Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the early 1980s , the receipts from direct taxes on income have fluctuated around an average figure some 10% above those from indirect taxes on expenditure ; we have returned to the broad pattern of the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 2 | It seems to me that the indication you have given on the key diagram to alteration number three for Harrogate Knaresborough is exactly the same as for example the indication given for York and for Harrogate Knaresborough southern on the approved key diagram . |
| 3 | I have supped with the Golden Horde of Genghis Khan . |
| 4 | It has been pointed out by various ‘ consumer experts ’ and journalists , who feel they have stumbled on a minor scandal that deserves an exposé , that many mineral waters contain significant amounts of metals and salts . |
| 5 | As Lloyd George perceptively remarked in 1911 , " the fools have stumbled on the right man by accident " . |
| 6 | At first the companions think they have stumbled across a dead ship ; the crew lies slumped over the flight deck controls , their heartbeats non-existent . |
| 7 | Suppliers are angry about what they discern as a consistent pattern of Brandmakers refusing to pay bills because , the company says , goods delivered have fallen below the required standard . |
| 8 | There is no better example of the logical and ideological confusions into which we have fallen over the charging issue than in pre-school provision . |
| 9 | Although the total proportion of diagnoses seems to be rising , the rise is steepest in those who historically have fallen into a high risk group — that is , woman aged 35 and older . |
| 10 | What will happen then to the objects , including possible spaceships , that have fallen into the black hole ? |
| 11 | The number of particles in the baby universe will be equal to the number of particles that have fallen into the black hole , plus the number of particles that the black hole emits during its evaporation . |
| 12 | Millward Brown use their own proprietary system of analysis — a form of mathematical modelling — to translate the data for each individual brand into a so-called ‘ awareness index ’ ; and many of their clients have fallen into the tempting habit of using this single number as a measure of the effectiveness of a commercial or campaign , rather than taking the trouble to make a more detailed study of the data underlying the index . |
| 13 | ‘ You have fallen into the common error , ’ she said . |
| 14 | The greatest burdens of the war — destruction , disruption of life and economic deprivation — have fallen on the rural population . |
| 15 | It is certainly my hope that this is the last time we have heard of a Denning-type investigation . |
| 16 | But we have heard of no other wife . |
| 17 | The Bitter Cry was a vitriolic , moving and widely publicized polemic against the ‘ pestilential human rookeries … where tens of thousands are crowded together amidst horrors which call to mind what we have heard of the middle passage of the slave-ship ’ . |
| 18 | How many , for example , have heard of the Swiss-born conductor Paul Sacher ? |
| 19 | On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people . |
| 20 | Is the Leader of the House aware that , in the past four days , since we returned from the Christmas recess , I have heard more from Conservative Members about Labour party policy than I have heard on the national executive committee in 12 months ? |
| 21 | Mm , I 'm sure you 'll find something in Marks and Spencers , I have heard about a new trick mum , how to con money out of Marks and Spencers |
| 22 | ‘ This is probably my most important game to date , certainly I have never played in front of the kind of crowd that is expected , and I have never played at Twickenham , though I have heard about the swirling wind that can make life uncomfortable for kickers . |
| 23 | In the last couple of weeks we have heard about the tragic death of Sergeant Alan King and Detective Constable Jim Morrison and we have seen the terrible injuries inflicted on their colleagues . |
| 24 | We have heard in the past week of places where there is no peace ; in Iraq , in South Africa , in our own country with sectarian killings in Ulster , and on the borders of Israel and the Lebanon . |
| 25 | We have heard throughout the past year from one Labour Member after another about how their areas of spending have a high priority . |
| 26 | In every country , intellectuals , too , have jumped on the nationalist bandwagon . |
| 27 | You have hidden for a long time , Maggie , and missed so much . ’ |
| 28 | For years , local managers have hidden behind a national agreement , privately agreeing that pay levels or poor , that they have no influence on the decisions made at national level . |
| 29 | Instead , IFEMA have plunged down the desperate road of offering ten complimentary booths to leading galleries , which had not committed to attend the fair , in an attempt to bolster ARCO 's international image . |
| 30 | ‘ Since coming back from maternity leave I have plunged into a new area . |