Example sentences of "[verb] have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In swimming — the single most popular physical recreation after walking — the importance of teaching children to swim has drawn in some women and competitive swimming is a very important sport for girls . |
| 2 | The number of women registered has increased from 18 per cent . |
| 3 | Difficult though it is to evaluate , the evidence of the receptivity to the portrayal of Hitler 's image which we have examined has pointed to seven significant bases of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ . |
| 4 | ( 1 ) No reconstruction or extension of or alteration in any premises in respect of which a licence ( other than an off-sale licence ) is in force , being a reconstruction , extension or alteration which will affect a public or common part of such remises or any communication with such part , shall be made unless the licensing board within whose area such premises are situated has consented to such reconstruction , extension or alteration at a quarterly meeting of the board or at such other time as may be appointed by the board , or unless such reconstruction , extension or alteration is required by order of some lawful authority . |
| 5 | and the need for an ensured market for products is so important to recoup costs , that government contracting has become of crucial importance to the survival of large corporations . |
| 6 | The number of in-patients treated has increased by one point two million . |
| 7 | The number of in- patients treated has increased by one point two million . |
| 8 | In other words , ‘ The Age to Come has overlapped with This Age ’ ( Ladd 1974:42 ) which results in intermingling and close combat . |
| 9 | What progress we have enjoyed has come about either as a result of skilled , painstaking experimental work or inspired guesses about how the brain works . |
| 10 | In later years , when explaining how he got to Cape Town , John always mentioned having appeared in one or two small parts when the ballet from the Cape came to Johannesburg . |
| 11 | The study found that the number of passengers on the buses had increased by 3 per cent over 10 years when it might be expected to have declined by 25 per cent , because of changes in population , employment and the rise in car ownership . |
| 12 | There are five million people out of work and in 1995 this figure is expected to have risen to six and a half million . |
| 13 | A multi-millionairess with a fortune estimated at more than £10 million , a property tycoon in Australia where she was spending a fortune renovating her latest acquisition , a mammoth Victorian town house in the Melbourne suburbs , a singer poised to come of age with a backing band of her own and a world tour — the hologramic face of high technology in Japan , how could she ever again have been expected to have slipped into oily dungarees to tinker with the engine of a Land Rover ? |
| 14 | As was said by Staughton LJ in United Bank of Kuwait Ltd v Hammond [ 1988 ] 1 WLR 1051 , advising that older judicial authorities should be treated with a degree of caution : the work that solicitors do can be expected to have changed since 1888 ; it has changed in recent times and is changing now . |
| 15 | Implementation has been left to local managers , who appear to have baulked at that option . |
| 16 | Food costs appear to have risen at both establishments , even though Marie has secured improved terms from the suppliers . |
| 17 | The implication was that the efforts to reduce the use of remands in custody , which appear to have met with some success in the last two years after the spectacular rise of the custodial remand population during the 1980s , were having unintended and unwanted effects on the crime rate . |
| 18 | The numbers recorded appear to have declined in recent years . |
| 19 | Numbers appear to have declined in recent years . |
| 20 | These did not result from the Pleistocene glaciation ( in fact none of the ice ages of the past appear to have coincided with mass extinctions ) , but all occurred after the final retreat of the ice . |
| 21 | The financial circumstances of the college also appear to have improved since 1988 when it was forced into an underfunded merger with Bedford College , and the state of the building does not seem to require the sum of £10.5 million originally put to the Commissioners . |
| 22 | But substantial beds of green algae are present and appear to have spread in recent years ; they are probably continuing to do so . |
| 23 | Wingti vowed , if elected , to initiate a thorough investigation of all charges and to prosecute and imprison all senior officials found to have engaged in corrupt practices . |
| 24 | My dad always claimed to have gone to public school , but he was never precise about which one . |
| 25 | The first year of the internal market in the NHS has been claimed to have resulted in increased efficiency . |
| 26 | Conditions at Sullom Voe were considered to have contributed to this epidemic as well as to unusual outbreaks of whooping cough , scarlet fever , and influenza ( J D MacGregor , International Epidemiological Association , Edinburgh , 1981 ) . |
| 27 | Membership of the PDS was reported to have declined from 2,400,000 in 1989 to 250,000 in May 1991 . |
| 28 | Several thousand Estonians were reported to have demonstrated on 23 August , the date of the pact 's signature ; still larger numbers , between 7,000 and 10,000 , were reported to have demonstrated in Latvia ( where substantial demonstrations also occurred in June 1987 to commemorate those who had been deported from the republic by the Soviet authorities in 1941 ) . |
| 29 | Although industrialists were reported to have reacted with guarded optimism to the plan , many independent economists were agreed that the revenue increases would not cover all projected government spending , and that the government would thus be compelled to delay payments , including those on foreign debt service . |
| 30 | Castro is reported to have said in private that ‘ we shall not make the same mistake twice ; we shall not break with the Russians after having broken with the Americans ’ ( Suárez : 1967 , p. 175 ) . |