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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Virtually none of the people looked at in this demonstration have gone into an informal care setting where they are relying to a large degree on informal caring .
4 There , a combination of poor housing and education , high crime rates , much of it drug-related , large-scale immigration and associated racial tensions , an exodus of jobs and the more well-off to the suburbs , high youth unemployment and welfare dependency and the break-up of traditional family structures have served to create what some commentators in the United States have described as an ‘ urban underclass ’ .
5 In the past where fee disputes have arisen following an M&A engagement we have always been able to establish our position to the lawyers ' satisfaction as a result of a clear and comprehensive engagement letter agreed to in writing by the client .
6 ( Hereford cattle entries have slumped to an all time low of just fifty nine here at the show.The ancient local breed has been hit by competition from Continental cattle.But now the Hereford farmers are fighting back with a scheme to boost beef sales.Richard Barnett reports : )
7 This and the previous chapter have concentrated on an analysis of some of the major behavioural influences and This and the previous chapter have concentrated on an analysis of some of the major behavioural influences and determinants of individual demand .
8 This and the previous chapter have concentrated on an analysis of some of the major behavioural influences and This and the previous chapter have concentrated on an analysis of some of the major behavioural influences and determinants of individual demand .
9 His parliamentary supporters have reacted with an inventive set of procedural obstructions , but Mr Ozal continues to press for further constitutional amendments — one of whose side-effects would be to allow publications and possibly broadcasting in Kurdish .
10 Yields have remained at an average of more than 2.6 tonnes a hectare .
11 Two brothers have appeared in an Irish court in connection with the Swindon body in the loft murder .
12 Many sites have advanced on an incremental basis by developing one area on a small-scale system .
13 It is our intention to explore the hypothesis that public perceptions of marriage have shifted from an emphasis on its public/institutional to its private/relational aspects .
14 She added : ‘ We have discovered today that Safeway have put in an amended access plan which Durham county council is likely to accept .
15 Life companies have stepped into an area with which they are ill-equipped to deal , and have come unstuck , believes Lautro 's chief enforcement officer Mike Abrahams .
16 In Abraham 's opinion , the life companies have stepped into an area with which they are ill-equipped to deal , and have come unstuck .
17 At one time the two water companies were in active competition and any person paying the rates , whether landlord or tenant , could change his water company as easily as his butcher or baker … although this state of things has long since ceased , and the companies have come to an arrangement so that the people can not now change their supply , all the same , the result of their earlier competition remains .
18 King argues that these two elements have combined in an attack upon the citizenship rights enshrined in the welfare state .
19 The Conservatives have worked to an archaic family structure where the man is seen as the dominant wage earner , despite their uneasy recognition that market forces , with demographic change , are soon going to require skilled female labour .
20 The problem of the trade balance is caused by the fact that imports have risen at an even faster rate , a most unusual phenomenon during such a severe recession .
21 In the last few years , cars have been banned from parking in the central areas , and seats and plants have appeared in an attempt to return to tradition .
22 This myth can be countered in its own terms : first by pointing out that the impressive economic performance of countries like Indonesia and the Philippines , whose per capita incomes have grown by an average of 3.0% a year in the last few decades , took place alongside rapid population growth ; second by showing that Africa 's ten richest countries have similar population growth rates to the continent 's ten poorest countries .
23 It could very easily be that the accidents of product development and distribution have led to an almost exclusive focus on skin care as the function of cotton wool .
24 This contrasts with work on word reading , where impressive recent advances have resulted from an interaction between computational modelling and experimental psychology .
25 The charges against Mr Perez have come at an inconvenient moment , not only for him but also for Venezuela .
26 Over the past two decades the owners have been generous on pay because their revenues have increased by an average of 12% a year .
27 Radical economists have argued for an escape to a market system before it is too late , but the conservative establishment has always over-ruled them .
28 In your letter you present the fact that yourself and the Deputy Director have opted for an increase based on the Grade 1 salary and presumably you saw that as a gesture of good will or a concession to our demands .
29 The project attempts to account for the variety of economic strategies fishermen have adopted through an examination of their behaviour as entrepreneurs , employers and employees .
30 Although male offenders still heavily outnumber female offenders , these changes have led to an alteration in the male-female ratio for crime and delinquency .
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