Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have [prep] [num ord] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | The conifers have at last eliminated water as a transport medium for their sexual processes . |
2 | ‘ The boy and girl are with you , ’ the Trapper repeated like a man slow of thought , to whom the words had at last revealed their significance . |
3 | Blanche and Dexter knew Mills had recovered from his deep financial difficulties the year before and the accountant had at last discovered how : substantial payments had been paid into Mills ' Swiss bank account in the months leading up to his death . |
4 | The Brigadier had at last found an appreciative audience , and he and the Marshal bounced along together comfortably in the jeep with the Captain and Bacci following in a car . |
5 | The government has at last acknowledged that ‘ disappearances ’ do take place and that it is a problem which needs addressing , and Amnesty International expects to be submitting cases for investigation by the Commission . |
6 | The government has at last realised the importance of preserving the eco system as a way to attract a new kind of tourist ( with more culture and money to spend ) who will see Gran Canaria not just as cheap holidays in the sun but as a living island . |
7 | When the secretary had at last left them , she lay back in her chair and gave a long sigh of exasperation . |
8 | This is sometimes described by saying that the church has at last entered a ‘ post-Constantinian era ’ , an era in which the synthesis of Christianity and western culture and society ushered in by Constantine , the first Christian Emperor of Rome , has finally dissolved , and the church once more represents a social minority in an increasingly pluralistic age . |
9 | In group A the Paper Tigers with their amazing bouncing ball have lifted their rounders difference to great heights while Dr Blobby and the Blobettes have at last picked up some points from a game , which means that all teams this year have managed to win at least one point . |
10 | The brewers have at last woken up to the fact that their high-street shops have become dinosaurs slouching towards extinction . |
11 | Although the party had at first favoured the maintenance of two German states the Jan. 12-14 conference affirmed its policy goal to be " a united Germany … with the consent of our neighbours " . |
12 | We also spoke of the encouraging future for South African cricket following recent changes in that long-isolated country , and of the good work being done by Ali Bacher and Steve Tshwete in uniting South African cricket at last , enabling former boycotters like myself to testify that the time had at last come to re-admit South African cricket to the international arena . |
13 | The fire had at last begun to warm the room up a bit , and the brandy was warming him up inside , and Preston was suddenly feeling terribly , terribly randy . |
14 | They have been replaced in many areas by an urban , overwhelmingly middle-class population which has been attracted by a combination of cheap housing ( until the late 1960s ) and by an idealized view of rural life which their ownership of a car has at last allowed them to indulge . |