Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his spare time since the election , Dr Kumar has plunged into books in a bid to re-activate his mind . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what recent representations he has received about education in Northumberland . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has received from businesses in the north-west concerning the effects of the recession in industry . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received regarding increases in the incidence of ram-raiding . |
| 5 | A LOVELORN Italian woman dying from cancer has travelled to Plymouth in search of her British wartime sweetheart . |
| 6 | He was born in South Africa and he studied at the universities of Cape Town and Cambridge , and has taught in universities in Britain , in America , in West Africa and France and Germany . |
| 7 | His argument was based on personal opinion , feelings and intuition though it does have a loose connection to Carl Gustav Jung 's theory of racial memory , which has fallen into disuse in modern times . |
| 8 | The share of UK demand accounted for by oil has fallen from 50% in 1973 to 37% in 1983 . |
| 9 | This attitude is behind the policy of skimping on women and children which has kept the family allowance or child benefit frozen ( its real value has fallen by 18% in the last ten years ) . |
| 10 | But LibDem leader Paddy Ashdown says Major has reneged on assurance in 1990 that ministers were not dodging an arms ban . |
| 11 | I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the carefully targeted aid that she has given to Zambia in recent years . |
| 12 | These two worthy causes are seen as being particularly close to Welsh hearts as Welfare Officers in the area appreciate the support that the RAF Benevolent Fund has given to persons in Wales , and as Richard Peck House is the nearest RAFA convalescent facility for people in North Wales . |
| 13 | I 'm sorry Mr has referred to closures in their teens cos this again throws residents and staff into total confusion we 're too early in the programme of community care to know how many homes are going to close . |
| 14 | It has differed from science in that the solution has also been the problem . |
| 15 | Since the introduction of Medicare in 1984 the proportion of the population covered by private insurance has dropped from 62% in 1983 to 42% in 1992 , with a large decrease in coverage among young people . |
| 16 | Income has dropped by £80million in the past 2 years and travellers will have to help bail them out . |
| 17 | By summer evenings the Great Bear is descending in the north-west , while Leo has almost gone ; the Square of Pegasus has come into view in the east . |
| 18 | Boar has come into fashion in recent years as farmers diversify to beat the recession . |
| 19 | Since then , however , this fundamental premise has come under attack in a variety of ways and it is true to say that ‘ evolutionism ’ is considered unacceptable by most modern Western anthropologists . |
| 20 | This secrecy has come under attack in recent years , and ‘ slowly , but surely , the secrecy behind the prison walls is being breached , as alternative sources of information about the prisons are more securely established ’ ( Fitzgerald and Sim , 1992 : 11 ) . |
| 21 | Such a view has come under attack in recent years . |
| 22 | Whenever I go in a minicab on my way to a radio or television programme — the companies are kind enough to take us in a car — I end up discussing with the driver how he has come to Britain in the fairly recent past and now has a job driving round London . |
| 23 | This is an area that has come to prominence in recent years as new kinds of instruments such as auction market preferred shares ( AMPS ) , convertible debt with premium put options and convertible capital bonds have appeared . |
| 24 | EXACTLY 200 years after the birth of Shelley , a secret diary kept by the poet has come to light in a Dorset attic . |
| 25 | The only really significant inroad into the dominance of English in recent years has come from Spanish in the southern states of the US . |
| 26 | Xorandor explains that he lives on radioactivity , that he has come from Mars in search of food , and that he has been stealing the waste to feed himself . |
| 27 | Anyone who has dabbled with paint in a school art room knows that mixing two colours together results in a third colour . |
| 28 | The death penalty has featured in campaigns in Florida ; in Georgia , where Mr Andrew Young , the former mayor of Atlanta who is now running for governor , has said that capital punishment is sometimes necessary ; in Michigan , where the Republican Senate candidate , Mr Bill Schuette , has attacked Democratic Senator Carl Levin for opposing it ; in one of this week 's congressional by-elections in New York . |
| 29 | The travel agency business has slumped into loss in the face of disappearing package holidays and market leader Lunn Poly 's price-cutting tactics . |
| 30 | Given that public expenditure has grown over time in the UK , how do we compare with other countries ? |