Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet by the end of the 1960s , institutions had once again become places of last resort , and over the past thirty years the numbers of youngsters admitted to institutions has declined sharply in all three countries ( Lammertyn and Antoons , 1990 ; Ploeg , 1986 ) . |
| 2 | The cost of replacing your possessions has risen greatly in recent years . |
| 3 | You Queenie Warley mentioned earlier that the number of personnel has gone up by what , a hundred per cent ? |
| 4 | While the rate of management buyouts has slowed down with the recession those that were launched in Scotland had a good record of being completed . |
| 5 | The Bar has lost by the gradual extension of county court jurisdiction ( where solicitors have the right of audience ) ; and the income limit for legal aid in civil cases has fallen well behind inflation , so that few people are now eligible for it . |
| 6 | The fashion for spas has died out in Britain , but in Germany and Italy there are still spas where people gather to drink the waters and undergo hydrotherapies . |
| 7 | However , its use in a wide variety of disciplines has grown dramatically in recent decades , to the point where it seems not only to be facilitating what was done before , but to be creating new possibilities . |
| 8 | One can only guess at how Howard and Redwood must feel about taking over a department , only to find that one of their political opponents has walked off with the money . |
| 9 | With that thought in mind we have produced a chart which reveals the extent to which business involving the recording of Irish bands and artists has gone abroad in recent years . |
| 10 | The number of isolations of non-toxigenic C diphtheriae var gravis referred to the unit from laboratories that continue to screen all throat swabs for C diphtheriae has increased fivefold from 1990 to 1992 . |
| 11 | The campaign of Benson & Hedges has evolved remarkably over the past dozen years and has now reached a point at which the motifs chosen to dissemble the product are themselves classic symbols of dissembling — pretty fans for the summer months in 1988 , attractive fishing lures for the autumn . |
| 12 | Mintel the consumer trend watchers claim that consumer spending on DIY and garden products has gone up by 96 per cent between 1983 and 1989 ; while spending on furniture and furnishings has increased by 52 per cent in the same period . |
| 13 | Demand for the company 's breakfast cereals and snack food products has increased rapidly across Europe during the past two years and it is a leading manufacturer of own-label breakfast cereals . |
| 14 | Often the interaction between interest groups has consisted largely of assertion not fully supported by objective data or rational argument . |
| 15 | Even so , the number of people moving through particular age groups has varied substantially over the past two or three decades . |
| 16 | As a result , the size of almost all age groups has changed substantially over the past two decades , in marked contrast to the small increase registered by the overall population . |
| 17 | The number of drama teachers in schools has grown rapidly for years . |
| 18 | But the operating framework of meeting the needs of Catholic schools has remained firmly in focus . |
| 19 | He found that the number of mispricing signals has declined substantially over time . |
| 20 | Demand for the services offered by these units has varied considerably with a consequence that the length of time between first contact with the GP and first appointment has fluctuated between two weeks and three months . |
| 21 | However , as the use of computers has spread rapidly to large sectors of work and business , there has been a growing trend to encourage the use of computers in schools across the curriculum . |
| 22 | The privatisation during the 1980s of all the major British utilities has brought out into the open the whole question of the preferential treatment given by EEC institutions to publicly owned as against private organisations . |
| 23 | A convoy of vintage Rolls-Royce cars has set out on a nostalgic journey . |
| 24 | Chart 3 indicates that , as a result of the advertising , growth in Gold 90 balances in Scottish branches initially grew much faster , although , subsequent to the advertising campaign , growth in English and Welsh branches has caught up with the help of other communications , including the Personal Customer Newsletter and posters in branches supporting some magnificent local sales efforts . |
| 25 | The name of Lads has survived down through the years from the 15th century . |
| 26 | Alongside the formal structures , a network of informal relationships has grown up at all levels of the organization . |
| 27 | There have been some exceptions ( again , perhaps because insufficient phase-one training was given ) ( Arnoult 1953 ; McAllister 1953 ; McCormack 1958 ) but for the most part the test performance of control subjects has turned out to be inferior to that of subjects pre-trained with the relevant stimuli ( G. Cantor 1955 ; J. Cantor 1955 ; Cantor and Hottel 1957 ; Smith and Means 1961 ; Hendrickson and Muehl 1962 ) . |
| 28 | Burglary at homes has gone up by 23pc and fraud , shoplifting , and car crime are also rising rapidly . |
| 29 | Scottish Homes has brought back into use 1,000 units that it has helped to create in the past two years . |
| 30 | The Ministers for the Arts has teamed up with Mick Jagger and announced National Music Day . |