Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is no coincidence that since Sir Peter became Commissioner in 1987 , the relationship between Scotland Yard and London 's 13 Labour authorities has seen a new detente . |
| 2 | The gains had been welcomed by the government as confirmation that its economic policies had received a good response from investors . |
| 3 | Guaranteed prices for agricultural products have created a knock-on effect resulting in high land prices and high food costs . |
| 4 | Most Contracting States have made such a declaration , and all but one of declarant States have specified a one-year time limit . |
| 5 | Spanish biologists have discovered a new colony of 350 monk seals off the disputed territory of Western Sahara . |
| 6 | They indicated that both of the main political parties had reached a similar conclusion . |
| 7 | For a rime after D-Day the stories of incoming prisoners had developed a new excitement . |
| 8 | Although British statesmen had played a prominent part in bringing these organisations into being , the United Kingdom did not become a founder member and later approaches to join were either ineffective or rebuffed . |
| 9 | English clubs have had a poor season in Europe — Liverpool , Leeds and Sheffield Wednesday all getting the heave-ho last week — and their standards have been heavily criticised as a result . |
| 10 | Few can rival the Natural History Museum 's offer of drinks beneath its dinosaur , but Christmas and new-year parties have become a nice little earner for museums and galleries right across the country . |
| 11 | It is also true that in the late 1970s and early 1980s unemployed school-leavers have become a longer-term and therefore more serious problem . |
| 12 | Fortunately , the relations between the American and the British peoples have improved a great deal since then . |
| 13 | British engineers have developed a new method of incinerating spent vehicle tyres at high temperatures , breaking them down into gas and oil for fuel , and " char " — a residue which is rich in high-quality carbon . |
| 14 | Informed parents have to make a difficult choice . |
| 15 | His all-embracing marine articles have played a major part in instructing newcomers to the hobby , while many of his photographs show marine fish in their natural settings . |
| 16 | British officals have to tread a fine line between registering the ‘ UK dimension ’ , as they call it , in the Trident debate , and not offending Congressmen by being too heavy-handed . |
| 17 | Protestant commentators were very aware that the papacy retained the right to depose excommunicated rulers , and took little comfort from the fact that many English recusants had taken a special oath of allegiance to the crown . |
| 18 | Scottish conservationists have won a major award to create a marine underwater trail at Dunollie Point near Oban . |
| 19 | Such concepts of group loyalty and common purpose were , moreover , not entirely unfamiliar to the business world he had entered : many of the pre-vesting undertakings had developed a strong group identity among staff . |
| 20 | There is no doubt that the scale of the weapons brought from Libya in the period before the Eksund was apprehended by French Customs has made a considerable difference during the past five or six years . |
| 21 | But different factories have produced a different quality of chemical . |
| 22 | The gravest problems , however , were in Greece where British troops had restored a Royalist government in 1944 and become embroiled in a civil war with a Communist guerrilla movement . |
| 23 | It was accepted that the British troops had used a substantial amount of violence and brutality to enforce the hand-over . |
| 24 | Even some of the old favourites have had a few imaginative additions like Vegetarian Lasagne with added carrot , apple and fennel . |
| 25 | By late medieval times in the fourteenth century , British cattle had reached a low point , literally : the average height was about 106cm and they were still generally short-horned . |
| 26 | I would have to say that social conditions have changed a great deal today , going back to what the first |
| 27 | Foreign investors have played a big part in pushing up share prices . |
| 28 | But to end our book on jet-lag and shift-work would be too negative , and so we will end by describing an area in which the knowledge of daily rhythms has enabled a small but important contribution to medicine to be made — the diagnosis and treatment of illness and disease . |
| 29 | Repeated surveys have shown a high degree of patient satisfaction with general practice . |
| 30 | Auctions of marine paintings have become a regular feature of the season , but this is the first to take place in January . |