Example sentences of "have happened [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , two of them seem as if they are referring back to something which has happened since the first two . ’ |
| 2 | The same applies to Ashford , where according to our figures the same has happened for the last three years . |
| 3 | ‘ With everything that has happened over the last couple of years , I just want to stand back a bit and have a couple of weeks to think about it ’ , he said , before later confirming his desire to lead a new-look Scotland in 1992 . |
| 4 | What other factors , there 's a big , this fact that we 're missing , alright , rising population , improvements in transport and technology , what else has happened over the last hundred years ? |
| 5 | Everything has happened at the last minute , right up against our deadlines , but I am convinced that if we can promote the raffle through the summer magazine it stands every chance of being a great success . |
| 6 | And it is true that , I mean , well , you know , I 've spent a lot of time reviving typefaces that are not around , I mean , you know , propping them up , creating a waxed edition , sort of Madam Tussauds version of Lucien or something , but it 's very interesting — there is not , in type development terms , there is n't a whole lot that has happened after the Second World War that really turns me on . |
| 7 | The problem for modern Marxists , however , is that the objective laws which Marx had developed to predict the way in which the capitalist system would develop do not seem to have fully explained what has happened in the twentieth century . |
| 8 | Look what has happened in the last few days . |
| 9 | ‘ Too much has happened in the last year , ’ he said , ‘ and too much change around a candidate is not wise . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You only have to look around , ’ he explained , ‘ and see that something has happened in the last twenty years . ’ |
| 11 | And I think this has been proved you know that ask when people have changed their minds and said I do n't know , that this is what has happened in the last er ten to fifteen years erm and which makes me feel that once again I think that advances can only be evolutionary erm I think that erm , I do n't know if you , anybody saw Joseph Conrad 's erm spy story on the television ? |
| 12 | We all know that Britain will only become a world class economy if we have a strong well-balanced manufacturing base , employing skilled , trained workforce , a workforce which has decent conditions of employment and has legal protection , but we do still have some members within the service sector and within the professional rank and what has happened in the last five or six years to those members ? |
| 13 | Well what , of course , has happened in the last generation or two is the growth of poetry readings . |
| 14 | Now what has happened in the last decade or so , through the advent of radioastronomy , is that we 've discovered that there are vast clouds of molecules between the stars and they 're just chock a block with very intriguing molecules , many of which are just the sort of things we would expect to be in the prebiotic soup . |
| 15 | It is an essential element in the planning cycle to measure the effects of the advertising , as far as possible , together with those of other types of marketing activity , in order to take account of what has happened in the next phase of planning . |
| 16 | ‘ Anything could have happened over the last few days . ’ |
| 17 | And then it would all be over — this crazy situation which should never have happened in the first place . |
| 18 | How on earth would that have happened in the first instance ? |
| 19 | Had Gooch not been injured who knows what would have happened in the last two games ; but then , West Indies had their share of injuries , too . |
| 20 | What seems to have happened over the last twenty years or so is that a higher proportion of juveniles are being dealt with officially by the police rather than being dealt with unofficially or warned . |
| 21 | Any major phases or colonisation are as likely to have taken place in the seventh , eighth or ninth centuries , as Peter Sawyer has suggested , and therefore to be undocumented , as they are to have happened in the thirteenth century , when we hear of them for the first time from surviving records . |
| 22 | What appears to have happened in the last week of the campaign is that a large proportion of the ‘ Do n't Knows ’ plumped for the Conservatives , possibly in fear of rumoured Labour tax rises . |
| 23 | All the same it was n't easy to stop herself from wondering if he too was having difficulties in not remembering what had happened over the last forty-eight hours . |
| 24 | However , because of what had happened during the last few days , she knew she could not simply let this matter fade from her mind . |
| 25 | Look what had happened at the last seance . |
| 26 | It had happened on the last occasion as well , for Venice was delighted with Niccolò vander Poele , who had destroyed the plants and was freeing Cyprus , God be good , of the Genoese . |
| 27 | When stewards realised what had happened after the second false start there was ‘ a period of shocked dismay ’ before anyone tried to stop the runaway field . |
| 28 | When stewards realised what had happened after the second false start there was ‘ a period of shocked dismay ’ before anyone tried to stop the runaway field . |
| 29 | His one serious love affair had happened in the first year of the war with a girl younger than himself whom he had thought he loved . |
| 30 | What had happened in the nineteenth century was a relaxation in the definition of orthodoxy : Nonconformists no longer saw their chapels in virtual juxtaposition to the world about them . |