Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conservative policy on the inner cities has diverged in some ways from the earlier policies of the 1970s , especially in shifting away from social and environmental programmes towards an emphasis on economic and enterprise-generating ones . |
| 2 | 10% of all vehicles in New Zealand are NGVs , while US legislation enforcing the adoption of cleaner alternative fuels has resulted in many government departments converting their fleets to run on natural gas . |
| 3 | The development of these compounds has arisen from many studies of the structure and function of biological membranes . |
| 4 | The search for such dating methods has continued for some time , but in the second half of this century several methods have been developed , which provide much better ways of dating some sites and finds . |
| 5 | Despite the curtailment of some of the clergy 's powers , friction between the teachers ' associations , particularly the INTO , and the Roman catholic clergy has remained until this day . |
| 6 | Over the last two centuries , the relationship between the press and the political parties has gone through many changes . |
| 7 | Museum professionals are agreed , however , that it is the work of a North Italian master in the last quarter of the fifteenth century and one of the few major bronzes to have survived from this period . |
| 8 | The mistrust which their recent sufferings had engendered against all Turks made it impossible for the Serbs to collaborate with the more reasonable spahis , who were themselves the victims of the janissaries , whose leaders were known as dayis . |
| 9 | Her great-grandparents had lived in this house ; it was her great-grandfather who had bought the farm ; but from where had come the money for a Polish immigrant to buy a farm in those far-off days remained a mystery to both her grandfather and , of course , her father . |
| 10 | After a letter to the Home Secretary in 1934 complaining that the IFL speakers had stated at these meetings that they would clear all Jews out of the country , and if this was not possible they would starve them and murder them , Special Branch reported that a Mr Pipkin and a Mr Smith of the IFL , both about twenty-one years of age , had made reckless and rash statements at such occasions . |
| 11 | A mutiny over pay arrears had spread to several sections of the armed forces by the end of July , sparked off by troops of the Nyanga Battalion who erected road-blocks in the Manhica area . |
| 12 | Indeed post-elementary Hadow schools into which many of them were moved into after 1926 were offering much the same education as the old elementary schools had offered for those children between the ages of eleven and fourteen before 1926 . |
| 13 | Not since the demolition gangs had moved into that area south of the river to knock down the old tenements and clear it for redevelopment . |
| 14 | A number of readers have asked for more advice on entries that cover matches in pairs and trios . |
| 15 | But at the same time it 's wonderful that the government is recognizing the kind of work that gay organizations have put into this issue . |
| 16 | Our College would serve : to collect and deposit the variety of sound veterinary knowledge which floats dispersedly in the kingdom … to collect and arrange whatever the labours and experience of other nations have furnished on this subject ; to improve on this extensive stock … correspondencies and communications should be encouraged … |
| 17 | Both fundamental electrochemistry and applied biosensors have benefited from these investigations , and modified electrodes of this type , together with newer electrode composites , will be increasingly important in constructing biosensors . |
| 18 | In addition there have been several other accidents where cars have collided with each others . |
| 19 | Various authors have contributed to this view of strategic decision making , but the leader of them all is Quinn ( 1978 , 1980 ) . |
| 20 | Elsewhere the authors have explored in more detail the nature and relevance of such approaches to people with learning difficulties ( Swain and Brechin , forthcoming ) . |
| 21 | The sector 's growth — faster than the economy in general in recent years — and the relatively low entry costs for new manufacturers have contributed to this situation . |
| 22 | The move has been criticized by environmental organizations , which argue that the cars could be fitted with a converter because the cost , around £300 per car , is not prohibitive and that in any case manufacturers have known for some time when the law would come into effect . |
| 23 | Efforts to reduce stocking densities have met with little success due to the significance of cattle as a source of wealth and prestige rather than a source of income ( IBRD 1977a ; Doran , Low & Kemp 1979 ) , so that herd size has actually increased between 1968–77 in spite of government efforts to reduce it ( this being discussed further in Ch. 7 ) . |
| 24 | The dominant approaches in psychology in the first half of this century were summarised by Kammerer in 1940 as follows : Allen and Pearson ( 1928 ) had concluded , on the basis of case studies , that : Whilst the Adlerian Rudolf Dreikurs argued in 1948 that : Since then individual psychology and its therapeutically oriented offshoots have continued in this vein , and debated the degree and nature of pathology supposed to follow , directly or indirectly , from impairment . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's exactly why Limnititzkers have to survive in this world . |
| 26 | The Western states have always possessed a more extensive range of military bases and facilities in the Third' World than the Soviet Union , and American strategists have relied on such facilities more than their Soviet counterparts to sustain regional and global commitments and military contingency plans . |
| 27 | But in contrast to Mama Mosambiki 's oblique approach , the Kafala Brothers have chosen in this album to sing directly about the cruelty and devastation of civil war in Angola . |
| 28 | But in contrast to Mama Mosambiki 's oblique approach , the Kafala Brothers have chosen in this album to sing directly about the cruelty and devastation of civil war in Angola . |
| 29 | On the housing front , the gap between the number of owner-occupiers has increased in all regions over the last decade , averaging at 68pc . |
| 30 | Over the years brambles had spread in all directions and had wound round the barbed wire , so it would have taken an axe or some other sharp tool to have gained entry , one certainly could n't have reached the top of the stairway at all . |