Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is her case that the university has failed either in the proper interpretation of its statutes or in their proper application . |
| 32 | The University has recovered well from the shock of a ‘ trading loss ’ in 1989–90 . |
| 33 | Whether British experience has come anywhere near the good practice ideal enshrined in the OECD guidelines set out in Chapter Three can be seen from an examination of the principal design guidelines set out in its pages . |
| 34 | IN THE first part of this book Michael Shallis gives an interesting non-technical account of how modern physics has gone on from the common-sense notion of time to a whole series of fundamental changes . |
| 35 | hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ? |
| 36 | Whatever the definition chosen , the proportion of government spending in National Income has risen steadily throughout the twentieth century , including the early period under the present Conservative government . |
| 37 | The campaign of Benson & Hedges has evolved remarkably over the past dozen years and has now reached a point at which the motifs chosen to dissemble the product are themselves classic symbols of dissembling — pretty fans for the summer months in 1988 , attractive fishing lures for the autumn . |
| 38 | If that money has to come out of the existing budget , then we should , or the Chief Constable , or the Police Committee ought to look at the priorities again . |
| 39 | Traditionally , language teaching has concentrated only on the three levels of the formal language system — pronunciation , grammar , and vocabulary — and the way in which they function within the sentence , on the assumption that other aspects of communication will follow fairly automatically . |
| 40 | He joined the Gwili Railway shortly after I did and on the very same day as my cousin Paul Lucas , but since then Roger has contributed more to the railway than either of us . |
| 41 | " Heinrich has to stand here on the deck while you drone on , said Tilda . |
| 42 | A third source of opportunity has opened up by the increased willingness of many firms to contemplate non-traditional forms of investment ( NFI ) , also in their marginal territories . |
| 43 | Even so , the number of people moving through particular age groups has varied substantially over the past two or three decades . |
| 44 | As a result , the size of almost all age groups has changed substantially over the past two decades , in marked contrast to the small increase registered by the overall population . |
| 45 | Fellow Councillors , this strange religion has smacked up against the limits of Earth 's resources . |
| 46 | Apart from the Head Chef , who is 53 , opposition has come mainly from the Accommodation Manager , who is unqualified but very experienced : he believes that the old ways are the best ways and has generally received the support of his department heads , who owe their positions to him . |
| 47 | The range of newspapers read by the bulk of the British electorate has narrowed sharply over the last two decades — in terms of the political partisanship of mass-selling papers , if not in terms of the proliferation of low-circulation titles ( Newton , 1988a , p. 320 ; Tunstall , 1983 , p. 12 ) . |
| 48 | THIS public fear has contributed much to the infiltration of fake hijras into the community of true eunuchs . |
| 49 | The death toll has worked out at the equivalent of seven a week since the two companies responsible for investing £190million in government securities went into liquidation last June . |
| 50 | The role of diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac angiography has evolved rapidly over the past decade , particularly in the context of acute coronary occlusion . |
| 51 | I think the real historical tragedy is that AIDS has emerged just at the moment that the gay community was reaching a sort of maturity and openness . |
| 52 | Similar trends are evident in the economies of Japan , Canada and the United States which indicate that labour has shifted out of the primary sector into the service sector prior to or in parallel with the expansion of the manufacturing sector ( Singelmann , 1978 ) . |
| 53 | The Inland Revenue has commented further on the tax treatment of ex gratia payments made on the termination of an office or employment , as set out in Statement of Practice SP 13/91 . |
| 54 | ‘ Advertising revenue has held well over the last year and we now see some small signs of an upturn after three years of recession , ’ he explained . |
| 55 | Anyone whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere will appreciate the value of belonging to a motoring organisation that 'll come to the rescue at any time of the day or night . |
| 56 | We attempt to assist , however , and the total number of people who have been helped through our sheltered employment programme has increased substantially during the past 10 years . |
| 57 | We know that the process of thick sedimentation followed by isostatic readjustment has happened frequently in the past , both in truly geosynclinal areas and in Voigt 's " bordering troughs " ( Randtroge ) of the shelf regions . |
| 58 | May I make it plain , as my Department has done consistently over the past three years of consideration of the Bill in the House , that this is indeed a mammoth project , that the appraisals of such a project inevitably change over time as the project changes in costs and revenue . |
| 59 | The murder has brought home to the genteel Spa town , the reality of violent crime in Britain today . |
| 60 | WordPerfect has given up on the Wild West theme in favour of giving away peagreen baseball hats . |