Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The cost of claims for theft particularly in the larger towns and cities has increased quite noticeably .
2 Since then , as has previously been noted for interregional migration , the composition of migration streams from the cities has become even more highly skewed towards the better-off .
3 Now that Microsoft has launch it 's rival TrueType font family , and embedded the same in Windows 3.10 , Adobe 's price for PostScript fonts has become far more reasonable — lets hope this co-incidence continues .
4 The use of health services by the different socio-economic groups has become slightly less unequal during this period .
5 Roosevelt , at the beginning of the 1930s and at the height of World War II , may have briefly approached such a position of pre-eminence , but none of his successors has come even close to such a situation .
6 Further , the arms race between the superpowers has escalated still more .
7 Originally the Irish FA considered spending the entire period on tour but making the two trips has proved more financially viable .
8 To stick to the motor car analogy , the design of cars has improved more rapidly because a designer can incorporate in a single design a synchromesh gearbox that originated in one model with fuel injection that originated in another .
9 The debate among trade union tutors has concentrated almost entirely upon the content and organisation of the TUC day-release scheme .
10 The second of these aspects has emerged only relatively recently in the published literature on the postwar Labour government , but it is now a commonplace , certainly among Imperial and colonial historians .
11 The resulting emphasis on personalism and personalised relationships has become very much a feature of social life in the New World , too .
12 The text of warranties has become much longer because solicitors have included very many specific warranties as well as general warranties .
13 The full list of schools to have entered so far is : Harton Comprehensive School , South Shields ; Ian Ramsey School , Hartburn , Stockton ; Sedgefield Community College , Sedgefield ; Boroughbridge High School , Boroughbridge ; Greencroft Comprehensive School , Stanley ; Lanchester St Bede 's Comprehensive School , Lanchester ; Filey School , Filey ; Hermitage Comprehensive School , Chester-le-Street ; Ferryhill Comprehensive School , Ferryhill ; Scalby School , Newby , Scarborough ; Brackenhole School , Middlesbrough ; Hedworthfield Comprehensive School , Jarrow ; Royal Grammar School , Newcastle .
14 Mme Guérigny 's brothers had done quite well for themselves not far from Paris , and she , too , wanted to acquire a better standard of living , and some sort of training , possibly , for the two young people .
15 Our offices had expanded very rapidly from 1986 onwards and we had to increase our production capacity here and we were finding it very difficult to recruit trained sewing machinists .
16 But by the nineteenth century knowledge itself had expanded so rapidly , and interest in locating published accounts of very specific knowledge units had developed so greatly , that all previous expedients had to some extent broken down , and the new public libraries proliferating in the UK , the USA , and elsewhere gave an added impetus to invention .
17 It is interesting to note a shortening of the working distances at the Clyde end of the rampart : the menace from attackers over the Kilpatrick Hills was such that working parties had to keep protectively closer together .
18 This is a view both parties had taken very seriously .
19 In the wake of the battle , things were very dangerous for Peden and his supporters ; the Dragoons had become even more ruthless and what were to become known as The Killing Times had begun .
20 Not quickly enough , however , and once again the night was split by flame and thunder as fire-sticks had roared terrifyingly close to them .
21 By this time the law relating to the protection of the king 's deer within the ‘ purlieus ’ or forest outskirts had become more clearly defined .
22 Hankin added : ‘ I think fans have waited long enough for an outstanding performance at home .
23 The limes have survived that long because of the technique of coppicing .
24 For one thing , teaching and examination styles have changed dramatically lower down the school system .
25 ‘ The two schools have worked extremely closely together .
26 And it would be another 55 years before an Australian team paused much longer than to browse the bazaars , while the nations have met just once in Test cricket on the island , in 1983 .
27 It was , wrote the best-known and most influential of them , the Abbe de Saint-Pierre , ‘ that vain Idol to which the Nations have Sacrificed so blindly , so fruitlessly , and for so long a Time , so much Blood and Treasure ’ .
28 At the same time computers have become much more powerful and common with much more information available in machine readable form .
29 His allegiances have switched completely now .
30 Lisa Wilson says that many of her clients have said very firmly that they are ‘ not interested in anyone who 's been made redundant ’ .
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