Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] have [be] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since December 1989 opposition groups had been demanding the trial of former President Yumjaagiyn Tsedenbal for causing economic stagnation in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 2 | The Institute 's Education & Training Directorate and the General Practitioner Board have been watching the falling numbers of students training in small firms with deep concern and both have set up working parties to look at the problems . |
| 3 | Pickering Town Football Club has been given the green light to install floodlights as part of its plan to win promotion to the Premier Division of the Northern Counties League . |
| 4 | THE RISE and rise of Tranmere Rovers has been given the Saint 's blessing . |
| 5 | Department officials had been monitoring the convoy which spent about two weeks at a roadside halt near Ardglass before slipping into Downpatrick overnight . |
| 6 | WHILE the North Wales Coast mainline has been claiming the headlines as far as steam operations have been concerned the other coastal route , the Cambrian , provided some memorable moments as well . |
| 7 | If no confirmation slip has been sent the receptionist would check the reservation . |
| 8 | The Fraud Squad had been seeking the help of several journalists for some weeks , as part of its work on the findings of that official report . |
| 9 | THE MIND Gym have been supplying The Shamen 's Synergy club with these brain machines to alter consciousness . |
| 10 | THE MIND Gym have been supplying The Shamen 's Synergy club with these brain machines to alter consciousness . |
| 11 | One of the benefits that has emerged from the National Curriculum exercise has been to highlight the need for strategic planning of the history curriculum at all Key Stages , to ensure balance , coverage of a range of different periods and topics , and the adoption of a number of different approaches . |
| 12 | Where a guardian ad litem has been appointed the solicitor must take instructions from the guardian . |
| 13 | Few strategists would gainsay the primacy of the First Pillar — the defence of the British Isles — upon which the sovereignty of the realm depends ; though , paradoxically , the United Kingdom has usually been so secure behind its sea walls that Home Defence has been accorded the lowest allocation of resources . |
| 14 | Representatives of the EEC 's technical assistance programme have been promoting the technology in Pacific islands like Fiji and Tonga . |
| 15 | One of the first rules of house and hall parties had been to scout the building for dark corners that might make useful retiring-places if the evening went well — preference was given to anywhere that had a lock on the inside . |
| 16 | This was the one question Robert had been hoping the headmaster would not ask him . |
| 17 | For years management gurus have been predicting the demise of autocratic management and the pyramidal organisation structure . |
| 18 | Pirate clothing firms have been using the name to sell their own goods , now the footwear company is fighting back . |
| 19 | The idea of this is to enable the system to detect whether or not the bar code has been read the right way round , or in reverse . |
| 20 | The Law Society has been negotiating the terms of franchise contracts with the Legal Aid Board for some weeks and although a number of matters remain to be resolved , the negotiations have been conducted in a positive manner . |
| 21 | From our tiny office in Tunbridge Wells , Kent , the officers , advisers and executive committee members have been using the Christmas weeks to look forward . |
| 22 | No wonder men had been watching the house . |
| 23 | This second element has been given the name ‘ local sign ’ ’ . |
| 24 | There are one or two awards that not everyone would bust a gut to win , but IBM Corp 's Personal Software Products unit is proud to announce that the OS/2 2.0 operating system has been awarded the Computer Language Jolt Cola Award for Product Excellence : we 're advised that Jolt is the cola that has five times the sugar and twice the caffeine of regular cola — and the connection with computers ? |
| 25 | Izvestiya of July 28 reported that a peace agreement had been signed the previous day after two days of talks by representatives of the political parties , the official leadership , religious leaders and security service representatives . |
| 26 | The Macintosh user interface has been called the first ‘ intuitive ’ interface , suggesting that a user can learn how to use it by instinct alone without the need for instruction manuals or training . |
| 27 | Health and safety experts have been monitoring the system , giving advice on the safest way to do the job . |
| 28 | For the past several days , the warder said , jail authorities had been pestering the police to get more helpers … . |
| 29 | The marketing department have been increasing the popularity of Stoddard Templeton products by using incentive promotions . |
| 30 | Some US dairy farming organizations have been urging the FDA to ban BST for some time . |