Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society .
2 TWO Ashington schools have benefited from a green scheme run by students on a health studies course at Northumberland College .
3 Unstereotyped , of striking beauty and enduring strength , the north Wales castles have survived as a unique and lasting monument to their age and their creator .
4 Whereas Marxism-Leninism does not always take a wholly positive attitude towards the peasantry , identifying petit bourgeois tendencies — particularly amongst the less impoverished — which can make them a sometimes unreliable ally , Mariátegui and subsequent Latin American Marxists have pointed to a dual oppression — both economic and racial .
5 Heads have operated without a clear managerial line of accountability " ( DES 1990a:18 ) .
6 That shared culture has gone , though its traces have persisted for a long time , at least among those unworldly older academics who assume that students of English will have read the whole of Shakespeare in the sixth form , or that they can readily identify classical or biblical references .
7 The authors have benefitted from a flying start , but have only chosen to run part of the way round the track .
8 One or two other manufacturers have opted for a similar idea to this , where the knob sweeps through an infinitely variable range of tones , from soft and middley to bass and treble-heavy ‘ crunch ’ .
9 The applications of computers to other subjects have resulted in a significant commitment to computing in those subjects , but the subject of Computer Science itself remains at the centre : ‘ systematic approaches to the development of computer based systems ( hardware and software ) ’ .
10 Between the extremes stand the work of Ewan and Fiona McLachlan whose designs have featured in a recent RIBA Forty under 40 exhibition .
11 If we find that magnets attached to cats will upset their ability to find their way home , then we are beginning , very dimly , to understand the amazing homing abilities that the animals have evolved over a long period of time .
12 His parliamentary supporters have reacted with an inventive set of procedural obstructions , but Mr Ozal continues to press for further constitutional amendments — one of whose side-effects would be to allow publications and possibly broadcasting in Kurdish .
13 Her lips have drawn into a thin line .
14 Two brothers have appeared in an Irish court in connection with the Swindon body in the loft murder .
15 Many sites have advanced on an incremental basis by developing one area on a small-scale system .
16 As we all know , not only in London but in many of our big cities , there are areas of great depression — neglected areas where there are thousands of people out of work — and those areas have existed for a long time .
17 The Conservatives have worked to an archaic family structure where the man is seen as the dominant wage earner , despite their uneasy recognition that market forces , with demographic change , are soon going to require skilled female labour .
18 The survey suggests the Conservatives have benefited from a slight squeeze on the Liberal Democrats since the weekend .
19 That was but a seed , but it was a seed well sown and matters have moved on a great deal since then .
20 TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama .
21 The context in which they arose was that of the capitalist world economy and imperialism ; hence there has also been , in many of these movements a substantial socialist influence , and in some countries , notably in China , nationalist movements have culminated in a social revolution .
22 So general SVQs have arrived at a good time .
23 Most notably , the Spanish strategy was being implemented by a modernizing , socially reformist government , while in Britain the increasing pressures on the railways in recent years have come from a radical Conservative government hostile to the public sector in principle .
24 Different investigators have argued for a partial dominant gene , a two-gene theory , a polygenic theory , and a combination of genes of incompatible traits .
25 Once the seedlings have developed to a reasonable size , they should be transplanted in the aquarium .
26 The way in which particular individuals have reacted to a particular restraint , and how this in turn has affected their general social behaviour and attitudes , has no firm rules which can be laid down .
27 Such questions have led to a bewildering muddle .
28 And at the last three meetings the bookmakers have operated in a confined square which certainly has n't been the answer to congestion problems .
29 Previous culture experiments have hinted at a mycobacterial aetiology , and the circumstantial evidence such as granulomas is suggestive .
30 For years , local managers have hidden behind a national agreement , privately agreeing that pay levels or poor , that they have no influence on the decisions made at national level .
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