Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Sirius and Canopus have returned to the evening sky , though Sirius is still low in the south-east .
2 In Bharatpur , the competition between Rajiv Gandhi 's ruling Congress ( I ) party and the assorted forces of the anti-Congress opposition is so finely poised , and the pool of royal admirers so deep , that three prominent relatives of Maharajah Brijendra Singh have slipped into a democratic version of an old autocratic vice : the royal family feud .
3 Even when Mr McQueen said that since Asia Minor had been populated by Celts , could not the same religion have come with the Celts to Skye , Johnson defied him , and the point he made remains valid to this day .
4 Already many thousands of words have appeared on the subject — in official reports and other publications .
5 ‘ Cynics say — cynics have already said — when your preaching is done , when your lofty words have gone with the wind , when the media has departed to tell another tale , the world will forget .
6 SHELL forecourts have sailed into a ‘ discrimination ’ row over ferry crossings .
7 More habitual bankrupts have to apply to the court after five years and argue their case .
8 ‘ The Managers ' Association have written to the FA suggesting this is an area that needs to be looked at for the good of football .
9 It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 .
10 It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 .
11 Two conferences of the Football Supporters ' Association have called for a re-think , but it seemed we were banging our heads against a brick wall .
12 The West coast side have gone off the rails in recent weeks following successive defeats by Western and Hazlehead but as the cup is realistically their last chance of glory this term they will certainly not concede defeat from the want of effort .
13 Next up , and light years away from the real world , PLANET GONG have survived on an even more meagre diet of dodgy rock ideology and space cadet wizardry , commanded by the absurd Ronald McDonald persona of Daevid Allen — long time centrifugal force in the Land Of Gong .
14 ‘ People say Newcastle fans have stood by the club through thick and thin .
15 A GROWING demand for slate roofs has breathed new life into traditional slate quarrying in north Wales and given a fillip to villages that for centuries have relied on the industry for jobs .
16 ‘ Five centuries have passed since the discovery of America , a focal point in the history of discoveries .
17 Without any explanation , he jumped out and approached one of the Ayurvedic healers who for centuries have sat on the roadside here , surrounded by the ingredients of their trade : live iguanas whose fried juices are said to cure impotence ; ginseng for philtres used to spread or extinguish the fires of love ; tree bark to ward off a woman 's menopause ; the bringraj herb from the high Himalayas said to conquer baldness or thicken the beard of the most effete Sikh .
18 The front bridle legs have to pass over the cross-spar and be free to run in a straight line from the leading edge to the ring .
19 For four and a half centuries the village and manor have belonged to the Earls of Pembroke .
20 Other considerations have led to the suggestion that introns could have been transferred horizontally between different species ( 13 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ) .
21 This is particularly likely to occur for larger cities with very limited amounts of vacant land and in rural areas where environmental and other considerations have led to the imposition of strict controls on new building .
22 EVEN the police in Jammu & Kashmir have turned against the Indian government .
23 Believers have gluttoned on the god of excess and found it wanting .
24 Although many pubs , shopping centres , garden centres and schools have stepped into the breach , their play areas ca n't really compare with a good adventure playground in the local park .
25 The evolution of the role of teachers and the view of the social purpose of schools have led to a multiplicity of demands on teachers which are not necessarily compatible and may be contradictory , if not actually mutually exclusive .
26 Attempts to highlight and remove differing forms of sexism , sexual inequalities and discrimination in schools have led to a range of policy statements and strategies from local education authorities and individual schools .
27 Market-driven as ever , business schools have risen to the challenge .
28 Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society .
29 TWO Ashington schools have benefited from a green scheme run by students on a health studies course at Northumberland College .
30 In fact there was a , I think some of the recent erm concerns about schools have come from an image that 's been built up over a period of time that the schools spend very little time on the , on the three Rs for example .
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