Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The facts of economic change have helped to produce a new urban crisis situation . |
| 2 | For the umpteenth time they have arisen because Labour nominees have failed to attend a single meeting in the previous 12 months . |
| 3 | On Sept. 14 it was reported that six political parties had combined to form a United Front of Political Movements ( UNIFORM ) . |
| 4 | British Rail has decided to have a dedicated , high-quality link between the stations and is examining a number of options effectively to make Euston part of the international terminal complex . |
| 5 | Together they number some 500 , though the social club has had to call a halt on membership at 2,000 and has a turnover of £2 ½ million . |
| 6 | Together they number some 500 , though the social club has had to call a halt on membership at 2,000 and has a turnover of £2 ½ million . |
| 7 | Crafty commercial banks have tried to win a bit of the business by repeatedly rolling over short-term credits to companies ( though they have had to charge higher rates than long-term lenders ) , or by buying long-term lenders of their own . |
| 8 | The editorial team have tried to achieve a balance between matters which are of major concern to staff and some lighthearted topics . |
| 9 | Israel 's well-equipped military has managed to keep a lid on the uprising degenerating into chaos , but it has n't defeated the armies of stone-throwing youths . |
| 10 | By then our approaching orgasms had synchronized to form a freak wave of emotion which threatened to wipe our personalities clean . |
| 11 | BRITISH taxpayers have helped to pay a man with a series of convictions for selling counterfeit brands of audiotape to manufacture millions of metres of video-tape . |
| 12 | The fact that for 30 years social scientists have struggled to produce a theory of interaction tells us just how complex it is . |
| 13 | In a move that runs counter its commitment to clean up the environment in former East Germany , the German government has agreed to exempt a huge rubbish tip near Schonberg near the Baltic coast from its regulations for a five year period . |
| 14 | Social services have stopped paying a £30 attendance allowance for Becky to go to Southampton once every two months for treatment . |
| 15 | A major destination for African slaves was the Caribbean islands where British settlers had begun to generate a huge demand for forced labour on sugar , cotton , coffee and tobacco plantations . |
| 16 | But since gaps on the bench happen rarely , and since this will be the first chance a Democratic president has had to choose a justice since Lyndon Johnson was in the White House , the usual debate about likely replacements is under way . |
| 17 | Already in the first century AD , under the influence of Judaism , Roman Society had begun to introduce a weekly day of rest — unlike ancient Greece where there were not even any school holidays , except on special occasions such as days in honour of Apollo , Poseidon , etc . |
| 18 | A Japanese researcher has managed to create a fresh mild garlic that does n't give you garlic breath . |
| 19 | With older people , who have lived through the period when new ‘ miracle ’ allopathic drugs have appeared to offer a solution to all pain and ill-health , it is these prescribed rather than proscribed drugs that will be the main problem . |
| 20 | ( ii ) Teachers should explain how Standard English has come to have a wide social and geographical currency and to be the form of English most frequently used on formal , public occasions and in writing . |
| 21 | In particular , the large romanized buildings have tended to dominate a disproportionate amount of past excavation at the expense of the more vernacular structures , even though recent evidence has begun to redress the balance . |
| 22 | European governments have tended to take a more lenient view of merger activity and have sometimes actively encouraged it . |
| 23 | US economic recovery has failed to stem a 1992 profits decline at IMI , which yesterday reported its third successive annual setback . |
| 24 | But life in fashion 's fast lane has taught Tarling a lot . |
| 25 | The study of interactions and relationships that constitute the social structure of these various rearing units has begun to provide a description of the rules whereby the structure is maintained from generation to generation . |
| 26 | The general also said the Bosnian Serbs had agreed to observe a ceasefire around Srebrenica starting from today . |
| 27 | The oldest tradition , which goes back to the contemporary historian John Foxe , claims that the queen and her Protestant councillors had intended to introduce a settlement based on the 1552 Prayer Book , but were later forced to make some concessions in the Catholic direction because of the implacable opposition of the bishops and some of the lay peers in the House of Lords . |
| 28 | The left knee has locked causing a lifting action . |
| 29 | The Good Parliament had refused to grant a subsidy , and accordingly another parliament was summoned for January 1377 . |
| 30 | The policy changes were attributed to improved East-West relations and the belief that the ANC and the front-line states had ceased to pose a serious military threat . |