Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they were based on , and I I have to say it though , that since poverty in all its forms has proved an intractable enemy to us , and given the limited Council resources that were available , plus the Government , which has consistently attacked Local Authorities and made financial constraints upon us almost impossible to operate , we have we recognise that to analyse the job in hand , first of all we needed an accurate picture of need , we needed to share the commitment with the workforce of Council and all those in partnership of consultation . |
| 2 | Warsaw-based distributor American Technologies has signed an exclusive agreement with Tandy Corp 's GRiD Systems Corp to bring pen-based computing to the Polish market . |
| 3 | The sale of council houses has produced an accumulated total of £8 billion in local authority housing accounts . |
| 4 | Judge Geoffrey Vos told Brendan Glorney : ‘ In this particular part of the country the stealing of or from cars has become an absolute epidemic . |
| 5 | If asked , would my right hon. Friend be able to confirm that private sponsorship of the arts has generated an additional £46 million on top of the already large amounts of public expenditure ? |
| 6 | Dead empires have bred leaping ambition ; international politics has developed into a struggle between competing ethnic groups ; the United Nations has to pick an impossible path between respect for sovereignty and respect for nationalism . |
| 7 | My firm belief in offering pleasant accommodation at sensible prices together with plenty of FREE amenities has attracted an ever-increasing number of satisfied customers . |
| 8 | Lancaster College of Technology was the first of the future polytechnics to have established an Academic Board , in 1962 . |
| 9 | The fact that it was the first time in the 20th century that either of the major parties had selected an all-southern election ticket reflected the widespread belief that only by recapturing support lost to the Republicans in the south could the Democrats hope to win the presidency . |
| 10 | Many of the heads had made an active move towards involving more people ( even all staff in one school ) in an attempt to make more staff aware of the need to plan finance as a ‘ whole-school issue ’ and to prioritise resource needs . |
| 11 | The Britons claimed to discern a ‘ hidden hand ’ in British government which had delayed the victory against Germany in the war , and argued that Jews had organized an international conspiracy designed to promote anarchy and disorder in the world . |
| 12 | Although subjects in the study could almost all subsequently remember seeing the weapon they were worse at identifying the person holding it than in a comparable condition where the subjects had heard an ordinary conversation followed by a person passing through the room carrying a pen . |
| 13 | For example , the sanctions against non-members have played an important part in sustaining trade unions through difficult conflicts with employers : ‘ scab ’ labourers and strike-breakers have a hard time . |
| 14 | Using the terminology of " information-processing skills " , these readers have automatised an invariant process by practice , and the recognition of words becomes a component subskill . |
| 15 | The OTC traders have gained an enormous amount of extra business from the Government 's Business Expansion Scheme ( BES ) . |
| 16 | Lord Scarman 's inquiry was not on the same scale as the famous Kerner Report in 1968 on the US riots , but since the publication of his Report in November 1981 his views and prescriptions have played an important role in fashioning political debate about the riots . |
| 17 | Alter almost three decades of escalating research effort , punctuated by occasional headline reports in the lay press , biosensors have become an integral part of analytical biochemistry . |
| 18 | OLDER cars have to undergo an annual MoT test — so why not drivers too ? |
| 19 | Here the influences of the professionals , psychologists , psychiatrists , psycho-analysts and paediatricians have played an important part in convincing us ( as every mother knows ) that the quality of physical care has a profound effect on the social and emotional development of children . |
| 20 | Where the parties have reached an express agreement that the plaintiff will voluntarily assume the risk of harm and this agreement is made before the negligent act , then the defence will operate . |
| 21 | Counter-insurgency and its attendant covert and intelligence aspects have had an inordinate degree of latitude and influence on policy in Ulster partly because the Westminster cabinet and parliament are incredibly ignorant of the region and have been well content if the English politicians and Whitehall civil servants who administer it from the Northern Ireland Office at Stormont Castle succeeded in preventing its problems from impinging on the affairs of the mainland . |
| 22 | Although computers and calculators have become an accepted part of mathematical teaching their presence in the classroom , should not be taken as evidence per se of ‘ up-to-dateness ’ . |
| 23 | Barry Gore , head of economics and business studies at Luton , points out that all business studies candidates have to undertake an extended case study . |
| 24 | The Council of Legal Education Trinity Bar Examination 1989 Additional Pass List The following candidate has been awarded a III been awarded a III Class Pass in the Bar Examination 6017 Andrews , JR ( I ) The Council of Legal Education Michaelmas Bar Examination 1989 Overseas Pass List The following candidates have passed an Individual Section to complete the Bar Examination . |
| 25 | As another example , subjects have to draw an irregular shape — the shape being seen as a reflection in a mirror . |
| 26 | I think science has always been characterised by periods when particular subjects have had an enormous outburst of activity , and we 're seeing that with erm immunology at the present time . |
| 27 | Bright images have become an accepted advantage of the existing system and the new design increases the brightness even further . |
| 28 | Senior members of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate who expressed similar anxieties have initiated an internal review of statutory procedures by DES officials . |
| 29 | Burns 's poetry and songs have played an important part in my life from the earliest years , not only because of their simple beauty , but also because of their directness , honesty , and wry , lop-sided , humour ; the appreciation of which stood me in good stead the last time I was in Mauchline . |
| 30 | One of Brazil 's biggest industrial areas has become an environmental time-bomb which could explode at any time . |