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

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1 And since the blindness and brutality recorded in those accounts has in no wise disappeared from human society , have we not a crucified God still ?
2 Fortunately continuing research by agrochemical manufacturers has to a large extent enabled the persistent organo-chlorides to be suspended .
3 As far as noise reduction is concerned , sealed double glazing units have about the same value as having the window reglazed with glass twice as thick as the original glass .
4 However , the technology is moving very fast and , as pen computers come into common usage , prices will fall as dramatically as the prices of conventional computers have over the last couple of years .
5 In assessing that intention , the courts will take into account the connection that the contract and the parties have with a particular country .
6 Family Assurance Society 's managed funds have over the past 13 years produced overall growth rates averaging 17% per annum .
7 Too dearly purchas 'd with a thousand Pound .
8 Too dearly purchas 'd with a thousand Pound
9 We shall see later that the power of the occupiers to exclude or restrict their liability towards visitors has to a considerable extent been eroded by s. 2 Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 .
10 Having thus fire and water at every dwelling , there is no need to enquire why they dwell thus dispers 'd upon the highest hills …
11 Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " .
12 Nevertheless , Soviet specialists accepted that in the past these zones had to a certain extent acted as a means of averting war .
13 The small size of the private-rented sector and the difficulties which council house tenants face in moving between local authority areas have for a long time constituted major barriers to long distance migration by lower-income workers ( Robertson , 1979 ; Hughes and McCormick , 1981 ; OPCS , 1983 ; Hamnett , 1984 ) .
14 Women from manual origins have about a 1.5 per cent chance of a top occupation , though 10 per cent go into lower professional jobs ; 48 per cent enter office work .
15 My information , until corrected , is that he is the vice president of the European Peoples Party and it 's a rather ambivalent relationship the er Conservatives have with the European peoples party .
16 The disquieting feature of the pronouncements of the House of Lords is that by flatly insisting upon the literal rule without expressing any qualifications , they tend to repress the use of the traditional tools by which the judges have in the past introduced rationality into the statute law .
17 High acidity of the duodenal contents has for a long time been found to be associated with gastric metaplasia , both in humans and in laboratory animals .
18 The citation mentions that the trust and respect that SPECS has in the industrial and academic communities in which it acts as intermediary in the supply of new and unusual chemicals .
19 The plants had for the past three years been emitting toxic fumes which had caused skin diseases among the villagers , killed fish in local fishponds and contaminated farmlands .
20 Within this mass , the smaller workers have in a similar fashion created chambers in which the pupae hang .
21 British public libraries have in the past 10 years diversified very considerably by providing their public with access to a variety of non-book materials .
22 Johnson may be a forlorn , pathetic creature who was never clever enough to emulate more sophisticated cheats who can mask the effects that steroids have on the human system .
23 However , governments have for a long time been divided over how large a merger must be before it passes out of national hands to Brussels .
24 ‘ Even a cursory glance at the island of Ireland 's relationship with the EC since 1973 confirms that Britain has not pursued Northern Ireland 's interests anything like the extent which Irish Governments have for the 26 counties , ’ he said .
25 Expos 'd in a True Picture of [ Jeremy Collier ] ( 1704 ) by Thomas Brown , or Hypocrisie Unmasked , the title of two works with American associations , one published in 1646 by Edward Winslow relating grievances by the Governor and Company of Massachusetts against Samuel Gordon of Rhode Island , the other published in 1776 with the subtitle or , A short inquiry into the religious complaints of our American colonies .
26 Truthfulness and openness are particularly difficult aims to have in a British organization where so much of our education and background has been devoted to concealing feelings and to suffering heroically without protest .
27 Furthermore , the idea the Egyptians had of an eternal and immutable world meant that they never imagined any evolution of social conditions .
28 The Institute of Economic Affairs had for a long time been polemicising against the extension of state activity on the grounds that it restricted choice , led to dependency and reduced the motivation to work , and fostered economic inefficiency in comparison with ‘ private enterprise ’ .
29 A massive programme of reforms had by the 1920s established law and order , infrastructure and a stable economy based on agriculture — notably the production of tea , rice and sugar — and some state sponsored industrial development .
30 In 1963 , many producers were having as much difficulty securing screenings for their films as their predecessors had in the early 1920s .
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