Example sentences of "have [prep] [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of her disability , Elaine has in the past led a remarkably active and normal life . |
| 2 | Sir Alan has in the past written about his deep misgivings over intervention and has recently let it be known in the City that he believes the economy is at last showing signs of pronounced slowdown , a view not fully shared by the Treasury . |
| 3 | Inflation will come down through the use of high interest rates , as it has in the past . |
| 4 | Actually , once the fund has footed a bill , it has in the past successfully pursued a polluter through the courts . |
| 5 | The implication is that , to solve some kinds of problem , an animal must know that something is the case , and not merely that a given action or sequence of actions has in the past been reinforced . |
| 6 | Against the rest of the sector and the market , that looks a good deal less attractive than it has in the past . |
| 7 | Attention has in the past been drawn to Attali 's use of private planes and £280,000 outlay on office chairs , including over 100 white leather ones for the London top brass . |
| 8 | This is not just legal nicety — Highlander has in the past been the victim of terrorist attacks , a fact which had led to difficulty in enabling Highlander to obtain a satisfactory insurance cover on the property . |
| 9 | I think Brian Way has in the past misjudged Dorothy Heathcote 's work because he has seen it as intellectual . |
| 10 | Under LMS it is theoretically possible for primary schools to improve PTR by diverting money which has in the past been used for building maintenance and classroom materials to employing additional teachers . |
| 11 | It has often been pointed out , and in my view with justice , that the school curriculum has in the past been overwhelmingly in the power of the universities . |
| 12 | It has in the past been notorious that a pupil in an English school , having learned French for seven years , and having even passed at grade A at A level , may yet be unable to utter more than a few halting sentences , and be hardly able to follow a simple conversation with a native speaker . |
| 13 | Prior approval is not required ( except in SSSIs and National Parks in the UK , but then not from the Agriculture Department ) and in assessing schemes financially , MAFF has disregarded the fact that it has in the past contributed 50–70% of the scheme 's cost and that a high proportion of the profit to be earned is public money in the form of HLCAs . |
| 14 | In science , for example , the earth science component ( attainment targets 9 and 16 , with aspects of attainment targets 5 , 6 , 7 and 8 ) includes much that has in the past been described as geography , while the materials component ( ATs 6–8 ) includes a great deal that has conventionally been regarded as technology . |
| 15 | It allowed and encouraged the possibility of longer-term co-operation with business and property development , which has in the past proved more difficult to achieve with locally elected councils , through which other interests may achieve higher levels of representation . |
| 16 | It is extremely unlikely that there will be any difficulty — at a general election the returns to the writs will have identified the winners and , nowadays , the oath is unlikely to present any problems , although it has in the past . |
| 17 | The range was designed in the USA under the watchful eye of Chris Kelley , the director of Artist Relations for Hoshino and who has in the past been responsible for such marriages as Joe Satriani and Steve Vai with their custom Ibanez guitars . |
| 18 | Twice-married Mr Young , 67 , has in the past said the relationship was strong and he saw no reason to change it . |
| 19 | If the sport grows over the next 10 years as quickly as it has in the past five , I could make a lot of money . ’ |
| 20 | To qualify to jump in the competition that has in the past produced young internationals like Annette Lewis , Marie Edgar and Paul Sutton , she has had to tour all over England . |
| 21 | The arrival of Keown at Arsenal would put a question mark over the future of Steve Bould , although Graham has in the past employed a three-man system at the heart of the Highbury defence to great effect . |
| 22 | Mr Major suggests that this sustained effort should involve industry in ‘ fierce competitiveness at the edge of technology ’ , and he complains that the country has in the past ‘ undervalued manual skills , engineering skills ’ . |
| 23 | In part the practical difficulty of withholding tax most of which is deducted at source has prevented it from ever assuming large-scale proportions , while the fact that opposition has in the past tended to focus on specific wars , of which the Vietnam war was the most prominent recent example , ensured that it was usually a relatively transient phenomenon . |
| 24 | Footnote : The annual Cliff Richard Pro Celebrity Tennis event , which has in the past enticed such unlikely names as onto court to raise funds for the Tennis Development Trust , will this year be played at the National Indoor Arena , in Birmingham , in December . |
| 25 | One owner of former Chester Beatty material — although he has in the past denied this — now proving reluctant to return it , is David Nasser Khalili , the dealer/collector who is offering his collection on loan to the British nation ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 21 , October 1992. p.1 ) . |
| 26 | Jamie and Alan have a strong , close relationship and Jamie has in the past quietly taken a lot of responsibility for Alan . |
| 27 | With over 250 photos , some of which are extremely rare , backed up with meticulous research based on official war records and eye-witness accounts , this book is a fitting tribute to an area of World War Two that has in the past been overlooked in terms of its importance . |
| 28 | These considerations hold out some hope that , while the problem of maintaining lead times will remain serious , it will remain a manageable problem , much as it has in the past . |
| 29 | Vertical markets comprise professional accounting — although the small accountancy practices to which the group sells have been hard-hit by recession , it has managed to maintain stable revenues by selling upgrades of existing accountancy software ranges ; retail — while Radius started selling to this sector only about two years ago , it ‘ performed above expectations ’ , having won a new £500,000 contract from Dixons Group Plc , a £400,000 contract from Southern Electric Plc and a £25,000 contract from Ing C Olivetti SpA ; the public sector — the company has built on its traditional strength in local government to move into health and central government ; fuel distribution — another new area of activity which Bland said is ‘ growing ’ , although he could provide no figures ; and finally , the printing industry — while Radius has in the past concentrated on big customers such as Bowater and Smurfitt , it has now released a ‘ stripped-down ’ version of its management software to attract smaller users . |
| 30 | Without the ERM , countries could competitively devalue their currencies : that would prove as inflationary in future as it has in the past , and it would give rise to the sort of trade frictions that plague the relationship between America and Japan , or worse . |