Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 We are all acutely aware that this baleful influence of the American ambulance-chasing lawyer has infected commercial relations in the UK .
4 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 .
5 The implication of the ad was that Labour had produced mass unemployment and the Tories would cure it .
6 Rural labour had internalised deferential attitudes toward authority and a fatalistic acceptance of its conditions during a protracted history of custom and dependence , but at times in the nineteenth century had demonstrated radical resistance to the imposition of capitalist rationalisation .
7 It was also remarkable that Germans — thought to be so liberal — now looked to England as the last refuge of Liberty ; they applauded Nelson 's recent victories — the political wheel had turned full circle .
8 This badge had crossed hypodermic syringes and a Latin motto which when translated , read : ‘ Bodies in the cells , names in the papers ’ .
9 Sorry to bother you , but this squadron has assumed unusual significance in the present difficult situation .
10 They stressed German title to the lands of Pomerania , Silesia and central Poland , saying that German settlement had predated Slav settlement .
11 British Rail had introduced new safety measures over the last few months , but they could not legislate against criminal vandalism
12 Yes , yes , British Rail have got big problems in that way , have n't they ?
13 This hypothesis has yielded contradictory results .
14 Comparisons with previous surveys show that despite a blip in 1988 this industry has shown steady growth over the last five years and is now firmly established as Scotland 's third most important sector in terms of exports .
15 This study has confirmed early observations that oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation is not followed by any significant degree of chronic encephalopathy and it would certainy be a useful procedure in patients where endoscopic sclerotherapy fails to control bleeding .
16 Yet this religion has caused escalating hatred , wars and disease , because of passages in the Bible , surely inserted by evil fanatics .
17 The rule which imposes liability for unintentional defamation has had absurd results .
18 The Old Testament had laid special stress against disobeying , rather than doubting , the Word of God .
19 The focus of this research has reflected growing awareness that preoccupation with a handful of leading figures may create a distorted picture ; that Chernyshevsky , Plekhanov and Lenin may not be typical in terms of social background , personality or motivation ; that both their own ideological development and that of the rank and file must be more firmly located in its social context ; that the schemes and blueprints drawn up by leaders — and the criticisms hurled by their rivals — may be a poor guide to how the revolutionary parties actually functioned .
20 This chapter has examined international selling .
21 This chapter has provided overwhelming support for Northam 's assertion that police paramilitarism is now a fact of British life :
22 THE recent release of Michelle Shocked 's single On The Greener Side has sent seismic reverberations throughout the music industry .
23 In comparison with these industries , retail trade and public administration have experienced limited job growth .
24 Radzinowicz and Hood ( 1986 ) have shown how this dilemma had confronted English socialists from the earliest times .
25 The distorting factors that have been discovered in scientific research have prompted extensive examination of past methods of research and of past results .
26 In historical studies generally the interest in ‘ social crime ’ has declined because detailed research has found common thieves and bullies , not social bandits and grain rioters .
27 This programme has yielded excellent results and the technology has attracted considerable interest from the data storage industry .
28 I used to be a hunt supporter , I used to be a hunt follower I gave up because I object to an attitude of a society of people that life is disposable having seen wounded fox hounds and that is the proper term having seen wounded fox hounds despatched with a revolver because they 've got a broken leg having charged full pelt across a public road and hit a motor car coming the other way and fortunately not injured the occupants of the motor car having seen the damage that a pack of hounds in full cry can do to land that they are not entitled to be upon because fox hounds ca n't read .
29 She pointed out that this committee had funded various projects engaging in theological reflection in the past , eg ICOREC and PRAXIS .
30 ‘ That this Committee having inspected various Documents produced by the Professor Mr Vial , are satisfied of their Authenticity and of the fairness of his Character — and that he did actually hold in France the situations of professor of the Veterinary School and of Ecuyer du Roi at Lyons and of professor of comparative anatomy at Montpellier .
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