Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For me , the two glories of the current team , one of the greatest the world has seen , are two halves of rugby . |
| 2 | But given that the RSPB has set itself the task of changing European farming policy to save the Barn Owl , it 's going to be a monumental task . |
| 3 | Given that the Court had appeared poised to destroy Roe v. Wade , however , the result was generally interpreted as a defeat for the opponents of abortion . |
| 4 | After that the conversation had gathered a startling momentum of statements , random guesses , admissions and had ended with her using her foster brother as a confidant — though now she regretted it . |
| 5 | Given that the Government have broken two of their manifesto pledges — the implementation of the Common Land Forum and increased protection for national parks — will the Minister give an assurance now that he will implement the recommendations of the Edwards committee in full ? |
| 6 | Given that the doctor has ruled out infection and other likely causes for the diarrhoea , then food sensitivity should be considered . |
| 7 | ’ That ‘ familiar in fiction ’ is deadly , suggesting as it does that the author has stopped looking at life and has purloined his Andre from the picaresque , in which rogues are invariably charming and whose advances are never rejected . |
| 8 | Erm at various times throughout the course of the enquiry Selby seems to be gathering a bit of a growing reputation that that the district have let it rip or or the or the collecting point for the remainder of the county . |
| 9 | Given that the rule has caused so much concern , I will repeat our case . |
| 10 | This is this is the mileage going along there , that 's the number of miles that the car has done , and that 's its value . |
| 11 | Given that the market has ceased to be an effective mode of regulating the exercise of the economic power of the company it is hardly surprising that arguments employed to regulate the exercise of public power should have been drawn upon to regulate the private economic power of corporate managers . |
| 12 | Given that the market has failed to produce the information , government decision-makers are faced with the problem of valuing social costs and benefits from evidence other than direct market prices . |
| 13 | What was that the astrologer had said ? |
| 14 | Her father had been an economist , who had come back to Europe with Woodrow Wilson to try to hammer something workable out of the ruins of the Great War , and after that the family had divided themselves between the USA and Britain . |
| 15 | Given that the people had put him there , the Emperor envisaged it as his duty to be seen as the people 's servant — not just in the matter of governing but in his behaviour as a Sovereign who must associate the people with all aspects of his life . |
| 16 | At the beginning of 1934 the ILP had written to the Comintern , criticizing the rigidity of Comintern control over constituents . |
| 17 | In September 1934 the USSR had joined the League of Nations , and six months later they signed a pact with France . |
| 18 | erm well it does n't necessary apply that the agent is suing the name , the question is whether , what any right the agent has got , er the fact of the matter is as I understand it and tell me if I 'm wrong , that your client has erm received a demand under clause nine er , er which he has failed to comply , I think that must follow because er if he had complied with it , then that would never of got as far as the central fund |
| 19 | Until the 1640s the colonies had taken it for granted that they would trade only with England , partly because Charles 's government gave orders that they should , partly because the hostile Spanish colonies offered them no real alternative . |
| 20 | Before 1861 the state had left most rural tasks to the gentry , but nobles who had been deprived of their serfs had no reason to think of themselves as agents of the government . |
| 21 | Anxious to proceed as carefully as possible the Procuratia has engaged the conservation firm Syremont ( part of the Ferruzzi-Montedison group ) to assess the damage and how it can be stabilised . |
| 22 | From 1923 to 1925 the TUC had maintained a Joint Committee with it , but had discontinued its cooperation and attacked the Movement as Communist-dominated . |
| 23 | Probably as a result of Leotychidas ' intervention of 476 the tageia had passed from the Aleuads , Pindar 's hosts . |
| 24 | He 'd said he was sorry the incident had occurred and had asked her if she 'd like him to make her some Ovaltine . |
| 25 | I can only conclude by saying that I am sorry the situation has developed the way it has . |
| 26 | I can only conclude by saying that I am very sorry the situation has developed as it has . |
| 27 | By 750 the time had come for the caliphate itself to be transformed and for the Umayyad regime to be dislodged . |
| 28 | The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , if you could remember , and you compared the prices , I think you 'd be surprised at how little the price has gone up . ’ |
| 30 | How little the Opposition have thought about the issue . |