Example sentences of "of [noun] have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the redistribution of moisture had taken place , the hops were swept into ‘ pockets ’ . |
| 2 | In the 36th minute only the alertness of Lukic had prevented McCoist from scoring . |
| 3 | A WIND of change has swept Ellesmere Port Town that is n't good news . |
| 4 | The growth of the tsar 's chancery had embodied a " personal " principle , whereas the abolition of the majority of governors-general had implied adherence to a " ministerial " principle and the reform of the municipal government of St Petersburg had intimated sympathy for a " representative " principle . |
| 5 | Recent research on the process of industrialisation has led historians to place more emphasis upon the need for close study of family structures , forms of monetary income and the culture of artisans in explaining the distinctive features of particular regional and national industrial systems . |
| 6 | The larger size of authorities has produced complaints about remoteness from rural areas . |
| 7 | Forty years of communism have left Sternburg , one of eastern Germany 's biggest breweries , with a jumble of crumbling buildings that house decrepit machines fuelled by filthy lignite coal . |
| 8 | The armies of Chaos had overrun Kislev and looked set to sweep over the lands of men . |
| 9 | Efficiency of operations has to give way to inventiveness and creativity . |
| 10 | It had been a different story earlier this year after the Battle of Lincoln had seen Stephen 's army defeated and the King himself taken prisoner . |
| 11 | In Margate crime rose by twenty percent last year we found that for the victims of crime here the use of cautioning has undermined confidence in the justice system . |
| 12 | THE super-rich Duke of Northumberland has banned charity tea ladies from his castle — because he has opened his own cafe . |
| 13 | Firstly , it is clear that a transfer of responsibility has taken place between the different forms of provision . |
| 14 | The rhetoric of responsibility has provided Bush and Baker with their new role . |
| 15 | The Ministry of Defence has denied negligence , although Mr Ferrante has been told that RAF rules governing training at Brize Norton have been changed . |
| 16 | Where the Ministry of Defence has occupied land for generations or even for centuries , will my hon. Friend ensure that in disposing of it the Ministry will work as closely as possible with local authorities to ensure that it is developed consistently in accordance with the wishes of local people ? |
| 17 | Back in England for Christmas , he wrote some of his finest poems , collected and copied others , and by the end of March had completed manuscripts of Alamein to Zem Zem and a volume of poems . |
| 18 | The Act of Union has served Scotland well and it has served England well . |
| 19 | It had taken some labour to restore : a gang of builders had spent months ripping down hardboard partitions , taking out gas meters , attempting to rescue old parquet flooring , refitting windows , stripping paint from tiles . |
| 20 | The fact was that the central parts of cities had confused land-use patterns and other features which rendered necessary some new , speedy coordinating hand to control the renewal process . |
| 21 | Motivated by a desire for a better life , rural populations have migrated to urban areas and the resulting expansion of cities has meant problems of shelter and employment . |
| 22 | The process of centralization has involved governments in taking a major stake in investments which were previously foreign-owned . |
| 23 | Promotional packs have been sent to over 100 organisations and a number of discussions have taken place with interested parties . |
| 24 | The ‘ spiritual sense ’ view of faith has given rise to a form of spiritual elitism in which the believer welcomes a position in which he or she has no common ground with the unbeliever , and thereby turns the sort of dismissive ‘ religious language is nonsense ’ approach of Ayer into a welcome acceptance of the divide between men and women of reason on the one hand , and those with faith on the other . |
| 25 | As Jakobson put it , historians of literature had become practitioners of what he called ‘ homespun ’ disciplines based on psychology , politics and philosophy , where literature itself could only offer secondary and defective evidence ; Evgeny Onegin is likely to prove a somewhat unreliable document for the people that Osip Brik called the ‘ maniacs … passionately seeking the answer to the question ‘ did Pushkin smoke ? ’ ’ ( 1977 : 90 ) . |
| 26 | Oh the by-pass road , you know the north northern part of Ipswich , along the by-pass and of course had ordered trolley buses , because you had to order 'em about two years ahead of time , erm , to take care of that but it did n't materialize and we had a surplus of buses and some of them were sold off , I think some went to Walsall , some to Wolverhampton and er I , I think it was one of those that was sold to Wals Woolwich , figured in the national newspapers that had toppled over . |
| 27 | If they are considering a financial penalty , then they of course have to have regard to the defendant 's means . |
| 28 | This is not likely to be a significant item for the first five years or so , and we would of course have to give priority to selling our own unsold units first . |
| 29 | This is not wholly satisfactory , as often the terms of the second mortgage are not sufficiently clear for the husband to enforce them ; it necessitates a separate form of receipt on redemption ; and it leaves the husband effectively without any title documents ( as these are held by the first mortgagee ) although he can of course have marked abstracts . |
| 30 | This has meant that some detailed provisions in standard forms of contract have required amendment . |