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 .
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