Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun sg] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw a river-bed , biting deep into the land , but nothing to suggest that a lake had ever been there or that man had ever trod there . |
| 2 | In short , it is not that classical neuroses no longer exist , or that psychopathology has fundamentally changed — how could it ? — but that such neuroses are perhaps increasingly acted-out and externalized as interpersonal conflicts rather than intrapsychic ones . |
| 3 | In one form or another Gnosticism has permanently remained an underground concomitant of the church . |
| 4 | Bitter experience or willing enlightenment have thankfully induced new attitudes . |
| 5 | Agriculture has fewer and fewer workers to give up to industry or the tertiary sector , and short-term migrant or daily labour has steadily declined from a peak in the 1960s . |
| 6 | Matters came to a head when the central government began to form the Unions , a process more important in the east of the county than the west where much reform had already taken place . |
| 7 | The application of all facilities under the KJHG to children of foreign nationality is explicitly legalized where previous legislation had only referred to German young people and children . |
| 8 | From Table 6 and Table 7 , we see that short-term memory has already started to decay after 15 seconds , but has not completely decayed until somewhere between 15 and 25 seconds . |
| 9 | Fussell records that German manufacturing output seemed to increase with every bomb dropped ; he might have added Albert Speer 's witty — and possibly accurate — comment that Allied bombing had actually improved productivity by destroying the bureaucracy 's files . |
| 10 | Promotion by merit rather than political influence has long characterized the British civil service , but outside the civil service ministers still exercise considerable patronage . |
| 11 | It 's quite good that that chap had actually showed you the right quote were n't it ? |
| 12 | I understand that that estimate has now risen to £58 million . |
| 13 | No clear motive was reported for the attack other than that Alfonsín had strongly criticized the government 's Dec. 29 pardoning of eight former high-ranking military officers imprisoned for masterminding the " dirty war " of the 1970s [ see p. 37913 ] , and had denounced ultra-right civil and military groups as " public enemy number one " . |
| 14 | Individuals act within markets unaware of the cumulative consequences of their individually rational responses to the information at their disposal ; and neither historical experience nor theoretical modelling has yet found a way of integrating those individually rational decisions through markets without creating cycles of boom and slump , unemployment and inflation . |
| 15 | I use the metaphor in the knowledge that Scottish Power has recently signed a five-year contract with British Coal . |
| 16 | Small wonder , then that British Gas has always recognised the need to maintain close links between industry and schools . |
| 17 | However , even if one takes the view that King 's Cross is essential , there are better and more appropriate ways of building and developing a new station at King 's Cross than the one that British Rail has effectively forced upon us . |
| 18 | Although this literature has now grown to gargantuan proportions , Owens has also managed to discern a number of themes and trends . |
| 19 | Although this usage has almost disappeared , it is still visible in pigeon fanciers . |
| 20 | Although this sector has rarely produced a highly organised and successful political movement , it is becoming more of a source of protest , that is gaining significance in contemporary Latin America . |
| 21 | The association used to take dogs from the general public , although this acceptance has now ceased . |
| 22 | Furthermore , Mill thought Spencer ‘ one of the most vigorous as well as boldest thinkers that English speculation has yet produced , full of the true scientific spirit ’ . |
| 23 | Members , other members have referred to the crime prevention exercise , I 'm very pleased that this council has actually grasped that nettle and is going to fund a crime prevention co-ordinator at some stage in the near future . |
| 24 | Elinor sometimes thought of all the love and the hatred , the treachery and the killing that this hall had undoubtedly seen , when strong men fought hand-to-hand to the death , to protect their women and children . |
| 25 | I do not for one minute believe that we shall hand over everything that this country has ever stood for in terms of its independence . |
| 26 | The right hon. Gentleman is well aware that we have the largest training provision that this country has ever seen . |
| 27 | have ever thought in the same year , we 'd have lost two of the greatest players that this country has ever seen . |
| 28 | Do you truly believe that this country has really benefited from the importation of blacks , Asians etc ? |
| 29 | The fact that this country has recently received 50 per cent . |
| 30 | If he is right , it may well be that this policeman has finally made the break from vulgar self-advertisement into the megalomaniac personality cult fantasies of a Kim Il Sung or a Robert Maxwell . |