Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | be it nineteen eighty five or nineteen eighty six , it may not matter , did you know previous to that in February nineteen eighty seven , he as chairman had given instructions that this brochure should be withdrawn , did you know that ? |
| 2 | The white official parliamentary opposition Conservative Party leader , Andries Treurnicht , said in a strongly worded statement that de Klerk 's plans for change had plunged whites into " a struggle for our freedom " to defend " our people 's claim to its own country and right to self-government " . |
| 3 | He liked best the stormy winter evenings when , working late , he could see the lights of shipping prinking the horizon as they made their way down the coast to the Yarmouth lanes , and see the flashing lightships and the beam from Happisburgh Lighthouse , which for generations had warned mariners of the treacherous offshore sands . |
| 4 | Both of my hon. Friends know that their constituents live in an area which for generations has had health care that has been relatively less generously funded than that provided in the central London parts of the Thames regions . |
| 5 | My word , that 's very true , ’ and turned with relief to Fribble , who was trying to explain about their journey and about Medoc having taken Tara . |
| 6 | The investigation considers the extent to which new patterns of access to the market have boosted residential development and examines whether initiatives such as co-ownership have widened access to the market . |
| 7 | The Soviet Union 's overriding need for money has made Mikhail Gorbachev try to end the chill in his relations with the West |
| 8 | These woods gave cover to the herds of wild deer which for centuries had provided sport for the kings and nobility , guests of the Berkeley family at the nearby castle . |
| 9 | The connection between language and thought is difficult to unravel — thinking about thinking has perplexed philosophers for millennia . |
| 10 | In less than a century , market pressures for uniformity have slaughtered crop diversity . |
| 11 | In between Kylie had enjoyed success in a few other minor television roles . |
| 12 | Permission to record the interview was sought after subjects had indicated willingness to participate . |
| 13 | Meeting Donaldson for lunch had reinforced Holly 's belief in the value of the story about him . |
| 14 | Nothing came of this love , but it might have been more tactful , in the aftermath of Phoebe 's tragic death , for Thomson to have used pseudonyms . |
| 15 | By Echo reporter A TEENAGER with a flair for cookery has tasted success by beating 3,000 young people to win a place in a national contest . |
| 16 | Travel is so much the norm that even family celebrations such as marriage have become part of the travel business . |
| 17 | However , composers such as Webern have used accompaniments based on canon or loose forms of imitation in both solo and choral pieces . |
| 18 | But at 11am , the Secretary of State for Scotland had congratulated RBS on the hundreds of Direct Line jobs being created in Glasgow . |
| 19 | Success for contractors has meant unemployment for all , but for women work council workers in particular . |
| 20 | The situation has been poor for some months , but press speculation about receivership has worried suppliers and customers of the brewery . |
| 21 | The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has said Selahattin Osberk , 30 , who is due to be put on a flight to Istanbul today , should be granted refugee status and has a well-founded fear of persecution . |
| 22 | The Commonwealth Games Council for England has told archers to end a 30-year tradition of competing with a South African organisation . |
| 23 | The Commonwealth Games Council for England has told archers to end a 30-year tradition of competing with a South African organisation . |
| 24 | Once the redistribution of moisture had taken place , the hops were swept into ‘ pockets ’ . |
| 25 | In the 36th minute only the alertness of Lukic had prevented McCoist from scoring . |
| 26 | A WIND of change has swept Ellesmere Port Town that is n't good news . |
| 27 | The growth of the tsar 's chancery had embodied a " personal " principle , whereas the abolition of the majority of governors-general had implied adherence to a " ministerial " principle and the reform of the municipal government of St Petersburg had intimated sympathy for a " representative " principle . |
| 28 | Recent research on the process of industrialisation has led historians to place more emphasis upon the need for close study of family structures , forms of monetary income and the culture of artisans in explaining the distinctive features of particular regional and national industrial systems . |
| 29 | The larger size of authorities has produced complaints about remoteness from rural areas . |
| 30 | Forty years of communism have left Sternburg , one of eastern Germany 's biggest breweries , with a jumble of crumbling buildings that house decrepit machines fuelled by filthy lignite coal . |