Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Football Supporters Association have set out on a project to democratise the game , taking control of the clubs and institutions that so ruthlessly exploit their support . |
| 2 | As a result of good product design , developments in colour printing , trading up , increased marketing by museums and galleries and perhaps above all the ‘ image ’ culture promulgated by television and the media more generally , calendars have come out of the office and potting shed and into prime sites in the home — and they need to be replaced every year . |
| 3 | The eight to 10 weeks after schools have broken up for the summer are the peak period for tour operators , and it is only around mid-September that they can judge how successful they have been . |
| 4 | All the little steps have added up to a high achievement . |
| 5 | Traders have hit back with a T shirt campaign , warning town shoppers and town planners alike of what they see as a threat to the very fabric of the town centre . |
| 6 | Over the past decade , lasers able to generate ultra-short pulses have moved out of the laser physicist 's laboratory and onto the chemist 's bench . |
| 7 | Sadly the opposition have gone down with the flu . |
| 8 | A number of explanations for urban economic decline are based on the assumption that jobs and/or industrial investment have moved out of the cities because of prevailing production costs and the problems associated with the older urban cores . |
| 9 | TWO student chefs from Darlington College have won through to the finals of a national catering competition . |
| 10 | According to CUP , the trade in the UK and Ireland has been ‘ magnificently supportive ’ , with almost 200 window displays of the Oxford Cambridge Book Race design , and entries have flooded in for the competition to win a holiday in Pompeii . |
| 11 | The strong tactics have paid off in the case of the prison officers , who went back to work last week , but there is increasing concern on how to deal with the tax collectors . |
| 12 | As a rough guide two strands wound together make something approximately like three-ply in thickness and three together are usually reckoned to be about a four-ply. these fine industrial yarns used to be in the ‘ odds and ends ’ bins , but the manufacturers have caught on to the fact that they are popular with machine knitters , so now they can be bought under a brand name . |
| 13 | In an attempt to cure this problem ( and sell more skegs ) the manufacturers have come out with a number of ingenious shapes . |
| 14 | It must be the first time ever in the Five Nations Championship that two referees have dropped out of the opening games , with England 's Ed Morrison missing the Ireland v Wales game through a rib injury , and Yours Truly having to watch the England v Ireland game on television through a ‘ flu virus . |
| 15 | I was very pleased with the finished result , but I must confess , after wearing it several times , a few of the cut floats have worked through to the front . |
| 16 | The majority of the law lords seemed to regard the interests of the state as coterminous with the interests of the government of the day ; executive-minded comments to that effect have lingered on in the textbooks ever since , an unwanted legal legacy from this period of popular protest . |
| 17 | And finally tonight Moseley rugby club have come up with a very different approach to pre-season training , I have to tell you it is not what you 'd expect from the lads from the Readings . |
| 18 | Resident outside the airfield 's motel for nearly 30 years , it was beginning to look very much the worse for wear and , as other Ouragons have given in to the ravages of time , attract the nearest of museums . |
| 19 | Up to 20 of the bogus MOT certificates have turned up across the province in the last year , prompting a major investigation by detectives . |
| 20 | These people , I remarked , could pull out of their pockets , thoughtlessly , as much money for a round of drinks as most single parents have to live on for a week ; could pay as much for a few hours ’ sleep as a Third World peasant and his family have to live , or die , on for a year . |
| 21 | Parents have handed over to an outsider to solve a problem he or she never has to face . |
| 22 | What 's happened is , of course , that as the costs have fallen and the micros have come in through the door so they 're very much smaller , erm it all becomes possible for the whole of society and not for a tiny elite . |
| 23 | He says many people in the village have grown up with the noise of the jets . |
| 24 | Working under the auspices of the Centre for Science Studies and Science Policy at Lancaster , Drs Brian Wynne , John Wakeford and Stephen Payne have linked up with the Child Care and Development Group at the University of Cambridge to carry out comparative study of public interpretations of scientific and technological concepts . |
| 25 | The Boomtown Rats have exploded out of the country , but there is little lingering after-effect . |
| 26 | THERE was a resounding message sent to Steve Cram , the man England have left out of the Commonwealth Games team , from the Scottish Indoor Championships yesterday . |
| 27 | THE QE2 's owners Cunard have hit back after a US federal review board blamed confusion and poor communication for the world 's largest liner running aground off the US east coast last summer . |
| 28 | I like the way the lambs have settled down in the field have n't they ? |
| 29 | ‘ Aga-sagas have taken over from the steamy sex bonkbusters of the Eighties . |
| 30 | Scores of multinational companies have set up in the industrial parks on either side of the giant bridge that links Penang island to the mainland . |