Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Originally there were only what are now called provinces , but over the years the largest cities have grown in importance and have become self-governing . |
| 3 | In the 1960s regional policies had remained in national hands . |
| 4 | The inquiry heard that only one suicide and no accidental drownings had happened at Bellrock Quarry before last year 's double tragedy . |
| 5 | Technology company AWA had sued DRT ( then Deloitte Haskins & Sells ) , claiming that its negligence during two 1986 audits had contributed to foreign exchange losses . |
| 6 | During the fighting in Beirut large numbers of armed militiamen had appeared on the streets . |
| 7 | The region is an important tier in allocating resources for health care but regional authorities have to rely on coarse-grained information such as death rates to decide the level of funding that should go to particular districts and services . |
| 8 | Away to the north , Israeli cities had come under fire from Iraq 's Scuds , with Tel Aviv and Haifa being the first targets . |
| 9 | Britain , to which the other West European states had looked after 1945 for a lead , was , if any further evidence had been required , clearly in the wings . |
| 10 | Government economic policies had led to an erosion of the previously relatively privileged economic position of the miners , who , as recently as June 1990 , had been mobilized successfully on the streets of Bucharest as an intimidating force behind Iliescu 's government and against opposition demonstrators [ see p. 37545 ] . |
| 11 | Spanish workers voted heavily Socialist in the European parliamentary elections even though Mr Gonzalez 's tight economic policies has led to a 17.3 per cent jobless rate and running battles with the trade unions . |
| 12 | Political discussions had centred on the Gulf crisis and on the recent Arab deaths in Jerusalem [ see p. 37759 ] ; all were able to condemn the latter , and according to the Financial Times of Oct. 11 " the Arab side appeared encouraged by what they [ saw ] as French recent acceptance of some linkage between the Gulf and the Arab-Israeli problem " . |
| 13 | The party 's tune has changed , but the means and the objective are still the same , as four devastating bombs have underlined since Wednesday . |
| 14 | Does he not know that one in five of private contracts has ended in failure ? |
| 15 | Former political prisoners had gone on hunger strike on Sept. 20 in Tirana , demanding recognition of their innocence and economic compensation . |
| 16 | In addition to the national parks , AONBs and certain areas in rural Wales , a number of rural authorities have applied for designation as ‘ rural ’ to benefit from such protection . |
| 17 | The important question is whether it fulfils the longer term expectations which the Spanish authorities have invested in it . |
| 18 | The cause for GM 's concern is plain when one realises that its West European operations have emerged as the biggest profit earners in the entire group , accounting for some 37.3 per cent of net income in the last two years but for only 14.6 per cent of group turnover . |
| 19 | Previously , ASEAN states had viewed with suspicion any effort to include environmental concerns in GATT on the grounds that they could be used as an excuse for a protectionist attitude by wealthy northern countries , and that , specifically , they could lead to a ban on the import of timber from south-east Asia . |
| 20 | The Directive is needed because wildlife and habitats have undergone terrible declines in much of Europe and the rate of loss is accelerating ( in the UK , 95% of wild flower meadows , 75% of heaths , and 80% of dry grasslands have gone since the war ) . |
| 21 | By December 1989 agricultural exports had increased by 12 per cent , having gained ground in all the USA 's top 10 export markets apart from the EC , where sales dropped by 13 per cent . |
| 22 | Extremist ideologies have prospered with the ‘ first past the post ’ system , and deeply unsettled our post-war economy — we are bottom of the European economic league in the post-war performance , and the only nation left with an unreformed electoral system . |
| 23 | They had had high priority since the fuel crisis of February 1947 , but boilers and site work had in many cases been delayed ( mainly because of steel shortages ) so that 300–400MW of plant completed by the turbo-alternator manufacturers had had to be put in store for a year or more . |
| 24 | Sole traders have to compete with retail multiples ( see below ) who buy in bulk and can therefore afford to offer lower prices |
| 25 | Unit costs for maintained schools have risen in real terms throughout the 1980s — by 42% between 1979–80 and 1988–9 . |
| 26 | Labour supporters have pointed to Darlington council 's latest economic report written by the chief executive and published on March 17 . |
| 27 | Social workers were reluctant to become involved in negotiations with private facilities , but the state funding for so many elderly people in private Homes has led to an inextricable mix up between the private , voluntary and statutory sectors . |
| 28 | On July 19 about 1,000 supporters of Islamic organizations had demonstrated in Istanbul against the visit . |
| 29 | Mr Dick Davison , of the Independent Schools Information Service , said a dozen private schools had closed in the last year . |
| 30 | The number of parents sending their children to private schools has risen for the eighth year running , despite a downturn in the economy and an upturn in school fees , the Independent Schools Information Service revealed . |