Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The establishment of sickle cell centres in many cities has led to increased awareness of the condition and greatly improved care for sufferers , and much of the credit for this must go to the dedicated nurses , health visitors and counsellors involved . |
| 2 | 10% of all vehicles in New Zealand are NGVs , while US legislation enforcing the adoption of cleaner alternative fuels has resulted in many government departments converting their fleets to run on natural gas . |
| 3 | This is the more necessary , the Commission believes , at a time when the bias in schools has shifted towards instrumental music and composition , although a fair number of state secondary and senior independent schools continue to maintain a strong tradition of choral singing . |
| 4 | Our range of reverse osmosis units has met with considerable interest and just proves that it is no good trying to adapt unsuitable systems to the fishkeeper — they need and deserve purpose-built items . |
| 5 | The search for such dating methods has continued for some time , but in the second half of this century several methods have been developed , which provide much better ways of dating some sites and finds . |
| 6 | Guinness Flight , which has about £80m in its International Accumulation Fund , said the amount of investment in its funds has increased by 43 p.c. during the first three months . |
| 7 | Despite the curtailment of some of the clergy 's powers , friction between the teachers ' associations , particularly the INTO , and the Roman catholic clergy has remained until this day . |
| 8 | They showed the proportion of directors reporting improved order books has risen from 28 p.c. in February to 43 p.c. this month , while 37 p.c. say profits are higher compared with 30 p.c. two months ago . |
| 9 | Museum professionals are agreed , however , that it is the work of a North Italian master in the last quarter of the fifteenth century and one of the few major bronzes to have survived from this period . |
| 10 | The lofty idea that India could endure as a secular democracy of diverse peoples had come under open attack from the Hindu chauvinists of the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) . |
| 11 | Ruth swung to see his eyes had changed to cold hostility and the set of his jaw was so damned determined it chilled her to the very marrow of her bones . |
| 12 | Instead of looking angry , she realised , the dark eyes had kindled with fresh amusement . |
| 13 | The other parties had met with mixed success and it was obvious that the enemy were mounting far stronger guards on their airfields . |
| 14 | Her great-grandparents had lived in this house ; it was her great-grandfather who had bought the farm ; but from where had come the money for a Polish immigrant to buy a farm in those far-off days remained a mystery to both her grandfather and , of course , her father . |
| 15 | In early 1939 , Lord Hailey had voiced fears that ‘ the problem would frankly become unmanageable ’ , but his appeals to the government to support the refugee cause with public funds had met with blank refusal . |
| 16 | In May 1856 , two months after his speech in Moscow , the tsar met Nazimov at Brest and discovered that , in the north-west , his words had fallen on fruitful soil . |
| 17 | Reporting on his efforts to get the three opposition parties to agree on a common agenda , Mr Christie said he feared the argument that 75 per cent of Scots had voted for constitutional change at the last election lost validity without some unifying factor , enhancing the Tories ' claims of legitimacy . |
| 18 | Not since the demolition gangs had moved into that area south of the river to knock down the old tenements and clear it for redevelopment . |
| 19 | Martial law , expected by many to continue at least until the Asian Games in September , has been formally ended both in Beijing and Lhasa , though the troops remain ( mid-May ) , the first anniversaries had passed without significant incident . |
| 20 | Notoriously these words have crept into ordinary usage from medieval philosophical Latin . |
| 21 | The unique qualities of strength , high moisture absorption , excellent washing and colour retention characteristics have led to Irish Linen 's renowned reputation throughout the world as the best fabric for Household Textiles . |
| 22 | ‘ Two hundred fans have contributed in one shape or another with people coming with a fiver in the hope it would help . |
| 23 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many schools have applied for grant-maintained status . |
| 24 | I am delighted to say that , to date , 315 schools have opted for grant-maintained status . |
| 25 | A number of readers have asked for more advice on entries that cover matches in pairs and trios . |
| 26 | But at the same time it 's wonderful that the government is recognizing the kind of work that gay organizations have put into this issue . |
| 27 | Our College would serve : to collect and deposit the variety of sound veterinary knowledge which floats dispersedly in the kingdom … to collect and arrange whatever the labours and experience of other nations have furnished on this subject ; to improve on this extensive stock … correspondencies and communications should be encouraged … |
| 28 | As we enter the nineties we are progressing slowly with direct mail in UK politics , but national attempts by the different parties have failed for one reason or another . |
| 29 | However , such shops have closed with increasing frequency during the period that large out-of-town retail centres have been developed . |
| 30 | Various authors have contributed to this view of strategic decision making , but the leader of them all is Quinn ( 1978 , 1980 ) . |