Example sentences of "of [noun sg] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All thoughts of tiredness had now gone as I prepared myself for breakfast and quickened my pace towards the barn . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | But a wind of change had already begun to blow at Newport Pagnell . |
| 5 | The court of Champagne had meanwhile become a place of development for the ideal of courtly love and the medieval romantic poem . |
| 6 | The drainage system over some sections of route has also had to be refurbished or renewed . |
| 7 | A leading French economist believes that the defeat of communism has merely presented capitalism with a new crisis . |
| 8 | He lived a very wilful life , and the fear of chaos had always haunted him from childhood . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Chartered Institute of Building has recently addressed these issues through its Northern Counties Region 's European Initiative . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The demands of responsibility had already closed upon Dave and Laura . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | However , ‘ arises ’ is ambiguous and his later examples suggest , on the contrary , that a form of self-awareness has already arisen with the behaviour . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And the shires are still there fairly strong , still er some of course has now gone onto the rare breeds . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The campaign of resistance had then succeeded , but few Unionists were celebrating ; Lord Winterton in Sussex and Willoughby de Broke in Warwickshire were among the Unionists who were preparing to spread an Irish civil war to England by setting up " commandos " of diehards among the yeomanry — but it was not clear whom they would fight if the army refused to support the government . |
| 22 | This view of prose narrative is rather different from the one implied in the Anglo-American tradition which , in its reading of fiction has systematically subordinated questions of ryuzhet to questions of realism . |
| 23 | If changes in the distribution of income have also occurred , the improvement may only be a potential one . |
| 24 | However , two families of snake have also developed such sophisticated infra-red detectors that they can effectively " see " their prey in total darkness . |
| 25 | I tried going through the undergrowth and looping round — my sense of direction had far improved from peacetime — but the saw-toothed grasses left me bleeding like a scored steak . |
| 26 | Five-year , full-time education is the norm almost world-wide , however it is organised , and the present levels of funding have already seen a drastic reduction of staffing levels in the schools . |
| 27 | The pressures of funding have already encouraged many hospitals to generate revenue raising schemes from non-medical activities . |
| 28 | On March 22 , 1991 , a special parliamentary commission claimed that 10 current members of parliament had actively collaborated with the StB forces . |
| 29 | In practice , however , the sovereignty of Parliament has increasingly become the sovereignty of the Commons , and the sovereignty of the Commons has increasingly become the sovereignty of the government and the majority party . |
| 30 | Nevertheless there is no denying that the threat of removal has radically altered the relationship between chairmen and committee members . |