Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past few decades , the world 's demand for tin has fallen dramatically as packagers have reduced the thickness of the metal in tinplate or have turned to other materials for their containers , aluminium for instance . |
| 2 | For the five-part piece that follows , for which the livret suggests that both strings and winds played , the score does not reveal whether the oboe band would have played as a four-part ensemble or have expanded to five parts in order to double all the strings . |
| 3 | Most of us know , or have encountered in some way , an example of someone who speaks his mind , and does so with such gentleness and grace he rarely alienates anyone . |
| 4 | The remaining patients ( 23 ) have remained asymptomatic with respect to the biliary system or have died of unrelated causes at amedian of 13 months ( range 5–24 ) . |
| 5 | It is reported that Mrs Thatcher has been keen to ensure that those promoted are sympathetic to her scale of values or are not unwilling to break away from the style of middle-of-the-road consensus policies that have predominated in recent years . |
| 6 | Most of the animals in the sea either feed directly upon the diatoms and flagellates of the phytoplankton , or feed upon creatures that have fed upon that phytoplankton . |
| 7 | For grammars restored to Tory councils ( and the 80-odd that have stayed with Tory authorities ) , the outlook is not quite so bleak . |
| 8 | All I 'm saying is the forms that are mentioned in the procedure that have to go in those wallets ought to be in those colours , so red , so pink . |
| 9 | Having dealt at length with the management and , to a limited extent , with the financing of public sector higher education , we shall now consider in more detail the ‘ pooling ’ arrangements that have obtained in recent years and the likely criteria upon which NAB 's financial decisions will be based . |
| 10 | And , of course , cruise missiles deployed in Britain will be here under exactly the same arrangements that have applied to American forces already based in the UK . |
| 11 | For one thing , the sheer range and historical variation of the sites where encounters between ‘ white ’ and ‘ other ’ have taken place and the immense variety of specialized and popular discourses that have operated in these encounters have by now put into circulation a multitude of selective images . |
| 12 | That lessens the chance of profitability and alarms the banks that have insisted on these sales . |
| 13 | Our own straw poll of leading businessmen bears little resemblance to some of the bullish comments that have appeared in various surveys recently . |
| 14 | The sort of examples that have appeared in recent years include , in a variety of media , the following : |
| 15 | The three broad value orientations affecting leadership and organization that have appeared in western societies during this century form different patterns which distinguish organizations from each other . |
| 16 | Far more cheerful , I felt , would be a reminder of some of the lighter moments from the world of finance that have appeared in this column . |
| 17 | The mythologies of tragic sacrifice that have coalesced around gay writers like Oscar Wilde and Joe Orton tend only to impede a fully contextual understanding of how their sexuality and textuality inform each other . |
| 18 | First , it focuses on those aspects of emotion that have to do with prevailing mood , especially changes associated with feelings of depression and elation , though also including other emotional reactions , such as general irritability . |
| 19 | But it is perhaps primarily in his assertion that ‘ Il n'y a pas de hors texte ’ ( ‘ There is nothing outside the text/nothing except text ’ ) that he may seem most relevant to literary theory , for in this claim one hears echoes of the principles of a number of the major theories of literature that have emerged in this century . |
| 20 | As well as reporting policy requirements to advice workers , the manager must pass back to the area office any new training needs that have emerged from basic advice work . |
| 21 | This rationalist approach is overtly expressed in Fowler 's statement that ‘ The proper excellence of architecture is that which results from its suitableness to the occasion … and this principle rightly pursued leads to originality without the affection of novelty ; but … the present enlightened epoch in architecture is woefully distinguished as having no character of its own nor any pretensions beyond that of adopting the various styles that have prevailed in all ages and nations without regard to the difference of circumstances upon which they were founded ’ ; while the critic J. C. Loudon [ q.v. ] described him as ‘ one of the few modern architects who belong to the School of Reason and who design buildings on fundamental principles instead of antiquated rules and precedents ’ . |
| 22 | One of the factors common to businesses that have fallen on hard times is an inability to adapt and change and a failure to recognise that the market place is changing around them . |
| 23 | But there will be pressure on the company to produce ‘ quick fixes ’ for traditional industries that have fallen on hard times . |
| 24 | The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh , though saddened , understand and sympathise with the difficulties that have led to this decision . |
| 25 | The large bulk of the data that have led to this conclusion originates from areas south of the polar circle . |
| 26 | In-depth interviews will be conducted with British and continental businessmen and women in order to uncover differences in value orientations and business conventions that have led to cultural misunderstandings in the past . |
| 27 | I have followed the contents of the 2 previous issues that have touched upon this subject but without success . |
| 28 | Although writers and writing are the subjects of most of these essays , the themes they present are essential to understanding both the extraordinary political changes that have swept through Eastern Europe , and the human condition under communism . |
| 29 | Tempting as it is , the idea of free markets as casinos or slave-masters sits uncomfortably with many of the other big changes that have swept over international finance . |
| 30 | As I mentioned on the phone yesterday : update on music permissions that have developed since last week : Waterfront ( Simple Minds ) ( confirmation awaited from artists ) and I Like Driving in my Car ( Madness ) will be £75 each for 3 years ' world license , excluding USA . |