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 | It is surprising how few units have changed to a cheaper implant in the face of a limiting budget for prostheses . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Heads have operated without a clear managerial line of accountability " ( DES 1990a:18 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ( Hereford cattle entries have slumped to an all time low of just fifty nine here at the show.The ancient local breed has been hit by competition from Continental cattle.But now the Hereford farmers are fighting back with a scheme to boost beef sales.Richard Barnett reports : ) |
| 9 | The authors have benefitted from a flying start , but have only chosen to run part of the way round the track . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 ) ’ . |
| 12 | Between the extremes stand the work of Ewan and Fiona McLachlan whose designs have featured in a recent RIBA Forty under 40 exhibition . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Her lips have drawn into a thin line . |
| 16 | Two brothers have appeared in an Irish court in connection with the Swindon body in the loft murder . |
| 17 | Many sites have advanced on an incremental basis by developing one area on a small-scale system . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For active hunting , a heavy shell must be something of a handicap and some carnivorous molluscs have taken to a faster if riskier life by doing without it altogether and reverting to the life-style of their flatworm-like ancestors . |
| 20 | In the Czechoslovakian town of Bratislava , cancers have risen by a third , heart complaints by 40 per cent , infant mortality by two-thirds and miscarriages by half since 1970 , thanks to deadly air pollutants from nearby industries . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The survey suggests the Conservatives have benefited from a slight squeeze on the Liberal Democrats since the weekend . |
| 23 | From one in Khorramshahr , 800 refugees have gone to a better , cooler site near Dezful , 200 km ( 120 miles ) north . |
| 24 | That was but a seed , but it was a seed well sown and matters have moved on a great deal since then . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | You 'll often be able to turn the pension your contributions have brought into a bigger tax-free lump sum . |
| 28 | Rail workers have voted for a twenty-four hour strike over job losses . |
| 29 | So general SVQs have arrived at a good time . |
| 30 | 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 . |