Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] have [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 Thousands of customers have opened Royal Reward accounts .
32 They included a group of guerrillas , ultimately numbering 46 , who had occupied the Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador since Aug. 20 and who at the beginning of October had sought political asylum in the Mexican embassy .
33 Lots of writers have produced extraordinary work in conditions more immediately oppressive than mine — mine is after all a kind of open prison — and their example inspires me .
34 The study of cybernetics has contributed considerable information about the process of communicating .
35 Although the same group of physicists has found good evidence for the production of B mesons at CESR before , this latest result shows for the first time the explicit decay of B mesons into less-rare , longer-lived particles ( Physical Review Letters , vol 50 , p 881 ) .
36 In some cases , notably personal injuries cases , rules of court have provided special machinery to assist a plaintiff .
37 The Ministry of Education has launched regional upgrading campaigns in four areas regarded as having the most serious problems : San Carlos , Limón , Los Santos and Santa Cruz .
38 For example , the Department of Education has circulated local education authorities with technical scientific advice to beware of roofs containing a certain kind of cement in schools built in the 1950s .
39 Several European countries have a rich tradition of master painters and sculptors and vast collections of works of art have undergone extensive restoration over the centuries .
40 John Power of Kilkenny has wrought tremendous harm and damage on Wexford and Offaly from the middle of the field , alongside Michael Phelan , so there 's a huge responsibility on the shoulders of Michael Coleman .
41 THE Auto Cycle Council of Australia has threatened legal action over plans to move the Australian Grand Prix from Phillip Island to Sydney .
42 Quarrying and cement are boom industries in this part of the world — and now where farming used to be the only viable source of income , hundreds of people have found regular work , reveals Plain Tales from Northern Ireland : A Controlled Explosion ( BBC-2 , 8pm ) .
43 The House of Lords has given useful guidance in this respect .
44 An indication that the acceptability of the concept of headhunting has made great progress among employers in Britain is the fact that many of the respondents attested to search consultants ' knowledge of the executive market place , gained over a number of years , and their expertise in certain specialised sectors .
45 Similarly , Costain Telecommunications and Systems Limited of Manchester have needed French translation for their product — the Auteldac emergency telephone system to be installed in the tunnel .
46 Fewer than one-fifth of respondents had experienced upward mobility and slightly fewer than one-tenth had experienced downward mobility .
47 Advocates of the ‘ social representation ’ school of thought have criticized mainstream attitude research for possessing an individualist bias ( see , Billig , in press ; Jaspars and Fraser , 1983 ; Moscovici , 1963 , 1983 ) .
48 Researchers from the University of California have found extensive lead pollution at more than a dozen sites .
49 Few would doubt that the rise of government has produced economic inefficiency and restricted the freedom of choice .
50 A party of puffins had to take evasive action as they nearly flew into the side of the ship .
51 Every winter for years the popular illustrated paper of Europe had devoted great colour spreads to the Shah and his wife and four children on the ski slopes .
52 For Dennis Awori , the chairman of the KENYA Rugby Union and one of the talented group of players to have put Kenyan rugby on the seven-a-side map , the inability of his side to concentrate and play consistently well must have been nerve-wrecking .
53 But at least a lot of players have sampled international competition at their own level and that can only be good for the game .
54 Schemes like Trax in other parts of Britain have cut local car crime by up to three quarters .
55 Staff questionnaires have also been used to a limited extent in many schools , but only a third of teachers had made considerable use of this method .
56 By 1975 all the classics — like Greer 's Female Eunuch and Friedan 's Feminine Mystique — were best-selling paperbacks and the basic principles of feminism had become everyday parlance in the West .
57 These include land designated for compulsory purchase , or allocated or defined by a development plan for any functions of a government department , local authority , statutory undertaker , or the National Coal Board , and land on which the secretary of state has given written notice of his intention to provide a trunk road or a ‘ special road ’ ( that is , a motorway ) .
58 With the advent of computer storage of records , the topic of confidentiality has received considerable coverage and some of the implications of the Data Protection Act , 1984 , are discussed by Keighley ( 1987 ) .
59 The International Chamber of Commerce has done valuable work in the formulation of uniform rules and trade terms effectuated by incorporation into contracts .
60 Thus Dewey 's policy of integrity of numbers has found great favour : an undertaking has been made that a piece of notation will not be revised and given another meaning .
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