Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan to mark the silver jubilee by a co-ordinated programme of highlights of the normal year 's activities has proved to be very successful . |
| 2 | Twelve per cent of women 's Oscars have gone to actresses playing prostitutes , with or without hearts of gold . |
| 3 | He considered that all the world 's religions had originated from a single source and were the ‘ imaginations formed when such men were ignorant of their own nature , were devoid of experience , and were governed by their random conjectures which … were far from the truth ’ . |
| 4 | As a result , two of the Company 's surveyors had to travel to Holland at short notice . |
| 5 | Bennett himself had a couple of chances late in the half , but the visitors also threatened as Alton 's defenders had to cope with the bright sun in their eyes . |
| 6 | The younger one of Lord Shelley 's sons had come via Windsor Castle where he had shared a dancing class with the Princesses . |
| 7 | In Britain the scanty government services provided to the nation 's merchants had come until the 1860s almost entirely from the board of trade . |
| 8 | The Commission 's proposals have met with virtually unanimous opposition from the 12 member countries , and the commissioner in charge , Christiane Scrivener , has the unenviable task of persuading them to change their minds . |
| 9 | Eight of the American 's wins have come inside the distance and , having boxed occasionally as a lightheavyweight , feels he has sufficient power to worry Wharton who has won 12 and drawn one of his pro bouts . |
| 10 | Is my hon. Friend aware that while Derbyshire county council 's policies have led to the redundancies of hundreds of teachers recently , and while Derbyshire is the only county in England to have fewer policemen than 10 years ago , none the less the county council 's job creation priorities have managed to find no fewer than three posts at £40,000 per annum for former Labour councillors and Members of Parliament , the council leader has fitted himself up with a job at an annual equivalent salary of £40,000 , the leader of the Derbyshire Labour party — one David Skinner — has been given a job as a minder to Japanese business men despite being kicked out of the council for corruption 15 years ago , and his wife has been given a job at £23,000 per annum in the council 's bloated publicity department ? |
| 11 | Several flights like these , some from Budapest and Vienna , are now arriving at Ben Gurion every week , their human cargoes eloquent testimony to the swelling numbers of Soviet Jewish emigrants and the vast changes that Mikhail Gorbachev 's policies have wrought in their homeland . |
| 12 | A reading of Rhodes Boyson 's Centre Forward ( 1978 ) gives some idea of how the Conservative party 's policies have shifted in the past decade . |
| 13 | CI5 's fingers had closed on empty air . |
| 14 | More specifically , the presidential elections of 1965 , while disappointing from a personal standpoint , had vindicated the constitutional revision of 1962 ; de Gaulle 's opponents had campaigned in a presidential style quite different from that of the Fourth Republic . |
| 15 | During the election campaign Gamsakhurdia 's opponents had concentrated on attacking what they claimed were his dictatorial tendencies ( a week before the election his ruling Round Table-Free Georgia coalition had sponsored legislation passed by the Georgian parliament making it a criminal offence , punishable by up to six years in prison , to insult the Georgian President ) . |
| 16 | The project 's opponents have focused on the likely ecological damage to the Doubs Valley , site of a proposed 100 km section of the route , which will involve the effective replacement of the river by a canal . |
| 17 | Mr Yeltsin 's opponents have responded to this defeat by pretending it did n't happen . |
| 18 | Since the mid-1960s Walcott 's views have come under fierce attack . |
| 19 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 20 | The USSR Congress of People 's Deputies had adopted on Dec. 24 , 1989 , a resolution whereby the secret protocols of the August 1939 Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact , diving Eastern Europe into spheres of influence and providing the pretext for Soviet annexation of the Baltic republics , had been condemned as having been " in conflict with the sovereignty and independence of a number of third countries " and in violation of the Soviet Union 's treaty obligations towards independent Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania . |
| 21 | The Russian Federation 's Congress of People 's Deputies had decided on April 5 to create a new , directly elected executive president of the Republic , an idea already overwhelmingly endorsed by a republican referendum held in March on the same day as the all-union referendum on the preservation of the USSR [ see pp. 38079 ; 38130-31 ] . |
| 22 | BRITAIN 'S housewives have united behind Princess Diana , claiming she IS the victim of a Buckingham Palace conspiracy . |
| 23 | Indeed , the allocation for improvement work in Cleveland 's schools has risen from £90,000 this year to £1.4 million next year . |
| 24 | But Japan 's reserves have fallen by almost a fifth since the end of 1988 . |
| 25 | Others wrote about what Walter Machin 's books had meant to them at the time of their publication , and to these Viola wrote faintly magisterial replies of thanks and interest which usually also contained subtle plugs for the two books which were as yet unpublished . |
| 26 | His move , in January 1988 , turned out to be one of the scheduling masterstrokes of the ‘ 80s , and within months the soap 's ratings had soared towards the 20 million mark and the top to the TV charts . |
| 27 | Eldorado 's ratings have bounced from a low of 2.6 million to 8 million . |
| 28 | The common law offence of sedition , which consists of stirring hatred amongst different classes of Her Majesty 's subjects had fallen into disuse , and an unsuccessful attempt to use it to prosecute for the making of anti-semitic remarks appears to have discouraged prosecuting authorities from seeking to persuade the courts to mould the common law to deal with new problems posed by those who promote ill-will in an increasingly multi-racial society . |
| 29 | Long before Buckmaster 's eyes had turned to politics and he 'd become the youngest MP in the Commons , leaving Morgan to run the largest security organization in the world . |
| 30 | Eddie 's eyes had filled with tears . |