Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the problems at Strangeways , prison violence has rarely appeared in the headlines , but John Bartell , chairman of the Prison Officers Association says that does n't mean violence in our jails has decreased . |
| 2 | The ECJ has rather wavered over the issue in relation to the Transfers Directive . |
| 3 | In 1985 , ESP also added testing of submersible motors to their list of services — a list that has since grown by the addition of testing protectors , PSIs and cable . |
| 4 | The recommendations are similar to comments from Roger Carr , former chairman of the Countryside Commission ( which has since merged with the Nature Conservancy Council to form SNH ) , and John Foster , ex-director of the commission . |
| 5 | The issue is a narrow one , namely whether on the true construction of section 9(4) of the Act of 1975 and in the light of the facts that ( a ) Dr. Hayes was a servant of the Crown at the time when he made his investigation into the Lockerbie disaster , ( b ) he has since retired from the service of the Crown , and ( c ) that the evidence sought relates to what he discovered when acting as such a servant , the court has any power to make the order sought . |
| 6 | The port has since migrated down the river Scheldt towards the sea ; galleries of contemporary art have moved in , nestling around new museums of photography and modern art . |
| 7 | A rumour has since flown around the circuit that poor Jimbob 's bruises are not particularly pretty . |
| 8 | for instance , in May 1987 it found John Craven of phoenix Securities to be the new chief executive of Morgan Grenfell , another assignment on behalf of Sir Peter Carey , who has since moved from the Department of Trade to become chairman of this major merchant bank . |
| 9 | In June , we have a session by one of our own qualified teachers , Ilana Machover , who has since trained in the Alexander Technique . |
| 10 | Holiday , who has since apologised for the incident , also admitted causing £300 damage to bottles of wine , champagne , glasses , a chair and an electric fan . |
| 11 | The speculation might have been premature but Rioch has since applied for the job . |
| 12 | Mr Rosie , who has since resigned from the council , had contacted Orkney and Shetland MP Jim Wallace and the Scottish Office to try to discover the cause of the delay in settling the matter . |
| 13 | Desperately unlucky at Crayford last month , the lightweight bitch has since won over the Leger course . |
| 14 | This type of maze allowed David Olton in Baltimore and John O'Keefe and Lynn Nadel ( both expatriate Americans , then working at University College , London , though Nadel has since returned to the US , to Tucson , Arizona ) to distinguish between working and reference memory cues in learning the task . |
| 15 | The matches used to be held little more than a week or so apart but soccer has since switched to the Lent term . |
| 16 | VICKI WOODS ( Pamella Bordes , page 184 ) started her career as a sub-editor for Harpers & Queen and has since worked at the Radio Times , Tatler and the Daily Mail . |
| 17 | He has since performed throughout the world . |
| 18 | Fujitsu Ltd says it has successfully implemented of the world 's fastest Gallium Arsenide gate array . |
| 19 | He is aware that as his Property Services Department ( Grounds Maintenance ) has successfully bid for the Lincolnshire contract , his quality of service to school is a key element in our future preparedness to pay our bill . |
| 20 | really answer the first part of the Noble Lord 's question by saying that er er it is a question of future cost , er we are er we are already spending a great deal of money on the first part er of this er library and er we will have to examine the future cost very carefully and I put it to you to the Noble Lord that it would be a really sad reflection where the field of creative endeavour in which this country is m has most excelled over the centuries , in other words literature to have no single focus for celebration , preservation and active use , it really is er very important that this library continues , but may I remind Your Lordships also that we 're not talking about the s the library in this question , we 're talking about the u the site at present used by the builders . |
| 21 | THE United States has discreetly intervened in the gathering of Lebanese parliamentarians in Taif by sending two State Department officials to emphasise Washington 's support for political reform in Lebanon . |
| 22 | Each of the half-dozen military regimes since then has eventually foundered on the strength of the miners . |
| 23 | We have seen that the difficulty of obtaining the gratuitous services of suitable persons to act as trustees has necessarily led to the practice of reposing an ever wider range of discretion in those who can only thus be persuaded to act . |
| 24 | All of this activity has meant that aircraft and artefact restoration has necessarily taken to the back-burner , but , to quote one of the volunteers : ‘ no building , no aircraft in the long term ’ . |
| 25 | This has naturally led to the search for ways in which they can be relaxed . |
| 26 | It is utterly at variance with this to adopt what Andrew Wilkinson has nicely described as the role of ‘ the teacher as self-appointed proof-reader … |
| 27 | The barge carrying the body springs a leak , his ceremonial uniform is soaked as he frantically bales , he worries about the expensive watch which he has inadvertently left on the coffin , the ceremony leaves him with a bad cold which he tries , not altogether successfully , to hide when he is presented to the King . |
| 28 | Singer Colin Gregory has obviously studied at the Richard Butler school of dry rot but his sneakily desiccated vocals contrast nicely with these high sugar melodies . |
| 29 | His enthusiasm has obviously appealed to the party faithful . |
| 30 | This guitar 's overall colouring has obviously darkened with the passing of over three decades , and the lacquer is now finely cracked over the close-grained spruce top . |