Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Two hundred fans have contributed in one shape or another with people coming with a fiver in the hope it would help . |
| 4 | Elsewhere the authors have explored in more detail the nature and relevance of such approaches to people with learning difficulties ( Swain and Brechin , forthcoming ) . |
| 5 | The dominant approaches in psychology in the first half of this century were summarised by Kammerer in 1940 as follows : Allen and Pearson ( 1928 ) had concluded , on the basis of case studies , that : Whilst the Adlerian Rudolf Dreikurs argued in 1948 that : Since then individual psychology and its therapeutically oriented offshoots have continued in this vein , and debated the degree and nature of pathology supposed to follow , directly or indirectly , from impairment . |
| 6 | But in contrast to Mama Mosambiki 's oblique approach , the Kafala Brothers have chosen in this album to sing directly about the cruelty and devastation of civil war in Angola . |
| 7 | But in contrast to Mama Mosambiki 's oblique approach , the Kafala Brothers have chosen in this album to sing directly about the cruelty and devastation of civil war in Angola . |
| 8 | The commission found that Galileo 's judges had acted in good faith but had been " incapable of dissociating faith from an age-old cosmology " . |
| 9 | The deal was all too similar to others that he knew unscrupulous businessmen had perpetrated in this country and others . |
| 10 | Serb fighters recently allowed some 6,000 Muslims to flee the Cerska area for the nearby Muslim-held town of Tuzla , where relief agencies said many of the refugees had arrived in terrible condition , suffering from hepatitis , head lice and frostbite . |
| 11 | Reductions in bus passenger and car rear seat passenger casualties have contributed in large degree to this decrease . |
| 12 | Many rural areas have acted in similar fashion . |
| 13 | We expect further guidance will be necessary in relation to the treatment of surpluses in pension funds , though recently considerable uncertainties have arisen in this area about the cost of pension provision as a result of the European Court judgment , often referred to as the ‘ Barber Case ’ . |
| 14 | The academic book market is already in decline with the erosion of student grants ; the spending on schoolbooks and on libraries has suffered in public spending cutbacks , and consumer cash in the current recession is clearly not plentiful . |
| 15 | Since Lord Clyde said in his inquiry report that the social workers had acted in good faith , the social workers would have to keep her children to prove they did the right thing in the first place , she said . |
| 16 | The texts of these documents , the products of negotiations with Baker and US officials over previous weeks , were not published , although their general contents had featured in numerous press reports . |
| 17 | It 's not the first time airmen have died in this way near Upper Heyford. 23 years ago , the pilot of a Voodoo jet reconaissance aircraft crashed into a tree after just managing to clear the roof of Steeple Aston school . |
| 18 | In 1953 , such a territory was alien , almost invisible , a schizo-world of as yet unimagined pleasure ; yet today it is disturbingly familiar , this condition described by Jameson as living ‘ in a perpetual present and in a perpetual change that obliterates traditions of the kind which all earlier social formations have had in one way or another to preserve ’ . |
| 19 | Since no mines , oil wells nor factories have invested in significant modernisation few are making appreciably more convertible currency than they were two years ago . |
| 20 | Significantly many successful Harvard dealers have failed in later life . |
| 21 | Changes in taste , coupled with a general decline in craft techniques , have meant that the use and range of chemical treatments has declined in this century , although in the Far East the beautiful patinated Shakudo alloys ( see p. 95 ) are still produced by the traditional chemical treatments . |
| 22 | So a million , couple of million pounds has gone in that direction . |
| 23 | ‘ One of the most exhilarating things to have happened in English Theatre ’ . |
| 24 | On coming to power , Lenin and his colleagues promptly deserted the Allied cause in the First World War and repudiated the massive loans which western investors had made in good faith to the tsarist government . |
| 25 | Many things had died in this room and left their stink behind . |
| 26 | While some such questions have featured in this examiner 's papers , many of the questions set attempt to test a breadth of knowledge and understanding across the whole financial accounting syllabus . |
| 27 | The investigation considers the consequences of the guidelines for relations between the Home Office and Section Eleven authorities ; what changes have occurred in local policy and practice , and how the new guidelines have affected grant take-up and distribution . |
| 28 | In the twentieth century , three main changes have occurred in this ownership of agricultural land . |
| 29 | A number of significant changes have occurred in British society since 1979 , and the one centred on in this book has been the emergence of an underclass . |
| 30 | Alright , so although the institutional setting can have a direct effect alright , it 's much more likely that the effect will be indirect , right , through , through high prices , and in order for , farmers to er , reap the benefits of support , they need to maximize their yields , and that 's what farmers have done in this country . |