Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before 1939 Swire & Sons had tinkered with the idea of ‘ going into air ’ . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the number of students having the advantage of higher education at universities or polytechnics has risen from 780,000 to 1,060,000 . |
| 3 | The women who assemble stationery or shoes have to inflict on their families the permanent , sickly , and probably unhealthy smell of glue and solvents . |
| 4 | These conventions or maxims have to do with the quantity ( or informativeness ) , the quality ( truthfulness ) , the manner ( clearness ) and relevance of conversational contributions . |
| 5 | It is often surprising to see just how close the water conditions in your aquaria or ponds have come to problems . |
| 6 | With an excellent track record in providing awards for all industries , City & Guilds has proved to be a very good partner , offering scope for candidates needing NVQs covered by a range of lead body standards . |
| 7 | Discussions with individual scientists have revealed that in such cases , informal contacts between supervisors or departments have resulted in the creation of a network of unofficial and informal loan arrangements , totally outwith the control of the libraries concerned . |
| 8 | Relationships can be far freer within a secure framework than when partners or children have to take into account the possible collapse of the whole basic structure . |
| 9 | When contra-charges or claims have arisen between the builder and the nominated sub-contractor for such items as damage , breakages or delays then obviously the amount certified by the builder will vary from that certified in the interim certificate . |
| 10 | But the distribution rules said shares or discounts had to go to the first named . |
| 11 | Since no mines , oil wells nor factories have invested in significant modernisation few are making appreciably more convertible currency than they were two years ago . |
| 12 | The main discussion and disagreements have centred around the appropriate policy for dealing with mergers . |
| 13 | His interests and activities had coincided with and exceeded even those of the Colonel , for he was heavily involved in the family business too . |
| 14 | The US v Europe rivalry is understandable — and excesses have happened in England . |
| 15 | At the Congress of Europe , ideas and views had ranged from those favouring a weak form of federalism to those demanding a fully sovereign supranational authority . |
| 16 | Over the past year Roadcare and Inroads have competed against each other for various trophies in different sporting events . |
| 17 | The woods and roads have vanished like chalk wiped from a blackboard ; of the villages nothing remains but grey smearsm … |
| 18 | Now that the problem has been identified , federal and state health ministers have agreed in principle that this type of service should be a federal responsibility and discussions have started on the practicalities . |
| 19 | ‘ It is certainly a polygon , and our historians , experts and researchers have come to the conclusion that it has 24 sides and is 100ft in diameter . ’ |
| 20 | Preliminary work had also been done during the war on the ideas for the social security scheme , and plans had begun to be drafted for a national health service . |
| 21 | The report singled out three recent incidents : a demonstration in Kishinev ( the capital ) on Jan. 8 , when a funeral procession for a Moldavian youth who had died in suspicious circumstances had turned into a rally by up to 10,000 people protesting against Soviet and communist rule , and fights had ensued between rival gangs of Moldavian and Russian youths ; a picket of the district Moldavian CP committee building in the town of Chadyr Lunga by members of the Gagauz minority demanding creation of their own autonomous republic ; and a referendum on Jan. 28 called by the city soviet in Tiraspol , Moldavia 's second largest city , in which the predominantly Russian population had voted overwhelmingly ( over 96 per cent of a 92 per cent poll ) to declare greater autonomy for the Tiraspol district and to support the possible declaration of Tiraspol and neighbouring Russian-populated towns as an autonomous republic ( Tiraspol had been one of the main centres of strikes by Moldavia 's Russian and Ukrainian population in August-September 1989 against greater Moldavian language rights — see pp. 36855 ; 36898 ) . |
| 22 | Over the 12 months to 31 October this year , 209 lawyers have joined the Crown prosecution service and vacancies have fallen from 17.4 to 10.8 per cent . |
| 23 | Many towns and cities have suffered in the recession . |
| 24 | As road transport has improved , changing from horse-drawn waggons to motorcars and lorries , the larger market towns and cities have grown in size much faster than the small ones . |
| 25 | Governments and cities have seized on recycling as the best way to reduce the amount of rubbish going to landfills or being incinerated . |
| 26 | The increased importance of standardised informational support for both machines and operators has led to the concept of procedures as a separate design issue within a system ( Fig. 1.30 ) . |
| 27 | With Lloyd Davies in a new attacking role , the combination took time to settle , and crowds had to wait until the 1911–12 season to see the old magic at work again . |
| 28 | But recent price cuts have sparked sales and debts have halved to Pounds 66m . |
| 29 | Through creative and complex interactions between voluntary and state agencies , new processes and institutions have emerged in Australia to foster health favouring change within an active civil society . |
| 30 | The third was connected with a new awareness of history , of the fact that human societies and institutions have developed through long centuries and have taken on many different shapes at different times and in different places — an awareness which was especially sharply focused by the work of Gotthold Lessing . |