Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just look at some of the thought-provoking policies I have introduced this season . |
| 2 | In some cases I had to accept that information given to me to help me understand problems of academic publishing was to remain confidential , but once credibility had been established the publishers were very helpful . |
| 3 | At the rear of many French houses I had noticed several rabbit-hutches containing the largest rabbits I had ever seen , certainly larger than anything in Britain . |
| 4 | In a couple of minutes I had lost any chance of kinship with Sue by making one of the most basic mistakes . |
| 5 | Several times I have seen other researchers do this and have watched higher managers set the scene and limit the enquiry to specific areas — outside management proper — as though the problem existed in a vacuum. , ( Dalton 1959 ) |
| 6 | I do not know how many times I have had such replies on social security appeals that have been turned down . |
| 7 | To my eyes the new pair of partridges were indistinguishable from any of the other birds I had seen that day , but the rest of the audience clearly thought otherwise . |
| 8 | No being what I thought I was a man in those days I was n't really interested in them , but I know there was competitions and er I believe there was different numbers posted on windows and if you got the right number you got a prize but I remember Palfry Park I 'm having trouble with my eyes I 've got over-active tear ducts and |
| 9 | When I revived , Wart-Face ( who introduced himself as Jean Capote ) and his companion Claude Broussac , rat-faced with a pointed nose , greasy hair and the cheekiest eyes I have seen this side of Hell , were bending over me , forcing a cup of scalding posset between my lips . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm bound to be a marked man because of the goals I 've scored this season , but there will be more along soon — I 'm sure of that . |
| 11 | Ash had never met Miss LaMotte , who indeed came out exceptionally to please me and to speak of her dear Father , whose Mythologies I have had some hand in bringing before the English public . |
| 12 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 13 | And er within eighteen months I 'd got three lorries running . |
| 14 | ‘ The first friendly words I 've heard all day . |
| 15 | True aneurysms with dilatation and thinning of the arterial wall , although uncommon , may be found especially in animals which have experienced repeated infection . |
| 16 | Ethologists have been particularly struck by the complexity of the behavioural responses of comparatively ‘ naïve ’ animals ( that is , animals which have had little opportunity to learn ) . |
| 17 | Twice they disturbed foxes which had found sunlit corners in which to blink away the daylight , and the smell of fox was almost constantly about them . |
| 18 | The Bundeskriminalamt or BKA is supervising the hunt for the IRA units which have attacked British servicemen and their families in recent months . |
| 19 | Shevardnadze was expected to set about forming a coalition among some of the 36 parties which had contested parliamentary seats . |
| 20 | We may have mixed feelings about scientific triumphs which have included nuclear weapons as well as electric light but we can not deny the comprehensive debt we owe to the emergence of scientific method . |
| 21 | The government 's attitude , and its relation to feminists and purists , displayed all the hesitations and ambiguities which had characterized similar debates in the 1880s . |
| 22 | The first half of the 18th century had seemed kind enough : improved climatic conditions and better harvests had combined with the disappearance of bubonic plague to help curtail the mortality crises which had beset Northern Europe up until then . |
| 23 | Based on the 1984 Peace and Friendship Treaty , which created the framework for settling the border disputes which had brought both countries to the brink of war in 1978 [ see p. 32781 ] , the agreement covered 22 points of dispute . |
| 24 | The health service over the last twenty years has been marred by periodic pay disputes which have disrupted patient services . |
| 25 | As a public figure hero-worshipped by countless youngsters , his drug-taking was a sad business , but few people in any field have ever used their fame better than his long-distance walks which have raised vast sums for charity . |
| 26 | However , Mr Harvey welcomed the ban on cars which had caused endless problems for shoppers in the past . |
| 27 | Recently our special commendation has been awarded to shops which have shown particular kindness to customers , This month 's winners are certainly not short of kindness either but it was the general all-round excellence of their business that made Tessa Brown of Mansfield recommend the Ollerton Machine Knitting Centre for our Gold St*r . |
| 28 | Arguably , what has occurred is a reinterpretation of the traditional partnership between central government , LEAs and schools which has allowed central government , on the basis of its ‘ accountability to parliament for the performance of the educational service at all levels ’ , progressively to nudge LEAs into a fuller appreciation of their curricular responsibilities and , through that , to influence the schools . |
| 29 | Formula funding , explained later in the chapter as the cornerstone of the new arrangements for resource distribution to schools , represents a way of rewarding schools which have attracted such consumers . |
| 30 | But that knowledge has been buried in the war of words which has accompanied mass unemployment . |