Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
| 32 | An expansion led by companies will prove more sustainable : in the past year business investment in new machinery has jumped by a healthy 16% . |
| 33 | It means that in the last four years , the building cost average has jumped by almost 20 points , while the tender average has stayed virtually the same . |
| 34 | Lakes may take in water from many miles away that has percolated through the soil or through aquifers over decades . |
| 35 | For Merton , such behaviour occurs as a result of a discrepancy or contradiction between the aspirations which society has socialised into its members ( the ends or goals ) and the way that is provided for the realisation of such aspirations ( the means ) . |
| 36 | Main picture ( clockwise from top left ) Arthur Robb , who has crafted between 60 and 70 lutes , with a mid-Renaissance , seven-course ( 13-stringed ) instrument ; Arthur restored guitars up to 200 years old ; in a tradition dating back five centuries , the rose motif is carved from the soundboard with a single , sharp knife ; strips of yew and sycamore will form the lute ribs . |
| 37 | First , he applies it to the rites of purification which a warrior has to perform among , for example , the American Indian peoples of Natchez and the Pima , which involve the killer in being taboo for days , weeks or even months after the killing . |
| 38 | It goes as follows : " So man is approaching a more complete fulfilment of that great and sacred mission which he has to perform in this world . |
| 39 | Relatively recent glaciation has stripped off any residual cover the rocks may have possessed , leaving them barren , particularly where granitic rocks crop out as in north Harris and western Lewis . |
| 40 | A trade union movement anxious to extend rather than limit its influence would seek to regain those functions that the state has stripped from it . |
| 41 | Pupils excluded indefinitely ( usually for not more than 15 days ) has trebled since 1989 . |
| 42 | Although , at 12% , the proportion of Catholics employed is still out of step with the Northern Ireland population , Short 's points out that it has more than doubled over the last 10 years , while the proportion of Catholic apprentices taken on has trebled to 20% . |
| 43 | Since 1979 , under the present Government , that figure has trebled to more than 6.5 per cent . |
| 44 | The number of babies delivered by Caesarean section has trebled in the last twenty years , according to a book just published . |
| 45 | The blood has drained from his cheeks . |
| 46 | Grenada was the last tiny but bitter dreg in the constitutional cup which the United Kingdom has drained in the past thirty-five years ; and bravely , though not without a grimace of disgust , did we swallow it . |
| 47 | Canaletto has shot up to £8–10 million , which seems high even considering the undisputed quality of the painting , while the Rembrandt has plunged to £5 million . |
| 48 | AN Oxford student has plunged to his death after a late-night drink and drugs party . |
| 49 | In the mid 1970s more than 25,000 Hereford calves were bred annually.Now that figure has plunged to around 8,000 . |
| 50 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 51 | SAATCHI and Saatchi , the world 's largest advertising agency group , has plunged into the red after providing for £78million of reorganisation and redundancy cost . |
| 52 | SAATCHI and Saatchi , the world 's largest advertising agency group , has plunged into the red after providing for £78million of reorganisation and redundancy cost . |
| 53 | Saatchi and Saatchi , the advertising agency , has plunged into loss . |
| 54 | Poor old Westland has plunged into loss , leaving it second from the bottom below the likes of Storehouse and Amstrad . |
| 55 | It has plunged into the red , to the tune of £1.2m for the year to August 1992 , and will not be paying a dividend . |
| 56 | AT&T Co has plunged into the desktop personal computer videoconferencing business with the launch of its Visual Solutions product line , committing that the products and services for business will be based on globally accepted standards for video calls over digital phone lines — under the framework of the Consultative Committee on International Telephony and Telegraphy , companies worldwide have agreed the Px64 series of standards for video transmission over digital phone lines . |
| 57 | Across the Channel , by contrast , the rest of the European Community has plunged into recession . |
| 58 | OIL giant Shell has plunged into controversy over a ferry crossing promotion . |
| 59 | In his spare time since the election , Dr Kumar has plunged into books in a bid to re-activate his mind . |
| 60 | But church membership has plunged from nearly 8,000 in 1984 to about 2,000 . |