Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 The emphasis in child care practice on families before institutions has contributed to a definition of the aims and the means of helping young people which accentuates personal , family relationships .
2 Between 1985 and 1990 , however , the number of people aged over 85 supported in residential care by local authorities has declined at a slower rate than that for all people aged 65+ .
3 Boesky 's cooperation with the regulatory authorities has resulted in a number of other SEC investigations .
4 In recent years a growing sophistication in tachistoscopic half-field investigations has derived from a conceptual and methodological framework known as information processing theory .
5 In England , the reluctance of the police to take action in domestic violence cases has contributed to a situation in which women do not generally invoke the criminal process in such circumstances .
6 By contrast , the steep decline in apprenticeships has led to a reduced demand for part-time craft and technician courses .
7 Spanish workers voted heavily Socialist in the European parliamentary elections even though Mr Gonzalez 's tight economic policies has led to a 17.3 per cent jobless rate and running battles with the trade unions .
8 Bus usage in leading English cities has fallen by a sixth since 1985/86 because of the Government 's deregulation of bus operations , says a study for the Association of Metropolitan Authorities .
9 The difficulty encountered by plaintiffs in obtaining injunctions to stop libels has led to a growth in applications for injunctions on the grounds of breach of confidence , ie that the information has been obtained from someone who is under a duty not to reveal it .
10 A military operation involving four thousand servicemen has ended with a dramatic finale over Salisbury Plain .
11 A military operation involving four thousand servicemen has ended with a dramatic finale over Salisbury Plain .
12 Spending on new roads has increased by a third since 1979 , and is planned to double again ; Okehampton bypass built through Dartmoor National Park ; 110 SSSIs are threatened with road schemes .
13 But now that the Nineties are in full swing , has anyone out there discovered that the phones have stopped jangling , their Filofax is miraculously blank , or the traffic clogging our roads has withered to a trickle ?
14 The relative esteem in which stones have been held at different times has rested on a number of factors .
15 The sales forecasts amounted to 9 megabytes on Lotus , but now under Ark the amount of data has been reduced to 6 megabytes , and the number of presentation styles has increased by a factor of about four to between 10 and 12 .
16 The resulting clash of styles has resulted in a forthright , moody range of sensations certainly capable of setting your teeth on edge , if not grinding away in your sleep .
17 The trip begins at a Eucharistic Congress in Seoul intended to put the seal on the Catholic Church 's extraordinary progress in Korea , where the number of believers has grown from a post-war 200,000 to more than 2.5 million , and is increasing by 10 per cent each year .
18 The role of small scale production units has increased in a number of industries .
19 The increased use of computers has led to a dramatic rise in the production of paper records .
20 The size and importance of many company pension funds has led to a demand for inhouse actuarial skills .
21 The alarming increase in media oligopolies has led to a subsequent decline in any need for public accountability on the part of media corporations .
22 So called hotting and joyriding around some of the Oxford Estates with stolen cars has contributed to a massive increase in carcrime .
23 According to Magnet Applications , the Berkhamsted-based Cookson subsidiary , the number of magnets used in cars has risen from a handful 20 years ago to about 80 now , rising to perhaps 200 in a couple of years ' time as automatic windows and sunroofs etc become more widespread .
24 A ban on the use of lead fishing weights has resulted in a record increase in the number of mute swans in Britain .
25 Elsewhere in south-east Asia , over-use of pesticides has led to a devastating resurgence of pests by destroying the pests ' natural predators .
26 The excessive and unrestricted use of pesticides has resulted in a worrying number of cases of acute and chronic pesticide poisoning among Central American peasants .
27 Man 's ownership of animals has contributed to a great degree towards the creation of this semi-natural environment , at least within the world 's land mass .
28 However , the gain in yields has resulted in a loss of conformation and there is now a hunt for suitable beef sires to boost the dairy herd 's waning meat production .
29 studied chartered accountancy at the Oxford Polytechnic and for the last 18 months has worked for a local chartered accountant .
30 Category ( e ) should also cater for the situation where a payment may be made to another insurer in accordance with current market practice as opposed to a specific agreement , e.g. a Travel insurer may seek partial reimbursement from us as Home insurers having dealt with a claim which is covered under both policies .
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