Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summer seasons , pantomime and certain Fringe or small-scale companies also have a quota for performers and assistant stage managers and acting ASMs . |
| 2 | Speaking in measured tones from the fourth row back where sacked ministers traditionally have their say , he addressed a crowded chamber in an electric atmosphere . |
| 3 | Whatever the merits of Devlin 's position , of the crimes in private between consenting adults which he wished to retain , homosexuality , abortion , incest , pornography and prostitution have either been partially decriminalized or some proposals therefor have been put forward . |
| 4 | Where such pupils also have speech impairments , there may be a case for exempting them altogether from — or modifying — some of the assessment arrangements , even if they continue to pursue the attainment targets and programmes of study . |
| 5 | During the past two or three generations there have been , there has been this , this idea of God 's favour being expressed in blessing . |
| 6 | The Commissioners enquired how and why would the pension be paid , and the Governors explained that Hamilton was now 67 , had been Headmaster for 27 years , and although not then in bad health had two or three years previously had a serious illness , and was not considered equal to the work . |
| 7 | As a result lower level or petty bureaucrats frequently have to rely upon local people for economic perks ( access to a small plot of land , or to credit on favourable terms , or the rent of a house ) . |
| 8 | The lads just have n't been doing the business over the last 2 or 3 games though have they ? |
| 9 | Some may be seen 20 or more years later to have been seminal but were ignored because they did not fit into the theories current at the time . |
| 10 | Children cared for by grandmothers or foster mothers during their first three or four years often have great difficulty when they return to live with their natural parents or a new step-parent . |
| 11 | One or two members already had some knowledge of it from press reports and Black 's fellow employees in Short Brothers . |
| 12 | ‘ Career breaks would enable women to choose to take five , six or seven years out to have their families but in that time they would be kept in touch , ’ said Miss Armstrong . |
| 13 | The report also suggests that multinational users now have the clout to force service providers to cut their prices . |
| 14 | In the corporation of London , for example , the fact that local elections were spread across the year ( with those for the sheriffs being in midsummer , for the lord mayor in September , and for the common councilmen in December ) , and were invariably fought out along party lines , meant that political passions seldom had a chance to cool down . |
| 15 | Our normal response is to look for a comparatively minor adjustment near the periphery ; if we can not see the cake when we expected to we would normally suppose , perhaps , that someone has eaten it , rather than that cakes now have a tendency to dematerialize . |
| 16 | One magistrate asserted that weak complainants sometimes had their cases dismissed because they were unable to push through the crowd which blocked the doorway into the court . |
| 17 | Within the public sector we find that professional groups usually have a tremendous impact upon the culture of an organisation and their influence is felt widely throughout the decision-making channels . |
| 18 | I 'm told that professional painters now have shade cards that provide a selection of 3,000 colours . |
| 19 | The Federation , which represents more than 50,000 members nationwide has emerged as a strong national voice in Parliament and is constantly badgering Government ministers for a better business deal . |
| 20 | I suspect that cultural matters here have a higher significance in the lives of ordinary people than is the case in the West . |
| 21 | Indeed , for a time it enabled the service to become an all HST operation so that some places actually had a better service . |
| 22 | This will mean that some individuals now have a different payment date for Council Tax to that they previously had for Community Charge . |
| 23 | They are , in short , symbols of eminence and are normally granted only to peers and knights of the first class of the orders of chivalry — although some baronets also have armorial supporters . |
| 24 | All of the official figures show that unemployed claimants invariably have unemployed wives , and the proportion of wives unemployed increases with the length of their husband 's unemployment . |
| 25 | As of 1982 more than 300,000 households still had water with more than 100ug/l lead in their tapwater . |
| 26 | The courts ruled that such companies only had the powers specifically granted to them by Parliament , and the ruling was extended to local authorities despite the fact that they were independently elected , not mere private corporations . |
| 27 | C. Taylor and W. Page Faulk found that such women often have white cell antigens ( HLA ) that are unusually similar to those of their husbands . |
| 28 | Sterling issues expanded dramatically in the 1980s but increasingly in the form of eurosterling bonds and Table 3.8 shows the important share that such bonds now have in the total sterling bond market . |
| 29 | More persuasive perhaps is the quotation from the EEC 's Green Paper Employment Participation and Company Structure , to the effect that ‘ the pursuit of goals other than economic growth , such as the improvement of the quality of life and working conditions , the protection of the environment and the interests of the consumer … can probably be secured only by the existence of decision-making processes in enterprises which have a broader , more democratic base than such processes often have at present . ’ |
| 30 | Refrigeration was in its infancy , so that perishable goods just had to be sold which meant that prices were gradually reduced in the hour or so before closing time . |