Example sentences of "[noun pl] has [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 Research which has investigated performance hierarchies in the school years has generally done so in terms of the performance of groups of learners .
10 So natural had this practice become that only in the past fifteen or twenty years has there grown up in Britain the idea of conserving redundant industrial and commercial buildings and putting them to new uses .
11 Third , the gap between the gross earnings of manual and non-manual workers has also narrowed slightly during recent years .
12 Although Laps has now passed out of the benign hands of David and Lotte Lapidus , who ran it for some 50 years , the tradition lives on as does the style of cuisine , best described by the Yiddish word hamisch .
13 One of the men has already come back to Britain voluntarily , the older one is fighting extradition
14 Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG now looks as if it is right down there in the corporate basket case category : after some three years of substantial losses , Siemens AG chairman Heinrich von Pierer now says that an effort is being made to ensure that its return to profit ‘ does n't take much longer than three years ; ’ its biggest problem is that the pain of customers starting to go stone cold on mainframes has scarcely begun yet in Germany .
15 It is in these areas that Save The Children has consistently moved forward through developing long term strategies which are being added to and developed year after year .
16 Chris Thompson Cycles has also helped out with discount and a sale or return deal on spares .
17 but er one of our major competitors has just gone out of business so we 'll get a spin off from that both in both in estates er and in the hotel scene so
18 Keeping goats has really caught on in the past 10 years , as farmers look to alternative livestock to stay in business .
19 The value of early photographs has also risen sharply in recent years , especially those of topographical significance .
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