Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ The boy and girl are with you , ’ the Trapper repeated like a man slow of thought , to whom the words had at last revealed their significance . |
| 2 | By the accession of Philip VI of Valois , therefore , the old Angevin and Lusignan fiefs had at last been absorbed by the French crown . |
| 3 | I felt like a man whose presentiments have at last come true . " |
| 4 | We must correct this tendency which is almost a cultural problem , ’ Louis Gallois , a leading civil servant told a conference last month , so revealing that planners have at last caught a whiff of their inbuilt handicap . |
| 5 | Finance officials have at last seen the logic of sprucing up Japan now . |
| 6 | The red-brown tentacles of London 's suburbs had at last been shaken off , and the chequered autumn landscape , multi-textured as a cloth collage , unrolled before them in a changing pattern of brown , green and gold , leading them on to Cambridge . |
| 7 | By the end of the century things had at last begun to change : in 1899 Primitive Methodists agreed a minimum of £100 while Congregationalists and Baptists set aside part of their Twentieth Century Funds for salaries . |
| 8 | But the news , later in the day , that the first of at least 10 chartered trains had at last crossed the border into Czechoslovakia revived the East Germans ' spirit of solidarity in the face of inconvenience and discomfort . |
| 9 | The " atmosphere of ideological domineering " had been replaced by freedom of thought and glasnost , and leaders had at last begun to tell people the truth . |
| 10 | From the camps of Europe , those who had avoided the execution pits and the gas chambers had at last reached the Promised Land about which their cantors had sung at Auschwitz . |
| 11 | And brainy boffins have at last discovered the main cause of ‘ global warming ’ . |
| 12 | Shareholders had until 12th July to elect to accept the Scrip Dividend offer , those that failed to do so received the cash dividend in the normal way . |
| 13 | More than one of the void screens had at last been overloaded . |
| 14 | The colonies had at first been left to look after themselves because the king had no money to spare for defending them nor any forces he could send across the Atlantic , but after 1650 it was accepted that the colonies had a right to expect to be protected against European attack , though not against Indian or other local problems . |
| 15 | In group A the Paper Tigers with their amazing bouncing ball have lifted their rounders difference to great heights while Dr Blobby and the Blobettes have at last picked up some points from a game , which means that all teams this year have managed to win at least one point . |
| 16 | The brewers have at last woken up to the fact that their high-street shops have become dinosaurs slouching towards extinction . |
| 17 | Microlights have at last achieved what they set out to be : a largely reliable and relatively cheap way to fly . |
| 18 | Everything I read , everything I hear , everything I see informs me that doubt , disease and distress in all the subtlest malignancies of their forms have at last invaded the cropped lawn and the sleepy garden wail . |
| 19 | Now that those plans have at last come to some fruition , Abraham 's obedience must be tested again . |
| 20 | You ca n't , you have to , people with temporary contracts have to first |
| 21 | The conifers have at last eliminated water as a transport medium for their sexual processes . |
| 22 | And that was rather less than the effect these fashion fancies had on Third World local economies . |
| 23 | In many developed countries , politicians have at last realised the promise offered by the magnificent achievements of computer hardware engineers . |