Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun prp] have [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prince Napoleon-Jerome had from the inauguration of the Empire been a constant , and public , critic of his cousin 's policies , proving himself to be at best an embarrassment , at worst a threat to the regime . |
| 2 | At that time it was considered that over 60% of cars in the United Kingdom had at least one defective tyre . |
| 3 | My right hon. Friend will be aware that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said that between 1984 and 1990 the United Kingdom had by far the best job creation record of the larger European Community countries . |
| 4 | Because of the potential seriousness of gonorrhoea or syphilis , if left untreated , nearly all the clinics in the United Kingdom have on their staff contact-tracers whose prime aim is to ensure that all efforts are made to persuade possible contacts of patients with either disease to attend for investigation . |
| 5 | The United Kingdom has for many years been the preferred location for United States investment in Europe . |
| 6 | The United States of America has progressed much further than the United Kingdom has in determining this question but the basic legal principles are the same : copyright protects expression but not idea . |
| 7 | Travel in the UK was unlimited though a case had to be made for every European exhibition other than the Venice Biennale and the Kassel Documenta , and most trips to the United States had to be funded privately or tied in with a conference or some other event that would cover the cost of the trip . |
| 8 | It emerged in April that the United States had in January 1991 suspended aid to the two non-communist factions of the rebel National Government of Cambodia ( NGC ) — the Sihanoukists and the Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ) . |
| 9 | Apparently the Company did not possess an additional bamboo pole for Selby Road , and the one from the Robin Hood had to be carried there resting on the backs of the seats of the upper deck of a car when required . |
| 10 | This massive requiem sets Walt Whitman 's great , wordy poem When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom 'd to a sensuous orchestral accompaniment — ‘ Hindemith can be a little dry , but not in this work ’ — with solo roles for the dark-timbre voices of mezzo soprano Ameral Gunson and bass David Wilson-Johnson . |
| 11 | The River Twyver had by then been culverted for much of its length and is shown making occasional appearances near the Cathedral and St Mary De Lode , before emptying into the Dockham Ditch , and hence to the Severn . |
| 12 | Every swan on the River Thames has to be counted . |
| 13 | If , as they fervently hope , Waqar Younis has recovered sufficiently from the stress fracture in his back to bowl as he did in taking 113 first-class wickets last season at a cost of 14 each — a wicket for every 30 balls he bowled — and Imran 's shoulder injury permits him , after all , to play as more than just a batsman-captain , theirs will be a fast bowling attack as strong , at least on paper , as any the West Indies had during the 16 years of world supremacy which came to an end here last summer . |