Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] [noun] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Platform weapons were set to allow nothing to rise more than a thousand kilometres from the surface of the world below — or in other words they had a killing range of about thirty-five thousand kilometres . |
| 2 | In much of Western Europe a predominant characteristic has been trade union pluralism ( and sometimes reluctance to engage in continuous relationships with employers ) promoted by ideological , philosophical and religious differences , although in recent years there has been rather less emphasis upon the importance of religious affinity . |
| 3 | although in recent years there have been significant improvements in the provision of research and library facilities for M.P.s these still lag fir behind those available to their counterparts abroad . |
| 4 | Our knowledge of life histories of most deep-sea ophiuroids is poor ( see Tyler , 1980 for a review ) although in recent years there have been several accounts of the reproductive biology of the more common species ( Schoener 1968 , 1972 : Tyler & Gage 1979 , 1980 , 1982 ; Gage & Tyler , 1981 , 1982 ) together with some work on the post-larval stages ( Schoener 1967 , 1969 ; Gage & Tyler 1981 ) . |
| 5 | It is a Yorkshire dale in a classic sense with sweeping contours and a fierce beauty on the grand scale , although in recent years it has been placed in County Durham ( not that locals pay any attention to such cultural vandalism ) . |
| 6 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 7 | This is the main highway from Istanbul , which lies about 100 miles to the east , to the Greek border , some 100 miles to the west , and although in most parts it has a good tarmac surface it is in the main single carriageway . |
| 8 | C. oncophora and C. curticei are generally considered to be mild pathogens in calves and lambs respectively although in some studies they have been associated with inappetence and poor weight gains . |
| 9 | So in fact the crinoline , although in some ways it had its disadvantages , I think it was a good deal more comfortable than , than wearing a lot of petticoats and being very restricted like that . |
| 10 | The diamond design shown in the opposite photograph is really an adaptation of the solid design ( see pp. 80–1 ) , although in this case you have to make a very definite outline with the leaves and then ensure that it is echoed in the shape that the flowers make in the centre of the design . |
| 11 | Harvest usually takes place in mid-October , although in extreme cases it has commenced as early as August and as late as November . |
| 12 | Oh that 's erm your objection er was nobody had seen me and you did n't really answer the question clients by coming in to their homes you know , Martin made the comment er that in actual fact nobody had seen them seen them in six or seven years so I thought that was a possibility for a just er oh n maybe not as deep a but nevertheless erm there was a good , good pause er er how did you er come to be with Friends Provident er you , it was good that you asked er er if the wife would be attending the second meeting , that was an important thing . |
| 13 | He is also proud that in 37 years he has never lost a single victim whose life he has been called on to save . |
| 14 | We know that in general women who have been married ( that is , separated divorced or widowed ) are more likely to be living with their own parents than those who currently are married ( Martin and Roberts , 1984 ) . |
| 15 | I have made it clear to the Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , the hon. Member for Wiltshire , North ( Mr. Needham ) , that in general terms I have every sympathy with the people in the Housing Executive and the Department of Health 's occupational therapy department whom , in effect , I shall be criticising . |
| 16 | While it is true that in recent decades it has been made more , rather than less , difficult for elected assemblies to exercise control over public expenditure ( Robinson 1978 ) , it is equally true that political controllers are not completely starved of information about bureaucratic activities . |
| 17 | It is not surprising that in recent years they have served interchangeably in the hands of various theorists as models of each other . |
| 18 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 19 | It might be noted at this point that in recent years there has been a dramatic growth in the volume of business conducted in the interbank market and this has become a major source of liquidity for banks . |
| 20 | MI6 remains to this day a secret organisation that does not officially exist despite the fact that in recent years there have been numerous books written about its activities . |
| 21 | Yet research into contemporary demography and statistics soon demonstrates that in recent years there have been dramatic changes in trends and patterns of marriage , divorce and cohabitation . |
| 22 | He recalls in On Some of the Mental Affections of Childhood and Youth ( 1887 ) that in early life he had seen that ‘ children who were afflicted by mental alienation or mental incapacity of any kind ’ were categorized as idiots and considered incapable of responding to help . |
| 23 | On the other hand , the mere fact that in that time she has overtaken it most one of some 20 countries that outranked her in per capita terms is enough to establish that her record is less than spectacular . |
| 24 | To the extent that the purchaser is willing to accept this reduction of the absolute nature of warranties , it should be on the basis the vendor acknowledges that in all circumstances it has made full and proper enquiries and investigations ( see clause 13.6 of the standard sale agreement — Appendix III ) ; ( i ) to provide that the vendor shall not be liable if the purchaser completed the sale at the full purchase price despite the fact that it had knowledge of a particular breach of warranty . |
| 25 | Subsequent analysis showed that in all cases there had been significant changes in the proportions with high dependency over the decade between the censuses after age and sex standardisation ( χ 2 =18.0 , df=1 , p<0.0001 ) , and these changes were significantly different between types of care ( χ 2 =61.2 , df=6 , p<0.0001 ) ( table V ) . |
| 26 | The temptation to equate the two positions relies apparently on two things : on the fact that in each case we have an adjective and a noun or noun phrase , and on the supposition that attributive adjectives and predicative adjectives all share the referential locus of the head noun to which they are related . |
| 27 | From the king 's standpoint , the vital consequence was that in each county he had a loyal cadre of men whose services and renders he could call on directly when he chose . |
| 28 | The letter from Mr. Roper in the March issue of the Record claims that in many authorities it has been staff themselves who have initiated the blacking of News International newspapers . |
| 29 | erm Nonetheless , while we want to carry on supporting that , we 've also got to think , as Jack said , erm of as we enter the next century what is going to be right for our children , and we know that in many ways we have failed them and we know that we are producing many children who have n't had the training and the education that 's going to be necessary for us to be erm economically competent in the future , so we 've got to look at the whole of our educational provision , and frankly I think opting out was erm a sort of unnecessary blip on all of this that is n't really terribly important in the whole issue of how the children in this country should be educated . |
| 30 | ‘ I realise that in many ways I have been extraordinarily fortunate , and I never stop counting my blessings . |