Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] 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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Harvest usually takes place in mid-October , although in extreme cases it has commenced as early as August and as late as November . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is not surprising that in recent years they have served interchangeably in the hands of various theorists as models of each other . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Fru Møller , loyal to her country in general and her corner of it particularly , assured the newcomer that in living memory it had hardly ever done so . |
| 10 | Possibly , except that in homosexual culture it has rarely been , and certainly was not tor Genet , quite that simple . |
| 11 | as if in slow motion she had seen Benny travel backwards through the air , landing heavily on his back among the rubbish that littered the end of the garden . |
| 12 | And in recent years they 've played a growing role in encouraging the public to recycle their rubbish . |
| 13 | And in the 70s , we were again working in Appalachia ; and in recent years we have expanded our program to again include the entire south . ’ |
| 14 | I 've worked with children in various settings , mainly in secondary school , and in recent years I 've worked with students , so when I try to make that sort of categorization I find it very difficult . |
| 15 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 16 | When the C S Es/O Levels arrive at the beginning of the fourth year most schools decide to separate out their pupils into different groups , although in the school I was studying in and in one or two other schools , it 's possible to parallel C S E examinations with the existing O Level examinations and therefore to continue to teach the pupils in mixed ability groups , and that happened in English in the school I was studying , and in other schools it has happened in other subjects . |
| 17 | ‘ And in certain ways I 've been very lucky . |
| 18 | That side has improved and in real terms we have n't had to spend much in the past two or three years . |
| 19 | He looked fiercely alarming and in actual fact she had n't the faintest idea how to begin this task . |
| 20 | Loud noise ( usually delivered as " white noise " — a wide-band mixture of tones , sounding like a monotonous hiss as from a N set unconnected to an aerial ) is a potent arouser , and in rested subjects it has the effect of focusing attention in a dual component task . |
| 21 | I have already argued in this chapter ( p. 79 ) that the rat 's level of arousal can help determine the vigour of the OR ; and , theoretically more important , in this and in previous chapters I have argued that the decline of this investigatory response represents the operation of a process of habituation . |
| 22 | At some length and in careful detail I had told the story of David Damiani , Kanaan Abu Khadra , Fatima Zamzam and of another Palestinian woman , Rifka Boulos , who had lost land in Jerusalem . |
| 23 | Our bodies , for instance , are usually hotter than our surroundings , and in cold climates they have to work hard to maintain the differential . |
| 24 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 25 | But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes . |
| 26 | Glass-fibre remains an inexpensive and effective reinforcement material , but in recent years it has been upstaged by Kevlar and carbon fibre , two stronger but more costly materials that owe their high profile largely to their use in formula racing cars . |
| 27 | The company at one time had a significant tie to the defence industry , but in recent years it has focused on what it knows best — speciality chemicals . |
| 28 | But in recent years it has lost its fury . |
| 29 | It was traditionally associated with Persia and the southern Caucasus , but in recent years it has been incorporated into the repertoire of weaving groups in other rug-making countries . |
| 30 | Much of the Forestry Commission 's early planting was certainly crude and insensitive , but in recent years it has become more attentive to its landscaping responsibilities ( not least because the Forestry Commission has found that there is money to be made out of tourism if it does so ) and now employs landscape consultants to advise on its planting policies . |