Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] have [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE rabbits in Regent 's Park have welcomed the presidential victory of Democrat Bill Clinton . |
| 2 | By 1542 , Henry 's fear had become the dominant emotion and he ordered Parliament to legislate against those who used incantations and practices of sorcery aimed at killing or injuring people , or destroying their goods and chattels . |
| 3 | Of the dailies , Today 's circulation has registered the worst seasonal drop , falling to 466,631 from 513,673 . |
| 4 | Phoebe now wondered , with an inner smile , remembering the evening when , aged about twelve , the master of her father 's college had rearranged the high table to make her his senior guest . |
| 5 | Oxfam 's work has brought the third world closer to home . |
| 6 | Rob 's group had to walk the long way round into the Jabri Nullah and was rewarded by several days of good skiing . |
| 7 | And , to add the final touch , Phillips 's insight had filled the only remaining gap by proposing , albeit in skeletal form , an empirical model of inflation which was to be theoretically fleshed out by Lipsey . |
| 8 | Harry Chapman 's wife had died the previous year , and the couple left three children . |
| 9 | In this there is a parallel , by no means fanciful , with the motor car — surely the only product that might challenge TV 's claim to have made the greatest difference to most people 's daily lives between 1945 and 1990 . |
| 10 | For Sartre ‘ human history ’ was identified with the history of the West , and it was for this reason that Lévi-Strauss contested Sartre 's claim to have established the human foundation of ‘ a structural , historical anthropology ’ for Marxism . |
| 11 | There has been much more detailed study of the pre-revolutionary economy , of Russia 's claim to have entered the imperialist phase of capitalism . |
| 12 | Away from the Commons , a former export manager of Coventry-based Matrix Churchill claimed details of his firm 's trade had reached the Prime Minister . |
| 13 | A doctor 's receptionist has met the Norwegian woman whose life she saved when she donated bone marrow two years ago . |
| 14 | So much in Kirtana 's life has stayed the same . |
| 15 | This year , to great fanfares , the Ministry 's spending has attained the symbolic figure of 1% of the central government budget . |
| 16 | And as United moved into fifth place , with the help of a rare Paul Ince strike , the Welsh centre-forward said : ‘ Eric 's arrival has affected the whole club — not just the attacking players . |
| 17 | The ship 's carpenter had sewn the tiny body into canvas , weighting it at the feet with coal , so that it would sink rapidly . |
| 18 | Val 's scheme has got the full backing of police in Gloucestershire and West Mercia . |
| 19 | But a spokesman at the procurator fiscal 's office in Hamilton said yesterday : ‘ The sheriff clerk 's office has mislaid the principal papers in this case . |
| 20 | The High Court in Inverness heard that PC John Smith 's curiosity had got the better of him when he learned that a Murdo MacIver from his home town of Stornoway was in custody . |
| 21 | The editors ' work had emphasised the divergent consequences on political development of historical experience , of culture and social structures and of external threat . |
| 22 | A last minute decision by Radio Netherlands ' management has averted the proposed close-down of their popular shortwave transmissions to Europe scheduled for 29th March . |
| 23 | Polybius ' silence has provided the main ground for this scepticism ( W. Hoffmailn , in R. Klein , Das Staatsdenken der Römer ( 1966 ) , 224 ) . |
| 24 | AN Edinburgh independent boys ' school has become the first in Britain to plug into the French government 's prestigious new technology learning centre . |