Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A weekly routine of inspection has to begin at about the end of February . |
| 2 | This is a question that the board has struggled with for two years . |
| 3 | Overnight , the violence has spread to within a mile of my house . |
| 4 | Indeed half of Littlewoods ' 2.5 million agents have adopted this route and the average number of customers per agent has fallen from between six and 10 to just over two . |
| 5 | Two albums by David Bowie suggested possible options for this concentration on self : ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ ( 1974 ) made explicit the equation that the Velvet Underground had hinted at in the mid-sixties , namely that divergent sexuality of every type was only an inevitable consequence of a civilization at the brink of apocalypse . |
| 6 | One of the major changes industry had to adapt to in the autumn of 1987 was the stock-market slump that sent share prices plummeting . |
| 7 | In 1977 , RENFE manual staff worked an average of about seven hours per week overtime , but the figure had fallen to about 4–5 hours per week by 1983 ( based on IGAE 1984 : 14 ) , and total overtime hours were some 15 million for the year ( compared with around 60 million — including Sunday working — in BR ) . |
| 8 | Alternatively , for a child with generally delayed language , it may be necessary to generate a set of priorities solely in terms of the communicative situations which the child has to deal with on a daily basis . |
| 9 | ‘ The bank account in question has existed for at least 40 years . |
| 10 | Grubby brown chipboard has emerged from under the designer fitted units and the cobalt blue Mexican tiles appear to have rusted . |
| 11 | It was as if a blinding sun had emerged from behind a black cloud . |
| 12 | Most of the resources for this work have come from within the Division 's normal programme of research . |
| 13 | PROJECT engineer has retired from after 41 years service . |
| 14 | A marked contrast in behaviour would be expected during continental collision between the very thick crust of the Andes , where relatively rapid subduction has occurred throughout at least the Cenozoic , and the Alpine region where the closure of the ocean separating North Africa and southern Europe has been more gradual . |
| 15 | Serious or not , whatever the business Bodo had to talk about with his brother , to Herr Nordern 's dismay he burst out laughing . |
| 16 | Shortly after my fourth birthday we moved to a village in Somerset with my father 's employer , a retired lawyer , a bachelor , whose household was presided over by a sister-in-law whose husband had died at about the time of my birth . |
| 17 | Set against this is the felt reality ; the constraining influences of the number of individuals a person has to interact with at any one moment and the problem of time . |
| 18 | This subcontractor has worked for for a number of years . |
| 19 | It 's feared that the death toll in the Cairo earthquake has risen to at least a thousand . |
| 20 | It lay asleep on a piece of sacking the gardener had discarded from around the rose-bush he was planting . |
| 21 | Several seconds passed before Isabel realised her name had come from beyond the wall and not from the man whose fingers still gently caressed her cheek . |
| 22 | He began his reign with a splendid procession into Aquitaine as Eleanor 's husband , in the course of which he arranged an inauguration ceremony for himself — either a repeat coronation for the southerners or a service to mark his accession as duke of Aquitaine — in the city of Bordeaux , where no king had penetrated for at least three centuries . |
| 23 | Consumption of the Nazca Plate along the nascent Peru-Chile Trench had begun by at least the Late Triassic — Early Jurassic and marked the conversion of the previously ‘ passive ’ continental margin ( see Chapter 4 ) of western South America to an active convergent plate boundary ( Fig. 3.13 ( A ) and ( B ) ) . |
| 24 | However , there was still one more thing to worry about : the currency protection deal which Virgin had entered into at the beginning of the aircraft negotiation . |
| 25 | Piaget believed that educational development had to come from within the child , through a process of building and testing hypotheses within the microworld of a child 's perceptions . |
| 26 | Her Italian friend had gone from behind the bar , but his replacement was proving equally obliging . |
| 27 | Is that what democracy has come to in this country , with the democratically elected Government refusing to listen to the democratically elected Opposition — who will be unable to reveal the flaws in the council tax as we did in the case of the poll tax , and which were soon clear for all to see ? |
| 28 | To that same end , the female , it follows , is programmed to stay at home with the tiny disco-dancers , wondering where the hell the father has got to at three in the morning . |
| 29 | Similarly , if I tell you that I am going to move this piece of chalk in front of me , and I demonstrate look here goes right okay , same piece of chalk has moved across in front of me . |
| 30 | I mean just out of Heathrow and Gatwick I think traffic has dropped by about twenty per cent over the erm past two weeks , but that 's now beginning to pick up again . |