Example sentences of "have [verb] that the [noun sg] is " in BNC.

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1 A Schools Council report ( 1970 ) has emphasized that the problem is not that this sort of pupil leaves school at the earliest opportunity but that as far as school learning goes they ‘ leave ’ at the age of about 12 .
2 He has heard that the King is ill and he has sent for me , from the distant land beyond Kelfazin , to find the cause of his sickness .
3 A report published by the University of Bucharest has claimed that the country is " saturated " with pollution , as a result of inadequate or unenforced controls during the Ceausescu years .
4 Of course , ‘ capitalism ’ is not identified as such , just as Barthes ( 1972 ) has claimed that the bourgeoisie is ‘ the social class which does not want to be named ’ , and just as the YCs themselves preferred the label of ‘ ordinary ’ to a class identification .
5 Lawrence was saying that Man City have bid 1.5 million , but he has recommended that the offer is rejected .
6 This has ensured that the video is up to date , as well as giving me a few more grey hairs !
7 The Economist has argued that the council is indeed a senate and ought to debate and vote as openly as a senate .
8 Brown has argued that the material is animal dung which would be in accordance with Brisbane 's suggestion that the domestic wares are a farmyard product ( Brown 1976 ) .
9 Indeed Mr Mr Williamson has argued that the policy is not more restrictive than national policy , it is clearly not in the county council 's mind that a more restrictive approach is needed .
10 He also has said that the choice is between political union in the EC and domination by Germany .
11 Williams has said that the doctor is ‘ probably exempted from that duty if life has become a burden to the patient ’ .
12 Meanwhile , Higher Education minister and local MP Robert Jackson has revealed that the government is to offer disabled students extra benefits .
13 The full list of entries for the Irish National , to be run at Fairyhouse on 12 April , will be announced on Monday , but the sponsor has revealed that The Fellow is included , along with Rushing Wild , Garrison Savannah and Sibton Abbey .
14 He may be not qualified for a number of reasons , including that in the above paragraph , save that if a returning officer has decided that the nomination is valid , that decision may not be questioned ( 1983 Act , sch.1 , para.12(5) , ( 6 ) ) .
15 One suspects that it is to demonstrate what the attractions of the famous Museum Island will be when the plan favoured by the Berlin museums supremo Dube but hotly contested by many museum professionals comes to fruition , for Dube has decided that the island is to be dedicated entirely to these archaeological collections , while the fine arts all move over to the western side of the city to more modern museums .
16 This has shown that the Government is incapable of keeping its word , not just from one election to another but from one day to the next . ’
17 A recent survey in the Wall Street Journal , America 's only readable paper , has shown that the microwave is the nation 's favourite household appliance , second only to the smoke alarm in terms of its importance to the American lifestyle .
18 Ambulatory monitoring during cardiac arrest has shown that the mechanism is usually VF preceded by a variable period of organised ventricular tachycardia ( VT ) .
19 Speech has previously been shown to be particularly distracting , but research from the project has shown that the effect is not confined to speech , non-speech sounds show the effect also .
20 A survey has shown that the code is constantly being breached … especially in his constituency .
21 ‘ A survey has shown that the move is for the better , rather than the worse . ’
22 Digital Equipment Corp chief executive Robert Palmer has reiterated that the company is looking for a second source to manufacture its Alpha RISC chips .
23 More recent work has demonstrated that the allochthon is not quite as confused as was formerly thought , and the term Argille scagliose has been dropped in Italy ( though it is still used in many other parts of the world ) .
24 We must accept that study has proved that the Bible is not historically true in all its parts ; we must declare that no Christian need suppose the book of Genesis to be an accurate physical account of the making of the world , nor mind if study proves contradictions in the different accounts in the gospels .
25 In this particular drawing the forecaster has assumed that the future is going to be almost the same as the present ( at least in the characteristics he is depicting ) .
26 David Trippier , Minister for the Environment , has announced that the government is to spend £3 billion on improving sea-water quality over the next decade .
27 As soon as Mr Lamont has announced that the cash is there for the Jubilee Line and other great projects , Mr Heseltine must get intervening .
28 One of the principal authors of the ANLT grammar system has estimated that the system is capable of covering about 25% of English ( Briscoe , 1988 ) .
29 The spread of readily available and simple means of contraception has meant that the wife is less likely to spend much of her life in the bearing and rearing of children and is more likely to seek employment outside the home , thereby developing a source of income and interests outside her traditionally defined role : ‘ … in Britain the proportion of all wives in paid work went up from 10 per cent in 1911 ( as it remained in 1931 ) to 26 per cent in 1951 and 42 per cent in 1971 ’ ( Young and Willmott , 1975 , p. 101 ) .
30 Science has confirmed that the universe is filled with a constant noise , believed to be overtones of the ‘ Big Bang ’ echoing through the vastness of space , according to the materialists .
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