Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That money has now dried up . |
| 2 | That settlement has now come through you 'll see the details in the papers er but we also want to have regard to the fact that the award for the and bridges has actually been reduced substantially by thousand pounds the total reduction in that area approach one point five million pounds . |
| 3 | In general , accounting and economic literature has only begun to do this relatively recently . |
| 4 | There were those who swore that Kitchen had so perfected his technique that midway through his sliding tackle he could swerve around obstacles , like team-mates , who got in the way . |
| 5 | If that decision has now put him in the casualty ward , it has equally kept him from the sanatorium . |
| 6 | It is less clear , however , to what extent and in what ways this broad division has actually manifested itself in the classroom and in internal school debates and policies , and in local authority policies . |
| 7 | Finally , the effects of the economic recession have also helped to make bargaining more decentralised in Belgium by emphasising differences between the varying sectors , regions and enterprises . |
| 8 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 9 | Bet that boiler has already had it ! |
| 10 | He giggles a sudden twit-giggle as if I 've just farted and scrunches up his flipping funny face as if the stitches in some private part have just popped open , and at that moment he is the very image of a nervous comic wreak . |
| 11 | Economic and political change has now blurred differences between ways of life then distinct . |
| 12 | All these four reasons are subject to varying degrees of criticism : Unskilled manual jobs may well be done just as well , if not better , by the less educated ; resistance to change in employment can be affected more by the alternative job opportunities that are available than by levels of education ; advanced industrialisation has so atomised and de-skilled the production process that for many workers further or higher education is not necessary in their jobs , etc. , etc . |
| 13 | They all knew that The Hooded Owl had just survived a great crisis . |
| 14 | Whatever its merits , however , it will have to live in the shadow of W T Stearn , whose magisterial Stearn 's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners is already out in a revised edition ( Cassell , 1992 , £16.99 , 0 304 34149 5 ) , and whose Botanical Latin has just appeared in a 4th edition ( David & Charles , £25 0 7153 0052 0 ) . |
| 15 | The second largest mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 16 | For a few months , I entertained a ray of hope that after many , many years there was now less need for young men to face death in battle , but that hope has now died . |
| 17 | The Romans tended to be suspicious of novelty , and the word ‘ novus ’ had for them a sinister ring , although their memory of the past reminded them that change had often come about , although at first resisted . |
| 18 | In recent years that change has clearly accelerated ; indeed , the technological threat has made it even more important to plan ahead and to plan for radical change . |
| 19 | That change has severely reduced the amount of pension that many pensioners receive . |
| 20 | Even before Curtis 's barked order of ‘ Get this fuckin' heap movin' ! ’ the alert driver had already flipped the car into gear and begun to swing into the traffic stream . |
| 21 | His usual enthusiasm had definitely disappeared ; more often than not he was unconscious anyway . |
| 22 | Thenceforward it was to be taken that Parliament had only conferred the decision-making power on the basis that it was to be exercised on the correct legal basis : a misdirection in law in making the decision therefore rendered the decision ultra vires . |
| 23 | Mr. Howell submitted that Parliament having expressly dealt with the case of an admissions policy designed to preserve the character of the school in subsections ( 3 ) ( b ) and ( 6 ) , it was not open to the school ( even though over-subscribed ) to apply such a policy under section 6(3) ( a ) in selecting the applicants who were to be rejected . |
| 24 | No clear motive was reported for the attack other than that Alfonsín had strongly criticized the government 's Dec. 29 pardoning of eight former high-ranking military officers imprisoned for masterminding the " dirty war " of the 1970s [ see p. 37913 ] , and had denounced ultra-right civil and military groups as " public enemy number one " . |
| 25 | The registrar will probably require to be satisfied that severance has actually taken place . |
| 26 | Firstly he overlooked the fact that the European parliament had consistently voted for Brussels as a meeting place . |
| 27 | The Commission , the Court and the European Parliament have always taken the view that it is more important for ‘ Europe ’ to have a common defence , trade , health or dog-registration policy than for this policy to be effective . |
| 28 | With the bishops also back in the House of Lords , the political tide had now turned very markedly against the Puritans . |
| 29 | He discovered that two Spitfires from 602 Squadron had actually met the ME110 head on — quite fortuitously — but it had been going so fast they had lost it by the time they 'd turned around . |
| 30 | She and Cati were born into the same family , went to the same school , heard the same sermons on Sundays and feast days , and often confessed to the same priest ; but Cati liked to cover herself in guilt , a kind of protective clothing that her elder sister had once inspected , tried on for size , and then discarded . |