Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MCI Communications Corp has found favour with Standard & Poor 's Corp , which upgraded the Washington phone company 's senior debt to triple-B-plus from triple-B and the subordinated debt to triple-B from triple-B-minus . |
| 2 | Since 1979 when the Conservatives came to power Durham Constabulary has received approval for 40 extra officers , a three per cent increase . |
| 3 | This extraordinary and highly convoluted story has aroused interest in many quarters from time to time . |
| 4 | The FMLN has established hospitals with small professional medical teams , The smaller clinics are under the control of the Popular Power Councils and are run by health promoters who place particular importance on basic health education and preventive medicine . |
| 5 | The decision has generated sheafs of proposed new abortion legislation , pro and anti , at state level . |
| 6 | All social progress has caused pain to some but liberated others . |
| 7 | This is the first time WGEC has sponsored trainees through two years of full-time education . |
| 8 | No more implanting the virus from within , no more attempting to gatecrash a terrain that no longer really belongs to us ( whatever it may once have been , simple demographic change has turned pop into global light entertainment ) . |
| 9 | In other words no change has taken place at all . |
| 10 | The concept of a failure rate of over 25% in the First Division has raised objections from those who understand that an omelette can not be made without first breaking some eggs but would rather not run the risk of being dairy produce . |
| 11 | Burson has made images of missing children , aged by computer , for their families and for the FBI . |
| 12 | Where either category has exceeded £135,000 during 1992 further , more detailed information has to be submitted within the very strict time limit of ten working days after each month end . |
| 13 | Julia Hailes has brought realism to green politics , a view that what matters is change , not how you arrive at it . |
| 14 | The actual methodology employed in the new proposals for the allocation of funding has given rise to some concern ( Mays , 1989 ) . |
| 15 | Haskins has drawn attention to interesting evidence for this in an autobiographical fragment written by a Benedictine prior , Walcher of Malvern , whose tomb survives there bearing the date 1125 . |
| 16 | The DoE has discontinued support after nine helpful years . |
| 17 | The product push from Courtaulds Fibres Viscose has attracted interest from several specialist sportswear manufacturers in the UK and Europe . |
| 18 | Environmental consultancy has provided jobs for several graduates over the past few years . |
| 19 | It is the first time ICI has taken part in such an event , attracted by the sponsors — The Sunday Times — and distinguished patrons , including Sir David Attenborough , Sir John Harvey-Jones , Jonathan Porritt , Bill Oddie and Spike Milligan . |
| 20 | Parliament has introduced taxation of this ‘ perk ’ but upon a gradually increasing scale — still short of the true value of the use of the car — no doubt because to have introduced it at its full value would have been seen as an unfair and unacceptable increase in the burden of taxation in one year on those who enjoyed the ‘ perk ’ and of course the future of the British motor industry would be taken into account . |
| 21 | But Labour points out the recession has left youngsters with little choice . |
| 22 | Nor does unemployment benefit : recession has meant problems for many parents . |
| 23 | The course has helped Pauline with such issues as marketing and cash flow and she already has drawn up a business plan for the next five years — confirming that she too has no plans to return to full-time employment . |
| 24 | It is , however , still the CEGB 's intention to reprocess early AGR fuel arisings in thermal oxide reprocessing plant ( THORP ) and the Board has reserved capacity in that plant . |
| 25 | Any social worker of experience has encountered cases of marital disruption or dissonance resulting from obsessive preoccupation and affection of one parent with a child and from the tensions and jealousies arising in the other parent . |
| 26 | Records held relate to organisations in the private , public and voluntary sectors with which Napier has had contact of one kind or another . |
| 27 | Changing the ground rules has angered investors on both sides of the Atlantic , and Mr Skinner 's mandate for this is being widely questioned - particularly as foreign carriers are already represented on US airline boards . |
| 28 | The Oxford Union has played host to Prime Ministers and American presidents , but none of them came here to sing . |
| 29 | They are heartened by finding common ground between English and science for , if nothing else , the introduction of the national curriculum has encouraged teachers from different disciplines to talk to each other : ‘ At one time , we could conceive of ourselves as subject teachers , ’ said Mr Lenarduzzi . |
| 30 | So I reckon ( hope ! ) the Guardian has got hold of this off some Derby source who is talking out the back of their heads . |