Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Malaysians , in the process of razing their own country 's rainforests , have become world experts in the quick-timber business ; local problems in places such as Sarawak have suddenly expanded into international threats — and any country in the world with any tropical rainforests left is in danger of getting the full , ruthless Sarawak treatment . |
| 2 | The people working for OSO have also become well-known faces at leading oil industry events throughout the world . |
| 3 | The International Fund for Ireland have generously offered £60,000 towards restoration provided the Society can raise the rest . |
| 4 | Members of the Broadcasting Council for Scotland have also expressed private distress at the new arrangements . |
| 5 | He himself admitted so when he emerged , telling his followers that he thought he had killed Comyn , whereupon one of them rushed in ‘ to mak siccar ’ ( make sure ) : the Kirkpatricks of Dumfries have ever since carried the emblem of a bloody hand with dagger and the motto ‘ I mak siccar ’ on their coat of arms . |
| 6 | The High Elves of Ulthuan have never developed gunpowder technology as have the men of the Old World and Dwarfs — indeed they have never needed to do so as their marksmanship with the bow is superior to that of lesser races . |
| 7 | The spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyala have once , were once described as a sort of a spiritual from which people of past men , put together again . |
| 8 | Like those of Caracas , the stations of Mexico have generally had a bad press . |
| 9 | Members of the Stratification and Employment Group at the University of Surrey have previously received grants from the ESRC to pay for the preparation of more accessible versions of the General Household Survey data tapes from the annual surveys of 1973 and 1980 . |
| 10 | A group of apple growers in the State of Washington have now filed a suit for " product disparagement " against the NRDC and the television programme Sixty Minutes , in which a skull and crossbones was shown over an apple . |
| 11 | The Penan of Sarawak , the Batak of the Philippines and the Kayapo of Amazonia have all resisted moves to take their lands , so that the they can hold onto their traditional and successful way of life . |
| 12 | A statement read by Jose Ayala Lasso of Ecuador , the president of the Security Council , explained the Council 's decision on the grounds that the " aspirations of the peoples and governments of the Democratic People 's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea have harmoniously coincided " . |
| 13 | Dr Runcie has gone out of his way on this visit to concede many of the doctrinal points and practices which large elements of the Church of England have traditionally found offensive in Roman Catholicism . |
| 14 | Leaders of the Church of England have also attacked the ‘ hardness ’ of the government , only to be dismissed in return as ‘ cuckoos ’ ( see below , p. 289 ) . |
| 15 | The drove-roads of England have yet to be identified and pieced together . |
| 16 | The old industries of the north-east of England have now died . |
| 17 | ‘ The Old Halls , Farm Houses and Cottages of the North of England have long been admired for their elegant pecularity reg=peculiarity of design , and , aided by accidental additions and delapidations , and by combinations of the richest woods , and back-grounds of rocks and mountains , are , in their kind , finer objects for study than any others to be met with in the island . |
| 18 | Did the Church of England have so obsessed an idea of hierarchy that it liked promoting people up a ladder without any snakes ? |
| 19 | It emerged yesterday that officials of COSLA have already told the Scottish Office that it considers the break-even point on costings would come only if the number of new councils was limited to just over 20 and not at 43 as suggested by Touche Ross . |
| 20 | OSF says final contracts specifying who is responsible for re-working and integrating which pieces of DME have yet to be exchanged , although Tivoli Systems Inc boss Frank Moss says ‘ we now report to IBM , not OSF . ’ |
| 21 | It says final contracts specifying who is responsible for re-working and integrating which pieces of DME have yet to be exchanged , although Tivoli Systems boss Frank Moss says ‘ we now report to IBM , not the Open Software Foundation . ’ |
| 22 | Will the Secretary of State confirm that fully two thirds of the costs of Trident have already been spent or contractually committed by the present Government ? |
| 23 | Colleagues of Gilbey have always maintained that his relationship with the princess is strictly platonic . |
| 24 | The Group 's long-standing excavations at Wharram Percy in the East Riding of Yorkshire have greatly contributed to this work ( Fig. 30 ) . |
| 25 | Several African heads of state , including Gbassingbe Eyadema of Togo , Omar Bongo of Gabon and Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire have publicly acknowledged their Swiss bank accounts . |
| 26 | It is unclear whether any of the proponents of FMFFV have actually tested the theory that the consumer market really wants it . |
| 27 | Whole sera , IgG fractions and Fab fractions of IgG have all been used ( 25 ) . |
| 28 | What the , I believe committees have never had and least of all Mr papers produced on behalf of Mr have never had a serious rigorous objective assessment of the vacancy situation of the future which first of all starts from issue a rolling programme of refurbishments that we have n't really seen sight of the of the implications of that on the number of vacancies . |
| 29 | These remarks of Chomsky have often been quoted , and adduced more often than not , almost gleefully at times , as evidence in support of the view that linguistics has no relevance to language teaching and that therefore applied linguistics , as it relates to pedagogy at least , is vacuous . |
| 30 | The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man have substantially more independent systems of government , and do not send MPs to Westminster . |