Example sentences of "have [verb] [conj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party leadership in Scotland has dismissed that on the grounds that those MPs who are associated with Scotland United represent constituencies where action against the carrying of knives would have the greatest effect . |
| 2 | Winter freezing closed the Trent and Mersey Canal for five weeks in 1814 – 15 , and Freeman has calculated that on the canals of the Lancashire plain there must have been twenty-day stoppages in thirty of the winters between 1771 and 1831 and thirty-day stoppages in ten of those . |
| 3 | The test car I drove had a serious wind noise problem , which will not be the first time Ford has heard that about the Escort , but it otherwise came across as well conceived — it 's easy to load and has a completely flat floor with rear seats folded — and competent . |
| 4 | The Crown has claimed that by the time he was arrested in the summer of 1991 his alleged computer forays had breached security surrounding a number of systems including one at EC headquarters , another at a world famous centre for cancer research and treatment and others at various universities . |
| 5 | Mr de Soto 's early association with Mr Vargas ' alliance , the Democratic Front , has cooled because of the economist 's suspicion that the novelist is being compromised by his allies . |
| 6 | It is quite often the case that the person making the arrangements has not had to do this job before and so relies heavily on what he remembers from other funerals he has attended and on the undertaker 's advice . |
| 7 | One journalist has written that during the Grunwick dispute of the late 1970s a tap was attached to the telephone used by the strike committee in the Brent Trades ' Council offices in Willesden Lane . |
| 8 | Professor F. M. Scherer of Yale , whose work on industrial structure we cited in Chapters 8–10 , has argued that in the United States the social cost of monopoly is large enough ‘ to treat every family in the land to a steak dinner at a good restaurant ’ . |
| 9 | Each generation has argued as to the merits of its team . |
| 10 | There is no question that in America , black tennis has suffered because of the lack of role models for youngsters to aspire to . |
| 11 | In order to understand what you would see if you were watching a star collapse to form a black hole , one has to remember that in the theory of relativity there is no absolute time . |
| 12 | ‘ The Director has decided that in the light of the learned judge 's ruling in the first trial , the second trial should not proceed because there is no longer a realistic prospect of convictions , ’ the CPS anounced yesterday . |
| 13 | Experience has shown that with the introduction of such systems the cost per case dropped , but there is little evidence of whether this resulted from greater efficiency or lower quality of care . |
| 14 | The tensions down the east side of Africa are well known and my colleague Peter Styles has shown that in the Red Sea the geophysical evidence also indicates episodicity . |
| 15 | As a rule , though , experience has shown that in the case of modules containing program code , the description lines should be used to describe the purpose of the code and not as a substitute for good in-line comments . |
| 16 | Work on the former group has shown that in the century between 1341 and 1440 , and more markedly in the last three-quarters of this period , the replacement rate for males was clearly below one , but rose sharply by the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ( 75 , p.27 ) . |
| 17 | Research at the IMechE has shown that in the UK over 75% of the benefits of tribology are as yet unrealised . |
| 18 | Professor Crafts has shown that in the Midlands , far from retaining labour , recently enclosed parishes experienced considerable out-migration . |
| 19 | Nagel ( 1973 ) has shown that in the area exploited by hamadrayas baboons in the Awash valley there are no fruiting trees such as figs or tamarinds which by comparison constitute primary sources in the near-by P. anubis baboon area . |
| 20 | Research on encounters between police and public has shown that from the public 's view even the crime-fighters need communication skills ( Dix and Layzell 1983 ; Southgate and Ekblom 1984 , 1986 ; Sykes and Brent 1983 ) , although these abilities are all too often absent . |
| 21 | Now , gentlemen , this war has shown that among the leaders of Labour there is a body which is national and patriotic ( Hear , hear and applause , ) and feels these sentiments as strongly as we do . |
| 22 | The crisis has occurred because of the Government 's policy — which , whether or not it was deliberate , has been disastrous , as my hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield ( Mr. Hinchliffe ) said . |
| 23 | In Pit-Men , Preachers and Politics ( 1974 ) Professor Robert Moore has noted that in the Deerness Valley east of Durham City many old mining families recall the time when their ancestors had rural occupations . |
| 24 | Using the most fundamental measure of poverty , the " breadline " , Professor Hay has estimated that over the years 1760 to 1802 in a normal year around 10 per cent of Staffordshire families would have been unable to buy sufficient bread over the year even if they had spent their whole earnings on it . |
| 25 | Myers has estimated that by the end of the century , at present rates , there will be only two relict blocks : western Brazilian Amazonia and Zaire , with smaller ones in New Guinea and the Guyana Shield of South America , but that these are unlikely to last beyond 2050 because of cultivation as , for example , the population in Rondonia in south Brazilian Amazonia increased from 1100 in 1975 to well over a million by 1986 , with an increase in cultivation from 1250km 2 to 10000 in 1982 and 17000 in 1986 . |
| 26 | The number of very young babies available has decreased and for the moment the Society has reluctantly decided to close its list to applicants seeking straightforward babies under one year . |
| 27 | There has been a conspiracy of silence between the nuclear industry and the Government on providing information about the contracts that Dounreay has signed and about the discussions and negotiations that have taken place or are taking place with foreign reactors . |
| 28 | The Secretary-General of the Law Society , John Hayes , has warned that in the future only the well off may be able to become solicitors . |
| 29 | Sir James Jeans ( 1877–1946 ) , eminent British astronomer and mathematician , has stated that throughout the universe ( and nature ) there exist ‘ singular points ’ or centres from which , and through which , energy from a higher sphere streams into our physical universe and in turn streams out . |
| 30 | However , with standard form contracts directed at consumers , the legislature has interfered because of the imbalance in bargaining power . |