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 | Her lips have drawn into a thin line . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The survey suggests the Conservatives have benefited from a slight squeeze on the Liberal Democrats since the weekend . |
| 15 | That was but a seed , but it was a seed well sown and matters have moved on a great deal since then . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So general SVQs have arrived at a good time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Different investigators have argued for a partial dominant gene , a two-gene theory , a polygenic theory , and a combination of genes of incompatible traits . |
| 21 | Once the seedlings have developed to a reasonable size , they should be transplanted in the aquarium . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Such questions have led to a bewildering muddle . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Previous culture experiments have hinted at a mycobacterial aetiology , and the circumstantial evidence such as granulomas is suggestive . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Managers have known for a long time that demographics matter , but they have always believed that population statistics change slowly . |
| 28 | Scotland 's salmon farmers have warned of a severe crisis facing their industry following a meeting with Scottish Office Minister Sir Hector Munro . |
| 29 | With occasional exceptions the new departmental committees have worked in a parliamentary spirit as opposed to a party spirit . |
| 30 | The selling franchise arrangement has operated quite successfully for the past eight years , and Argent Distributors have grown at a steady pace during this period , as can be seen from the sales turnover figures . |