Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In view of the answer that I have given to the first question this second question does not arise and it would be unwise for me to attempt to answer it on a hypothetical basis . |
| 3 | I have supped with the Golden Horde of Genghis Khan . |
| 4 | As Lloyd George perceptively remarked in 1911 , " the fools have stumbled on the right man by accident " . |
| 5 | Lynch , who fell on Barney Maclyvie at the first 11 years ago , said : ‘ I have been told that a lot of good jockeys have fallen at the first fence in their first ride in the National and then gone on to win the race next time . |
| 6 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 7 | TWO blonde beauties in Prince Charles 's life have fallen for the same attraction . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | Although the numbers have fallen in the last decade , a high proportion of the world 's children do not even have the opportunity of having protection from some of the major childhood killers , diseases for which vaccines are available — measles for example is a major cause of childhood mortality . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | How many , for example , have heard of the Swiss-born conductor Paul Sacher ? |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We have heard throughout the past year from one Labour Member after another about how their areas of spending have a high priority . |
| 23 | In every country , intellectuals , too , have jumped on the nationalist bandwagon . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Although some people join the ranks of the old with relish and gloat over the advancing years ( 'I 'm in my 80th year' — i.e. 79 ) , others have commented on the incongruous feeling the idea of being old creates within them . |
| 26 | Each of the proposals is carefully designed to meet a clear deficiency in our present arrangements , that has been acknowledged by many of the organisations that have commented on the Green Paper . |
| 27 | Other reviewers have commented on the harrowing realism of Madness on trial ( 11 April ) , which portrayed Mary , a schizophrenic who had murdered her mother , and followed her trial and psychiatric assessment . |
| 28 | Some biographers have commented on the excessive detail in which he considers every part of the physical aspects of imprisonment — the air supply and water and sewage arrangements , bathing , sterilization of verminous clothing , beds , bedding and diet . |
| 29 | 6.8 The observations above on the behaviour of these adjectives may appear to suggest a surprising degree of linguistic sophistication on the part of ordinary language users ; it may , though , seem less surprising now that we have recognized in the earlier part of this chapter the sense-qualifiers , since these distinctively qualify the property of a noun without constituting a qualification of the corresponding entity . |
| 30 | I refer to it in my speech and many others have referred to the terrible situation at Timex . |