Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This turnaround of the external accounts has made the domestic performance of the ecomomy look decidedly better than it has been . |
2 | THE bloodshed in the Baltic states has polarised the Soviet Union . |
3 | Much of the literature on the non-equivalence between these trade policies has considered the polar cases of monopoly and perfect competition ( for review see Helpman and Krugman , 1989 ) . |
4 | Apart from providing important evidence about the relationship between resources and performance in higher education , the demonstration of stable between-area assessment patterns has enabled the Modular Course to successively nudge each area into modifications of assessment practice which gradually bring them closer together . |
5 | Drake Educational Associates has appointed the following representatives : Kent , East Sussex — Pamela Teague , South Winds , ( ) ; Beds , Bucks , Berks , Oxon , Herts and Northants — Deborah Newling , ( ) ; Staffs , Salop , Worcs , Warks , West Midlands — Fiona Boyle Wolverhampton , West Midlands , Cambridgeshire , Suffolk , Norfolk , Essex — Stan Carter ( ) . |
6 | However , an exception provides that recognition will not expire solely because the death of a shareholder or shareholders has left the recognised body with no shareholder able to exercise such voting rights . |
7 | The Middlesbrough branch of Mortgage Advice Shops has topped the other 24 outlets of the national chain to become the company 's branch of the year . |
8 | The heightened interest in underwater archaeology caused by the find of the Brindisi bronzes has prompted the new Ministro per i Beni Culturali , Alberto Ronchey , to propose changes in the law : first , to extend the limit of Italian territorial waters beyond the six miles off the coast currently in force and beyond the seabed on the continental shelf ( no distance has yet been specified ) ; second , to consider allocating underwater ‘ concessions ’ to non-government teams who would take a course in the theory and practice of underwater excavation and make up the shortfall in trained divers . |
9 | First the painting community rejected the opportunity to draw a female nude , a subject which over the centuries has inspired the great artists . |
10 | Laughing Stock says that its Red Dwarf : Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers has achieved the highest sell-in for an audio book since the BBC 's Blackadder . |
11 | Although a broad range of subjects is offered , the unit does not have the facilities for certain subjects such as science , so anyone wanting to do these subjects has to use the local college facilities instead . |
12 | Most of the subsequent writing on Mary Queen of Scots has stressed the immense , even intolerable burden placed on the shoulders of this young and carefully nurtured girl , when at the age of eighteen she was driven from the civilized country of France , where she had lived since she was five , to the backward and lawless kingdom of Scotland . |
13 | They say the Government 's willingness to over-subsidise private old people 's homes has caused the 300-plus empty spaces at the county 's 42 council-run homes . |
14 | Despite the essential superficiality of much of this contact , the traditional empathy between the nations has assisted the Japanese to be on good terms with a regime whose political ideology is the antithesis of their own . |
15 | The United Nations has suspended the Somali peace talks in the Ethiopian capital until it has details of the fighting in Kismayu between militia forces of Mohamed Said Hersi , known as Gen Morgan , and Ahmed Omar Jess . |
16 | On a happier note , Wharfedale 's own brand of loudspeakers has won the Dutch Audio & Video Totaal Award for innovation in loudspeaker systems . |
17 | MICK QUINN , whose explosion of goals has blown the Premier League wide open , threatens to turn the title race into a demolition derby . |
18 | He was counting his blessings having backed the first 3 horses that actually finished the race . |
19 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
20 | Partnerships had enabled the use of community schools at Liphook and Bordon to be run so as to offer their facilities to the public throughout the year , and the new methods had reduced the inevitable deficit of the sports centre to well below the national average . |
21 | Voters in these constituencies would choose between whichever two candidates had won the largest numbers of votes in the first round . |
22 | His eyes had turned the same colour and I caught a whiff of that strange perfume which sometimes emanated from him , sweet but sickly . |
23 | She muttered incoherently but the sound was happy , and her eyes had lost the terrible haunted stare of madness . |
24 | A thousand eyes had watched the brief altercation , and now the whispers began in earnest . |
25 | The judges took only 80 minutes to decide the level of fines after ruling the journalists had breached the strict provisions of the 1981 Contempt of Court Act . |
26 | Flockmasters had to forget the last decade when seat-of-the-pants management brought reasonable returns from a supported market . |
27 | As already stated , the clergy had sustained the catholic — nationalist populace over centuries of oppression . |
28 | Parties had to exceed the 5 per cent limit to win seats in the Czech National Council , but the threshold in Slovakia was only 3 per cent . |
29 | The report claimed that Khmer Rouge fighters had attacked the 5th military region 's command based in the city as well as Bek Chan airport . |
30 | Culturally , the Palestinian Jews had to face the increasing differentiation of the diaspora , both in Mesopotamia and in Egypt ; they also had to run a state efficiently within a Hellenistic — milieu . |