Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competition among state-financed institutions has also been heightened in other services . |
| 2 | The educative power of our academic institutions has never been lower : it is journalism that gives the lead . |
| 3 | For the Council , the creation of the new institutions has greatly added to its work , while for the colleges the rigours of course submission and CNAA validation procedures have , in some cases , been traumatic . |
| 4 | Putting my point across verbally at meetings without notes has never been my forte , which is why I decided to write to the editor of Gay Scotland in the hope that the situation would change for the better . |
| 5 | Hailed as the first ‘ work groupware ’ application , Notes has unfortunately not targeted the sales it was expected to since its launch in 1989 , and its alliance with SCO was described by the company as ‘ a timely decision ’ . |
| 6 | In this approach the high level of unionisation in Sweden is not the result of any cultural propensity on the part of the Swedish population ( because of its ethnic homogeneity ) to seek objectives by way of interest group organisations — a factor which Adams ( 1975 ) notes has sometimes been suggested by way of explanation . |
| 7 | However , the proportion of women who are full-time housewives has significantly dropped during the post-war period and , since married women who have paid employment spend less time on housework than those without paid work , this means that overall , there has been a significant decline in the amount of time the average woman will spend doing housework . |
| 8 | The use of CFCs as propellants in aerosols has now largely been eliminated , but the other two uses remain a problem . |
| 9 | The identity of the person who abandoned the Zodiac dinghy and therefore presumably planted the bombs has never been discovered but from the descriptions it seems fairly certain it was Bartelo from the Ouvéa , while the man who helped him get the dinghy into the water was Mafart . |
| 10 | Indeed , the cost of local government has risen sharply since 1972 ; much of this increase is due to inflation , but the number of staff employed by local authorities has also risen . |
| 11 | The Government 's criticism of the composition of the pre-1991 authorities has already been made . |
| 12 | The possibility of transfer of responsibility to central government agencies for some services previously provided by local authorities has already been mentioned . |
| 13 | No official go-ahead from the national safety authorities has yet been given . |
| 14 | The requirement that member states should co-operate to find and return such objects has also encountered the opposition of the UK and Germany . |
| 15 | Opposite The Indian elephant 's ability to manipulate heavy objects has long been exploited by man . |
| 16 | Since the stock of dinar assets held by households has risen much more slowly than this , the proportion of household assets held in foreign exchange accounts has steadily grown : while in 1980 this proportion was less than 40 per cent , by the end of 1986 it had reached nearly 70 per cent . |
| 17 | The number of unit holder accounts has also grown , particularly in the bull market years of 1985 to 1987 . |
| 18 | SAVERS have a wider choice of safe havens for their funds now , but sceptics may question whether the multiplication of accounts has really improved terms available to depositors . |
| 19 | Michael Phizacklea , the Institute 's director of finance , replies : The overriding consideration in the preparation of the Institute 's accounts has always been the provision of information to members . |
| 20 | Processing signs has clear right hemisphere involvement ( Lubert , 1975 ; McKeever et al. , 1976 ; Manning et al. , 1977 ; Poizner and Lane , 1978 ; Poizner , Battison and Lane , 1979 ) . |
| 21 | The question of self-determination of the German states has recently become a subject of heated debate . |
| 22 | A vicar 's wife who 's an expert on knickers has just completed an in depth investigation into bras . |
| 23 | Nationalism in its crudest forms has always been the ally of the ruthless operator , irrespective of the context — political , sporting or cultural . |
| 24 | Poorly appreciated during his life and for many years after his death , this period of his work was reassessed by a touring exhibition sponsored by the Hayward Gallery in 1981 , but a substantial group of his later canvases has never been shown in the context of his whole development . |
| 25 | Each of these new technologies has clear offensive uses . |
| 26 | Getting industry to adopt new technologies has long been a problem . |
| 27 | A preliminary account of events up to the mid-1970s has already been given for both locales , which will stand as an account for Cramlington but some elaboration is necessary for North Shields . |
| 28 | However , the SFO 's handling of its investigations has hardly been consistent and it already has set a precedent for the Barrowclough report to be published in full . |
| 29 | Generation of standard useful attitudes has always been one of the main purposes of military training . |
| 30 | British Gas Plc , which employs some 27,000 operators has already shown an interest . |