Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Piggy felt that everybody else had held onto their civilised upbringing like himself and he was always very surprised when nobody tried to steal the conch , right to speak , from him , but everyone else knew that democracy and civilisation on the island had ended , and the conch had lost all of its power and worth . |
| 2 | Recently the experts have deemed this unlikely . |
| 3 | The crowds had seen some legendary events . |
| 4 | The Prince had had all the men up on deck scanning the river with the aid of oil lamps . |
| 5 | Guided by his new-found friend , Charles studied Jung and also the work of economist and philosopher E. F. Schumacher , who wrote a book entitled Small Is Beautiful ; over the years the Prince has found many of the answers he was searching for . |
| 6 | Over the past few years , the Pentagon has invested several billion dollars in technology related to defences against ballistic missiles , including guided anti-ballistic missiles , particle beams and high-energy lasers . |
| 7 | The writer had found this and 12 others in a cupboard , and would be glad , she wrote , if they could be ‘ used to bring in some lolly ’ . |
| 8 | The clubs had experienced this violence since the early sixties . |
| 9 | To recap , the Board has decided that from 1.4.94 . |
| 10 | On the second issue , sensitivity analysis , the board has met most of the commission 's criticisms , including the important issue of the impact of wide variations in coal prices on the overall result . |
| 11 | was recognising that there are classes of sureties for whom special protection should be given , that the case fell within the class , but that , on the facts , the creditor had done enough to prevent any equitable intervention in aid of the surety . |
| 12 | The Scouts had skragged many gaiety pods . |
| 13 | The outer stood up to everything I could throw at it until a wicked Gogarth chimney thrutch resulted in a nicked sleeve , while the fleece has resisted all but a hot cylinder from the Snowdon Railway ! |
| 14 | Why else would the Oldenburgs have visited this great cathedral if not to check it for security ? |
| 15 | A pilot who was taught to fly by the RAF has spent much of the past eighteen months in his garden shed making his own aeroplane . |
| 16 | On the following day , however , both Soviet and Japanese diplomatic sources denied that the discussions had included any degree of Soviet acceptance of Japan 's claim on the territory . |
| 17 | ‘ The money has made such a difference , ’ Elizabeth , 52 , acknowledges . |
| 18 | The Watch had ensured this by giving them ample time to escape via the back door , a neat compromise between caution and justice that benefited all parties . |
| 19 | Increasing unemployment in the cities has had all kinds of unfortunate consequences : it reduces demand for such services as retailing , while at the same time increasing pressures on public-sector provision ; and social services , housing training and education encounter increased demands for certain activities . |
| 20 | By 08.00 , fighting with great bravery , the Canadians had taken both villages for the loss of 2,238 men . |
| 21 | Following Barr 's ruling , Judge Marvin H. Shoob , who had presided over a criminal case arising from the BNL affair , criticized the Attorney General on the grounds that plea bargaining within the case had denied any opportunity to probe the affair fully and had left unanswered numerous crucial questions concerning the government 's role . |
| 22 | If the decision was only as to the construction of a statutory provision that would explain why the case has received little attention in later cases … |
| 23 | They had walked the perimeter his men had already marked out in preparation for the stockade he planned around the new settlement ; the deputies had taken this in , uttering cries among themselves at the tools his men handled . |
| 24 | The first was that natural justice could have only a limited application in the context of the wider duties or discretion imposed upon a minister ; unfortunately the courts had applied those limited notions of natural justice to other areas where the constraints were unnecessary . |
| 25 | They have not shrunk from setting aside gifts made to persons in a position to exercise undue influence over the donors , although there has been no proof of the actual exercise of such influence ; and the courts have done this on the avowed ground of the necessity of going this length in order to protect persons from the exercise of such influence under circumstances which render proof of it impossible . |
| 26 | The courts have ruled that breach of the Prison Rules do not provide a basis for an action of breach of statutory duty . |
| 27 | Since 1979 the courts have ruled that review and appeal are available only where certain standard forms of contract need to be interpreted by the court or an award is plainly and seriously wrong : see Jaffe in ( 1989 ) Arbitration vol 55 , p184 . |
| 28 | The courts have developed some complex tests based on control whereby the subsidiary may be deemed to be an agent of the parent company . |
| 29 | Because the courts have held that appropriation does not occur instantaneously they have been able to expand and contract the term to catch those who are " manifestly guilty " . |
| 30 | On the other hand , although in recent years the regulation of the financial services industry has generated a lot of judicial review applications against regulatory bodies , the courts have discouraged these largely because they do not want court proceedings to be used as tactical weapons to delay financial transactions by parties disappointed by the failure of a regulatory body to give the applicant the protection it sought from financial predators . |