Example sentences of "[vb pp] have [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An examination of Figure 6.1 reveals that , whilst each of the groups considered has gained over the period 1979 — 89 ( due to the tax and benefit changes discussed above ) , the greatest gain was made by the richest tenth of the population . |
| 2 | For each key stage , programmes of study are to be drawn up specifying what pupils of different abilities are to be taught in each subject , and attainment targets set out specifying the knowledge , skills and understanding that they are expected to have acquired by the end of the stage . |
| 3 | The bones of the arm had for the most part fused but fusion had not yet taken place between the radius and ulna , which would be expected to have occurred by the age of twenty-one . |
| 4 | For the next few years American audiences were shown aspects of their society that they could never have expected to have encountered at the movies and it must have struck at least some members of the public that film-going had become a more serious business . |
| 5 | This is expected to have doubled by the end of 1990 . |
| 6 | This may be linked to : ( a ) structures of the subject being taught ; ( b ) progression in the number of components of the subject pupils may be expected to have learned in the course of their instruction ; ( c ) the degree of difficulty of typical test items ; ( d ) sequences which correspond to the teaching approaches of the designers of a graded assessment scheme ; 4 all of the items in a test are at a similar or the same level of difficulty ; 5 tests are intended to be taken only when pupils are ready for them ; 6 performance on tests is described in terms of " pass ' and " fail " , rather than a mark or grade . |
| 7 | Retail sales volumes are also expected to have come off the boil last month after rising strongly over the past quarter . |
| 8 | An official closure date for the yard has not been announced , but the majority of the 500 workers are expected to have left towards the end of July , with the bulk going after this month 's commissioning ceremony . |
| 9 | Cos that I must say that was the way in which we would have wished to have proceeded with the discussion . |
| 10 | Blaming the primary sufferer , other members of the family and all those who are considered to have contributed to the problem . |
| 11 | An outstanding example of this sort of pattern in our own field is the synthetic fibre business which , historically , could be considered to have started in the days of rayon at the turn of the century . |
| 12 | Again Dr Borlase is considered to have erred on the side of romance and the Cornish term for mid-summer , ‘ golowan ’ , is now believed to be derived from ‘ gol Jowan ’ , the feast of John . |
| 13 | The position of women is often considered to have improved during the last few decades . |
| 14 | In early April , thousands of Kurdish refugees , many dying from starvation , were reported to have massed along the Iraq-Iran border near Nowsud . |
| 15 | Many parties ( including Civic Forum and PAV ) had asked the Interior Ministry to screen their candidates for possible collaboration with the StB in the past , and 166 candidates were reported to have withdrawn by the eve of the elections . |
| 16 | A Sendero Luminoso attack on a military base in the province of Satipo , 370 km east of the capital Lima , on Oct. 2 was reported to have led to the deaths of 21 people , including an estimated 16 guerrillas , four civilians and one soldier . |
| 17 | Iraq was also reported to have invested in the Argentine Condor II and , possibly , the Brazilian SS-300 . |
| 18 | The Turkish Prime Minister is reported to have commented on the deaths by saying : ‘ Those killed were not real journalists . |
| 19 | A small group was reported to have stayed in the embassy in the hope of avoiding separation from friends or family en route from East Germany . |
| 20 | In the following days , groups of soldiers were reported to have gone on the rampage in Kinshasa , looting shops and businesses . |
| 21 | A civilian gunman is reported to have gone on the rampage at the base in Kentucky which houses the nation 's gold repository . |
| 22 | I have given that estimate before , and the hon. Member for Blackburn is reported to have said on the strength of a newspaper article that we both read : ’ the Secretary of State has come close to misleading the House of Commons over the numbers required . ’ |
| 23 | Security forces were reported to have fired over the heads of hundreds of demonstrators apparently bent on storming the official residence of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a on Dec. 11 . |
| 24 | A second gunman was reported to have fired into the front row of the audience . |
| 25 | The EC sought co-operation against drug traffickers , and Mexico was reported to have inserted at the last minute a formula to safeguard its national jurisdiction in this area . |
| 26 | One person was reported to have died during the disturbances . |
| 27 | This gave credence to the claims of some transferred Sendero women prisoners who told human rights workers that they had seen at least two women surrender who were later officially reported to have died in the fighting . |
| 28 | Stalin is reported to have remarked at the end of the war that to establish communist rule in Poland would be like ‘ trying to saddle a cow ’ and Soviet relations with that country ( the largest and most populous in Eastern Europe ) have borne out these apprehensions . |
| 29 | Sigua was reported to have fled to the rebel headquarters in a Komsomol summer camp outside Tbilisi to avoid arrest . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , some 20,000 Serbs in the area were reported to have fled across the Croatian borders to the neighbouring autonomous province of Vojvodina , part of Serbia , in an effort to escape the fighting . |