Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever its merits , however , it will have to live in the shadow of W T Stearn , whose magisterial Stearn 's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners is already out in a revised edition ( Cassell , 1992 , £16.99 , 0 304 34149 5 ) , and whose Botanical Latin has just appeared in a 4th edition ( David & Charles , £25 0 7153 0052 0 ) . |
| 2 | Firstly he overlooked the fact that the European parliament had consistently voted for Brussels as a meeting place . |
| 3 | That corrosive fear has now spread through industries and professions who once felt that if they did n't have the fabled ‘ job for life ’ , they could at least be assured of adequate warning of impending unemployment , reasonable compensation , a decent level of benefit linked to their final salary , and a realistic chance of a fresh start with another company . |
| 4 | Half a century before Saxe wrote , the forces engaged in the great battles of the War of the Spanish Succession had sometimes amounted on each side to 60,000–90,000 men and the French army had been equivalent to about two per cent of the country 's population : he himself is said to have commanded 130,000 at Raucoux in 1746 and 98,000 at Lawfeldt in the following year . |
| 5 | Indeed it would not be too much to say that neither woman ever really got over it ; a day before the wedding he had written to Mary Trevelyan , expressing the hope that she would remain on friendly terms both with him and his new wife , but the old intimacy had necessarily gone for ever . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | — that British Aerospace has just won for 20 RJ70s that is especially designed for the United States market and fills a niche that no one else could have filled ? |
| 8 | The Hussars drew their sabres to drive the unarmed men back into the river , but French artillery had already closed on the southern bank and , as soon as the Hussars went into the trot , the first roundshot slammed across the water . |
| 9 | I seem to have every form the Inland Revenue has ever published at the moment . |
| 10 | The line that the Inland Revenue has hitherto drawn between investment and trading has been exasperatingly unclear . |
| 11 | One London architectural practice has already experimented with lighting its own offices with high pressure sodium lamps ‘ bounced ’ off the ceiling . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | During the early part of 1990 , the Kuwaiti opposition had openly campaigned for the restoration of the National Assembly . |
| 14 | ( a ) Exchange Despite the fact that implicit in any definition of money is the element of exchange , English law has traditionally distinguished between sale and exchange disregarding the equivalence of economic function . |
| 15 | The newspaper published an article alleging that material distributed from St Botolph 's has included ‘ the kind of stuff you would expect to find in a San Francisco bath-house , not a Church of England ’ , and , more broadly , that ‘ militant clerical homosexuality has now spread to a point where many of the ancient City churches are open pick-up joints . ’ |
| 16 | Increased social mobility has further added to the isolation of older people . |
| 17 | Just before leaving Doune he had heard from his elder sister Agnes , Countess of Dunbar and March , that her peculiar husband had now entered into a treasonable arrangement with Edward of England , not only to hand over Dunbar Castle to the English but actually to strengthen it first , at the Plantagenet 's expense . |
| 18 | It was an alarming omen for the Imperial couple , but on 16 March 1856 Eugénie fulfilled her duty by giving birth to a son , thus securing the future of the dynasty , though The Times noted sombrely that since Louis XIV no direct heir had ever succeeded to the French throne . |
| 19 | May I endorse most vigorously what my hon. Friend has just said about the benefits of NHS trusts operating within the health service . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend has just referred to the car industry 's exports during the past few years , and especially this year , which reflect the quality of the product and the improvements in manufacturing technology . |
| 21 | I welcome the support that my hon. Friend has always given to that company . |
| 22 | The median delay has substantially increased since 1990 in all five pain clinics based in district general hospitals : in three of these clinics it has more than doubled . |
| 23 | Shiva had called it that , but in his mouth it had not been the hackneyed expression it would have been if an English person had so referred to it . |
| 24 | The crisis of resources in public education has also brought to a head questions about the relevance of the present curriculum , which has been criticized as too academic and élitist , and the rigidity of the education system generally . |
| 25 | Because erm the er the purpose of these regulations which er my old friend has just eluded to and I s I I and I have myself , is to extend to the citizens of other member states of the European union who are resident here , the right to vote and to stand as a candidate in the elections to the European parliament . |
| 26 | The French King had provisionally agreed to a settlement and Henry 's presence was required to ratify it . |
| 27 | A damp patch has recently appeared on our extension wall . |
| 28 | The weather , geography , altitude , geology and the vegetation of both the surrounding land and wet environment have all attributed to an animals evolution over thousands of year . |
| 29 | This feature of popular writing has commonly resulted in severe judgements among those literary critics who see stylistic control as a fundamental criterion to judging a text 's accomplishment . |
| 30 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that a delegation from the Inter-Parliamentary Union has just returned from Russia and the Ukraine ? |