Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Blisters which had formed the first time now burst , weeping clear fluid onto the burner which hissed like an angry snake .
2 He is beginning to move on from the subjects which have dominated the last couple of years , feeling that he has gleaned all the experience he can from them .
3 It contained representatives of more than 20 political parties who had contested the first free multiparty elections in Romania since 1937 [ see p. 37441 ] .
4 To celebrate the occasion , they were given an emotional send off by the bus drivers who 've spent the last three years transporting them to and from home .
5 For next the stewards decided that only those drivers who had completed the first lap would be allowed to re-start .
6 In many respects we have wasted the last 40 years by our failure to address these problems , preferring instead to concentrate on short-term , electorally convenient policies .
7 Within two months they had made a first attempt to get a suitable building site — part of the field in which the new Presbyterian School was to be built .
8 However , apart from these demonstrations and an outbreak of panic buying in the last days of March , the public response to the second stage of price liberalization was muted , in marked contrast to the street protests which had greeted the first state in November 1990 [ see p. 37866 ] .
9 During recent years there has emerged a third type of evaluation which emphasizes participant observation and interviews as a means to obtaining an overall view of education programmes .
10 Sometimes there was no dieback or decline , at other times there was dieback but it was not connected to pollution , on occasions trees which had lost a third or more of their vegetation were normal .
11 Despite the increasing difficulties which Edward faced in financing his wars in Scotland , the parliaments of these years are free of the political and constitutional arguments which had characterized the last years of Edward I 's reign .
12 TWO Liverpool cousins who have become the first prison visitors awarded damages after a search ordeal will have to wait for their cash , following a Home Office decision to appeal against the award .
13 The primitive inn that catered for travellers who had missed the last ferry is now a modern hotel , and commercial interests have been attracted by the growing number of tourists .
14 Of these two approaches I have adopted the first , formally at least , since my first chapter is concerned with scepticism , and there are constant if sporadic references to one form of sceptical argument throughout the book .
15 The energetic soldiers who had survived the first war were in active command , but there was a great residue of staff officers from the first war who did not fight , who determined the spirit of the administration .
16 At the end of Fifth Year , students take the Diploma in Architecture , and so gain exemption from the RIBA Examination , Part 2 ; the Diploma is also taken as a two-year course by students who have obtained a first degree in architecture elsewhere in Britain .
17 The course is designed to enable students who have taken a first degree in German to increase their knowledge of modern German literature and to extend their competence to the medium of film .
18 The course is designed to enable students who have taken a first degree in more than one European or Latin American language to extend their knowledge of European and/or Latin American literatures through a range of optional courses .
19 In the Britain in Bloom competitions it has won the first prize in the Village Section successively for Yorkshire and Humberside ( for which it retained the Challenge Shield after winning three times ) , England and the United Kingdom .
20 Their parents like to leave toys by the graves , but on several occasions they 've returned the next day to find them missing .
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