Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government backing for the railways has halved to around £550 million in the 1980s and the new calculations of support have been struck before taking into account the estimated cost of safety measures demanded after the Clapham Junction disaster . |
| 2 | Although the self-imposed deadline for the talks had passed at the end of May without agreement , the federal Minister Responsible for Constitutional Affairs , Joe Clark , expressed optimism that an agreement would soon be forthcoming . |
| 3 | How magically her love for the boys had developed into , contrasted with , reinforced her different but equally powerful passion for her daughters : how strange but inevitable had appeared the five-pointed constellation of their heroic family . |
| 4 | Now , lawyers acting for the hoteliers have written to the tourist board officials asking them to retract their statement on proxy voting and to declare Monday 's decision to merge with Bute null and void . |
| 5 | On the other hand , one was observed killing a prairie dog , and for the others to have survived in the wild for this long , the ; y must be killing for themselves . |
| 6 | Just as you thought the coupe for the masses had receded into a misty-eyed memory of metallic-blue Ford Capris and diamond-white Opel Mantas , along comes the Calibra ; a practical yet sleek four-seater to set the high-mileage rep 's heart alike . |
| 7 | In New York , incursions on the National Endowment for the Arts have lead to some equally startling volte-faces . |
| 8 | Most of the grandstands were full and the sun was warm enough for the men to have taken off their jackets and the women their cardigans . |
| 9 | The stoutest backing for the allies has come from Australia , Singapore and the Philippines . |
| 10 | In other societies parental expectations for the children have increased as the number of children decrease . |
| 11 | Any one of the above features could result in a person being labelled schizophrenic , providing some other criteria are met , such as the symptoms having lasted for a certain length of time . |
| 12 | Commentators on Spanish culture through the centuries have pointed to its emphasis on dignity and the corresponding fear of shame which leads to behaviour that is continually concerned to respect others and , above all , their individuality ( Pitt-Rivers 1977 ) . |
| 13 | In another study , Johansen and Fuguitt ( 1984 ) from a sample of 572 of the 11,334 villages in the USA ( defined as a population of less than 2,500 in 1960 ) found that while only half of the villages had grown in the 1950s , two-thirds had grown in the 1970s , and that this growth was no longer restricted to the larger villages . |
| 14 | They came from as for away as the Mull of Kintyre and Cambridge , and one of the sorters had travelled from Devon to help . |
| 15 | Most of the problems had disappeared by the time the baby was 8 months old and there was no link with the incidence of later problems in the relationship between the siblings . |
| 16 | Certainly there have been cases after Alladice , including the one in which these remarks were made , where infraction of the rules has led to the resultant evidence being declared inadmissible . |
| 17 | Although Allied have been working steadily to free or sell their required quota of pubs under government rules , few of the disposals have come from the 700-plus London estate of Taylor Walker . |
| 18 | Many years ago , one of the hunters had drowned in a shallow lake further out across the plateau . |
| 19 | Most of the entrepreneurs have come to the US because of the access to capital and the willingness to accept risk . |
| 20 | It 's the first time most of the jugglers have performed in a theatre : adapting their skills to the show had n't been easy . |
| 21 | One of the models had peeked at the audience from behind the heavy velvet curtains that draped the stage and reported breathlessly that every spindly-legged gilt chair in the crowded hall was taken . |
| 22 | IF some of the jurors had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis , as I have done for 33 years , the verdict would have been emphatically in favour of Dr Cox . |
| 23 | A further possibility is that either the prestige or the style of the journals has altered over the study period , thus encouraging submission ( or acceptance ) of larger studies . |
| 24 | The knights of the shires have disappeared as the shires themselves have succumbed to an urban sprawl in which the Sunday place of worship is no longer the village church but the DIY superstore . |
| 25 | Many of the mothers had resigned from the US Army Reserve . |
| 26 | A small victory really , because the decisive defeat of the bottles had come about long ago , shortly after I learned to throw , when I first realised the sea was an enemy . |
| 27 | some of the joins have got to be touched up yet . |
| 28 | In fact , one of the nurses had said to Jim last night your mum said er do n't tell my brother and then , then she said , your brother ? |
| 29 | After the first clash , when the crowd was halted in front of the police cordon , some of the women had argued with the police and told them that they too were victims of the ‘ system ’ . |
| 30 | On Saturday afternoon , most of the men had gone to watch the City at home , most of the women had taken to the washing machine . |