Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] have [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since 1977 , the country 's computer manufacturers have consistently matched the American company 's price reductions . |
| 2 | I mean we we , we 've got taco shells , but I find that the taco shells have kinda got a wee funny taste to them . |
| 3 | The grotesquely inappropriate and anti-food coloured board covers have presumably hampered their sales even at what is today a give-away price . |
| 4 | Well of course dictaphones have always got records on them , that 's why they 're called dictaphones . |
| 5 | Winger Martin Offiah , whom the Central Park fans have clearly taken to their hearts after his world recordtransfer , scored two tries in glorious demonstrations of his devastating pace . |
| 6 | Some typesetter manufacturers have also produced work-rounds ; Chelgraph can drive their IBX directly from GEM or Windows , for example . |
| 7 | Hence particular research programmes have generally centred on one of three broad areas of code-switching phenomena : ( 1 ) The formal aspects of code switching , in particular the grammatical mechanisms whereby a bilingual individual can produce a sentence ( or sentence-like utterance ) partly in one language and partly in another , where the respective parts still apparently conform to the rules of the language they are expressed in. ( 2 ) Pragmatic and discoursal aspects of code switching — what factors within a particular encounter motivate speakers to switch and what meanings underlie speakers ' switches . |
| 8 | A number of research projects have now examined this question , and a number of conclusions have begun to emerge . |
| 9 | Japan 's ruling and opposition parties have both put forward plans for political reform , which include a shift towards a first-past-the-post electoral system . |
| 10 | The Next Directory is doing good mail-order fashion business and savage cost-cutting in the group 's buying policy and its high-street shops have all helped to produce profits of £8.3 million in the six months to August . |
| 11 | Existing biolayer/transducer combinations have all achieved ‘ proof of principle ’ capability , and look promising in bioanalysis . |
| 12 | Rolling stock deliveries have now commenced and the first diesel and electric locos are already on site , along with a number of heavy goods vehicle shuttles . |
| 13 | Since then the serious pushing has taken place in Colombia where the cocaine cartels have literally ruined football by using Medellin and FC Cali as laundering centres for drug money . |
| 14 | The upland areas have already suffered extensive depopulation because the local agricultural economy will no longer support the standard of living which their inhabitants quite reasonably demand . |
| 15 | The record 's jazz stylings have already attracted the attention of DJ Gilles Peterson at London 's Jazz FM , who has been playing it on tape for some time . |
| 16 | Stomach and bowel problems have also laid him low but he shows no sign of stopping . |
| 17 | Much of this year 's spurt in capital spending ( up from around $150m to some $220m ) is related to airbags , but the speciality chemical businesses have also seen a big increase , spread over a number of small projects . |
| 18 | I get the impression that opposition teams have unconsciously downgraded Leeds because of the last twelve months and are caught offguard . |
| 19 | All four groups have generated public concern about lack of adequate support in the community , while research efforts have repeatedly reported that survival in the community appears to be associated with the existence of structured plans for after-care , frequency of contact with professionals and access to appropriate facilities ( Acres , 1975 ; Davis et al. , 1984 ; Thornicroft , 1989 ) . |
| 20 | Faecal occult blood studies have also uncovered previously unrecognised cases of ulcerative colitis . |
| 21 | Many bilateral and multilateral aid agencies have rightly upgraded the importance of monitoring and evaluation in their activities , and as Chapter 2 has indicated , quantification and measurement of the impact of soil conservation are essential . |
| 22 | MOVIE chiefs have secretly asked veteran Sean Connery to pick up his old gun as 007 James Bond . |
| 23 | Notably the Banking Acts of 1979 and 1987 , the FSA 1986 , the Basle Concordat and capital adequacy arrangements have all meant that the Bank has lost a certain amount of discretion in implementing supervision ( see Chapter 12 ) |
| 24 | The IMF , the World Bank and bilateral national aid donors have all allocated an increasing proportion of their annual commitments to lending of this type . |
| 25 | Opposition Members have persistently evaded questions about their plans to repeal that legislation , but they have been more forthcoming about the new powers that they have promised the trade unions , including powers to force employers to recognise and negotiate with trade unions |
| 26 | He said that support for the opposition was growing , but many were still afraid — not surprisingly , as opposition leaders have already had officially-inspired warnings that , when the weekend 's official jubilation is over , there could be a new clampdown . |
| 27 | Officials fear that opposition groups , especially Islamic fundamentalists , will exploit the crisis to increase their influence and , indeed , several opposition leaders have quickly realised that political capital can be made by following the public mood . |
| 28 | According to this conception societies have now come to recognize themselves ‘ as the result of a social action , of decisions or transactions , of domination or conflicts ’ ( Touraine , 1977 , p. 1 ) . |
| 29 | A bad debt provision has been made against a customer 's debt where insolvency proceedings have recently commenced . |
| 30 | Since the war , living standards have always risen faster under Conservative Governments than under Labour . |