Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As described in Chapter 2 , the greater part of the funding in any year was given to a number of Major Project schools ( usually £6,000 to each of eight schools ) , and at the time of writing 36 schools have received such a grant and another five have been proposed for the current financial year . |
| 2 | For 4 months or so , my Nicaraguan Cichlids have displayed all the signs of breeding . |
| 3 | Her own parents had played such a game , but in their case it was her father who had played the mild , the foolish role . |
| 4 | One of the stewards had cried all the way through it , she said , so it must be good . |
| 5 | All industrial countries have experienced such a transition from high to low birth- and death-rates in the last century , usually ( except in France ) with an intervening period of moderate population growth when the death-rate falls before the birth-rate . |
| 6 | The comparatively recent event at Worsborough draws elements from other older traditions to create something new ; the Rev Kit Widdows and his enthusiasts have gone all the way back to their origins , to the Bible and its stories ; and in-between is the spectacle and grandeur of the York production . |
| 7 | In recent months , a number of federal judges have taken such a stance . |
| 8 | In fact , the uncertain times of Terris ' appearances have had such an effect on workmen that the Maintenance Department do not allow their staff to work in the station through the night in case the ghost interferes with their potentially dangerous work . |
| 9 | Harry slipped the book into his pocket , wondering as he did so which previous patron of the Skein of Geese had handed such a thing on to Heather . |
| 10 | However , recent technological advances have made possible a robot which can be programmed to carry out a range of services on command . |
| 11 | Half-way through one driver came in and said that the Minister for Human Resources had spent half an hour longer than he had agreed . ’ |
| 12 | The two plain-clothes officers had drunk half a bottle of scotch and several cans of lager on the train journey from Glasgow to Telford to escort a prisoner back to Scotland , said Estelle Hindely , prosecuting . |
| 13 | In due course he was returned to normal health , except that the acids had removed all the pigmentation from his exposed skin . |
| 14 | I sped again on the bus to the races and found that overnight Assiniboia Downs had sprouted all the ballyhoo of Woodbine , T-shirt stalls , banners and besashed bosoms Support Canadian Racing included . |
| 15 | The budget gives them a get-out option but the CPL and Marjorie Roberts are grinning like Cheshire cats to have extracted such a promise . |
| 16 | New points in the revised announcement 47 from the OPB include additional stress on the need for trustees to have considered all the options and the application should demonstrate that this has been done ; that they had sought independent legal advice ‘ from lawyers who do not advise the company on such matters ’ ( the OPB does not regard another partner in the same firm as ‘ independent ’ ) and the OPB would find it ‘ helpful ’ to see copies of correspondence between them ; and specific details of the information sent to members which should be contained in the application . |
| 17 | Sean must have driven home with dire tales to have brought such a gathering to the bus stop . |
| 18 | Hakluyt was exaggerating when he said that Englishmen had excelled all the nations and people of the earth in their explorations , but he was quite right when he asked : |
| 19 | An example is how NFI-type arrangements have made possible the development of Brazil 's automobile component industry . |
| 20 | CONCERN about sexually transmitted diseases has reached such a pitch among the American medical profession that discussions on the subject now have to be conducted by satellite . |
| 21 | The old oak girders had taken such a clouting |
| 22 | Vacations had proved such a strain that she stopped going home at all in the end , applying for any holiday jobs which offered accommodation . |
| 23 | Milder differences have soured many a merger before now . |
| 24 | When owners of expensive computer games have conquered all the complexities of their latest purchase the only thing to do has been to buy another , harder game . |
| 25 | JEB Fasteners had purchased all the shares in a private company having relied on its accounts for a period of about a year since incorporation . |
| 26 | Its bare outlines were that in a Luton car park a gang of four men had shot dead a sub-postmaster while trying to obtain from him the post office keys . |
| 27 | Dorcas had given this a lot of thought as teams of nomes sweated to pry the lids off the paint-streaked tins . |
| 28 | NORTH-EAST pupils have won half the scholarships awarded by the public school , Giggleswick , for pupils starting in September . |
| 29 | A few ricochets have made all the difference . |
| 30 | ‘ The police have caught all the others except Sniffy Wilson , ’ he reported . |