Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] have [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.

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1 This alternation of form between generations has allowed all kinds of variations within the group .
2 Within Judaism and Christianity , Psalm 23 for instance has spawned many misunderstandings .
3 Its completely out of character for Rocky to have said this … probably some 3rd rate hack cornered him just after he 'd learnt hed been dropped .
4 One reason why farm workers ' wages remain so comparatively low is that the demand for labour within agriculture has been declining as a result of mechanization-Indeed , the prospect of more expensive labour has often been sufficient to stimulate farmers to engage in a further round of mechanization so that both the supply and the demand for labour have chased each other down in an ever-decreasing spiral .
5 She had been calm and not at all put out about Eve having abandoned all the plans that had been so carefully thought out for her .
6 In 1992 , the trainees ' achievement rate for NVQs has surpassed all previous years with each of the training centres in Acton , Vauxhall , Docklands and Islington exceeding the targets agreed with the TECs .
7 In the majority of cases , where intercourse has taken place in the ‘ missionary position ’ ( woman lying on her back , man on top ) the natural eversion of the anal mucous membrane during intercourse has brought this sensitive skin into contact with the moisture ( in which the gonococcus can be found in quantity ) produced by both male and female as a result of their sexual exertions .
8 The Forest of Dean has suffered many abuses in the past .
9 ‘ Letters of support have outnumbered any critical or questioning letters by more than 10–1 . ’
10 ‘ Letters of support have outnumbered any critical or questioning letters by more than 10-1 .
11 ‘ I 'm glad to see that the cause of freedom has acquired such energetic support in Edinburgh , ’ she said .
12 The men of Ruthyn had abandoned all caution , spurring their horses furiously , lengthening out in their turn into a long frieze parallel with the edge of the forest , every man mad to be the first to lay hand on the arch-enemy .
13 The study of literature had become little more than a loose aggregate of philosophy , history , psychology , aesthetics , ethnography , sociology , and so on , and the Formalists felt that any specificity it might have had had been swamped by its adjacent disciplines .
14 Fewer of course had seen all of it : 71 per cent , 49 per cent , 19 per cent and 5 per cent , respectively .
15 Several groups of birds have done this .
16 One pet theory of mine is that the decline in the study of Latin has accentuated this interest .
17 With all of its interconnecting tubes , rarely can the concept of a leakage from the circular flow of income have assumed such a liquid manifestation !
18 Although recognition of handwriting has received much less attention the task is simpler and promising results have been obtained .
19 The tradition of the theory of ideology has attempted this , though with perhaps little effect on practice .
20 The number of responses opposed to the proposals on the grounds that they did not go far enough towards independence was very small — only a few academic boards of institutions had expressed that view .
21 So it 's not a progression all in one way but I have to say that even by the standards of the Lloyd George era , the battle by memoir which we now see for considerable sums of money has become more than a cottage industry , it 's a production line industry .
22 Surveys of provision have indicated that this still falls short of a desirable level .
23 Other countries with more pluralist systems of provision have recognised this problem and dealt with it .
24 Until recently he believed that ‘ the magnificent State of Britain' had done little for the Science upon which her wealth , power and very existence depended ; except to provide security and freedom in a country its citizens could be proud of , and this had indeed been enough .
25 It is an industry which even in times of recession has kept most of its 70 000 employees and taken on a welcome and regular flow of new recruits .
26 The research provides , through a lengthy national survey , detailed information on how the experience of recession has affected such matters as relations at the work-place , the structure of the labour market , de-skilling and the impact of new technology , the division of labour within the family and the effects of unemployment .
27 However , the all too familiar constraint of funding has prevented much progress to date .
28 ‘ But I thought the recent Act of Parliament had stopped all that , ’ Catherine said .
29 Although the complex divisions in the DUP 's North Belfast branch accord slightly with the view that there is a basic conflict between old extremists and new ‘ moderates ’ in that McQuade , while he was alive , supported Seawright against the executive , the departure of Seawright has seen some of the founder members , who left when he became a force , returning .
30 ‘ Because of her role in reproduction , woman is regarded as a special case , a deviation from the norm represented by the male … since the 19th century the science of gynaecology has legitimised this view . ’
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