Example sentences of "and [noun pl] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main discussion and disagreements have centred around the appropriate policy for dealing with mergers . |
| 2 | His interests and activities had coincided with and exceeded even those of the Colonel , for he was heavily involved in the family business too . |
| 3 | The US v Europe rivalry is understandable — and excesses have happened in England . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Over the past year Roadcare and Inroads have competed against each other for various trophies in different sporting events . |
| 6 | The woods and roads have vanished like chalk wiped from a blackboard ; of the villages nothing remains but grey smearsm … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Many towns and cities have suffered in the recession . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Governments and cities have seized on recycling as the best way to reduce the amount of rubbish going to landfills or being incinerated . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But recent price cuts have sparked sales and debts have halved to Pounds 66m . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the light of these considerations it is perhaps not surprising that new social divisions and conflicts have arisen in the English village in recent years , nor that the local population has preferred to turn in upon itself in the face of these changes . |
| 21 | In Committee , the Minister tried to argue that was because the Scottish Transport Group and employers had contributed towards the pension scheme and that , by right , it was the Government 's money . |
| 22 | e ) Groups of teachers and employers have worked on issues relating to recruitment tests . |
| 23 | To borrow money , Sri Lankan businessmen and agriculturalists had to turn to foreign money-lenders — Afghans and the South Indian Nattukottai Chettiars . |
| 24 | A handful of Muslim Generals had been assassinated by the radicals — he himself , a captain then , had narrowly escaped such a fate when a gang with knives and spears had broken into his home . |
| 25 | Holography … may do to visual image reproduction what lasers will do to data storage and computers have done to data processing … |
| 26 | A few day-trippers and walkers had stopped by , but almost no locals at all . |
| 27 | In stark contrast , strikes and disputes have soared in Greece and Spain , with 939 days lost in Greece from 1987 to 1991 , a 72pc rise compared with the previous five years . |
| 28 | The pod and chutes had disappeared as if they had never existed . |
| 29 | The couple have now moved on to the more complicated use of silks , and subjects have varied from masterpieces such as The Old Mill and The Haywain to a girl skating on a lake and a Victorian winter scene . |
| 30 | Authors had to economize in the number of illustrations they used , and readers had to get into the habit of turning a number of pages to find a relevant picture . |