Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] have [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the fundamental importance of demography for any assessment of a pre-industrial economy , it is not surprising that economic historians have pressed the surveys into service ( historians of medieval England have done the same sort of thing with Domesday Book ) as sources of demographic data . |
| 2 | At three o'clock that afternoon the four-wheel-drive Audi had disregarded the thickening blizzard and raced away from the threat of Nordhausen towards Leipzig and Dresden . |
| 3 | The moon was sailing in the sky , making her woebegone grimace , when she brought it to her , and Zenaida was torn , you could tell , between disappointment that brave Carmellina had fulfilled the impossible ordeal she had set her , and pleasure in the work of the dress itself , the fine weave , the dashing shape , the fall of the supple cloth , the nimble stitching . |
| 4 | Nobody since the first Napoleon made his Corsican brothers kings of half Europe had made the political code of the Latin world of the Mafia so obviously the basis of his policy as Nicolae Ceauşescu . |
| 5 | BRITISH Midland has fired the latest shot in the battle for business on the Belfast-Heathrow route . |
| 6 | In perhaps 478 Alexander had captured the so-called Nine Ways near Amphipolis , perhaps in anticipation of the Athenian conquest of Eion , also near the mouth of the Strymon ( p. 32 ) . |
| 7 | She was not afraid of the dark , because when she was very little Maggie had had the last few scales of Fenna 's tail to suck on while she fell asleep . |
| 8 | In 1695 Sloane had married the wealthy widow of a Jamaican planter . |
| 9 | More successful CGT sponsored strikes held in late October and early November had forced the pro-government governors of the northern province of Jujuy and the southern province of Chubut to resign following demonstrations by public-sector workers protesting against unpaid wages and high inflation . |
| 10 | Aid workers in central Bosnia have told the United Nations it must act to protect more than a thousand Moslems trapped in the Croatian controlled enclave of Vareys . |
| 11 | By April 1991 Pearl had recognised the urgent need for change . |
| 12 | By the 1870s Cardiff had become the largest town in Wales and the marquess was being hailed as its ‘ creator ’ . |
| 13 | SOFT drinks giant PepsiCo has adorned the front cover of its annual report with pictures of cute white bunnies . |
| 14 | Paris-based Thomson-CSF SA 's Must Software International SA has announced the first versions of its Nomad applications generator for Unix , starting with IBM Corp systems . |
| 15 | By 1909 Guinness had reached the frozen wastes of the South Pole . |
| 16 | On July 17 Fareed had announced the formal entry into government of the Hezb-i-Wahdat , and on July 25 he confirmed that the government intended to retain the Shia Gen. Khodad Hazareh who had taken over as Interior Minister under former interim President Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi on June 26 . |
| 17 | WOOD Group Fire Protection Ltd in great Yarmouth has gained the coveted BS5750 Part 2 quality assurance award covering the servicing and maintenance of portable fire extinguishers to BS5306 Part 3 . |
| 18 | The Economist of March 3 , 1990 , commented that " the revolution in Eastern Europe has robbed the only avowedly Marxist Arab state of its support and its ideological lodestone " , that " Czech and East German advisers are leaving in droves " and that " the Russians have been disengaging " and had reportedly closed their military bases . |
| 19 | By 1661 Gurle had raised the hardy nectarine Elruge and given it his own name reversed , with an extra e for euphony . |
| 20 | The National Assembly in late April had removed the public security functions of these two paramilitary formations ; in practice , the former now guarded national borders and the latter had been transformed into an internal military police . |
| 21 | that Stuart 's done the right thing . |
| 22 | Big Ben has missed the past two finals , through injury , but showed himself right back to his best with a victory in the recent Tampa Invitational . |
| 23 | One of the problems , of course , is that , with the invariably available and endlessly enthusiastic Dixon having achieved the remarkable feat of being appointed to no fewer than five of Scotland 's summer tours , there has not been too much opportunity for anyone else to advance his claims . |
| 24 | In his Climate and Evolution of 1914 Matthew argued that , since the last cold spell began in the Eocene , northern Asia had become the main centre for mammalian evolution . |
| 25 | Students in secondary schools and teacher training colleges in northern Ghana have criticised the mass media for causing student unrest and the spread of youth immorality . |
| 26 | On 20 June 1837 Victoria had ascended the British throne . |
| 27 | In 1936 Tolkien had warned the British Academy that the Ragnarok spirit had survived Thórr and Óthinn , could revive ‘ even in our own times … martial heroism as its own end ’ . |
| 28 | Formerly known as the North British Hotel , the new Balmoral has restored the Victorian Palm Court room beyond its former glory , subtly understating the heavy plasterwork and reflecting the shape of a huge natural light glass dome in an eight sided central motif on the carpet . |
| 29 | On the car radio the BBC World Service announces that this morning ( 6th May ) , for the first time in forty years , the authorities in Soviet Moldavia have opened the Soviet-Romanian border across the river Pruth and that people on both sides of the border have launched millions of flowers into the waters , with thanksgiving services being held on both sides of the border . |
| 30 | The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales has told the Welsh Office that its plan to meet a near doubling of demand for aggregates over the next 20 years , will cause irrevocable harm to many areas of Wales ( 1 ) . |