Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Brooks has stressed the verbal similarities between S 22 and S 985 , which records an alleged gift by Cnut and was copied by Eadui into a Christ Church gospel book in the form of a royal writ . |
| 2 | Dr Margaret Spufford has examined the varying fortunes of three different Cambridgeshire parishes — Chippenham , Orwell and Willingham — in Contrasting Communities : English Villagers in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries ( 1974 ) . |
| 3 | San Francisco has had a privatised police force since 1851 , when the city cops were so desperate for help that they sold off districts to private enterprise . |
| 4 | James Neill has attracted the unwelcome attentions of several predators in the past , including Suter , the conglomerate run by David Abell , and BM Group , run by Roger Shute . |
| 5 | Since election in 1988 Manley has softened the socialist policies of earlier PNP administrations of the 1970s . |
| 6 | Although a number of embassies in Kuwait had defied the Iraqi orders that they should close by Aug.24 [ see p. 37639 ] , all but a dozen ( including the USA , Canada and eight EC countries ) had abandoned them by Aug. 12 because of conditions there . |
| 7 | Edward had made the necessary signals , and received the necessary instructions . |
| 8 | These rules stated that the economic world was Keynesian — equally in the sense that Keynes had explained the fundamental laws of economic motion and that in the process he had provided the prescriptions which would render high unemployment and stagnation as things of the past [ Posner , 1978 ] . |
| 9 | Their friends could only feel that death was merciful in the circumstances , especially with war imminent , and that Molly had made the closing months of their lives very happy . |
| 10 | GenTech had developed the little bastards . |
| 11 | WordPerfect have found the multi-tasking capabilities of OS/2 valuable and see it as an important platform for future development . |
| 12 | Erm er , well Jean 's got the exact figures , er , she 's , she 's done it all , she 's got it all , all down for , for , for this afternoon . |
| 13 | Research in both Argentina and Chile has revealed the close links between industrialists and agrarian interests ( Chilcote and Edelstein 1974 , Petras 1969 ) . |
| 14 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 15 | Following the recent press statement by Mr Michael Forsyth MP , Scotland 's Sports Minister , I write to inform you that Mr Forsyth has accepted the Scottish Sports Council 's view that the system first introduced at its request in 1987 whereby senior staff of the Council serve also as Members of the Council , should be discontinued . |
| 16 | PEUGEOT has launched a new parts initiative unique among car manufacturers . |
| 17 | PEUGEOT has launched a new parts initiative they believe is unique among car manufacturers . |
| 18 | Great effort was put into developing three new drugs , but these flopped ; Zeneca has launched no new products since 1989 . |
| 19 | Unix office software company , Uniplex Ltd , based in Hemel Hempstead , Herts , England has launched a professional services division , combining existing services and support with consultancy as well as Unix and Uniplex training for resellers and end-users . |
| 20 | Jake had had no real friends except Ben ; he had often been at the house in those old days , never saying much , but good at mending broken toys and constructing dolls out of handkerchiefs and folded paper . |
| 21 | Tallis had seen the grimacing features as she was carried to the grave . |
| 22 | As of mid-May Uzbekistan and Moldova had completed the relevant formalities ( on April 30 and May 5 respectively ) . |
| 23 | Of course , Nigel had acquired the technical facts at school , but they always felt less true to him . |
| 24 | Doctors in early modern England had developed no special skills for dealing with the health of older people . |
| 25 | It was here that , at the Competition for the Crown forty-two years before , Edward the First of England had met the Scots magnates and set in motion the actions which ultimately led to the Wars of Independence . |
| 26 | Soldiers had since picked up the habit of wine-drinking in France during the war and upon returning to England had educated the middle classes , further increasing the popularity of Champagne in the immediate post-war years . |
| 27 | Many films made in Scotland have included the Scotmid vehicles , including Greyfriars Bobby , Greystoke : The Legend of Tarzan Lord of the Apes and Journey to the Centre of the Earth . |
| 28 | The wicked Dr Mamuk has stolen the secret plans for a virtual reality chamber and is trying to sell them to an alien race . |
| 29 | For over 120 years , the House of Commons has had a Public Accounts Committee which has established a reputation as an impartial watchdog over government spending . |
| 30 | The other four winning projects are : Community Education , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London , an educational programme under the direction of Lucy Dawe Lane involving over 200 artists living in the East End of London , ( the award will be used to set up after-school activities for local Bengali children and their families ) ; Art in Albany Prison , Isle of Wight , where Colin Riches has set up the first art centre in a maximum security jail , providing full-time employment and art education for eighteen long-term prisoners , ( Colin Riches will use his award to carry out further researches into the benefits of art in prisons ) ; Art Trust , Homerton Hospital , London , where the inspiration of surgeon William Shand has covered the bare walls and public spaces of the new building with specially-commissioned pictures and sculpture , ( the award will be used to commission a major sculpture for the principal courtyard ; and The Fan Museum , Greenwich , London , the first museum of fans , set up by Dicky and Helen Alexander who have donated their collection of 2,000 fans to the museum , ( the award will be used to provide proper storage facilities for the collection ) . |