Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question of merging the two clubs has already arisen twice in the three years since Redbridge became tenants at Victoria Road . |
| 2 | Up to now this demarcation of activities has only come about by delegation , no control system could enforce these roles . |
| 3 | One of New York 's most controversial ( and successful ) artists has now teamed up with Italy 's most controversial MP , Cicciolina . |
| 4 | None of the European resorts has yet gone in for the wholesale investment in snow-making which we see in the United States , mainly because the capital outlay is enormous and the running costs extremely high . |
| 5 | It backs onto a couple of euphemisms , the Civic Amenity Site and the abattoir , and a valuable pond which attracted migrating birds has regularly dried up in the summer . |
| 6 | Foreign direct investment by manufacturers has also grown rapidly over the past decade as firms chased lower costs , moved closer to their markets and tried to dodge protectionist barriers . |
| 7 | The most tantalising of opportunities has thus opened up for Mr Takeshita : the chance to be prime minister again . |
| 8 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 9 | His words have really come home to me this week . |
| 10 | Seventeen schools have already opted out in Gloucestershire . |
| 11 | Seventeen schools have already opted out in Gloucestershire . |
| 12 | During the course of the last hundred years or so educationists have progressively sold out to those who have imposed upon the education system the responsibility for attesting attainment and selecting suitable candidates . |
| 13 | Already the Five Nations have almost run out of time . |
| 14 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
| 15 | Most clients have usually chipped in with some comment by now . ’ |
| 16 | Because of their attachment to Judaism 's holy places , the religious parties have often seemed closer to the Greater Israel policy of the Likud than to Labour , with its belief in exchanging territorial concessions for peace . |
| 17 | But I do think Tom 's animals have always meant more to him than people . |
| 18 | I ca n't remember when I have n't had to work on Christmas Day became the animals have never got round to recognizing it as a holiday ; but with the passage of the years the vague resentment I used to feel has been replaced by philosophical acceptance . |
| 19 | The fact that the polytechnics have largely grown out of a technical college tradition , geared to different ends , means that they have practical problems of a kind unfamiliar to the universities today . |
| 20 | Antelopes such as the long-necked gerenuks , the even longer-necked giraffes and pachyderms like the elephants and the black rhinos have all stretched upwards for their sustenance . |
| 21 | There are plenty of ‘ success stories ’ where governments have not intervened , or where it has not even been acknowledged that farmers and pastoralists have quietly got on with the business of conservation for themselves , and frequently provided sustainable surpluses for the market as well . |
| 22 | Do n't you think that perhaps it might have been better for the oil companies to have perhaps done more at an earlier stage , in the the safety side of things ? |
| 23 | Although Syria 's relations with the USA had improved rapidly after the Iraqi invasion , relations between the countries had already grown closer during 1989 and early 1990 [ see pp. 37391 ; 37392 ] . |
| 24 | Centre-halves had always played defensively at times , but now their role was to become primarily defensive . |
| 25 | Rich blacks have indeed moved out of the ghettos ; but estate agents , anxious to protect property prices , still steer even rich blacks away from the nicest , lily-white suburbs . |
| 26 | I see what they mean when they say the Mediterranean countries have never missed out on a female god . |
| 27 | Four companies have already signed up to the scheme , and the Centre has the capacity to look after three or four more — it has already had about 20 applications . |
| 28 | The dogs have been kennelled , and the bodyguards have either gone back to bed or have fallen asleep in the hall . |
| 29 | Equally , emotions have never run higher at Murrayfield than since Flower of Scotland was introduced as a ‘ national anthem ’ before kick-off . |
| 30 | Research which has investigated performance hierarchies in the school years has generally done so in terms of the performance of groups of learners . |