Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | IBM will , of course , supply OS/2 with its machines , but its market share has fallen rapidly with the advent of low-cost clones , so the number of users out there may not be as high as might have been the case a few years ago . |
| 32 | Similarly , GDFCF has fallen substantially in the recession years of the late 198()s and early 1990s . |
| 33 | According to Miles Barber of Barbers Estate Agents ( 071–381 0112 ) , the level of enquiries about French property remains relatively high , although the number of transactions has fallen sharply since the peak of 1989 . |
| 34 | Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s . |
| 35 | Local government spending has fallen significantly since the middle 1970s both as a proportion of state spending and of national income . |
| 36 | Here I must think Wordsworth is deeper than Milton , though I think it has depended more upon the general and gregarious advance of intellect , than individual greatness of Mind From the Paradise Lost and the other Works of Milton , I hope it is not too presuming , even between ourselves to say , that his Philosophy , human and divine , may be tolerably understood by one not much advanced in years … |
| 37 | They 're referring , of course , to his brother Edgar , with whom he has collaborated often in the past . |
| 38 | Even the Chancellor of Oxford University , Roy Jenkins , has to wait outside on the steps of the Clarendon buildings on a cold November morning , when the Sultan of Brunei is in town . |
| 39 | A group of academics and intellectuals has gathered together under the title Charter 88 to campaign for a written constitution to rectify the ‘ implausibility ’ of the country 's current protection of liberty and freedom . |
| 40 | However , while these dollar values are better than dinar values for the years up to 1983 , they are still not satisfactory , both for the reason given above and because the real value of the dollar has fluctuated considerably during the past ten years . |
| 41 | However , there are many in Britain who feel that the US approach , which has relied heavily on the CD4 measure in licensing other potential anti-AIDS drugs , is wrong , and that the decision to put a patient on AZT should be more broadly based , using a number of factors — including the best current estimate of likely long-term risks and benefits — rather than a simple formula . |
| 42 | In other cases , however , the court has relied more on the procedure for review laid down in the lease . |
| 43 | The School has responded positively to the technological demands of the new Standard Grade courses and has installed in the Department ten ‘ Applemac ’ computers adding to the not inconsiderable quantity of equipment already there . |
| 44 | The rum market in Venezuela is undergoing a difficult period of transition , but Pampero 's performance has responded well to the relaunch . |
| 45 | The Scottish economy has responded vigorously to the policies we have introduced to liberate enterprise , and many more people are now saving , investing and owning their homes . |
| 46 | Each step command is issued only when the motor has responded satisfactorily to the previous command and so there is no possibility of the motor losing synchronism . |
| 47 | The secretary-general of Génération Ecologie , François Donzel , has resigned ahead of the party 's first congress planned for November . |
| 48 | One result has been that the price of dumping rubbish has varied widely around the country . |
| 49 | Even so , the number of people moving through particular age groups has varied substantially over the past two or three decades . |
| 50 | The relationship between fertility rates and mortality rates has created a population structure which has varied substantially during the period in question . |
| 51 | Both Blumler , examining coverage by 31 BBC and ITV regional stations , and Hetherington bring out the extensive nature of these programmes , although performance has varied considerably between the regions , with stations in Scotland , Wales and the North appearing to pay more attention to Parliament than stations in the South or the Midlands . |
| 52 | John Biffen did not sign the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motion , but he has voted consistently against the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 53 | The eye has to jump ahead to the source marker , or register it peripherally , and link it correctly to the preceding text . |
| 54 | Today many of these lie submerged by the sea , for the land is flat and the sea has encroached all round the coast . |
| 55 | This probably explains why menarche the age of which er menstruation begins menarche er why the age of menarche has dropped progressively in the last century from about fifteen and a half to about twelve and a half er today . |
| 56 | The demand for buses has dropped dramatically since the late 1970s and this process has been accelerated by the ending of both the bus grant and revenue support for bus services . |
| 57 | Imported cutlery is also bought in American dollars and , while the exchange rate of sterling to the dollar was very favourable for Britain last year , it has dropped considerably in the past six months , making imported cutlery more expensive to buy . |
| 58 | When it comes to clothes and the British high street , I think the standard has dropped radically in the last five years . |
| 59 | As such , he or she has to work closely with the creative people and with media : in some agencies this includes the media planning , too . |
| 60 | He has to work hard in the fields . |