Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the rate of management buyouts has slowed down with the recession those that were launched in Scotland had a good record of being completed . |
| 2 | One can only guess at how Howard and Redwood must feel about taking over a department , only to find that one of their political opponents has walked off with the money . |
| 3 | The campaign of Benson & Hedges has evolved remarkably over the past dozen years and has now reached a point at which the motifs chosen to dissemble the product are themselves classic symbols of dissembling — pretty fans for the summer months in 1988 , attractive fishing lures for the autumn . |
| 4 | Even so , the number of people moving through particular age groups has varied substantially over the past two or three decades . |
| 5 | As a result , the size of almost all age groups has changed substantially over the past two decades , in marked contrast to the small increase registered by the overall population . |
| 6 | The privatisation during the 1980s of all the major British utilities has brought out into the open the whole question of the preferential treatment given by EEC institutions to publicly owned as against private organisations . |
| 7 | Chart 3 indicates that , as a result of the advertising , growth in Gold 90 balances in Scottish branches initially grew much faster , although , subsequent to the advertising campaign , growth in English and Welsh branches has caught up with the help of other communications , including the Personal Customer Newsletter and posters in branches supporting some magnificent local sales efforts . |
| 8 | The name of Lads has survived down through the years from the 15th century . |
| 9 | Research into the form and content of user interfaces for GIS has accelerated rapidly in the last couple of years . |
| 10 | In this connection thought appears to be divided almost on a national basis , English authors having resorted freely to the assumption that the sea is capable of cutting wide platforms in their interpretation of high level terraces , while American and continental authorities have been much more inclined to doubt whether the sea can cut a very wide bench unless there is progressive drowning of the land or unless the sea is merely trimming up a subaerial surface . |
| 11 | The BJP and its allies among militant Hindu organizations had called repeatedly for the mosque at Ayodhya to be replaced by a temple honouring the Hindu deity , Lord Ram [ see pp. 37854 ; 37964 ; 38532 ; 38682 ; 38866 ; 39008 ; 39193-94 ] . |
| 12 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 13 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 14 | His eyes had flicked up to the top of the small cliff to our left . |
| 15 | Perhaps the most notorious was a forger ; Coiner Varley who escaped sliding down a rubbish tip which the market traders had pushed up against the wall of the gaol . |
| 16 | All the parties had learnt much from the single transferable vote elections of 1973 and this informed their strategy and tactics in 1975 . |
| 17 | PKK members had attacked a gendarmerie post in Sirnak 's Uludere district , and officials reported that surviving PKK fighters had fled back across the border into Iraq . |
| 18 | Earlier a smaller number of Cardiff supporters had run on to the pitch in celebration of their side 's equaliser in a game which the Welsh club eventually won 4–2 . |
| 19 | Within a few years of Karak Eight Peaks ' fall the Night Goblins had settled permanently in the ruins and split into many tribes based around the adjoining mountains and the tunnels that ran beneath them . |
| 20 | By this time the crowd following the marchers had spilled out across the roadway , effectively breaking the ban on a march within the city walls . |
| 21 | From these findings and from the clinical course , we concluded that the fragments had passed spontaneously into the duodenum . |
| 22 | Although the Lancastrians had relied principally upon the archaic fifteenths and tenths they had occasionally tried some experiments . |
| 23 | England had all the big men — Bayfield , Dooley and Rodber — yet the Scots had run away with the ball . |
| 24 | At the back of the platform was a fence , and although it had apparently been painted white in the early 1900's , in later years the paint had peeled off and bushes had grown up on the cutting side to provide a new backdrop to the isolated platform beside the overgrown railway . |
| 25 | His clients had pressed ahead with the claim against his companies and Mr Ashton told the Manx judge , John Corrin , that the matter had been settled out of court and Raper was prepared to admit judgment for £11.7m , which would be paid into a firm of local advocates . |
| 26 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 27 | The two vessels had laid there off the Navy Yard all that morning . |
| 28 | As a result of good product design , developments in colour printing , trading up , increased marketing by museums and galleries and perhaps above all the ‘ image ’ culture promulgated by television and the media more generally , calendars have come out of the office and potting shed and into prime sites in the home — and they need to be replaced every year . |
| 29 | I am also pleased to inform my hon. Friend that ophthalmology waiting lists have fallen substantially during the past year . |
| 30 | Although the numbers of single sex schools have declined dramatically during the past three decades , girls-only schools have been supported as a desirable alternative to coeducation in some LEAs . |