Example sentences of "[num] has [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this we have to thank those dedicated collectors whose affection and care for the once ‘ ordinary ’ 78s has led to a great deal of pleasure for all of us today . |
| 2 | ‘ Therefore the problem that had emerged in 1985 has come as a considerable shock to us and I would say that the present directors of Mogul Ireland — ourselves — have acted promptly , decisively and responsibly since it came to our attention . |
| 3 | However , three quarters of the fall in total mortality since 1970 has come from a reduction in deaths attributed to diseases of the circulatory system ( figure ) . |
| 4 | A BOY aged 14 has appeared before a court in Crewe on a charge of attempting to rape a 92-year-old spinster while carrying out a burglary . |
| 5 | The balance of this reduced population has changed dramatically : the proportion of under-fives has dropped by a quarter , and the numbers of those at school leaving age by just under a quarter , giving an overall decline of 15 per cent in the population aged under fifteen . |
| 6 | McPherson and Willms conclude : ‘ Since the mid-1970s , the reorganisation that was initiated in 1965 has contributed to a rise in examination attainment and to a fall in the effect on attainment of social class ’ . |
| 7 | This might now be more applicable to areas like southern Italy , where massive state intervention since the 1950s has resulted in a patchy , vulnerable and fragile industrial growth and in considerable changes in the political culture of the region , than it is to Scotland , the Basque Country or Northern Ireland , where , as Tom Nairn observed in the 1970s , the peripheral regions have relatively industrialised , middle-class cultures . |
| 8 | In the joint-funded West Birmingham project , geological mapping at 1:10 000 has resulted in a new synthesis of sedimentation and structural evolution in the southern part of the Pennine Basin . |
| 9 | In particular the application of seismic stratigraphy to the study of rift valleys during the 1980s has led to a considerable revision of ideas about their structure . |