Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Research Councils , through the Advisory Board for the Research Councils ( ABRC ) have commissioned a number of studies of research policy , in order to determine the best measures for the objective assessment of research productivity , and those carried out by the Science Policy Research Unit ( SPRU ) at Sussex University have been fundamental in reviewing existing measures , and suggesting new indicators which may be used singly or in combination . |
| 2 | Tour sponsors Tetley Bitter have been unable to persuade customs to allow supplies in for the players . |
| 3 | Arsenal supporters have been luckier than most of late ; we have at least had something to spend it on . |
| 4 | Considering Renault 's pioneering work in turbocharging for both road and track , it comes as little surprise that the power delivery is so smooth and strong though even Renault engineers have been unable to iron out the last fraction of a second of lag between the throttle being floored and the turbo-pressure rising . |
| 5 | Glenys and Neil Kinnock have been regular customers for several years and it was Glenys who had the honour of cutting the ribbon . |
| 6 | The Maidenhead , Windsor and Eton areas have been subject to flooding from the River Thames for generations . |
| 7 | Northern Ireland companies have been successful in the area of export development but they can not afford to be complacent about what lies ahead . |
| 8 | The Epps family have been involved with aviation since 1907 and Epps Aviation has been established in Atlanta since 1965 . |
| 9 | Enthusiasts Julian Mitchell and Stephen Arnold have been busy restoring Mk V BL370 near Oxford for the past three years , after recovering the hulk . |
| 10 | Even when North Yorkshire sites have been short-listed by an investor on quality grounds the county has had no means of matching the financial incentives elsewhere . |
| 11 | The back lanes in the North Road area have been atrocious , people were dumping their rubbish in them . |
| 12 | Courts in the United Kingdom , Australia and the United States have been reluctant to interfere with executive treaty-making power and have used various judicial devices to avoid allowing individuals ' claims . |
| 13 | Philip Joseph , chairman of Books Etc , waged a campaign against this practice — or more accurately against the fact that UK booksellers have been unable to stock such books when airport bookshops can — over several years . |
| 14 | ULSTER spacers have been shy about signing up for inter-galactic travel . |
| 15 | Counillor and Mrs Woodhead have been married for 39 years . |
| 16 | UK residents have been able to invest freely abroad since October 1979 when foreign exchange control restrictions were fully lifted . |
| 17 | so far this year , packed chlorine sales are running at 160% of budget and ICI Watercare have been able to supply new overseas markets which had previously been impossible because of the shortage of packages . |
| 18 | Hodder & Stoughton 's Robert Bacon , marketing manager for paperback fiction , says that the results of the Hilary Norman campaign have been hard to determine , but views the response in the shops as ‘ reasonably encouraging ’ . |
| 19 | Parents Barry and Carmen Daniels have been involved in a legal battle to force Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley to reopen London 's Westminster Children 's Hospital , where a transplant was to have taken place . |
| 20 | Parents Barry and Carmen Daniels have been involved in a legal battle to force Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley to reopen facilities at Westminster Children 's Hospital where a transplant was to have taken place . |
| 21 | PHYSIOTHERAPY experts at Teesside Polytechnic have been busy helping pupils from a Middlesbrough school make a video about the dangers of developing brittle bones through unhealthy diets . |
| 22 | ASPIRING coaches in the Durham and Cleveland area have been stunned to find that the cost of the basic part one course has doubled in two years to £88.50 . |
| 23 | St George have been unmoved by the Italian threat and have still chased Ofahengaue . |
| 24 | In recent weeks the Bangkok papers have been full of photos of bonfires of pirated audio tapes . |
| 25 | This form of self-help obviously squares up well with the close-knit group contacts of a minority community ; moreover , West Indians have been prominent in the credit union movement in this country ( largely because credit unions are an important source of credit in the West Indies ) . |
| 26 | In Rwanda soldiers loyal to President Juvénal Habyarimana have been responsible for atrocities against Rwanda 's Tutsi minority . |
| 27 | The Thatcher Years have been splendid ones for a goodly number of golf members throughout this Royal and Ancient land of ours . |
| 28 | In many respects the Thatcher years have been depressing for the trade unions . |
| 29 | The Thatcher Governments have been successful in pushing down the relative pay of low-paid workers . |
| 30 | By twentieth-century standards the Thatcher governments have been radical and successful — not only in winning elections but in achieving so much of what they intended . |