Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opposition parties had on Jan. 4 called for a three-day strike on Jan. 7-9 , with the aim of securing the " immediate and unconditional " resignation of Mobutu , notwithstanding his promise ( in an address to the country on Dec. 31 ) that 1991 would see the organization of presidential and legislative elections and of a referendum on a new constitution . |
| 2 | The two parties had in June 1990 formed the Union for France ( UPF — see p. 37684 ) but had been unable at a meeting on Nov. 8 to resolve differences over the organization of the presidential primaries . |
| 3 | The human rights group Amnesty International , in a report published on April 14 , claimed that forces allied to the Nasir group of SPLA dissidents had in November 1991 massacred over 2,000 civilians in the area around Bor as they had moved southwards . |
| 4 | Conversely , a German anthropologist , Georg Elwert , reminds us that the concept of the Volksdeutsche , the ethnic German who , by the constitution of the Federal Republic , has a ‘ right of return ’ to his homeland as Jews have in Israel , is an ideological construct . |
| 5 | The troops began to dig trenches , as their comrades had in France . |
| 6 | They were the first state concerns to be given this go-ahead since July 1989 , although private companies had from January 1991 been allowed to make direct payments of foreign commercial debt . |
| 7 | Polydoras had on Sept. 23 referred to government plans for " the sale of islands , on the open market or through land bonds " . |
| 8 | British companies have until November to reveal if they have used the laboratory . |
| 9 | This is as significant and interesting material as the recently released Mosley papers and helps to illuminate the divergent nature of British fascism and the very mixed and complex attitudes fascists and anti-semites had towards Hitler . |
| 10 | The force was regarded as a necessary guarantee to deter incursions by the Iraqi army into the zone of northern Iraq where coalition troops had from April until July been providing protection for Iraqi Kurds [ see pp. 38127-28 ; 38211 ; 38308 ] . |
| 11 | Security of deposits was provided by the correspondent relationship these London-based banks had with US banks in New York , the true identity of deposit ownership being hidden . |
| 12 | I 'm not sure what authority , if any , Waaf Officers had over NCOs in the RAF , but I 'm pretty certain she would n't have got very far with him . |
| 13 | If Midland customers have paid , say , £1 million more to Lloyds customers than Lloyds customers have to Midland customers , Midland makes a single payment of £1 million to Lloyds , drawn on Midland 's account in the Bank of England . |
| 14 | The permanent committee of Zaïre 's bishops had on March 2 criticized the " blocking " of democratisation and called for a national conference . |
| 15 | On March 7 he had been suspended from the House of Commons for 20 days after the Commons select committee on members ' interests had on Feb. 19 upheld two allegations against him of failing to declare business dealings in the register of MPs ' interests . |
| 16 | Another group of conscripts had on May 14 occupied the national radio station but failed to persuade staff to broadcast their demands , and on May 16 they rampaged through the streets of Abidjan firing their weapons . |
| 17 | The AFP report also said that Ethiopian forces had on March 9 participated in the successful attack on the border town of Pochala ( held by the SPLA since 1985 ) . |
| 18 | The security forces had on Aug. 6 captured Yasin Malik and Hammid Sheikh , two senior military commanders of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front . |
| 19 | Thousands of demonstrators had on Oct. 30 and Nov. 4 , 1989 , and again on March 18 , 1990 , demanded that Vandellòs 1 should be dismantled , and the Catalan parliament had approved a resolution on Nov. 17 , 1989 , calling for its permanent closure . |
| 20 | He did have er when he opened , of course , he was one of the few houses to have in Lancaster to have Boddy did n't they ? |
| 21 | You are bristling with anticipation as you know the present contract which Plastic Foods has with Clearprint , your closest competitor , is up for renewal . |
| 22 | It had been forged at the outset in a very cordial meeting that the two men had at Colombey in September 1958 . |
| 23 | In 1764 James Boswell 's friend Rose claimed , in a conversation which the two men had at Leyden , that ‘ wars were going out nowadays , from their mildness ’ . |
| 24 | Fujimori had on July 3 announced the capture by security forces of Luis Arana Franco , said to be the Shining Path 's logistics chief . |
| 25 | Hence the attitudes that section police have towards Easton 's ‘ gougers ’ , virtually all of whom are Protestant , are typical of those that policemen and women everywhere have towards criminals . |
| 26 | I am always amused by the idea that outsiders have of Whitehall as being slow-moving ; we are like a snake , whose coils seem to be lying motionless even as they flow past your eyes and are gone . |
| 27 | In a curious way — Letterman thinks — he bears the same relationship to Parisian life that the Hispanics have to LA life . |
| 28 | Yes , we had purchased the yellow polystyrene shampoo guard from Mothercare — that had the same effect on them as two crossed sticks had on Dracula . |
| 29 | A total ban on Peruvian food products had by mid-February been imposed by the United States , Germany , France , Japan , Spain , Argentina , Uruguay , Colombia , Ecuador and Bolivia . |
| 30 | EC Foreign Ministers had on Nov. 4 told their five Arab Maghreb Union ( AMU ) counterparts , with whom they were meeting in Brussels , that they were unable for the time being to lift the sanctions that restricted arms sales to and diplomatic relations with Libya . |