Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently a string of no less than thirty cylinder seals made of lapis lazuli has been recovered from a Mycenaean house at Thebes . |
| 2 | Although their significance as regional political institutions has been undermined — in the case of water authorities by proposals for privatization and in the case of health authorities by a series of financial and managerial initiatives which have encouraged a shift towards private sector ( market-type ) decision-making ( Pollitt , Harrison , Hunter and Marnoch , 1988 ) — there has been a growth in regional state institutions in other policy areas . |
| 3 | Cleanliness in TDC institutions has been a priority with the administration since Ellis 's time at least . |
| 4 | The prevalence of depression among the elderly in institutions has been less well researched . |
| 5 | It is therefore remarkable that the amount of co-operation and collaborative work between local authorities and higher education institutions has been so limited and only shows recent signs of expansion . |
| 6 | None of these vacancies has been filled . |
| 7 | The economic effect of the invasion on ordinary Panamanians has been disastrous . |
| 8 | Lotus Notes has been on the market for some time , and is already being used by many of the world 's largest companies . |
| 9 | Stubbs makes some effort to link the conventions for the use of writing to general linguistic characteristics of writing , but finds it difficult to establish any hard and fast rules since different cultures see different characteristics as significant and so a variety of literacies has been developed . |
| 10 | Assessment has traditionally been regarded as the responsibility of psychiatrists , but in recent years the role of non-medically qualified personnel has been examined . |
| 11 | The company 's belief in growth from within ensures that , once the right calibre of personnel has been recruited , the opportunities for personal development within the company are enormous . |
| 12 | A major user of NASA data and skills has been the UN Environment Programme . |
| 13 | The extent of these learning skills has been ingeniously studied for individual bees by Randolf Menzel in Berlin over the past two decades , and he has been able to clarify the role of many regions of the bee 's head ganglion . |
| 14 | A BRITON suspected of trying to sell Saddam Hussein enough plutonium for 15 nuclear bombs has been arrested in Germany . |
| 15 | In the areas most closely concerned with the inner city , opposition from local authorities has been crucial . |
| 16 | A recurrent theme in this area is how broad the law has always been , and how much the discretion of the authorities has been what has really mattered . |
| 17 | Through schemes , such as the Urban Programme and various training programmes , access to funds for local authorities has been shifted to areas in which they engage in some sort of partnership with the departments of central government . |
| 18 | The power of local education authorities has been reduced whilst additional power has been given to central government and the revised and highly decentralised governing bodies of schools and colleges . |
| 19 | Last month Amnesty International called for all charges against him to be withdrawn and concluded : ‘ At every stage the behaviour of the authorities has been in open defiance of the authority of the courts and the rule of law . ’ |
| 20 | The question whether the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher applies in all its strictness to local authorities has been considered but not decided . |
| 21 | Controlling current spending by local authorities has been central government 's major headache ever since it decided in 1961 that local government expenditure was part of public expenditure and therefore should be controlled by the Treasury . |
| 22 | On the community charge , the funding for local authorities has been increased by 6.1 per cent . |
| 23 | The role of local authorities has been expanded and the ‘ delegate ’ concept of representation adopted in communes and collectives . |
| 24 | The traditional public finance approach to intergovernmental grants ( or grants-in-aid ) which flow from central ( or federal ) government to local ( or state ) authorities has been concerned with the question of what form the grant should take . |
| 25 | It 's not as if the contribution of Labour Councillors to th to the management of Health Authorities has been very er productive . |
| 26 | Health ‘ disaster ’ : A plan by the Northern Regional Health Authority to merge Hartlepool and North Tees Health Authorities has been attacked as ‘ a potential disaster ’ by Hartlepool prospective Labour candidate Peter Mandelson . |
| 27 | A range of possible reasons has been put forward , stressing that it is important to get the right degree of capital intensity for the business and that many businesses may simply be misled by current profitability and push investment too far . |
| 28 | ‘ Steve , one of the reasons you 've been quiet with me lately — ’ more than quiet , she thought , stone-cold , dead to me' — one of the reasons has been Joe , has n't it ? |
| 29 | One of the most important finds of late Roman gold and silver coins and objects has been located by a local man , retired gardener Eric Lawes , with a metal detector in a field in Suffolk . |
| 30 | By far the most extensive research into the relationship between society and mass consumption objects has been conducted in the world of commerce itself , and its offshoots in marketing and advertising , which are strongly linked to the discipline of economics . |