Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangely inferior , somehow , for Churchill to have placed so much trust in . |
| 2 | His quest for glory has caused him to stretch his energies to the absolute limit . |
| 3 | Now he acknowledged to himself that his admiration for Sarah had caused him to overlook young Martha 's attractions . |
| 4 | In passing I have reflected its natural selection and our God had not created the fruit fly , it would have been necessary for biologists to have invented it . |
| 5 | be it nineteen eighty five or nineteen eighty six , it may not matter , did you know previous to that in February nineteen eighty seven , he as chairman had given instructions that this brochure should be withdrawn , did you know that ? |
| 6 | The white official parliamentary opposition Conservative Party leader , Andries Treurnicht , said in a strongly worded statement that de Klerk 's plans for change had plunged whites into " a struggle for our freedom " to defend " our people 's claim to its own country and right to self-government " . |
| 7 | Firstly , the endorsement of penal as distinct from prison reform implied that the target for change had shifted from the prison to the criminal justice process as a whole . |
| 8 | The last proposal for change had come from France on the grounds of weather being better later in the season but it was decided then to leave fixtures in their present slots from January-March . |
| 9 | For years , people have been calling for sixth form studies to be broadened and updated , but now the pressures for change have become urgent . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly , therefore , constitutional authorities eager for change have pondered long and hard , not so much on how to introduce a Bill of Rights or a restraining written constitution ( that , after all , could be effected by a simple Commons majority backed by the usual formality of assent by Crown and Lords ) but on how to ensure that such a new settlement sticks and lies safe beyond the repealing vote of yet another simple Commons majority . |
| 11 | Inflation here has been rampant , the charge for admission having increased sixty-fold since I was a lad . |
| 12 | The security market line is usually stated in terms of rates of return but , as discussed in Section 7.1 , the notion of a rate of return for futures has proved problematic . |
| 13 | At the end of World War II , GCHQ , as GCCS had become , moved from its wartime headquarters at Bletchley Park , north of London , to Cheltenham , where it swiftly sprawled over two large sites — Oakley and Benhall . |
| 14 | And , attempts to encourage greater accountability and competition between authorities have tended to flounder because it has been accompanied by a higher degree of centralization and control and a wider gap between the possibilities of locally generated finance and overall levels of spending . |
| 15 | CA-Unicenter for HP-UX has performed so well at four major beta sites says Islandia , New York-based Computer Associates International Inc , that the company is bringing the systems management product for mission-critical applications forward and it will now be generally available in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 16 | The fashion for spas has died out in Britain , but in Germany and Italy there are still spas where people gather to drink the waters and undergo hydrotherapies . |
| 17 | Improved facilities for cyclists have started to happen at local level , largely because Lothian Region now has a 3-person cycle team , the existence of which was fought for , long and hard over many years . |
| 18 | My right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland and for Defence have spoken in complete unison on this . |
| 19 | , The Minister for Agriculture has put an end to scallop fishing in the north-east in an effort to prevent further outbreaks of paralytic shellfish poisoning which has no cure and can be fatal . |
| 20 | Continual efforts to wring out every drop of water from our landscape by improving drainage for agriculture have made the glories of water meadows , winter floods and even overgrown streams extremely rare and precious . |
| 21 | He liked best the stormy winter evenings when , working late , he could see the lights of shipping prinking the horizon as they made their way down the coast to the Yarmouth lanes , and see the flashing lightships and the beam from Happisburgh Lighthouse , which for generations had warned mariners of the treacherous offshore sands . |
| 22 | These for generations had remained distinct in their administration , their laws and their economic institutions . |
| 23 | Both of my hon. Friends know that their constituents live in an area which for generations has had health care that has been relatively less generously funded than that provided in the central London parts of the Thames regions . |
| 24 | This alternation of form between generations has allowed all kinds of variations within the group . |
| 25 | My word , that 's very true , ’ and turned with relief to Fribble , who was trying to explain about their journey and about Medoc having taken Tara . |
| 26 | Gloria said , ‘ If you want to use the Smiths ' swimming pool , ’ — for Nutty had told her quite plainly that she did — ‘ friday night is your night . |
| 27 | Okay if I could say good evening and welcome to the theatre this evening the reason the meeting has been convened this evening quite clearly is part of the process and art structure for Harlow having undertaken by the Council , the Playhouse is keen as it says quite clearly on the leaflet is to get the publics view on how best to plan this programme and it 's , and facilities for the future . |
| 28 | But hopes of seeing Dublin-born Leicestershire batman Justin Benson in action for Munster have evaporated as he is tied up with Leicestershire 's Second XI next Thursday and Friday in the hope of being selected for Leicestershire 's three-day match against Australia . |
| 29 | Life for Ginger had become a roller-coaster but she was a survivor . |
| 30 | Alone in the dining room — for Twomey had stopped softly jangling spoons and forks and fitting plates each to each , and gone , quietly as his shadow — Nicandra 's mind became a perfect blank . |