Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only mandate that most electors consider they have given to newly-elected Members of Parliament is to support the party and its leader ; certainly , the Prime Minister expects , and usually gets , the support of the mass of the parliamentary majority party and the entire hundred or so members of the Government that is formed . |
| 2 | This was one of the most ragged performances Oxford have given in recent memory with their captain , Smith , responsible for several mistakes . |
| 3 | To maintain members who have fallen into ill repute with shipowners , to provide remedy for wages and salvage and maintenance on shore for members detained from sea during litigation . |
| 4 | Now these in their turn have fallen on hard times at a time of agricultural rather than industrial recession . |
| 5 | By contrast , unit costs in higher education have fallen in real terms during the 1980s — by 37% in universities and 21% in polytechnics and colleges ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.16 ) . |
| 6 | Conveyancing fees have fallen in real terms in the last five years . |
| 7 | I have heard of various instances of a butler being displayed as a kind of performing monkey at a house party . |
| 8 | ‘ But I have heard in other parts of the country that people have been moved from the waiting lists because they would not get an appointment within the set time limit . |
| 9 | There can be no justification for the comments we have heard from certain leaders of right wing er trade unions , who wish to take away the very principle of what we 're talking about , the block vote , especially one , when one of 'em , allegedly , who have n't even bothered to pay their contributions to the General Election Fund . |
| 10 | Since I mention native speakers ' feelings in this connection , and since I am elsewhere rather sceptical about appeals to native speakers ' feelings , I had better explain that in this case my evidence comes from the native speakers of English I have taught in practical classes on transcription over many years . |
| 11 | Generally there should be some question which asks pupils to synthesise the data they have gathered at different parts of the site . |
| 12 | Anatomical studies have depended on various ways of making visible one cell body and all its processes , while leaving other cells unstained . |
| 13 | We pray especially for those that You have placed in close proximity to us ; our relatives ; our neighbours ; those we meet day by day . |
| 14 | In this century , differences have emerged between leading churchmen in the region and , especially since the 1960s , the differences have developed into significant splits within the church . |
| 15 | A prime example of a class which is , in this sense , non-political is the peasantry in Western Europe , which Marx likened to a ‘ sack of potatoes ’ ; and it is notable that even when peasant revolutionary movements have developed in other parts of the world in the twentieth century , they have almost always been organized and led by urban politicians or urban-based political parties . |
| 16 | In some wooded areas which have developed in recent decades on open ground , such as abandoned heathlands , the opportunity is being taken to restore the now scarce and declining open habitat . |
| 17 | Value for money ( VFM ) audits have developed in recent years as a way of expanding the more traditional role of the auditor away from the more straightforward examination of the fairness of the financial statements of an organization . |
| 18 | The mythologies of tragic sacrifice that have coalesced around gay writers like Oscar Wilde and Joe Orton tend only to impede a fully contextual understanding of how their sexuality and textuality inform each other . |
| 19 | These are some of the stories which we have received from SPRED groups in the Wirral … |
| 20 | Initial ‘ gut ’ reactions have varied from righteous indignation to cynical amusement , from vocal anger to silent embarrassment . |
| 21 | Soviet cultural initiatives have traditionally been focused on Mexico , but in recent years Soviet musicians and dancers have toured in other parts of Latin America , often with spectacular success . |
| 22 | They have responded to excess capacity in a variety of ways , but generally by seeking to concentrate on their perceived areas of expertise . |
| 23 | In the 1980s , some egalitarian feminists have responded to political constraints by reviving this approach , and only supporting gradualist , defensive , or ‘ new realist ’ campaigns around , for instance , equal employment opportunities hiring and firing . |
| 24 | The great majority of the children were recommended to the school because they presented severe management difficulties to teachers in mainstream schools and many of them experience a multiplicity of adversities in their personal lives A majority of children have intractable learning difficulties , and few of them have responded to conventional interventions by members of child guidance clinic teams or remedial services before admission . |
| 25 | Soviet energy experts have responded to repeated expressions of concern by environmentalists by agreeing that the construction of large hydro-electric and thermal power stations in the northern regions of the country should be halted . |
| 26 | After an uncertain start they have responded in different ways to demands for a more active vocal part for the congregation . |
| 27 | Speaking in Perth yesterday at a press briefing on possible future strategies for the arable sector following the new set- aside regulations , a chemical manufacturer , Peter Botham of WBC Technology , gave warning that the increases which farmers have enjoyed in recent months in grain values were not without a cost . |
| 28 | In rural areas , despite soaring inflation , wages have been frozen by government decree since 1979 and have dropped in real terms by 69.3% between 1971–81 . |
| 29 | NHS dentists ’ incomes have dropped in real terms by 40pc over the past ten years and the most recent savage cuts proposed , leave many practitioners worried about possible bankruptcy . ’ |
| 30 | Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan has launched an appeal for a centre to rescue orphaned and injured Mediterranean monk seals , whose numbers have collapsed in recent years to the point where they are , according to the Prince , " one of the most forgotten creatures on earth " . |