Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the Confession , God in his free and eternal counsel has predestined some men to everlasting life , some to everlasting death . |
| 2 | In T. H. White 's book , ten-year-old Maria has to learn similar lessons when she discovers a group of Lilliputians . |
| 3 | The failure to find broad patterns relating crime with social and economic change has led some scholars to examine in detail the possibility that government policy may have exercised an independent influence on patterns of crime . |
| 4 | These reflected the extraordinary complexity of the political situation which had developed in Yugoslavia during the years of the German occupation , when different ethnic , religious and political groups had formed shifting alliances , according to whether their main enemy at any time had seemed to be the occupying Germans or Tito 's partisans working to establish a Socialist state in post-war Yugoslavia . |
| 5 | That 's right Ian 's got that tile cutter ai n't he ? |
| 6 | The economic recession has caused European governments to take a fresh look at the extent to which a degree of interdependence in the past has been translated into a heavy dependence of the poorer areas on the richer north . |
| 7 | There is no English equivalent for these terms although some specific forms have acquired local names . |
| 8 | During a further feast , each cadet had to announce some details of the inner nature of his disguised nourishment . |
| 9 | Age-old enemies have accepted that compromise is the only peaceful way forward . |
| 10 | The cost-improvement programmes had produced annual savings of between 1.1 and 1.5 per cent per year in real terms since they were introduced in 1984 – 85 . |
| 11 | On Feb. 5 the Interior Ministry renewed a security warning stating that it would " strike most severely " against anyone committing acts of " anarchy , sabotage or aggression " , and on Feb. 13 Algerian radio reported that the Saudi authorities had arrested 12 persons for " terrorism " since the beginning of the Gulf war . |
| 12 | The same forces operate at the national level ; in Italy , for example , agricultural policies have favoured large scale agriculture and further decreased the viability of non-intensive , small-scale producers who predominate in the south . |
| 13 | Lower taxes have encouraged more people to work harder — not to spend their time working out how to avoid penal taxes . |
| 14 | Clearly Adalard 's influence was great ( Nithard was not alone in identifying Ermentrude as " Adalard 's niece " rather than as the daughter of Count Odo of Orléans , Adalard 's brother-in-law , though an obvious reason could have been that Odo had died eight years before , perhaps leaving Ermentrude in her uncle 's care ) . |
| 15 | Other working groups have produced similar documents which reflect the nature of their concerns in the field of language . |
| 16 | Delegates indicated that the next full CODESA meeting would be held in April ( rather than in March as originally intended ) , when they expected the working groups to have made substantive progress . |
| 17 | Professor Wolfgang Wild , president of Munich 's Technical University has provided some pointers . |
| 18 | The Commission and the European Parliament have conducted regular opinion polls over many years to monitor the development of such an identity , but it is still only felt by a small minority of Europeans . |
| 19 | A number of studies with normal subjects have shown that ear ( McFarland , McFarland , Bain and Ashton , 1978 ; Kelly and Orton , 1979 — but see Lambert and Beaumont , 1982 ) or visual hemifield asymmetry is negligible or reduced for concrete highly imageable words as compared with abstract , non-imageable , words ( Ellis and Shepherd , 1974 ; Hines , 1976 , 1977 ; Hatta , 1977 ; Day , 1977 , 1979 ; Marcel and Patterson , 1978 ; . |
| 20 | We are all acutely aware that this baleful influence of the American ambulance-chasing lawyer has infected commercial relations in the UK . |
| 21 | That tape 's got One Foot in the Grave on it ? |
| 22 | ‘ It looks as if that car has come this way , ’ murmured Mary . |
| 23 | The opening of East European borders has provided new opportunities for rampant free-marketeering and with it the exploitation of the workers in these countries . |
| 24 | Junior Books has raised more questions than it has answered and has wide-ranging implications for the nature of obligations arising in both contract and tort . |
| 25 | AN OUTBREAK of bubonic plague in north-western Uganda has killed 33 people in a week . |
| 26 | But ultimately the ordinary allied soldier had to find some reward for his exertions . |
| 27 | In contrast European nations have allowed contracting companies to keep their R&D findings secret from other companies ; with this kind of practice occurring across a dozen nations , European defence R&D is often wasted as well as fragmented . |
| 28 | It is not just that AIDS has removed famous names — the rock star Freddy Mercury , the jazzman Miles Davis , the pianist Yuri Egorov , dancers like Rudolf Nureyev and Jorge Donn . |
| 29 | that was n't terribly elegant but anyway his blue labels had got , these little sticky labels had got blue stripes on them |
| 30 | But under the general principle of rich nations having to pay poor ones to build their economies and stem their pollution it fits well enough . |