Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pron] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 2 | For instance we have recently shown that colorectal cancers that contain c-Ki-ras mutations and over express p53 have a far worse prognosis than those showing either alteration on its own . |
| 3 | Workers on the sites prolonged their tasks indefinitely ; building materials vanished ; workmen claimed for overtime which had neither been worked nor authorised ; and non-existent workers were kept on the payroll by the workers . |
| 4 | true , then there 's another thing about religion I 've often wondered , they say you go to heaven do n't they ? well , so well |
| 5 | They come amid rumblings of new strikes in several key sectors , after disruption which has already cost 5 million lost working days this year , and production shortfalls of billions of roubles . |
| 6 | He seemed too young and vibrant for work she had previously thought to be the province of uniformed men with starched collars and even stiffer demeanours . |
| 7 | For whimsy she 'd even etched a skein of ants travelling due west , with a ladybird glowing like a winged jewel , poised to fly to her northern home . |
| 8 | The nephew , seeing something about Auntie he had never properly perceived before , said quite humbly : " Yes , I see … " |
| 9 | Philip thus forced upon the Netherlanders a degree of unity which had hitherto not existed . |
| 10 | ‘ To look at me , no one would take me for the Miracle-Worker , ’ Gabriel persisted , and he grinned and rubbed his short head of hair which had barely grown long enough for a single curl . |
| 11 | I need more certain light in which to catch and express the sense of exultation which has suddenly come upon me . |
| 12 | She filled him with a kind of exultation he had never experienced before and he found himself shaking his head . |
| 13 | The image of hope which had thus arisen in Williamson 's mind was soured by the reality of his second obsession : the sheer horror of his experience on 1 July 1916 , when 60,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme . |
| 14 | They skirted the edge of the open space , keeping to the borders of woodland which had once been landscaped , and Melanie was grateful , for she would have felt too visible , too exposed out on the sea of grass — a sitting target for some marksman , for the arrow of any figure in Lincoln green who might be flitting among the mossy trunks . |
| 15 | She felt again that same deep chill , that same sense of horror she had always felt when in the presence of such venom , as if she were discovering that evil really did exist , that liberal attitudes were vaporous , that filth could find its way into the universe and be embodied and spread relentlessly , terrifying those it infected . |
| 16 | He was walking towards a new life , a kind of freedom which had only been an idealistic daydream for nearly sixty years . |
| 17 | Worst case of heatstroke I 've ever seen ’ |
| 18 | And the form of drug they had indeed been taking — a legal drug , as it happens , called alcohol — is under attack from the surgeon-general . |
| 19 | Fudah , 47 , was a professor of agriculture who had unsuccessfully stood as a candidate in legislative elections , most recently in 1990 . |
| 20 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 21 | And of course they 'd never They very rarely thought of washing clothes in tap water those days , it was all rainwater . |
| 22 | And of course they 've actually made eh , the bodies with er metal not tissue paper in those days did n't they ? |
| 23 | Catherine Oates ( Mrs Wright ) concurs : ‘ Of course they have radically altered my life but I was glad to exchange the tyranny of the nine-to-five day for the tyranny offour-hourly feeds . |
| 24 | and of course we 've always had a different view about what morals are anyway all of us I mean once again if we went round the table and say you know expand on your moral position , I 'm sure we would get four probably ten actually different viewpoints . |
| 25 | And of course we 've always had closed circuit television at the underground car park in Gloucester Green , and I had it from the words of another Conservative Councillor , Councillor Ann Spokes , that she always uses Gloucester Green car park because it is so safe and so secure . |
| 26 | And er of course we had then . |
| 27 | ‘ An albatross , as I was saying , is one of the rarest phenomena in golf , even rarer than a hole in one which of course we have also seen today . |
| 28 | To the National Defence Council he asserted that of course there had never been any intention of abandoning the Right Bank . |
| 29 | Of course there has traditionally always been the kind of individual that will view any large feature in the landscape as something to jump off , slide down or swing from on the end of a piece of elastic . |
| 30 | Of course he 'd always been enchanted , but , before , it had been too deep in his mind to be fully felt ; he 'd only known there was something that kept him empty inside , stopped him from being a proper person . |