Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Charles ' weak heart had failed , and this had caused his death . |
| 2 | It is this : that collective force should be trained against individuals only when some past political decision has licensed this explicit in such a way that competent lawyers and judges will all agree about what that decision was , no matter how much they disagree about morality and politics . |
| 3 | According to the Confession , God in his free and eternal counsel has predestined some men to everlasting life , some to everlasting death . |
| 4 | Since then extra-marital conceptions have increased sharply while all conceptions , and all births , have fallen . |
| 5 | But in their hurry to get off the mountain , exhausted climbers have discarded tons of rubbish . |
| 6 | And , secondly , local economic strategies have shown that the economy can not be abstracted from other sets of relationships within society . |
| 7 | Some patterns of normal colonic motility have begun to emerge , but specific abnormalities are yet to be defined . |
| 8 | Experiments on the effects of various gastrointestinal polypeptide hormones and drugs on colonic motility have sought further clarification of normal motility patterns or effective treatments for motility disorders . |
| 9 | In spite of scepticism and outright hostility to her at the court ( how could she achieve what professional commanders had failed to do ? ) |
| 10 | To return to the main point : we introduced surface dyslexia as the pattern of acquired dyslexia which would be expected if neurological damage had affected the lexical procedure for reading aloud and spared the non-lexical procedure . |
| 11 | Whether one accepts that view or not — and I do not think that it is valid in its simple form ( see Fine and Harris ( 1985 ) ) — it is a powerful one ; in that context , the fact that the proportion of foreign assets in UK pension funds ' total investments has risen is a mark of the power that the post-1979 boom in the City 's foreign investment has had . |
| 12 | The flows of trade and capital discussed in sections 1.3.2 to 1.3.4 indicate that the growth of these complex two-way flows has become the most important factor in the UK 's international position . |
| 13 | The question of the level of resources that should be invested in Scotland 's underwater heritage has come into focus with the rediscovery of an historic shipwreck off Duart Point in Mull . |
| 14 | The peeling away of Upper House 's grubby skin has exposed dozens of small but fine details which have formed the basis for the workshop 's designs . |
| 15 | On Dec. 31 , 1991 , the two Korean states had initialled an outline agreement designed to ban nuclear weapons from the peninsula [ see pp. 38659-60 ] . |
| 16 | Although South Korea did not make an official response to the preconditions — all of which it had rejected in the past — it did agreed to suspend its pursuit of membership of the UN until the two Korean states had discussed the issue further . |
| 17 | By the time that the new Fono convened in early May , the traditional political manoeuvring had increased the HRPP 's legislative strength to 30 seats , compared with 16 for the SNDP and one independent . |
| 18 | So far , the most striking instance has occurred in Germany . |
| 19 | Yet it was undeniable that the Conservative political pressure to extend rural electrification had led to a diversion of scarce capital resources into investments which were known to be unremunerative and in fact turned out to be so . |
| 20 | Forecasts now differed as to whether economic recovery had temporarily halted or whether a double-dip recession had occurred . |
| 21 | From September 1981 the music course for professional performers has qualified for mandatory awards , the Welsh College of Music and Drama being one of a small number of specialist music centres in the UK to be so designated . |
| 22 | By mid-century , many scientific and professional groups had grasped the value of the new medium as an aid to empirical verification . |
| 23 | It may also be true that some professional groups have had their independence and autonomy reduced . |
| 24 | " Cho Lon " in Annamese means " Great Market , " and they hope to make their fortune there as many Cantonese emigrants have done , by exploiting the lazy Annamese . |
| 25 | Most of the major private mines had worked normally . |
| 26 | Similarly , the prevention of further episodes of self-poisoning or self-injury continues to be a problem , and while retrospective investigations have given support to the policy of psychiatric intervention , prospective studies have failed to demonstrate any effect on repetition rates . |
| 27 | In the 1960s regional policies had remained in national hands . |
| 28 | Third , regional policies have eased the process of restructuring old industries by promising new jobs . |
| 29 | With these qualifications in mind , it can be said that regional policies have moderated the relative but not the absolute differences in the unemployment rates of development and non-development areas , as Table 4.5 suggests . |
| 30 | Coggeshall was neither large nor particularly affluent ; John Paycocke , nephew of Thomas and inheritor of the imposing Paycocke house , was assessed at no more than £53 , though the richest man in Coggeshall , his son having £10 as well ; to all appearances Thomas 's munificent bequests had depleted the family fortune . |