Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun pl] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , overloading of certain services remains a major problem , and reports have been received of passengers having to stand from Birmingham to Aberystwyth ! |
| 2 | The percentage of people aged 65 and over living alone has increased from 10 per cent in 1945 to 36 per cent in 1985 , while the percentage of those living with others has decreased from 60 per cent to 20 per cent over the same period . |
| 3 | Part of the usability studies that WordPerfect has done on Presentations has surfaced in the setup options. , Wherever it 's possible , the program can be set to auto-select the correct driver for whatever option you 're configuring . |
| 4 | However , after Wakeham reported that support among backbenchers had collapsed during the day , perhaps by half , it was clear to those around Mrs Thatcher that , although she said she would sleep on it , she was virtually certain to resign . |
| 5 | By 1971 , however , the number of house standing committees chaired by southerners had fallen to 38 per cent and to 23 per cent by 1979 ; meanwhile the comparable figures in the Senate were 53 per cent in 1971 and 27 per cent in 1979 . |
| 6 | Their options business , normally for underlying amounts of DM10m-20m a day , are said by others to have jumped to ten times that amount . |
| 7 | Cedomir Biga , a Serbian who died on 2 September while detained by Croatian police in Dreznik , was said by police to have died from a heart attack . |
| 8 | The wood used for instruments has varied through the ages , depending on what was available . |
| 9 | Vlad , arrested in late December 1989 , was alleged with others to have complied with orders to fire on demonstrators in Bucharest and other cities given by Ceausescu at politburo meetings on Dec. 17 and 22 , 1989 . |
| 10 | According to Magnet Applications , the Berkhamsted-based Cookson subsidiary , the number of magnets used in cars has risen from a handful 20 years ago to about 80 now , rising to perhaps 200 in a couple of years ' time as automatic windows and sunroofs etc become more widespread . |
| 11 | Over the past twenty years , the number who look at papers has fallen by more than a quarter . |
| 12 | Indeed , this has already been observed in Scandinavia and North America : for example , Cogbill and Likens ( 1974 ) suggest that the proportion contributed by nitrates has increased from 22 per cent in the mid 1950s to its present value of over 30 per cent . |
| 13 | For two thousand years and more the branch of philosophy known as metaphysics had dealt with arguments and proofs about the existence and nature of God , his relation to the world and human beings , and such related matters as human freedom and life beyond death . |
| 14 | As our society has become more affluent , the number of people suffering from allergies has polluted by traffic fumes , our homes are centrally heated , double glazed and carpeted to the delight of the house dust mite . |
| 15 | Over the same period the percentage derived from earnings has decreased from 27 per cent to 9 per cent . |
| 16 | The need to control costs and optimize on resources has led to centralized shared cataloguing , largely made possible through the adoption of standards such as the machine readable catalogue ( MARC ) record and the Anglo-American cataloguing rules . |
| 17 | The number of workers involved in strikes had risen from 225,000 in May to 1,000,000 in May and to 1,500,000 in June . |
| 18 | Is the Secretary of State aware that one of the most damning conclusions of the report on primary education which he published last week was the evidence that standards of reading among seven-year-olds have slumped since 1988 , over precisely the period when Ministers have produced one change after another in the system of standardised testing for seven-year-olds ? |
| 19 | Estimates of the reduction in global ozone concentration which may be caused by CFCs have varied from 3 to 20 per cent ( figure 6.4 ) ( Hulm , 1982 ; US National Research Council , 1982a , 1984 ) . |
| 20 | PEOPLE who believe in Sunday trading do n't realise that those who live near shops have to contend with crowds and parked cars seven days a week . |
| 21 | This has left morale and funds low and has resulted in schools having to turn to Parent-Teacher Associations and businesses , in order to provide bare essentials like textbooks . |
| 22 | Higher taxes : the overall proportion of national income taken in taxes has risen from 34.75 per cent in 1978 to 37 per cent , despite Norman Lamont 's protestations to the contrary . |
| 23 | Overall , more than nine out of ten ( 93% ) of the very recent ( post-1976 ) publications issued to readers had come to the Library under copyright deposit legislation , the remainder having been acquired by purchase ( 6% ) or donation ( 2% ) . |
| 24 | BAD debts incurred by exporters have soared in the past five years , a survey has revealed . |
| 25 | According to Labour Ministry figures , the number of working days lost in strikes had risen from 2,267,878 days in April to 10,221,700 in May and almost 30,000,000 in June . |
| 26 | Whatever the cause of failure , help to families has to operate on a wide front . |
| 27 | The world 's first commercial power station fuelled by chickens has come into operation at Eye in Suffolk . |
| 28 | Grazebrook ( 1986 ) gives a résum´ of how infection problems faced by hospitals have changed since the 1960s . |
| 29 | Since the introduction of a differential fee , however , the number of visits in Berkshire undertaken by deputies has dropped by more than half , yet overall numbers have risen steeply . |
| 30 | Mrs Taylor from the Welcome Café , whose husband had summoned the police at the discovery of Oliver 's body , said that between 4.15 and 4.30 on 22 June a man resembling the description given by others had staggered into her café . |