Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many city centres the creation of an attractive walking environment through pedestrianisation has undoubtedly increased both retail turnover and pedestrian flows . |
| 2 | Even though the Ministry of Defence has already drawn up plans to pull Britain 's 2,400 troops out of the danger zone swiftly , they could find themselves caught in the crossfire very quickly . |
| 3 | The culture of Physics has not changed greatly in recent years . |
| 4 | Up to now this demarcation of activities has only come about by delegation , no control system could enforce these roles . |
| 5 | The crowded church was silent for a few seconds at these words no citizen of Decin had ever heard before . |
| 6 | Too busy , Hamilton added drily , to be informed the Deputy Fuhrer of Germany had just dropped in . |
| 7 | A committee at the Ministry of Labour had also worked out with industrialists methods of shifting the hours of work to avoid the winter peak times , and this load spreading helped a lot to contain industrial peak demand at these crucial times . |
| 8 | The representative there of the Bosnian Serbs , Misha Milosevic , told the commission ( i ) that no concentration camps existed in Serbian territory in Bosnia-Hercegovina ; ( ii ) that no hidden camp had been created ; ( iii ) that the [ self-proclaimed ] Serbian government of Bosnia-Hercegovina had never carried out operations of " ethnic cleansing " on its territory ; and ( iv ) that the same government had never refused international control over the prison camps in its territory . |
| 9 | ‘ He has responded very well to chemotherapy so the question of radiotherapy has not risen again . |
| 10 | However , the evidence on this has been vigorously contested , especially by Maureen Stone , who argues that ‘ no body of research has ever demonstrated unequivocally that the children of the working-class as a whole , poor children or black children in particular , suffer from poor self-image or self-esteem ’ ( Stone , 1981 , p. 8 ) , while Milner concludes that there are now higher measures on tests of black self-esteem than in earlier studies because of the rise of black political movements in both the USA and Britain which has fostered positive black self-images and consciousness ( Milner , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | The most tantalising of opportunities has thus opened up for Mr Takeshita : the chance to be prime minister again . |
| 12 | ‘ The subject of marriage has never come up in our relationship . ’ |
| 13 | While it certainly can not be claimed to be a panacea for all ills , and no system of therapeutics has yet turned out to be that , it is an approach which I would not like to be without . |
| 14 | Whatever else they had sent , the south of England had not supported Siward with an army . |
| 15 | some some extra layers on this , I mean I think that 's very valid and the extra layers include er one , the fact that since then there have been a number of royals who have divorced and so it is not unique for royals to be divorced and the Church of England has not jumped up and down about the fact that there are royals who are divorced particularly given that the , you know the Church of England are opposed to divorce . |
| 16 | As far as can be made out , systems of fingerspelling have always come about by hearing invention . |
| 17 | The GCR board of directors have recently refused quite a number of offers of English Electric Class 50 locomotives at Loughborough . |
| 18 | In this more tolerant environment several newspapers representing different shades of opinion have already sprung up , especially in the urban areas . |
| 19 | But before they had reached the back gate a few drops of rain had already plopped warningly on their heads . |
| 20 | Until 1974 the British House of Commons had virtually given up all but the slightest influence in the disposition of executive proposals . |
| 21 | Cross-border flows in and out of stockmarkets have also grown rapidly , though equities are still not easily substitutable for one another across borders . |
| 22 | Boundary changes , opposition to routes and a lack of cash have all held up progress , but the project is set to start in autumn . |
| 23 | The initial outbreak of war had already taken around 3 million b/d out of the world supply/ demand equation . |
| 24 | A number of writers have recently argued very strongly that the latter is more corrosive to social life . |
| 25 | Stupidly , I presumed that the ancient axiom that females were put on this planet for purely decorative purposes or that being pretty ( or perhaps a spot of procreation ) were the pinnacles of achievement had forever died out alongside the bustle and/or the bubble car . |
| 26 | And a similar state of affairs had meanwhile come about on the other side of the lines . |
| 27 | This expansion of education has not brought about a similar increase in social mobility . |
| 28 | A lot of water had certainly gone down the burn since 6th of June . |
| 29 | In these circumstances it is not surprising that the number of repossessions has also increased sharply , from 2,530 in 1979 to 10,950 in 1984 and to over 24,000 in the twelve months ending in March 1988 , and that some local authorities who sold houses under the right to buy scheme are now reporting mortgage repayment problems among the new homeowners . |
| 30 | Another , quite separate , reason why the idea of watertight categories of psychosis has never seemed very plausible to psychologists stems from the difficulty of defining the outer boundaries of insanity and the existence of so-called ‘ borderline ’ disorders that carry the overall flavour of schizophrenia or manic-depression , but which are not severe enough to meet the diagnostic criteria for either . |