Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sirius and Canopus have returned to the evening sky , though Sirius is still low in the south-east . |
| 2 | Even when Mr McQueen said that since Asia Minor had been populated by Celts , could not the same religion have come with the Celts to Skye , Johnson defied him , and the point he made remains valid to this day . |
| 3 | Already many thousands of words have appeared on the subject — in official reports and other publications . |
| 4 | ‘ Cynics say — cynics have already said — when your preaching is done , when your lofty words have gone with the wind , when the media has departed to tell another tale , the world will forget . |
| 5 | ‘ The Managers ' Association have written to the FA suggesting this is an area that needs to be looked at for the good of football . |
| 6 | It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 . |
| 7 | It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 . |
| 8 | The West coast side have gone off the rails in recent weeks following successive defeats by Western and Hazlehead but as the cup is realistically their last chance of glory this term they will certainly not concede defeat from the want of effort . |
| 9 | ‘ People say Newcastle fans have stood by the club through thick and thin . |
| 10 | A GROWING demand for slate roofs has breathed new life into traditional slate quarrying in north Wales and given a fillip to villages that for centuries have relied on the industry for jobs . |
| 11 | ‘ Five centuries have passed since the discovery of America , a focal point in the history of discoveries . |
| 12 | Without any explanation , he jumped out and approached one of the Ayurvedic healers who for centuries have sat on the roadside here , surrounded by the ingredients of their trade : live iguanas whose fried juices are said to cure impotence ; ginseng for philtres used to spread or extinguish the fires of love ; tree bark to ward off a woman 's menopause ; the bringraj herb from the high Himalayas said to conquer baldness or thicken the beard of the most effete Sikh . |
| 13 | For four and a half centuries the village and manor have belonged to the Earls of Pembroke . |
| 14 | Other considerations have led to the suggestion that introns could have been transferred horizontally between different species ( 13 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ) . |
| 15 | This is particularly likely to occur for larger cities with very limited amounts of vacant land and in rural areas where environmental and other considerations have led to the imposition of strict controls on new building . |
| 16 | EVEN the police in Jammu & Kashmir have turned against the Indian government . |
| 17 | Believers have gluttoned on the god of excess and found it wanting . |
| 18 | Although many pubs , shopping centres , garden centres and schools have stepped into the breach , their play areas ca n't really compare with a good adventure playground in the local park . |
| 19 | Market-driven as ever , business schools have risen to the challenge . |
| 20 | In addition it must be acknowledged that the public schools have adapted to the demand for scientific and managerial graduates by modernising their range of subjects and strengthening their science teaching . |
| 21 | At first the cuts are only occasional , but they become increasingly common until finally all signals have disappeared from the airwaves . |
| 22 | Now that we have provisionally fixed what a signal is , and how one may be recognized , let us consider some examples of signals — the songs of birds , the pheromones of moths and ants , and the dance of honeybees — before we consider the theoretical question of why signals have evolved in the form that we see in nature . |
| 23 | BAD debts incurred by exporters have soared in the past five years , a survey has revealed . |
| 24 | The first public taxonomic databases have experimented with the handling of alternative taxonomies ( as in the US Nature Conservancy 's taxonomic inventory with local variants ) , with attaching biological data in such a way that it can be refreshed for subsequent taxonomic changes ( for example , ILDIS/Chapman and Hall Leguminosae phytochemical database ) , and with the use of images ( such as The Plant Fossil Record ) . |
| 25 | SOMALIA : Clan warfare and anarchic violence have led to the deaths of more than 10,000 people in Somalia over the past 18 months , according to an Amnesty International report , Somalia : A Human Rights Disaster , published on 5 August . |
| 26 | The waterfall is a part of the enormously extensive and complicated subterranean water system that has been traced now through this limestone mass if and which links up with the astonishingly deep fissures or gouffres that the speleologists have explored in the mountains to the east . |
| 27 | They may , therefore , form in valleys and basins , especially in areas of calcareous rocks , and theoretically should be nearer the margins of the basins as they crystallise earlier than gypsum before the lakes have shrunk to the same degree . |
| 28 | Therefore monetarists have resorted to the claim that governments can exert control over the money stock if they are determined enough , and in so doing will bring about the desired effect on money incomes and prices . |
| 29 | I am very proud , very proud indeed , of what BBC journalists have done in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 30 | Empires have been built and fortunes acquired during the Eighties , and most ‘ lazy ’ journalists have looked to the States to explain the phenomenon . |