Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what representations he has received in favour of taxation policies to benefit the environment ; and if he will make a statement .
2 To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what recent representations he has received in connection with state schools in west Norfolk .
3 This latter aspect has developed without knowledge of BSL and has led to an uninflected form of signing which has been slow to change .
4 The Imperial Engineers School has grown , the Colleges of Magic have thrived , and the army has marched from victory to victory .
5 The resource cost of producing BC of the good has fallen from BCHE to BCFE , a saving of EFH .
6 Apart from possible dust and fungal spores from hay and straw , he also has to cope with ammonia from urine , carbon dioxide from his lungs , water vapour and so on .
7 The rule against prior restraint is secure in libel cases " because of the value the court has placed on freedom of speech and freedom of the press when balancing it against the reputation of a single individual who , if wronged , can be compensated in damages " .
8 The nature of the document has varied from year to year but always involves presenting some reasonably complex material in a form that allows different readers to pursue different paths through it .
9 Figure 2.4 shows how the number of births in the United Kingdom has varied from year to year since 1964 , when it reached its highest figure since the 1920s .
10 The rate of acquisition of these various classes of assets has varied from year to year but with the exception of overseas securities holdings , which have tended to rise as a proportion of the total since 1980 , there are no significant trends .
11 The impact of the migrants has varied from country to country , but two areas which stand out as having been profoundly affected throughout the continent are housing and employment .
12 The operation of the communities of interest has varied from seeking to preserve neighbourhood cohesion or status quo ( Fineview and Charles Street Kirkbride ) to pursuing the interests of an exclusive and unrepresentative group within the neighbourhood ( such as Allegheny West , Central North Side , East Allegheny and increasingly Manchester ) .
13 The designation of zones has certainly encouraged development , but this has varied from region to region .
14 In such cases the unlucky individual has taken the precaution of wearing a contraceptive sheath , but a sore on the vulva , say , of his sexual partner has come into contact with part of the penis not covered by the condom .
15 As university funding has come to hinge on publication , this has been encouraged for its own sake .
16 If he is to succeed , Simpson might have to rely heavily on his father , Gordon Simpson , a former finance director of Shell who has come on board as deputy chairman .
17 The child has come in search of nature and is thwarted .
18 It is not too much to say that , throughout the last three critical years in China , it is to Dr Morrison that the British public has looked from day to day for the earliest and most accurate intelligence concerning events in which the interests of this country have been so largely involved . ’
19 This is not merely a little churlish ; it also explains why the cumulative effect of their evidence makes less — impact than it should , because it disguises the fact that the unholy alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry has tottered from crisis to crisis now for two decades — since the thalidomide tragedy .
20 Arthur 's business has grown by word of mouth and now much of his work comes from private commissions .
21 MICHAEL Murray has quit as boss of wedding dresses and dinner jackets group , Cupid after a boardroom row .
22 ( 1 ) Where a body corporate has applied for recognition in accordance with Rule 15 the Council may recognise the body as a suitable body to undertake the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors or by multi-national partnerships where the Council is satisfied :
23 The government has moved beyond exhortation to compulsion and thus removed yet another strand of local discretion .
24 The CAA 's Central Library has moved from Kingsway to Aviation House at Gatwick , where it is open for reference and sale of CAA publications from 0930–1630 Monday to Friday .
25 In the space of only two weeks , the Slovak lawyer has moved from dissident to defendant to government minister .
26 But now he has moved from critic to principal player , he may discover the advantages of the business brain so vilified by Raine 's critics .
27 Squash at Harlow Sportcentre has moved from strength to strength , starting with just two courts when the centre first opened .
28 Art offers ‘ substitutive satisfactions for the oldest and still most deeply felt cultural renunciations , and for that reason it serves as nothing else does to reconcile a man to the sacrifices he has made on behalf of civilization ’ .
29 But the British film industry , chastened and curbed , has lurched from crisis to crisis ever since .
30 The discovery in the quarries of pre-historic footprints of dinosaurs — iguanodon or megalosaurus — has occurred from time to time , notably in 1963 when samples were removed to the British Museum , and again in 1980 when over 30 footprints were uncovered at Townsend during building work .
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