Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And the TCCB 's directive for pitches has for several years now been that they must start dry . ’ |
| 2 | The work of other researchers has in many different ways helped to shape our work , to influence what we have asked and to make us more sensitive to what we have heard . |
| 3 | The terms of this participation have been endlessly argued about , and the increasing practice of the advance on royalties has to some extent modified it , in restoring an element of purchase . |
| 4 | If the animals had in any proper sense rights , we should no more be entitled to put them to death without a fair trial … than to torture them for our amusement . |
| 5 | All of you who read these words have at some time in your youth dreamt the biggest dreams . |
| 6 | British industry , the City of London , most of what used to be called Fleet Street , and the economic spokesmen for all the political parties have for many years spoken with one voice on this matter : what Britain required , they all said , was a large , secure home market in which it was possible to benefit from economies of scale comparable to those enjoyed by the Japanese and the Americans . |
| 7 | Similar tactics have after all been deployed in the USA in respect of civil libertarian , social welfare and environmental issues , and more recently in Britain as part of an attempt to improve the position of recipients of state welfare benefits and other disadvantaged groups ( Prosser , 1983 ; Scheingold , 1974 ) . |
| 8 | Special needs post-holders have in this way been able to develop their consultation skills with teachers , while educational psychologists who have begun to extend their remit in this way have found this to be a realistic way of meeting the supporters ' own need for ongoing support . |
| 9 | ( The Financial Times of June 21 noted that these countries had in any case serviced only about 5 per cent of these debts in 1989/90 . ) |
| 10 | The rhynchosaurs had by that time became extinct . |
| 11 | Certificates have for some time been sent in postal tubes by recorded delivery to Divisional Secretaries . |
| 12 | Parents have in some cases been asked to take over the practice of hearing their children read almost exclusively , either at home or in school . |
| 13 | Field trials have for many years been concerned with finding a clone less susceptible to frost and this was initially seen as a way of upgrading some of the frost-prone vineyards of the Marne Valley which are traditionally planted with the hardier Pinot Meunier . |
| 14 | We have had troubles in various parts of the country in recent months , and I realise that there may be many reasons for that , but I am convinced that one of them is the depressing effect that such areas have on those who live in them . |
| 15 | British cinema licences have for most of this century prohibited the exhibition of films which are ‘ likely to encourage or incite to crime ’ , which anticipated the deprave-and-corrupt test of 1959 . |
| 16 | Some European and Middle Eastern countries have for many years responded to the resultant labour shortages by " importing " immigrant labour to perform relatively menial and unskilled tasks . |
| 17 | Details are given below under Teaching , but it is worth mentioning here the training course in French law at the University of Aix/ Marseille , for which scholarships have for some years been offered by the Cultural Service of the French Embassy , 22 Wilton Crescent , London SW1 . |
| 18 | Companies have in this sense the power to shape the ‘ structure of opportunities ’ available in society . |
| 19 | Systems effects have in many cases knock-on effects , even though they were providing care , providing new services for perhaps just 6 people . |
| 20 | In our society the judges have in some aspects of their work a discretionary power to do justice so wide that they may be regarded as law-makers . |
| 21 | The International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine says that its target of 90 per cent reduction of waste from industry and water treatment plants has to all intents and purposes been met . |
| 22 | The appearance of women at Russian stations has to some extent been matched by a growth in women 's employment in railways elsewhere . |
| 23 | The judge may be mistaken in his judgment of what the legislature would have chosen , and even if he is right , this hypothetical legislative decision has not been announced in advance , so the ideal of protected expectations has in that way been compromised . |
| 24 | The success of the Modular Course over the past 15 years has in many respects been the success of Oxford Polytechnic . |
| 25 | Frankly , it is a travesty of the truth that the BBC in the past four or five years has in some way been tamed . |
| 26 | During wartime and the postwar era of government price control , electricity undertakings had in many cases been prevented from raising domestic tariffs to meet increased costs , and had drawn instead on their reserves and on the automatic increases paid by larger ( mainly industrial ) consumers under the coal-cost increase clause of their special tariffs . |
| 27 | A PDKI official said Iranian planes had on several previous occasions attacked the building housing its political bureau . |
| 28 | Against the $9.5 billion of deposit liabilities outstanding at the end of 1985 , the banks had at that time only about $1.5 billion of assets in the form of dinar credits . |
| 29 | Most serious bands have at some stage attracted A&R interest . |
| 30 | Conservationists have for many years been predicting the catastrophic consequences of a major oil spill in Arctic or Antarctic seas , and in early 1989 , their worst fears were realised . |