Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A weekly routine of inspection has to begin at about the end of February . |
| 2 | This is a question that the board has struggled with for two years . |
| 3 | For instance , if an economy grows at 5 per cent per year following a two-year disbursement of a structural adjustment loan , if the international price for the country 's commodity exports has risen by at least 5 per cent in the same period of time , can the loan be regarded as justified ? |
| 4 | Overnight , the violence has spread to within a mile of my house . |
| 5 | Er Chairman I I really have to say I do n't I do n't really agree with the assertion that the policy is is essentially more restrictive than than er P P G seven will indicate and I would endorse what er Patrick Earle has said in in that regard . |
| 6 | Indeed half of Littlewoods ' 2.5 million agents have adopted this route and the average number of customers per agent has fallen from between six and 10 to just over two . |
| 7 | Bad harvests , meanwhile , had once again forced wheat up to famine prices , and the ‘ outbreak of peace ’ after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 was to herald what C. P. Hill has referred to as ‘ one of the grimmest periods in modern British History ’ . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , it was reported that the number of Palestinians in Kuwait had fallen to between 150,000 and 200,000 ( half the number resident before the Iraqi invasion ) following a mass exodus prompted by fears of continued harassment [ see pp. 38118 ; 38166 ] . |
| 9 | At the time , the proposal was plausible although , of course , it still ducked the issue of where the spores had come from in the first place . |
| 10 | Two albums by David Bowie suggested possible options for this concentration on self : ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ ( 1974 ) made explicit the equation that the Velvet Underground had hinted at in the mid-sixties , namely that divergent sexuality of every type was only an inevitable consequence of a civilization at the brink of apocalypse . |
| 11 | One of the major changes industry had to adapt to in the autumn of 1987 was the stock-market slump that sent share prices plummeting . |
| 12 | The report estimated that US manufacturers had disposed of at least 10,200 million kg of hazardous substances during 1987 . |
| 13 | There were the ‘ Carry Ons ’ , a new radio series with Kenneth Horne — Beyond Our Ken had matured into Round The Horne and was better than anything he had done on air before . |
| 14 | In 1977 , RENFE manual staff worked an average of about seven hours per week overtime , but the figure had fallen to about 4–5 hours per week by 1983 ( based on IGAE 1984 : 14 ) , and total overtime hours were some 15 million for the year ( compared with around 60 million — including Sunday working — in BR ) . |
| 15 | I 'm going to be talking a bit more later in the presentation about back up and back up performance which is one of the key areas which erm organizations trying to support very large databases have come across as a as a as a major stumbling block or hurdle to get across . |
| 16 | Except for the need to make the prescribed disclosure ( see page 41 above ) , the retained marketing rules that non-UK offices have to comply with despite the foreign business carve-out apply only where the firm is carrying on investment business in the UK . |
| 17 | Alternatively , for a child with generally delayed language , it may be necessary to generate a set of priorities solely in terms of the communicative situations which the child has to deal with on a daily basis . |
| 18 | ‘ The bank account in question has existed for at least 40 years . |
| 19 | Grubby brown chipboard has emerged from under the designer fitted units and the cobalt blue Mexican tiles appear to have rusted . |
| 20 | Curtis said that growth was more marked in Germany than the UK , with the number of lines having grown to between 60,000 and 70,000 in 1992 from 20,000 in 1991 . |
| 21 | A respectable enough record it seems , but it has to be remembered that Cipriani had to fight with at least two distinct handicaps . |
| 22 | It was as if a blinding sun had emerged from behind a black cloud . |
| 23 | ‘ Come on , ’ he murmured under his breath , glancing at his watch , wondering where the hell Carol had got to at nine-forty in the morning . |
| 24 | Simon had moved in at once . |
| 25 | Most of the resources for this work have come from within the Division 's normal programme of research . |
| 26 | ‘ From the first traces of their existence to this day , no example can be found of an interposition by the courts of Westminster Hall proceeding according to the general law of the land ; but the judges have acted as in a domestic forum . |
| 27 | It is what John Triseliotis has referred to as ‘ a family for life , with its network of support systems not only for them but also for their future children ’ . |
| 28 | PROJECT engineer has retired from after 41 years service . |
| 29 | The drought of the previous three years has dissolved into into a huge downpour and now there 's more of a worry about being too much rather than not enough water . |
| 30 | A marked contrast in behaviour would be expected during continental collision between the very thick crust of the Andes , where relatively rapid subduction has occurred throughout at least the Cenozoic , and the Alpine region where the closure of the ocean separating North Africa and southern Europe has been more gradual . |