunting ground they had to leave for safety reasons two years ago . |
| 11 | The 1935 Seventh Comintern Congress and its emphasis on united-front tactics ( stemming from the Soviet leadership 's need to build alliances to counter threats from Germany and Japan ) gave the Communist parties some chance to regain the ground they had lost by their isolationist , class-against-class policies of the early 1930s . |
| 12 | However , as the United States began its ignominious withdrawal from South East Asia congress finally set about reclaiming the ground it had surrendered to the executive branch . |
| 13 | This was not really convenient as space was tied-up on the dressing floors , whilst below ground it had to be handled so that it was not inadvertently intermixed with other material . |
| 14 | In local elections on July 26 the Socialist Party of Albania — SPA ( until June 1991 the communist Party of Labour of Albania — PLA ) recovered some ground it had lost in the March legislative elections , but the Democratic Party ( DP ) nevertheless retained control of the cities of Tirana , Elbasan , Korce , Shkoder and Dürres . |
| 15 | At the bottom of it all , there is a feeling that sterling will never regain all the ground it has lost since autumn . |
| 16 | No it 's not it 's it 's quite mild , there 's no frost on the ground it 's all gone . |
| 17 | When he saw she still held her ground he had to turn and come back . |
| 18 | Osman had recovered from his put-down and seemed bent on recovering the ground he had lost . |
| 19 | Common 's first game for the Boro on February 25 was on a ground he had graced earlier in his career : Bramall Lane , the home of Sheffield United . |
| 20 | After two years at the County Ground he 'd taken Swindon Town to the Premier League . |
| 21 | A brief list shows how much ground he has covered since the strict rules of British censorship have been lifted . |
| 22 | Within future curricula , this aspect of the building surveyor 's career may need greater emphasis , to ensure he holds the ground he has already gained . |
| 23 | The first defendant is the principal beneficiary under the document and , on this appeal , challenges the deputy judge 's conclusions on both of the grounds I have mentioned . |
| 24 | And on such flimsy grounds she 'd apparently been tried and sentenced . |
| 25 | On the same grounds they have argued that the taxation burden borne by peasants before 1905 has been much exaggerated . |
| 26 | On such grounds it has been argued that the novel is not authentic communication , notably by the Marxist critic Walter Benjamin . |
| 27 | On these grounds he had as good a claim as either the king of Wessex or of León to call himself an emperor ; and his great prestige may well have had something to do with it . |
| 28 | Indeed during the Second World War a British officer of some distinction , Fitzroy Maclean , had actually arrested Zahedi on grounds he had been intriguing with German agents . |