Example sentences of "in [noun pl] and have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She then discovered her engineer husband had run up thousands of pounds in debts and had tried to end his life a month before . |
| 2 | He talked as if he never thought in words and had to invent them to describe the shapeless , bulky concepts in his mind as he went along . |
| 3 | Bodies that have particular input to and effect on issues of European spectrum management include the European Commission , which is taking an increasingly active interest in telecommunications and has identified two major tasks ahead for member states : the liberalisation of telecommunications services and the separation of regulatory and operational functions . |
| 4 | We have set up a peace conference , sent in monitors and have established ceasefires . |
| 5 | The Mortons were already well established in textiles and had invented a power loom which his own family company , ‘ Alexander Morton & Co ’ were unable to develop . |
| 6 | A new department in the Ministry of Culture was set up last year which has imposed a ceiling of DFl. 3 million ( £937,500 ; $1,640,625 ) in subsidies and has ruled that galleries which have been selected to sell under the scheme will have to submit a yearly programme of exhibitions to the Arts Council who in turn will decide which of those exhibitions are eligible for the interest-subsidy scheme . |
| 7 | Quite a number of the people you speak to will be getting on in years and have lost their sharpness of hearing . |
| 8 | Gunthardt had been a Wimbledon quarter-finalist that year in singles and had won the doubles title with Balazs Taroczy of Hungary so Bates ' victory at the time was a little short of sensational . |
| 9 | From his childhood , he had known the face , had seen it in paintings and had drawn it himself . |
| 10 | Coming on the heels of the Ashby Report , which had lacked conviction in Tutorials and had recommended that the reference to them in grant regulations be dropped , the Board 's decision seemed to be another blow to what had traditionally been regarded as the apex of WEA work . |
| 11 | The 48-year-old bishop , who , as well as being a judo expert is also a keen squash player , has a long-standing interest in languages and has worked to strengthen links with other Churches in Europe . |
| 12 | I have known smallholders who lived in caravans and have seen nomad herdsmen in Asia who camp in the open or carry their tents on their backs . |
| 13 | The government has accepted Tomlinson 's recommendation for investment in premises and has set up an initiative zone to encourage new ideas . |