Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [noun sg] have [be] " in BNC.

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1 If copies of the previous accounts or report have been laid or delivered the revisions must be confined to the correction of those respects in which they did not comply with the Act and the making of any consequential alterations .
2 Offstage Leveaux has mixed feelings about the financial crisis currently affecting the British stage : ‘ The foundations of antagonism towards the arts and education have been laid very firmly .
3 She should have known she was ill , got a doctor to see her earlier , not waited until the bronchitis had turned to pneumonia , so that none of their injections and treatment had been any good .
4 Although the merger gave them the chance to start Andy claims they could ‘ never ’ have done it without it — the recession has taken clients and exposure has been ‘ painful ’ on occasions .
5 Pack sizes and colours extend the choice and labels and literature have been produced in eight languages , from English to Icelandic .
6 However , the overlap between designs and copyright has been eroded by section 51 of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 which states that it is not an infringement of any copyright in a design document or model recording or embodying a design for anything other than an artistic work ( or a typeface ) , to make an article to the design or to copy an article made to the design .
7 They are used for the final stages when working down a tilth and levelling the surface once the large clods and turf have been broken .
8 The specific policies and rhetoric have been different as the occasion demanded .
9 Increasingly , however , his policies and personality had been subjected to close scrutiny by both the media and the Republican Party , causing him to complain that the latter was pursuing a smear campaign against him [ see p. 38953 ] .
10 The Committee itself concluded ‘ that the overall technical standard of the operation has been high , both in the sense that the signal itself has been generated with great skill and proficiency and that the practical and logistical problems associated with presence of televising personnel and equipment have been kept to a minimum ’ .
11 Over 1,000 miles of new trunk roads and motorway have been built , more than 100 bypasses constructed , and some 750 miles of railway electrified .
12 Although the coupled uptake of sodium ions and chloride ions is inhibited by the toxins , coupled uptake of sodium ions and glucose has been shown to remain fully operative .
13 Extensive areas of upland grasslands and moorland have been cultivated and converted to grass leys .
14 In the interim , however , a number of schemes have been devised in which instabilities and chaos have been predicted in experimentally realisable systems .
15 The administrative arrangement and supervision required for such teamwork was exactly the sort of skill in which Lewis excelled , and the hours passed quickly with the progressive gleaning of intelligence , the gradual build up of hard fact to bolster tentative theory — and always that almost insolent gratification that shone in Morse 's eyes , for the latter appeared to have known ( or so it seemed to Lewis ) most of the details before the calls and corroboration had been made .
16 The headquarters engineering department found , however , that for new stations it had to take on many more staff , both to develop its limited expertise in generation design , and to fulfil its function of coordinating the work of the fourteen divisions to which generation operations and construction had been decentralised .
17 Mr Balchin said : ‘ Memories are very long in local authorities and offence has been taken .
18 Keg bitters and lager have been enormously successful for the brewers not as a result of genuine consumer demand but due to saturation advertising .
19 There were many famous examples , but little is left of any of them except in such cities as Rhodes , where some twentieth century excavations and restoration have been carried out .
20 The full flesh of his cheeks and chin had been scalped back to the bone .
21 Camera equipment , gold earrings , two beer kits and cash have been stolen from a house in Hirst Grove , Darlington .
22 ‘ With the kind of cut-backs we have been doing , we have been incurring substantial reorganisation costs and profitability has been difficult to achieve , ’ Mr Mair said .
23 The Egyptians used honey as a binding medium and sugar , gums and glycerin have been used , and are still used today , to hold together pigments with water .
24 ‘ Edinvar has been serving tenants for 20 years and Link has been a landlord for nearly 30 years , so we both have a long history of putting tenants first . ’
25 My intention is to bring a little common sense to bear on the claims made by the authors mentioned above , because claims that buildings and landscape have been laid out geometrically can at least be checked .
26 He said capital spending on school buildings and equipment had been cut twice — by Labour ( by 45 per cent ) between 1974 and 1979 and by the Tories between 1981 and 1985 , when Sir Keith ( now Lord ) Joseph was Education Secretary .
27 So far its trading volumes and liquidity have been lower than LIFFE 's .
28 Strongest connections are with commercial stations but progress has been slowed due to the continuing uncertainty over franchises .
29 The parallelism between these two rhythms and performance has been commented upon and illustrated before .
30 structures and vocabulary have been carefully graded at each level
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