Example sentences of "have [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small size of the private-rented sector and the difficulties which council house tenants face in moving between local authority areas have for a long time constituted major barriers to long distance migration by lower-income workers ( Robertson , 1979 ; Hughes and McCormick , 1981 ; OPCS , 1983 ; Hamnett , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | I have for a long time had on file one respected artist 's offer to arrange an exhibition of a hundred of his works , and then to hand them straight over as a gift to the Russian Cultural Foundation . |
| 3 | As was noted in Chapter 4 , local education authorities have for a long time had a duty to provide special education for handicapped children . |
| 4 | This is not meant to be a criticism of the many carp bait firms which have for a long time sold baits which catch carp . |
| 5 | Libraries and librarians have for a long time sought to play a role in the educational development of young children in the formative and primary years , particularly in the simple stimulation of the reading habit . |
| 6 | South African authorities have for the first time permitted Mr Nelson Mandela to talk by telephone with exiled leaders of the African National Congress from the prison where he is held near Cape Town . |
| 7 | For instance , we are well-used to integrating vocational assessments in care , but for the general SVQ we have for the first time found it necessary to set up meetings with colleagues delivering modules in numeracy , information technology and budget financing . |
| 8 | Scientists at La Jolla University , California , have for the first time established a link between nitrous oxide and the nylon industry . |
| 9 | Within this mass , the smaller workers have in a similar fashion created chambers in which the pupae hang . |
| 10 | It is precisely because market forces have in the long run caught up with the operation of the CAP , as they inevitably would , that we are in such trouble . |
| 11 | ( 3 ) After the expiration of that period those shares which are declined or deemed to be declined shall be offered in the proportion aforesaid to the persons who have within the said period accepted all the shares offered to them . |
| 12 | ( 3 ) After the expiration of that period those shares which are declined or deemed to be declined shall be offered in the proportion aforesaid to the persons who have within the said period accepted all the shares offered to them . |
| 13 | The decline of the extended family network , and its replacement by smaller ‘ nuclear ’ family groups , has meant that valuable networks of support and care have to a considerable extent disappeared . |
| 14 | This division of labour by artefact type epitomises attitudes towards archaeology generally at that time , and such divisions have to a large extent persisted to this day , emphasising how artefact-based early Anglo-Saxon studies have remained . |
| 15 | The scale of capital involved , and the dependence on more complex and specialized means of production and distribution , have to an important extent blocked access to these media in older artisanal , post-artisanal and even market professional terms , and imposed predominant conditions of corporate employment . |
| 16 | I have at the same time suggested that Benjamin 's own aesthetics were very much a postmodernist aesthetics . |