Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] have [be] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any starting position , when the basis for change has been created the decision as to which stage should be contemplated is the key one . |
| 2 | A man who became a shareholder of an insurance company just to pursue a claim of negligence has been lobbying the company 's annual meeting . |
| 3 | The CNAA conference on School Experience and the Assessment of Teaching had been held the previous month . |
| 4 | While the combined effect of a number of cases had been to limit the audi alteram partem principle , it would be misleading to say that it had been wholly forgotten . |
| 5 | This web of relationships has been called the role-set . |
| 6 | Police and charity commissioners investigating the disappearance of thousands of pounds of funds have been meeting the trustee who raised the alarm . |
| 7 | Now the handful of survivors have been made an offer they can not refuse : a last chance to surrender and march out , still beneath the banner of Modernism , straight into the arms of the museum culture — not as prisoners , but as co-belligerents . |
| 8 | Perhaps the greatest mistake in the application of GIS has been to allow the glamour of the technology to distract attention from the more mundane , yet vital , aspects of data acquisition and verification . |
| 9 | The Adult Basic Education Society ( ABES ) of Pakistan has been awarded the UNESCO Award 1991 for non-formal basic education . |
| 10 | The Earl of Hyndford had been sent a box of earth from the ‘ innermost parts of the Cherokee nation ’ . |
| 11 | OLYMPIAKOS Piraeus and Atletico Madrid of Spain have been fined a total of almost £100,000 for serious crowd and player trouble during their European Cup Winners ' Cup clash on March 4 . |
| 12 | It was not so much a guidance note as a review ; the Committee 's terms of reference had been to consider the design and layout most appropriate to various types of roads in built-up areas , with due regard to safety , the free Mow of road traffic , economy and the requirements of town planning , and to make recommendations . |
| 13 | Throughout the winter and into the spring , the home-affairs committee of the House of Commons has been discussing the future of the levy . |
| 14 | Although there have been periods of economic stagnation or crisis , including the exceptionally severe crisis of the 1930s ( which itself failed to engender large-scale revolutionary movements in most of the capitalist countries ) , and a renewed depression in the 1980s , the general tendency of capitalism has been to promote a continuous , and sometimes rapid , improvement in material standards of living , in which a large part of the working class , if not the whole class , has shared . |
| 15 | There are few indications that that marvellous high level of incorruptibility has been cracking a little bit , are n't there ? |
| 16 | The University of Reading has been given an award to investigate the relationship between shop property values and rates . |
| 17 | The Marquis of Blandford has been given a conditional discharge for possessing a twelve-bore shot-gun without a licence . |
| 18 | Since 1973 the Association of illustrators has been fulfilling a much needed role in the illustration industry . |
| 19 | The independent republic of Honduras had been created a year previously , in 1838 , having once been part of Spanish America ; its fertile coastal plains surround a mountainous interior , rich in forests , and it just manages to have a 40-mile strip of southern coastline on the Pacific to complement its much longer Caribbean seaboard . |
| 20 | The council 's main reaction to Mr. Dear 's complaints of undermanning has been to cut the force even further . |
| 21 | A jury swore in 1266 that John son of Nigel and his ancestors had been foresters of fee of Bernwood Forest ‘ from the Conquest of England ’ : another jury declared that the ancestors of William son of Adam had been granted the manor of Hutton-in-the Forest by Henry I , to hold by the serjeanty of keeping the bailiwick of Plumpton in Inglewood Forest . |
| 22 | This head of claim has been called the ‘ walk away ’ category . |
| 23 | The polytechnic soon to be known as the University of Teesside has been granted the right by the Council for National Academic Awards . |
| 24 | In London , a small group of clinical research nurses based in the St Peter 's group of hospitals and the Royal College of Surgeons has been meeting every two months for over a year , calling themselves the Clinical Research Nurses Association . |
| 25 | ‘ The longest serving member of staff has been offered the one post that we will be able to fund from the Scottish Education Department for next session and currently we are waiting for a decision on that matter . ’ |
| 26 | Our experience has been that to create a new expression of the body of Christ has been to create a new possibility of conversion for many such people . |
| 27 | The lives of countless millions of people have been made a misery through the conflicts arising from prejudice . |
| 28 | Millions of people have been given the same chance to own a real share in the nation 's assets . |
| 29 | Well a lot of people have been called the Antichrist have n't they ? |
| 30 | Since then , teams of scientists have been entering the site to test and remove contamination . |