Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Privatisation threatens if the Tories return to power ; their new-found enthusiasm for rail has still to find clear expression in funding priorities ; and commuter grousing continues unabated . |
| 2 | One of Kolja 's daughters , Zarsto 's Fit For Fight has already won nine CCs at 16 months old . |
| 3 | The first issue of Event appeared on 2 October ; by then , as Branson admits , ‘ Our reason for existence had already vanished . ’ |
| 4 | Since I welcomed my first visitor in 1953 my policy of giving value for money has never changed . |
| 5 | Sustainability 's recommendations for action have also come under scrutiny , since they do not cover some of the deficiencies identified in the report , including the low-level of recycled materials use , and the company 's preference for road , rather than rail , as means of product transport . |
| 6 | In Wolfenstein 's words ( 1955 ) , ‘ What the baby wants for pleasure has thus become as legitimate a demand as what he needs for his physical well-being , and is to be treated in the same way . ’ |
| 7 | In many city centres the creation of an attractive walking environment through pedestrianisation has undoubtedly increased both retail turnover and pedestrian flows . |
| 8 | Follow-up studies of people experiencing particularly traumatic events such as bereavement have also shown a high rate of associated depression and anxiety . |
| 9 | Her dislike of being alone after dark had certainly diminished as the weeks went by , but she could not honestly say that she was completely carefree . |
| 10 | This result was never thereafter challenged : there were no protests or riots in the streets or general mayhem as there would have been , and God knows has been , in that other Celtic country across the water whose struggle for independence has never ceased . |
| 11 | All thoughts of tiredness had now gone as I prepared myself for breakfast and quickened my pace towards the barn . |
| 12 | The UDC s contribution to the politics of progress had more to do with the transmission of old values than with any radical new thinking . |
| 13 | Most Soviet citizens , however , appeared to have remained loyal to their native language in their domestic and family life , and there was little sign of the disappearance of at least the major Soviet languages , most of which were still spoken by the great majority of the nationalities in question ( the 1979 census found that 62 per cent of non-Russians were fluent in that language , but that 93 per cent of the population identified their national language as their native one ; the 1989 census found that the reported level of knowledge of Russian had actually fallen among at least two national groups , the Uzbeks and Lithuanians ) . |
| 14 | But a wind of change had already begun to blow at Newport Pagnell . |
| 15 | The court of Champagne had meanwhile become a place of development for the ideal of courtly love and the medieval romantic poem . |
| 16 | The drainage system over some sections of route has also had to be refurbished or renewed . |
| 17 | A leading French economist believes that the defeat of communism has merely presented capitalism with a new crisis . |
| 18 | He lived a very wilful life , and the fear of chaos had always haunted him from childhood . |
| 19 | The furthest the Realm of Chaos has ever expanded since Sigmar 's time was during the Great War Against Chaos which began in the year 2302 . |
| 20 | The Chartered Institute of Building has recently addressed these issues through its Northern Counties Region 's European Initiative . |
| 21 | The IRA statement of responsibility had incorrectly named another man , the brother of a well-known Belfast republican , as the victim of the shooting , accusing him of having a bizarre paramilitary career stretching for more than a decade . |
| 22 | The demands of responsibility had already closed upon Dave and Laura . |
| 23 | Even though the Ministry of Defence has already drawn up plans to pull Britain 's 2,400 troops out of the danger zone swiftly , they could find themselves caught in the crossfire very quickly . |
| 24 | The Ministry of Agriculture has now concluded that there is virtually no problem from salmonella in eggs ; and what problem there is will not be eased by going around the country slaughtering flocks of hens . |
| 25 | This little bubble of unreality has since expanded until it enfolds the entire Paisley Park complex in Minneapolis , with all the technology and all his minions at Prince 's beck and call . |
| 26 | However , ‘ arises ’ is ambiguous and his later examples suggest , on the contrary , that a form of self-awareness has already arisen with the behaviour . |
| 27 | This is not , I think , meant to be ironical , and it represents a quite logical development from the premiss that the whole production , definition , and reception of literature has now become intramural to the academy . |
| 28 | The current then comprises mobile electrons that can not be dissipatively scattered , and which of course have exactly balanced transverse forces to give longitudinal motion without sideways deflection . |
| 29 | And the shires are still there fairly strong , still er some of course has now gone onto the rare breeds . |
| 30 | And one was that this bungalow should be retained completely er by members of the Hosiery Finishers in spite of being a national union which of course has still operated , and secondly , that er nobody should go to this union until er er at least when I 've finished that they should be voted for and they were n't going to impose anybody on this union , they 'd vote for somebody from among their own members , which of course operated and that 's operating now . |