Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Latin America a second wave of nationalism , which may be regarded as a continuation of the national independence struggles against the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the early nineteenth century , has developed vigorously in the present century in opposition to American economic dominance , and has been connected more or less closely with socialist and reforming movements directed against the internal domination of these societies by an upper class composed of landowners , and more recently , of elements of a national bourgeoisie . |
| 2 | There is no doubt that the industry has developed sufficiently in the past decade for an MBO or similar venture capital-financed transaction always to be on the vendor 's agenda if a disposal is being contemplated . |
| 3 | Can the party really survive much more of the rancour that has broken out in the past few days over Labour 's tax policy ? |
| 4 | However , the coastline has altered drastically in the last 10,000 years . |
| 5 | The island of Puerto Rico has altered substantially in the last 40 years . |
| 6 | Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next . |
| 7 | The detection rate is well down and has fallen steadily in the past four years — the detection rate for burglary in dwellings is now less than 20 per cent . |
| 8 | I am pleased to say that unemployment in all these areas has fallen dramatically in the last 12 months-by 21 per cent . |
| 9 | In effect , the purchasing power of members in Britain has fallen dramatically in the past number of years . |
| 10 | Air pollution is still a major cause , he said : " Exposure to sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxides has fallen dramatically in the past decade , but forest ecosystems react only gradually . " |
| 11 | This probably explains why menarche the age of which er menstruation begins menarche er why the age of menarche has dropped progressively in the last century from about fifteen and a half to about twelve and a half er today . |
| 12 | Imported cutlery is also bought in American dollars and , while the exchange rate of sterling to the dollar was very favourable for Britain last year , it has dropped considerably in the past six months , making imported cutlery more expensive to buy . |
| 13 | When it comes to clothes and the British high street , I think the standard has dropped radically in the last five years . |
| 14 | THE time has come round in the European Commission 's calendar ( see page 5 ) when another set of committee meetings will set out to define yet another ‘ framework ’ programme , the commission 's name for the programmes of largely applied research which it plans and administers on behalf of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 15 | Though I suppose one has to make a passing one has to make a passing er reference to the information which has come out in the other house erm and be publicised this weekend in the press but er er at one million almost one million a slug , M E Ps do n't come cheap , er I suppose one however would want to make allowances for the fact that they have three parliamentary buildings , that they have to go on trips and that er they have to pay er er I suppose German rates for their bureaucracy so there clearly are exceptional factors and indeed I would n't want to make too much of that . |
| 16 | Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years . |
| 17 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 18 | I can inform the Secretary of State straight away that there is a much more immediate cause seriously impairing ’ the ability of the Agency to deliver a proper service ’ and that is the swingeing cuts in staff numbers of up to one third in each local office that the Secretary of State has carried through in the past two years under the operational strategy . |
| 19 | The relentless pace of internationalisation in the economy has speeded up in the 1980s . |
| 20 | Swindon has grown economically in the last 15 years and the unemployment level was down to a record low 2 to 3 years ago . |
| 21 | As we have seen , the number of full-time teachers engaged in further education has grown enormously in the last thirty years , from just over 4,500 in 1946–7 to about 80,000 in 1980 . |
| 22 | The diversity of the International region , which sells 75 brands in 108 markets , is well illustrated by its performance in smaller markets such as Turkey , where the market for Scotch whisky has grown three-fold in the last ten years.Johnnie Walker Red Label has maintained its major market share and is well placed to capitalise on the growth of one of the fastest developing economies in the region . |
| 23 | The venture capital industry has grown rapidly in the 1980 's and into the 1990's , from around twelve in the mid 1970's to approximately 124 at the present time . |
| 24 | The design and build group , established in 1988 , specialises in healthcare developments and has grown quickly in the past four years . |
| 25 | It has shot up in the recent hot sun , while the grass at the city 's other cemeteries has been burned off . |
| 26 | Its overseas staff has risen three-fold in the past five years , to 75 analysts . |
| 27 | Well , that of course er may be true but er as the Group Captain has has said here in the reduced er spec position which we now face and judgement was taken as to how much we should invest in stocks of reserve drop tanks at this point and the option exists to order more . |
| 28 | But after being pulled off at Crystal Palace in midweek , he has suffered both in the last four days . |
| 29 | Hatfield has become a bl black spot because of the closure of , er the aerospace industry in the County has suffered gravely in the past few years and I think you will agree , the closure of at . |
| 30 | She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey . |