Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [noun pl] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where computer systems have been investigated they have been large mainframe systems . |
| 2 | Even before the 1977 Act , computer programs were not generally patentable per se , but there have been cases , both in the United Kingdom and in the United States , where computer programs have been granted patents indirectly , usually as being part of a piece of machinery or an industrial process . |
| 3 | Accordingly , where humanities scholars have engaged the computer in text creation and analysis , they have done so in a sophisticated way . |
| 4 | We do n't want the same to happen to us in the UK — to go the same way as the British motor or electronics industries have — and to prevent this we must make ourselves as lean , fit and efficient as possible ; able to compete with the Japanese on quality , service , delivery and price . |
| 5 | Section 138 does not affect the court 's powers to grant relief on such terms as it thinks fit under s 146(2) of the Law of Property Act 1925 , but subject thereto , it provides that where rent arrears have not been paid into court not less than five clear days before the hearing , then if there is a right of re-entry or forfeiture the court must order possession at the expiry of such period , not being less than four weeks from the date of the order , as the court thinks fit , unless within that period the lessee pays into court all the rent in arrears and the costs . |
| 6 | Er in the context of bulk transfers would you like to comment on the Good Committees conclusions on the bulk transfers of members between schemes and how they operate , and do you think that er there is widespread abuse or do you think er on balance your experience has been that where bulk transfers have taken place , they have taken place responsibly , but I would in that context ask you to comment whether there has been an unreasonable time delay where you have experienced bank bulk transfers between the transfer actually taking place in terms of employees being transferred from an undertaking to another undertaking and the actual transfer of their pension funds . |
| 7 | This step prolonged the localisation of PCNA immunoreactivity in time , which is especially useful in multicentre studies , where biopsy specimens have to be sent from several endoscopy units to a central laboratory . |
| 8 | A bad debt provision has been made against a customer 's debt where insolvency proceedings have recently commenced . |
| 9 | To make matters more complicated , where aid programmes have sought to channel funds to small-scale farmers , or small businesses , the real priorities of the target beneficiaries have seldom been identical to those of the donor or the government . |
| 10 | Few modern large or medium.sized computers have such word-oriented decimal arithmetic . |
| 11 | Where research studies have been carried out in different parts of the country it is difficult to disentangle anything which might be attributed to regional variations specifically , from other systematic variations by gender , class , ethnicity or variations over time ( that is where changes in patterns of family relationships have occurred between the 1960s and the 1980s ) . |
| 12 | Since then the condition of housing in rural areas seems on average to have reached a higher standard than that in many urban areas , even where renovation or renewal policies have been conducted . |
| 13 | Where 1.3m Asians have set up home |
| 14 | Briefing groups and negotiations with union or employee representatives have already been mentioned . |
| 15 | The labour which rural families can devote to export crops will not grow significantly as a proportion of the total and — except where export crops have a very high value , as in the case of horticulture — they will grow only slowly , if at all . |
| 16 | The library committee , however , is committed to a future agenda where study skills have a high priority , and there is already a considerable legacy of booklets and supportive material in the school to assure a measure of continuity . |
| 17 | This may be possible through community representation and has been evident where neighbourhood groups have challenged the status quo and caused government to reappraise the practice of service delivery . |
| 18 | Some teachers or museum educators have interpreted the idea of a time-line quite literally , stringing a washing line across the classroom and encouraging children to peg on key dates and photos , pictures and sometimes objects in chronological sequence . |
| 19 | By the same token , new knowledge may be of little relevance to someone innovating a social instrument to satisfy a need that changing demographics or tax laws have created . |
| 20 | Where tiger numbers have increased and the size of the reserve has stayed the same , there has been an overspill of tigers into areas of human occupation . |
| 21 | There is a further danger where community languages have been brought into the curriculum on a par with foreign languages that this concession might be seen as a sufficient response to the failure of the education system for black children as a whole . |
| 22 | the operating priorities of a CMHT are set by manifest , but more importantly latent lines of local service policy ; without clear specifications as to the roles of team members , members will drift towards their common ground ; where team members have no actual or perceived authority to coordinate services , they will create their own service niche to fill ; where teams have little direct control over service resources , their own role will be limited to using their own personnel as resources . |
| 23 | They know their families ' business or farming interests have been very hard hit by the political and economic disruptions . |
| 24 | Traditional ward sisters or charge nurses have always managed their wards by establishing a ‘ span of control ’ over their nurses , resulting in a downward chain of command . |
| 25 | There is no point in the Labour party in Scotland pretending that Grampian or Strathclyde regions have captured the affections of the people . |
| 26 | Hosepipe or sprinkler bans have already been imposed by four water companies in the Thames area : Three Valleys , Essex , Sutton and East Surrey . |
| 27 | Even where price increases have taken place , retailers with good stocks may be able to cushion the blow for a while . |
| 28 | The M & S managers have long known and practised all this instinctively on their home ground : but that 's what happens when businesses move away from first principles . |
| 29 | Recognition of detrital grain morphology ( form , sphericity , roundness and , in some cases , surface textures ) in thin section is only possible where grain surfaces have not been modified during diagenesis . |
| 30 | Conventional methods of adduct detection such as high pressure liquid chromatography ( HPLC ) or antibody techniques have proved to be too insensitive unless large quantities of DNA are analysed . |