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

No	Sentence
1	This was one of the most ragged performances Oxford have given in recent memory with their captain , Smith , responsible for several mistakes .
2	Good morning , I must say , I I stand before you today somewhat nervous , because erm , this is , this is my first to you as Treasurer , but this will be a slightly different speech from one 's that I have given in previous years .
3	Do n't these people realise that the disabled still have to shop in bad weather ?
4	By contrast , unit costs in higher education have fallen in real terms during the 1980s — by 37% in universities and 21% in polytechnics and colleges ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.16 ) .
5	Conveyancing fees have fallen in real terms in the last five years .
6	This is due in part to rising divorce rates , but also because remarriage rates among divorced women have fallen in recent years .
7	One of the main reasons why teachers have fallen in public esteem is that the public have lost confidence in teaching methods , which , in turn , seem to have lost contact with common sense as perceived by the man on the Clapham omnibus .
8	The problem with the period-instrument performances I have heard in recent times is a technical one : they do not play in tune .
9	‘ But I have heard in other parts of the country that people have been moved from the waiting lists because they would not get an appointment within the set time limit .
10	I hope also that British Coal has not helped to produce some of the briefs that we have heard in previous coal debates .
11	Since I mention native speakers ' feelings in this connection , and since I am elsewhere rather sceptical about appeals to native speakers ' feelings , I had better explain that in this case my evidence comes from the native speakers of English I have taught in practical classes on transcription over many years .
12	As we have commented in previous books , the polytechnics in particular are for the most part anxious to redress the anomaly between themselves and universities whereby the latter are allowed to award their own degrees but they are not .
13	Those dramatic figures reflect several things , not least the steady and progressive reform that the Government have undertaken in industrial relations .
14	We pray especially for those that You have placed in close proximity to us ; our relatives ; our neighbours ; those we meet day by day .
15	A prime example of a class which is , in this sense , non-political is the peasantry in Western Europe , which Marx likened to a ‘ sack of potatoes ’ ; and it is notable that even when peasant revolutionary movements have developed in other parts of the world in the twentieth century , they have almost always been organized and led by urban politicians or urban-based political parties .
16	One result of this has been the pervasive influence of linguistic methodology upon such studies of objects as have developed in recent decades ; and while the rise of semiotics in the 1960s was advantages in that it provided for the extension of linguistic research into other domains , any of which could be treated as a semiotic system ( e.g. Eco 1976 : 9–14 ) , this extension took place at the expense of subordinating the object qualities of things to their word-like properties .
17	In some wooded areas which have developed in recent decades on open ground , such as abandoned heathlands , the opportunity is being taken to restore the now scarce and declining open habitat .
18	Unlike other inorganic texts it is based on the periodic table , although 500 of its 1365 pages are on introductory or special topics , such as organometallics , cluster and bio-inorganic chemistry , which have developed in recent years .
19	Value for money ( VFM ) audits have developed in recent years as a way of expanding the more traditional role of the auditor away from the more straightforward examination of the fairness of the financial statements of an organization .
20	Because a great many have developed in recent years .
21	Nevertheless , as social movements have developed in modern societies some of them have tended to become more organized , with a formal membership and an administrative staff .
22	What we have witnessed in recent years is a subtle change whereby the courts , often without alluding to the authorities mentioned , have reviewed decisions to test their evidentiary basis .
23	Again it is part of the conditioning that women have received in early childhood .
24	Soviet cultural initiatives have traditionally been focused on Mexico , but in recent years Soviet musicians and dancers have toured in other parts of Latin America , often with spectacular success .
25	Others have dabbled in general insurance , though most have preferred to swim in the safer waters of life insurance .
26	Latin American governments have responded in different ways , some taking a generally sympathetic approach through assisting self-help schemes , as in the Peruvian case , but even these may resort to repression .
27	There is an enormous variety in the urban experience that this book can not hope to explore to any great extent : different cities have been subject to contrasting pressures and have responded in different ways .
28	After an uncertain start they have responded in different ways to demands for a more active vocal part for the congregation .
29	Chairman of selectors Ted Dexter was at Lilleshall to run his eye over final preparations and said : ‘ We have had one of the most successful years at international level that we have enjoyed in recent times , but the coming tour represents quite a different challenge to the ones our players have had before . ’
30	Speaking in Perth yesterday at a press briefing on possible future strategies for the arable sector following the new set- aside regulations , a chemical manufacturer , Peter Botham of WBC Technology , gave warning that the increases which farmers have enjoyed in recent months in grain values were not without a cost .