Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Germany has in the past year alone accepted some quarter of a million refugees from the former Yugoslavia .
2 The notion that Freud has of the sexual instincts is not primarily about reproduction , however , but the generalized capacity of the human organism to find erotic satisfaction from any part of the body being caressed or stimulated , quite apart from the act of reproduction .
3 Prick 'd from the lazy finger of a maid ;
4 In Palermo , Sicily , an absolute majority was won by the DC list headed by the former mayor Leoluca Orlando ( representing the left-oriented faction of the DC ) , who until his resignation in February had for the previous 2@1/2 years headed an " anti-Mafia " coalition of the DC and the PCI .
5 It is also proof of the high regard that the right hon. Member for Finchley had for the right hon. Gentleman and his presence in her Cabinet .
6 At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world .
7 Approaches to health work in the Philippines have since the early 1970s paralleled the history of internationally-recognized development models .
8 The votes last credited to Craig have in the present context a special significance only because they were added to the votes he had already received .
9 ‘ I could get anyone under the spell , ’ he says , adding that he had hypnotised their maid ( as Breavman had in The Favourite Game ) and feared that he had driven her insane by it !
10 The events associated with the prisoners ' rights movement that flourished for a time in the late 1960s and early 1970s in parts of the United States , Scandinavia and Britain had by the early 1980s largely disappeared without trace .
11 Great Britain had in the previous eighty-four years of modern Olympic history produced only one 100 metres champion , Harold Abrahams , who had won in Paris in 1924 at the Stade Colombes .
12 On the other hand , Charles had an undeniable impact on the subsequent history of France — arguably no less of an impact than Alfred had on the subsequent history of England .
13 Mother Teresa 's invitation to Kensington Palace confirms the admiration and respect the Princess of Wales has for the 82-year-old aid worker .
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