Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shadows have lengthened stealthily in the course of The Bellarosa Connection , gathering for what Martin Amis described in later Bellow as ‘ last things , leave-taking , and final lucidities ’ , and at the close there is a quietly affecting image of the narrator setting down his story , alone . |
| 2 | But ever since the Government became embroiled in the row over the plan to close 31 pits , local beer lovers have veered away from the pub with the Prime Ministerial name . |
| 3 | When all people occupying a room have checked out of the hotel , the room status is changed to ‘ not occupied ’ . |
| 4 | The 23-year-old multi-millionaire world snooker champion 's form and confidence have fallen apart under the pressure of being the victim of a bizarre death plot . |
| 5 | Germany 's money-market interest rates have fallen again as the Bundesbank slowly eases its monetary policy . |
| 6 | That is why the Turkish Federation are putting up such huge cash incentives for the team to beat England who , claims Piontek , have fallen behind in the world league . |
| 7 | The new consortium which will be putting its offer to Leckpatrick next week has called on shareholders to take no action until they have heard further from the consortium . |
| 8 | We should take heart from the encouraging stories I have heard recently about the success some retailers have had in selling British cheeses to the French . |
| 9 | A major supermarket has just unveiled four new Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle pizzas and Dr Mumby says the way the foodmakers have jumped in on the Turtle band-wagon is wrong . |
| 10 | Merrell Down Pharmaceuticals , have relied largely on the testimony of expert witnesses , some of whom have reached conclusions by analogy rather than direct experiment . |
| 11 | The essay form has been dominated by scientific models of objectivity , and , as I have already said , students have relied heavily on the repetition of the views of their teachers or the critics , views often not in accord with their own personal response to the texts being studied . |
| 12 | Recently , a leading member of the West Midlands Area Young Conservatives has written in the national press : ‘ ln the course of the last twelve months 1 have travelled extensively throughout the area in question and , with the exception of extremely isolated individuals , have found no evidence of sympathy for the ‘ libertarian ’ position ’ ( The Observer , May 1985 ) . |
| 13 | Her family have travelled down from the city to the Devon hospital where the attack happened . |
| 14 | To A. M. Fairbairn , one had to visit America ‘ to discover how far we have travelled out of the darkness towards the light ’ , while to R. F. Horton , it was a land with ‘ truth open to all who have eyes to see it and those who have not eyes held in wholesome restraint from meddling with those who have ’ . |
| 15 | Other exposures such as the Swindon affair and the irregular payment to Graham Roberts have depended largely on the Press or dissident club officials . |
| 16 | BP and its partners , who have been licensed by the Government to drill for oil in the area , have consulted closely with the Trust and have ruled out the easiest and cheapest development option , which would have been a ten-acre onshore site at Studland . |
| 17 | erm we have developed over in the university , in the arts area especially , for arts undergraduates who do n't have mathematical or scientific training , ways of giving them erm training in computer programming , and they come out really both full of fun about it and with a lot more confidence than they could possibly have imagined they would have when they began . |
| 18 | We have referred earlier to the impact of the political accountability of the Secretary of State on the nature of the organisation , vitiating or qualifying customary management practices . |
| 19 | And thousands have sped all over the world . |
| 20 | Not only did the existence of a divided society help fuel party tensions under William and Anne , but taking the longer perspective covered by this book as a whole , it might even be fair to suggest that the emergence of the party divide amongst the political elite was itself a symptom of the bitter divisions that already existed in this society , divisions which we have traced back to the Restoration in 1660 . |
| 21 | They have been removed from the bridge because many similar ones have broken apart as the steel rods have corroded . |
| 22 | The eight to 10 weeks after schools have broken up for the summer are the peak period for tour operators , and it is only around mid-September that they can judge how successful they have been . |
| 23 | As an overall thing we probably take about a hundred and fifty phone calls every day from policy holders , and I suppose out of that you I suppose you people that have n't erm have broken down at the side of the road will ring up or something . |
| 24 | So often the right tool for the job is hanging in the tool shed at home when you are helping a friend in his house , or have broken down in the car away from home . |
| 25 | As we have explained earlier in the book , insulin response to the carbohydrate foods we eat varies with the speed of absorption of the carbohydrate . |
| 26 | Rather more recently , plains of windblown shelly sand have formed extensively along the west coasts of North Uist , Benbecula and South Uist and in localised bays around Harris and Lewis . |
| 27 | The last aircraft to leave RAF Abingdon in Oxfordshire have flown out from the base . |
| 28 | As a rough guide two strands wound together make something approximately like three-ply in thickness and three together are usually reckoned to be about a four-ply. these fine industrial yarns used to be in the ‘ odds and ends ’ bins , but the manufacturers have caught on to the fact that they are popular with machine knitters , so now they can be bought under a brand name . |
| 29 | Estimates of carbon releases from the biosphere to the atmosphere in response to changes in land-use have varied enormously in the past but are now generally in the range 0.8 to 2.5 Gt of carbon per year ( Bolin , 1986 ) . |
| 30 | Most Latin American countries have embarked on some sort of land reform programme , though these have varied considerably across the region in scope and depth . |