Example sentences of "[coord] have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Since one main aim of the interventions was to delay the onset of smoking , never smoking was considered an appropriate primary indicator given the age of the pupils at baseline ( relatively few were current smokers or had previously experimented with smoking ) . |
2 | The Act made provision for such an office , which has now been established and has already contributed to increased efficiency in the division . |
3 | Amnesty International considers all of them to be prisoners of conscience and has repeatedly called on successive Greek Governments to release them and introduce alternative civilian service of non-punitive length . |
4 | Ms Urizio has worked with the FCEI since 1977 and has also taught at various mass media seminars and courses in Turin . |
5 | In recent years , the Inspectorate has been seen as understaffed and underfunded and has allegedly suffered from low morale . |
6 | In 1971 , 601 went to California U.S.A. for preservation , and has since operated in downtown San Francisco for the Trolley Festival . |
7 | The technology was invented in the early 1920s by Anton Flettner , a German naval engineer , and has since fallen into undeserved oblivion . |
8 | Mr Graves joined the firm in 1988 and has recently served as technical manager before becoming technical director . |
9 | The Health Ministers of Argentina , Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Cuba , Ecuador , Peru , Venezuela and Spain met in the Bolivian city of Sucre on April 20-23 to discuss possible joint action to stem the cholera epidemic which first broke out in Peru in late January [ see p. 38002 ] , and had since spread into neighbouring Brazil , Colombia , Chile and Ecuador ( but not as yet into Bolivia or Venezuela ) . |
10 | Some 1,500 high-school students had been protesting against the reintroduction of mid-term examinations and had also called for increased government spending on education . |
11 | They had also been joined here by a number of " White " emigres from outside the USSR , that is to say anti-Communists who had gone into exile during or after the Civil War of 1918–20 and had subsequently lived in various European countries . |
12 | We 've tried to keep the newsletter as light hearted as possible without going into the realms of indecency , and have even printed in black and white so those of your who are colour blind wo n't feel left out . |
13 | It is supported by about 50 member states of the Organisation for African Unity , but has always struggled with economic problems . |
14 | The results were a setback for the SDP , which won most southern states in the local council elections of December 1990 but had since suffered from well-publicized internal feuding . |
15 | Such concerns are most apparent in the case of financial institutions but have also arisen in other contexts . |