Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I then tell them a story which they act out : one day the children all set off home only to find that a great big hole has opened up in the playground . |
| 32 | For most of the past decade at least one major thoroughfare in the city centre has been shut to traffic while workmen repair a large hole that has opened up in the tarmac after the collapse of one of the old brick sewers beneath . |
| 33 | The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations . |
| 34 | Virginia Rushton the soprano will be accompanied on piano by Elizabeth Bicker who , is well known throughout Ireland and has performed widely in the U.K. including in Sir Harry Secombe 's ‘ Highway ’ programme . |
| 35 | Parrish has acted before in the theatre though , landing a couple of solid psycho parts essentially not a lot different from the Fritz character — who changes his name to Eli and then Bud as he escapes across the country having gunned down the demonic rich bitch Twinkle ( one of Sean Young 's better performances ) . |
| 36 | Fighting in the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan has intensified meanwhile in the run-up to the latest round of peace talks over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 37 | In the borders , there 's some in , in England but er that , that family has died out in the borders . |
| 38 | A country-lover who spent most of his life in the great outdoors has died suddenly in the Yorkshire Dales . |
| 39 | She gave up teaching to start a family and now , one son and one daughter later , has restarted again in the London area . |
| 40 | Perhaps no player has ever been quite as competitive as Botham , and if his combativeness has led him into trouble off the field it has generally worked in his favour on it — except when he has refused to part with the ball despite not bowling well , or when he has holed out in the deep when a more circumspect approach was required . |
| 41 | GREG MACKEY , Warrington 's Australian scrum-half who came as a two-month stop-gap but has figured prominently in the club 's unbeaten start , has agreed to spend the full season at Wilderspool , writes Paul Wilson . |
| 42 | A whole new service industry — office design — has sprung up in the city , and the demand for furniture , secretaries and commercial space has pushed up prices . |
| 43 | The government has set out in the Patient 's Charter the principles on which the NHS is based . |
| 44 | The trade balance , after oscillating between surplus and deficit in the 1970s , has stuck obstinately in the red since 1981 . |
| 45 | Microsoft has lagged behind in the memory of management stakes , so you can expect to find that EMM386 has been beefed up , particularly in the optimizing department , rather like QEMM386 or 386MAX . |
| 46 | The party fared badly at the election in April last year , and Craxi 's name has appeared regularly in the inquiries . |
| 47 | The post-experience pattern has emerged chiefly in the management and administrative fields , although it is also found in teaching ( in post-school education and the proposed ‘ licensed teacher ’ scheme ) and some other service professions ( for example , voluntary social work experience is often a requirement for admission to social work courses ) . |
| 48 | JEWELLERY group Ratners has remained firmly in the red , losing £26.9m in the six months to July 31 , figures today showed . |
| 49 | Crime has increased dramatically in the region . |
| 50 | Interviews with the head , senior staff , teacher-librarians and members of the library committee disclose a large measure of agreement that the use made of the library by many of the departments and courses has increased substantially in the period covered by the project . |
| 51 | Pressure to publish is accepted as a normal feature of research work , but publication of Ph D results before or very soon after completion of the thesis has increased considerably in the period after 1977 . |
| 52 | Pressure to publish is accepted as a normal feature of research work , but publication of Ph D results before or very soon after completion of the thesis has increased considerably in the period after 1977 . |
| 53 | In contrast , the number of farmers , foresters and landowners has increased considerably in the appointments made by Conservative ministers since 1980 . |
| 54 | As a result , it is widely accepted that the Council has assisted significantly in the improvement of all these factors in colleges offering courses leading to its degrees . |
| 55 | Since becoming assistant to Monsieur Bonard , he has progressed rapidly in the business and only a week ago he told us of his hopes of being made a partner . |
| 56 | To date , radio has trailed badly in the UK advertising stakes , taking just 2 per cent of total expenditure . |
| 57 | Robert Gate has gone up in the world , and no one deserves it more . |
| 58 | So Batty really has gone up in the world — from 4–3 against the ( old , great ) Liverpool at Elland Road two years ago to a 4–3 thriller against a club ninth in the fourth division . |
| 59 | It would be absurd to adopt a rigidly determinist view of what has gone on in the formation of culturally transmitted marriage laws . |
| 60 | No one has ever given a satisfactory explanation of why Mr Ford said what he said — and it has gone down in the history books as just another Ford pratfall . |