Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already many thousands of words have appeared on the subject — in official reports and other publications . |
| 2 | ‘ Cynics say — cynics have already said — when your preaching is done , when your lofty words have gone with the wind , when the media has departed to tell another tale , the world will forget . |
| 3 | More habitual bankrupts have to apply to the court after five years and argue their case . |
| 4 | ‘ People say Newcastle fans have stood by the club through thick and thin . |
| 5 | A GROWING demand for slate roofs has breathed new life into traditional slate quarrying in north Wales and given a fillip to villages that for centuries have relied on the industry for jobs . |
| 6 | ‘ Five centuries have passed since the discovery of America , a focal point in the history of discoveries . |
| 7 | Without any explanation , he jumped out and approached one of the Ayurvedic healers who for centuries have sat on the roadside here , surrounded by the ingredients of their trade : live iguanas whose fried juices are said to cure impotence ; ginseng for philtres used to spread or extinguish the fires of love ; tree bark to ward off a woman 's menopause ; the bringraj herb from the high Himalayas said to conquer baldness or thicken the beard of the most effete Sikh . |
| 8 | The front bridle legs have to pass over the cross-spar and be free to run in a straight line from the leading edge to the ring . |
| 9 | This is particularly likely to occur for larger cities with very limited amounts of vacant land and in rural areas where environmental and other considerations have led to the imposition of strict controls on new building . |
| 10 | Other considerations have led to the suggestion that introns could have been transferred horizontally between different species ( 13 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ) . |
| 11 | Believers have gluttoned on the god of excess and found it wanting . |
| 12 | Although many pubs , shopping centres , garden centres and schools have stepped into the breach , their play areas ca n't really compare with a good adventure playground in the local park . |
| 13 | Market-driven as ever , business schools have risen to the challenge . |
| 14 | In addition it must be acknowledged that the public schools have adapted to the demand for scientific and managerial graduates by modernising their range of subjects and strengthening their science teaching . |
| 15 | At first the cuts are only occasional , but they become increasingly common until finally all signals have disappeared from the airwaves . |
| 16 | Now that we have provisionally fixed what a signal is , and how one may be recognized , let us consider some examples of signals — the songs of birds , the pheromones of moths and ants , and the dance of honeybees — before we consider the theoretical question of why signals have evolved in the form that we see in nature . |
| 17 | ‘ Signals have to come from the top , ’ explains , ‘ and chief executives and managing directors have to be hearts and minds behind it . ’ |
| 18 | The first public taxonomic databases have experimented with the handling of alternative taxonomies ( as in the US Nature Conservancy 's taxonomic inventory with local variants ) , with attaching biological data in such a way that it can be refreshed for subsequent taxonomic changes ( for example , ILDIS/Chapman and Hall Leguminosae phytochemical database ) , and with the use of images ( such as The Plant Fossil Record ) . |
| 19 | The waterfall is a part of the enormously extensive and complicated subterranean water system that has been traced now through this limestone mass if and which links up with the astonishingly deep fissures or gouffres that the speleologists have explored in the mountains to the east . |
| 20 | Therefore monetarists have resorted to the claim that governments can exert control over the money stock if they are determined enough , and in so doing will bring about the desired effect on money incomes and prices . |
| 21 | Empires have been built and fortunes acquired during the Eighties , and most ‘ lazy ’ journalists have looked to the States to explain the phenomenon . |
| 22 | All the Smarties have gone from the plates which now have small pink morsels on . |
| 23 | TRADERS have protested to the BBC and ITV that television and radio weather forecasts are giving a false picture of the Yorkshire Coast . |
| 24 | A variety of organizations have grown within the health sector that relate to both the struggles of its members and to the broader national struggle . |
| 25 | The general conclusion that emerges from this chapter is that social policy has been a positive force in economic growth though not as powerful a force as some of its protagonists have claimed over the years . |
| 26 | Relations between the US and the United Nations have soured since the rise of the New Right on Capitol Hill . |
| 27 | Aid programmes which aim to increase production in developing nations have contributed to the problem . |
| 28 | However , since finishing last month 's article , several new and exciting happenstances have arisen concerning the Wiltshire circles . |
| 29 | Most clients have moved to the voucher system , although some can not use it . |
| 30 | THE first women Royal Marines recruits have waltzed through the elite corps ' gruelling military training . |