Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] have [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , a combination of poor investment returns and shrinking property values has meant that steadily reducing the debt has proved prudent , particularly where borrowers have elected to move to a cheaper property . |
| 2 | But Gary Marsh , head of research with the Halifax , the UK 's biggest building society , says it is inevitable that the modest improvement seen in the market over the last couple of months — especially in the South , where sellers have started to adjust to more realistic levels — will be damaged and the date of its recovery put back . |
| 3 | So perhaps they 'll use the tiny radio transmitters that cyclists have begun to put in their helmets . |
| 4 | Not , of course , that Germans have ceased to think of themselves as ‘ Germans ’ . |
| 5 | The amendment also specified that candidates had to have resigned from the armed forces or security forces . |
| 6 | Those investigating the election fiasco will certainly wish to dispel the notion that Britons have learnt to lie to the woman with a clipboard and ballpoint pen . |
| 7 | Leaving aside the question of whether these descriptions may be generalized beyond the British context , a problem with the approach is that writers have tended to concentrate on the ‘ outward and visible signs ’ , the more manifest differences in collective bargaining structure , unionization , pay determination , conflict and so on , without providing a more general framework within which these phenomena may be seen . |
| 8 | Now that Hearts have decided to remain at a re-developed Tynecastle , Gulliver has resigned from the board . |
| 9 | But trade has been so bad that organisers have had to shed at least half their shop staff . |
| 10 | One reason is that users have grown used to roads , for example , that are offered either free or at fees that reflect the cost advantages with which governments start out . |
| 11 | That 's the Icelandic so there 's some of the historical things that ladies had learned to do with their hands knitted on pins of various er calibres or d degrees , gauges as I call them . |
| 12 | She said that doctors had offered to participate in developing the programme but had been told they were not needed . |
| 13 | One bit of good news is that prices have stopped falling in the south — where CALA has 60 per cent of its sales and where the recovery is most noticeable . |
| 14 | One felt that men had become brutalised by the preoccupation of not leaving their company and also not delaying in a place where death was raining down . |
| 15 | It 's hardly like a burial-place at all ; there 's photographs that tourists have sent pinned on the wall , records , a midi system playing the ‘ Survival ’ LP , an inevitable football . |
| 16 | The fact that women have decided to participate in the difficult but just struggle of El Salvador has meant that they have developed politically and ideologically and that there have been many changes in men 's attitudes , After the triumph , I believe these changes will become more apparent . |
| 17 | And the thing is that when of the , I have n't seen anywhere any kind of poll system , you know , I think it 's a , I 've always thought it outrageous as a women actually , that women have had to pay for toilets , and erm , I mean if we , you know , if we , we might , I mean , I , I would be in favour of a system where , you know , you , say a local Council issues a pass , which you pay for , have differential rates , but it 's like people paying up front for that toilet service . |
| 18 | Part of the problem is that employees have grown used to the idea that they are not supposed to take initiatives . |
| 19 | His articles on his childhood and schooldays had won praise from time to time from all but the most dour Communists , who resented his privileged background . |
| 20 | Work began on the reorganisation in August last year and electricians have begun preparing for the computer terminals . |
| 21 | In the smithy house at Dull , Jean Bruce hail lain silently under the covers until her four little sisters and brothers had stopped fidgeting in the oppressive atmosphere and her parents had started to snore . |
| 22 | Media publicity has brought the once secret martial arts very much to the forefront and styles have begun to emerge from many countries in southeast Asia . |
| 23 | They include the characteristics , background and attitudes of the people involved , the effects of socialization in the tenure type and the ways in which successive post-war governments and parties have encouraged owning at the expense of renting . |
| 24 | Marris suggests that this personal experience can also be a social phenomenon : families and communities have to give meaning to events to cope with them . |
| 25 | After about an hour when the pies and chips have stopped flying across the screen I notice a strange purple growth , like a cancer cell under a microscope , at the bottom left hand corner of the screen . |
| 26 | While much previous research by geographers , economists , sociologists and planners has tended to focus on the cases and consequences of industrial decline in the conurbations of northern Britain and London , this research attempts to break new ground both in examining the cause of economic growth and prosperity in southern England and in seeking to assess the extent to which the benefits of growth have been equally shared amongst different segments of the population in such areas . |
| 27 | If parents have managed to instil in their child a sense of his own worth as an individual , then , whatever knocks that child may encounter as an adult , he will have the inner confidence which will enable him to pull through and make a success of his life — success in this context having nothing to do with money but with achieving one 's aims as an individual , whatever they may be . |
| 28 | Football clubs , football supporters er and parliaments have got to talk between themselves to try and come up with a solution . |
| 29 | However , once these new languages and varieties had become established in the Caribbean , the same phenomenon of migration took their speakers back to the original " homeland " of the lexifier language , English . |
| 30 | A few of the ulema , highly placed in the government , encouraged him in his attacks on the gazi emirates , ulema " whose ideas and sentiments had remained attached to the ancient centres of Islam from which they had come as poor adventurers and to which they intended to return as wealthy ministers of the new master " . |