Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 Conveyancing fees have fallen in real terms in the last five years .
2 Four inches of rain have fallen in four days in the south-west , making it the region 's soggiest November since 1940 and Britain 's wettest autumn since 1984 .
3 Catches have fallen from 36,000 tonnes in 1988 to 28,000 tonnes in 1992 and the number of fish is down by two-thirds .
4 As one of them sneered , ‘ I have heard of several ladies in Dronfield having these books and recommending them .
5 The British Isles linger off the shores of continental Europe , uncertain whether to be apart or a part , and their cattle have developed to some degree in isolation but also with many strong two-way links with the cattle of the Continent .
6 Being island cattle , however , they have developed to some extent in isolation , especially on Jersey , a tiny island which has managed to breed a cow whose fame is worldwide , and with justice .
7 Soviet specialists themselves have referred to this connection in the following way :
8 The previous arguments have pointed to two ways in which policing in Easton is ordinary .
9 These are some of the stories which we have received from SPRED groups in the Wirral …
10 They have responded to excess capacity in a variety of ways , but generally by seeking to concentrate on their perceived areas of expertise .
11 Researchers have responded to these complexities in different ways .
12 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 .
13 Since the 1970s fertility rates have dropped for all women in the UK irrespective of country of origin .
14 J. S. Trefil and colleagues at the University of Virginia have looked into this suggestion in more detail ( Nature , vol 302 p 111 ) .
15 To a casual passenger , glancing in as he lurched down the corridor , they must , thought Dalgliesh , have looked like two penitents in a private confessional absolving each other .
16 All forms of regulation have come under intense scrutiny in recent years .
17 Describes the great changes that have come over this locality in the course of a few years .
18 In Britain , I have come across two species in particular which do this — tree sparrows , using fresh beech leaves , and buzzards , using green-leaved twigs .
19 We see this underfunding of eventide care as limiting the choice available to people who have come to that point in their lives when they 're making decisions about the sort of care that they will next require .
20 Some of these girls whose families have come from rural areas in Azad Kashmir or Mirpur feel that their parents allow them to go to school only because in Britain it would be illegal for them to remain at home .
21 The antiquities for sale have come from private collections in London and New York , from auction rooms and the trade .
22 Many air sorties have come from American carriers in the Mediterranean , the Red Sea and in the dangerously restricted waters of the Gulf itself .
23 Their outward appearance gives no hint as to the wealth of amazing finds that have come from local beaches in the past .
24 People have vanished from high valleys in the Pyrenees like this one , and continue to do so , to live different and economically more ambitious lives in the towns .
25 They had given rewards and favours to their supporters , especially in Wales , and " have succeeded in six years in creating a political spoils system which already rivals that of the United States .
26 I am not prepared to condemn the various newspapers which have written about this subject in a responsible way .
27 The only alternative is to butcher the basses around , which I have done with various instruments in the past , like my B C Rich — a real mess !
28 Here I want to point out — as I have done with other features in the feminist profile — how difficult it is to identify the linguistic correlates of competition and cooperation .
29 If you had stood as I have done for five hours in a draughty ante-room of a courthouse sticking sixpences into one of those things to see how frequently it paid out , you would n't be so keen to chuck your money away , son .
30 So my answer to the question A is , I am not against a new settlement , of the right scale in the right location , but it is not a panacea , it is not an answer to all the questions , now it 's being offered in terms of a balanced strategy , I say that balanced strategy as put forward does not work , certainly beyond two thousand and six , and may grind to a halt well before two thousand and six if rates of development proceed er as they have done in certain years in the past , so it 's very important to look at that , can we just revisit the public acceptance of the new settlement , of course the public have accepted it and welcomed it , it has certain attractions , I support those attractions , however it 's easy for the public to accept that when measured against certain sites specific proposals that were put to them when they did not know where the new settlement would be , and still do not know , when new settlement locations are put forward it will be quite a different scenario .
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