Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This connection is particularly important at the current time when we know the numbers of women on low income has doubled in the last decade . ’ |
| 2 | My old English teacher , regretting that retired freedom had coincided with the onset of arthritis , leant on her stick and said : ‘ Do things while you can . ’ |
| 3 | During the fighting in Beirut large numbers of armed militiamen had appeared on the streets . |
| 4 | ‘ Needless to say , no reviews of The Hooded Owl have appeared in the papers today , but from all accounts the play was being very well received when the tragedy occurred . |
| 5 | Political discussions had centred on the Gulf crisis and on the recent Arab deaths in Jerusalem [ see p. 37759 ] ; all were able to condemn the latter , and according to the Financial Times of Oct. 11 " the Arab side appeared encouraged by what they [ saw ] as French recent acceptance of some linkage between the Gulf and the Arab-Israeli problem " . |
| 6 | The cause for GM 's concern is plain when one realises that its West European operations have emerged as the biggest profit earners in the entire group , accounting for some 37.3 per cent of net income in the last two years but for only 14.6 per cent of group turnover . |
| 7 | The Directive is needed because wildlife and habitats have undergone terrible declines in much of Europe and the rate of loss is accelerating ( in the UK , 95% of wild flower meadows , 75% of heaths , and 80% of dry grasslands have gone since the war ) . |
| 8 | The European Parliament has called on the EC to ban imports of exotic birds , 1.5 million of which are brought into the continent each year , often in appalling conditions . |
| 9 | The Socialist group in the European parliament has called for the EC to set more ambitious targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 10 | Extremist ideologies have prospered with the ‘ first past the post ’ system , and deeply unsettled our post-war economy — we are bottom of the European economic league in the post-war performance , and the only nation left with an unreformed electoral system . |
| 11 | By 1984 , the Prudential Trophy had metamorphosed into the Texaco Trophy , and the first game at Old Trafford contained the finest dish ever served up in a one-day international . |
| 12 | Mr Dick Davison , of the Independent Schools Information Service , said a dozen private schools had closed in the last year . |
| 13 | The number of parents sending their children to private schools has risen for the eighth year running , despite a downturn in the economy and an upturn in school fees , the Independent Schools Information Service revealed . |
| 14 | Before 1945 Korean Marxists had cooperated with the Soviet Union from bases in Soviet far eastern territories and had worked with the Chinese communists at Yenan . |
| 15 | Indeed , only one unpublished study has referred to the activities of this group and the concern with which the Board of Deputies of British Jews viewed it . |
| 16 | Then of course , then when they the kids went up , did n't know where they were going , and the parents did n't know but they found new found freedom because all the bloody kids had gone to the countryside |
| 17 | At the end of the first week Allaf was particularly critical of the Israeli delegation 's tactics , saying that the Israeli delegation had arrived at the talks with a " premeditated determination not to allow any progress " . |
| 18 | The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls . |
| 19 | Market indicators show that capital values in public houses have fallen in the past two years by between 50 per cent and 60 per cent . |
| 20 | What has happened , he suggests , is that capitalism 's tendency to colonise and penetrate segments of social existence has led to the commercialisation and commodification of sexuality , particularly via the shift from production to consumption . |
| 21 | In 1949 two German states had emerged from the territory of the old Reich . |
| 22 | She is unable to gauge his mood , her feminine antennae have folded for the night . |
| 23 | He also used the sea-beet Roger had gathered on the shore in a soup , and packed it into an opera hamper for an alfresco supper at a performance of Don Pasquale at nearby Castle Ward that evening . |
| 24 | The range of courses presently available , both advanced and non-advanced , has grown in piecemeal fashion , largely in response to the technological revolution which British agriculture has achieved over the last 30 years . |
| 25 | British Rail has turned to the privately-owned North York Moors steam railway at Pickering instead of Brel workshops to repaint six carriages in the colours of Regional Railways . |
| 26 | Indeed , the single most important social change to have occurred in the countryside in recent years has concerned the changing social and occupational composition of its population . |
| 27 | Of the many factors that contribute to health and wellbeing , the role of social support has come to the fore recently as critical in understanding the relationships between peopleealth and social and material circumstances in which they live . |
| 28 | Each shows the wide pad clearly , as well as all five toes and their claws ( longer on the fore foot ) ; and , characteristically , the hind foot has overprinted on the fore . |
| 29 | Darlington argues persuasively that Marx believed the process of evolution to be by direct Lamarkian and not by indirect Darwinian , or selective means : that is to say , that the environment in which individuals found themselves operated directly upon them to adjust them to it and that the adjustments were transmitted by them to the next generation ; and not that , fortuitous mutations having occurred in the genetic package , they would when favourable equip the mutant for greater success in the given environment than the unmutated form could achieve . |
| 30 | He remembered coming awake some time earlier , when the hall door had slammed and high heels had clicked down the steps , passing beneath his window . |