Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet by the end of the 1960s , institutions had once again become places of last resort , and over the past thirty years the numbers of youngsters admitted to institutions has declined sharply in all three countries ( Lammertyn and Antoons , 1990 ; Ploeg , 1986 ) . |
| 2 | The cost of replacing your possessions has risen greatly in recent years . |
| 3 | Training of prison personnel has remained woefully neglected … |
| 4 | Our unique combination of skills has helped literally thousands of companies . |
| 5 | The relationships between senior staff in health authorities has altered profoundly . |
| 6 | Thanks to the addition of fluoride to toothpastes and , in many places , to drinking water , decay on the smooth surfaces of teeth has become relatively rare in America . |
| 7 | One reaction against this system of fragmented care was the development of primary nursing , which Melia ( 1990 ) states has become increasingly popular in Britain throughout the 1980s . |
| 8 | So the role of the federal government in financing the states has increased immensely and you might think that carries with it certain political implications and it does , but it 's important to understand how small this is compared to the total picture . |
| 9 | Mr Karimov justifies his hard line by pointing to the chaos in neighbouring Tajikistan , where a war between rival clans has left about 20,000 dead and displaced some 600,000 people from their homes . |
| 10 | A number of large projects were discussed , but only one of the Soviet-Japanese projects has gone ahead — the open cast Neryungri coal mine . |
| 11 | There is no doubt that competition from both within and outside the profession will continue to grow , and efficient practice management in all its forms has become as important as technical skill in maintaining and improving profitability . |
| 12 | The Bar has lost by the gradual extension of county court jurisdiction ( where solicitors have the right of audience ) ; and the income limit for legal aid in civil cases has fallen well behind inflation , so that few people are now eligible for it . |
| 13 | And oddly enough erm the lead in many cases has come as much from the primary school as from the university in this respect . |
| 14 | There is some good news in the report , which reveals that the number of priority homeless cases has reduced slightly . |
| 15 | However , its use in a wide variety of disciplines has grown dramatically in recent decades , to the point where it seems not only to be facilitating what was done before , but to be creating new possibilities . |
| 16 | Right , erm , yes , so , inder intra-industry trade is growing very , very rapidly and that , and this is , sort of the main , one of the main reasons why trade in manufactures has grown rapidly , rapidly . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , let us not forget that the cost of our massive boat building and shoreworks modernisation programmes has arisen significantly , as has the expense of operating our lifeboat service . |
| 18 | And as a result the amount of coal produced by Britain 's deep mines has fallen substantially . |
| 19 | The proportion of total agricultural land in Cantal represented by permanent and by temporary grasslands has remained remarkably steady between 1970/71 and 1979/80 in spite of the LFA Directive which was applied in 1975 . |
| 20 | With that thought in mind we have produced a chart which reveals the extent to which business involving the recording of Irish bands and artists has gone abroad in recent years . |
| 21 | Associated American Artists has gathered together a representative group of this work in a show called ‘ Rufino Tamayo — seventeen years at the Mixografia workshop ’ . |
| 22 | The cost of claims for theft particularly in the larger towns and cities has increased quite noticeably . |
| 23 | There was , however , disappointment for the government on both counts : investment by industry in the inner cities has remained relatively small , and only 20 per cent of the funds for the first City Technology Colleges came from non-government sources . |
| 24 | Since then , as has previously been noted for interregional migration , the composition of migration streams from the cities has become even more highly skewed towards the better-off . |
| 25 | Now , however , the majority of manufacturing firms seek locations in smaller towns where space is more abundant , with the result that the role of cities has become increasingly that of centres for service sector activities . |
| 26 | The proportions of managed to tenanted houses has remained roughly constant for the past ten years . |
| 27 | In particular , the moves in education to allow schools to become self-governing has shifted finance normally allocated and controlled by local authorities back to central government , whilst the selling of council houses has reduced both the size of the public housing sector controlled by local authorities and the level of financial control that accompanied this . |
| 28 | Now that Microsoft has launch it 's rival TrueType font family , and embedded the same in Windows 3.10 , Adobe 's price for PostScript fonts has become far more reasonable — lets hope this co-incidence continues . |
| 29 | Although the availability of heroin on Wirral 's housing estates has varied considerably , supplies are at most a short rail or bus journey away . |
| 30 | The number of isolations of non-toxigenic C diphtheriae var gravis referred to the unit from laboratories that continue to screen all throat swabs for C diphtheriae has increased fivefold from 1990 to 1992 . |