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

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1 By the time that the new Fono convened in early May , the traditional political manoeuvring had increased the HRPP 's legislative strength to 30 seats , compared with 16 for the SNDP and one independent .
2 With economic change has come the emergence of both areas and social groups of disadvantage , which have attracted the attention of analysts and observers with an intensity accorded to the social and environmental problems of deprived London a century ago .
3 In the 1980s , the economic recession has produced a trend towards takeovers and mergers in the international record industry .
4 The European Parliament has adopted a resolution urging both sides to accept arbitration from the International Court of Justice in The Hague .
5 With this in mind the genetics-supply industry has approached the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) negotiations at which all biological processes and products are assumed to be patentable .
6 The use of education as a political football has entered the language as a cliché .
7 A growing European consciousness has pervaded the arts .
8 Its regional organizer has negotiated a company agreement with the Board , the main points of which are detailed above .
9 Europe 's supercomputing industry has received a boost with unveiling by German company Parsytec of plans for a new range of parallel machines .
10 But farmers have short memories : within a couple of years economic stagnation had stemmed the labour outflow and even led ex-farm workers in some areas to ask for their former jobs back .
11 When an acute outbreak has occurred the sheep should be treated with one of the benzimidazoles , levamisole or ivermectin and immediately moved to pasture not recently grazed by sheep .
12 Mr Smith said it was a ‘ curious coincidence that the prospect of political defeat has caused a revisal of the legal opinion ’ .
13 The Institute 's Technical Department has published a booklet on Accounting Records and the Smaller Company , price £2 ( p 97 ) .
14 Critics from both the nationalist and the loyalist side have attacked the DUP ( and its predecessor , the Protestant Unionist Party ) for using working-class loyalists to further its aims .
15 A few months later that piece of old scrap had become the basis of a mainly timber-built , chain-driven model motor car , on the lines of the bull-nosed Morris Cowley with a rounded back .
16 ‘ David Keys from The Independent in London sent me his articles , ’ said Marin , surprised that the national press and institutions concerned with the preservation of the cultural heritage had shown no knowledge of or interest in the silver , whose sale had been announced by Sotheby 's to loud fanfares the month before .
17 Most of all , the Colonel was intrigued that the wet blanket had absorbed the energy of the pistol shots .
18 ON FRIDAY MORNING the gale was as fierce as ever and during the night the high tide had flooded the shops on the waterfront .
19 The lowering of water-levels to allow ploughing of damp pasture has removed the nesting habitat of many birds which we used to take for granted , such as snipe , lapwing , and redshank .
20 The … economic-orientated literature has formed an imagery of the firm … that is an organizational caricature .
21 If she had stopped to think , she would have remembered that Brown Owl had told the Pack more than once always to seek the help of a grown-up they knew in any case of emergency .
22 Demographic changes of a rather different kind have had the effect of substantially reducing the categories of people who once lived with kin .
23 In recent years , the life-history technique has had a revival in sociological research , being used by those who wish to develop ‘ oral history ’ .
24 ‘ We-e-e-ll — ’ The fatal pause , and my fate was sealed and British Rail had lost a customer .
25 Over the past 15 years , Social Trends reports , British Rail has cut the number of its carriages by a quarter .
26 British Rail has given a figure of £1.4 billion for the construction of the station complex .
27 The company is no longer going to run freight trains in Western Scotland because British Rail has increased the transport rates by 50 to 80 per cent to cover fixed costs from an ever decreasing user base .
28 But now British Rail has turned the clock back — temporarily offering steam rides from Henley-on-Thames .
29 BRITISH Rail has introduced a £20m package of improvements to North-East services aimed at attracting more travellers on to local trains .
30 ‘ Let's pretend our train has got 25 loads on it , let's pretend British Rail has got a locomotive which can actually pull 25 loads over Shap Fell and let's assume it is 100 per cent full , ’ he continued .
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