Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Similar views on such teaching have also been expressed in the USA , where researchers have voiced concern about the preponderance of what they call ‘ frontal teaching ’ .
2 In the last general election it was encouraging to find where contest had taken place that enthusiasm for cooperative representation had been considerably increased , and in addition the opportunity of bringing before the general public the benefits of cooperation has resulted in a very material addition to the cooperative forces in the district .
3 On May 10 demonstrators gathered in front of the KGB headquarters , where Nabiyev had taken refuge , and where negotiations were taking place between the government and opposition groups .
4 Where Roberts had commended Prince Albert 's provision of three bedrooms because the use of the living-room as sleeping quarters led to unwholesome crowding , the realists began to point out that the crowding occurred in any case , since even those who could afford to rent the extra rooms , could not afford to furnish them .
5 A flock of chattering sparrows came over the Cages , landed on the grass by the litter bin where Woil had taken stance , and then twittered off again over the tigers ' cages .
6 In the majority of cases , where intercourse has taken place in the ‘ missionary position ’ ( woman lying on her back , man on top ) the natural eversion of the anal mucous membrane during intercourse has brought this sensitive skin into contact with the moisture ( in which the gonococcus can be found in quantity ) produced by both male and female as a result of their sexual exertions .
7 The bus driver kicked the travelling salesman where Cornelius had kicked Hamish .
8 Directly accessing the experience of service users avoids inadvertently confounding measures of process and outcome ; where evaluations have used measures of , for example , individual programme goals achieved it may be that the result owes more to staff activity ( in this case , in setting achievable goals ) than to real differences in client experience ( de Kock et al. , 1988 ; Repp and Barton , 1980 ) .
9 ‘ We have bucked the trend across the world , where governments have suffered election defeats in Greece , Germany , Italy and France .
10 Such interventions have tended to undermine the autonomy of the state enterprises ' internal industrial relations institutions , especially where governments have funded concessions to the workforce beyond what management was prepared to consider ( cf. Kelf-Cohen 1973 : 176 ) , and have encouraged complex bargaining relations extending beyond the boundary of the enterprise to encompass the political authorities themselves ( see below ) .
11 In contrast to the recent splits at CP congresses in Lithuania and Estonia , where majorities had favoured party independence [ see 37128-29 ; 37168 ; 37323 ] , a majority of the 792 Latvian CP congress delegates rejected a draft party programme hailed by the pro-independence lobby as the basis for achieving a consensus on the party 's future , and instead voted to remain an integral part of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) .
12 Tass said the trains passed between Armenia and Azerbaijan , where workers have blockaded railways to press the Armenians to drop claims to the disputed territory of Nagorny-Karabakh .
13 A charter in 1033 , granting the manor of Patrington to the Archbishop of York , describes the boundaries of the manor which , except on the south where changes have taken place along the river Humber , appear to coincide with the present boundaries of the parish .
14 It was an illusion that a building society has never gone bankrupt ; there was two that had done so , where investors had lost money .
15 So , lesson one is that where people have found gold in the past , that is where you will find gold in the future !
16 By the end of September the Bolsheviks had gained majority support in both the Moscow and Petrograd soviets , where Trotsky had become chairman .
17 And we have had a sitdown Chinese meal where Craig has laid claim to having spent a night sleeping ‘ on one of them tofu things ’ .
18 and McNeill J. , had to consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus , where justices had refused bail on the ground that there was likely to be interference with witnesses and had at an application for a further remand in custody declined to hear the defendant 's counsel who wished to renew the application for bail on the basis that there had been a material change of circumstances .
19 In Asia Minor are a number of Greek towns which became Romanised and where excavation has revealed sites and building .
20 where Fielding had installed Caduta and her entourage .
21 Where man has bred horses for his own purposes their temperaments will differ according to their required role , making racehorses excitable , whereas carthorses will be placid and reliable .
22 They escaped because where fire had passed fire could not come .
23 The fabric has to be read with care in order to understand the evolution of the building , which is clearly going to be impossible where churches have plastered interiors or stuccoed exteriors .
24 From an ideological point of view , the anti-democratic nature of the Spanish regime became less significant once communism had replaced fascism as the perceived principal threat to world peace .
25 Although Gary had recognised God 's calling he felt that it was important to get the timing right .
26 Although Vauxhall has given assurances that all existing facilities will be replaced , it is understood that many will be at out-of-town sites .
27 Although Durkheim had made use of official statistics and standardised arithmetic procedures , such as averages and percentages , for theoretical purposes , the connections he made between the data and his theoretical conclusions were largely impressionistic if , from his point of view , effective enough .
28 Although journalists have placed Bristol in the premier league , there is no room for complacency .
29 Thirdly , the purchaser will be concerned to ensure that once completion has taken place , the vendor does not establish or participate in a competing business .
30 The new version claimed that this was for reasons of efficiency rather than a political move , although Vagnorius had expressed concern about former communist links and obstruction of policy .
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