Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | As the focus of the Bretton Woods institutions has moved across the Atlantic to central Europe deep-seated fears have arisen that time , resources and energy will be diverted from the economies of the southern hemisphere . |
2 | The emphasis in child care practice on families before institutions has contributed to a definition of the aims and the means of helping young people which accentuates personal , family relationships . |
3 | Yet by the end of the 1960s , institutions had once again become places of last resort , and over the past thirty years the numbers of youngsters admitted to institutions has declined sharply in all three countries ( Lammertyn and Antoons , 1990 ; Ploeg , 1986 ) . |
4 | THE DEATH OF TWO NORTH WEST INSTITUTIONS HAS CAUSED SADNESS WITH A PIT SHUTTING AND A FAMOUS STORE 'S TILLS RINGING FOR THE LAST TIME |
5 | Scott contends that the growth of investment institutions has given rise to a distinct mode of control , namely ‘ control through a constellation of interests ’ . |
6 | However , to the CNAA 's surprise , a number of institutions has indicated that they wish to take advantage of the new procedures by proposing special arrangements which would , in effect , provide for all their courses to be validated by a method other than the normal one . |
7 | Pressure of numbers impinges on every facet of the prison system , and in some institutions has resulted in overcrowded conditions that would not have been tolerated a century earlier . |
8 | As a result of these developments , a group of new institutions has evolved , known generally as Colleges or Institutes of Higher Education . |
9 | In these unnervingly fast-moving times , even the most established on institutions has to keep recreating itself to capitalise on its attributes — or to avoid extinction . |
10 | These various new proposals have now been put into effect and a Committee for Institutions has come into being . |
11 | The number of vacancies has fallen . |
12 | The last Scotsman to score against the French giants has warned Hateley to watch out , however , because the knock-out blow can come at any time . |
13 | The cost of replacing your possessions has risen greatly in recent years . |
14 | You Queenie Warley mentioned earlier that the number of personnel has gone up by what , a hundred per cent ? |
15 | No amount of bombing by the IRA or murder of security force personnel has weakened the resolve or beliefs of the unionist community . |
16 | Training of prison personnel has remained woefully neglected … |
17 | People know there is no tourism policy , and the number of personnel has doubled over the last years , but are we getting better services ? |
18 | So far the concentration solely on library skills has isolated and compartmentalized the skills in specific library environments , but the new , broader concept of information skills encompassing learning , study and communication skills strongly linked to the education process , does offer some scope for the take-up of the skills across the curriculum and through the curriculum to other levels . |
19 | Moderate and lenient , her superior aptitude in verbal reasoning skills has earned her respect and a classy reputation . |
20 | The awful truth of Penny 's childhood and young womanhood is that the abuse never ended — and someone with the right counselling skills has to help her to unburden herself . |
21 | The successful development of negotiating skills has proved itself as one of the most cost-effective investments in company profitability . |
22 | Even in the Coordinating Team , the development of such skills has tended to be accepted as self-evidently a good thing rather than debated or interpreted in a systematic way . |
23 | Our unique combination of skills has helped literally thousands of companies . |
24 | The growth of large corporations and banks with international involvements has expanded commercial activity which requires clerks and salespeople . |
25 | Between 1985 and 1990 , however , the number of people aged over 85 supported in residential care by local authorities has declined at a slower rate than that for all people aged 65+ . |
26 | The relationships between senior staff in health authorities has altered profoundly . |
27 | The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities has asked me how the discount system , as distinct from the rebate system , will work . |
28 | The raising of revenue by local authorities has generated a lot of litigation in the last decade as rate-capped and community charge-capped authorities have sought to challenge the legality of the caps imposed by central government . |
29 | It is no coincidence that since Sir Peter became Commissioner in 1987 , the relationship between Scotland Yard and London 's 13 Labour authorities has seen a new detente . |
30 | Contracting out by local authorities has increased under the Conservative government — partly voluntarily and partly as a response to changes in the law requiring them to do so for certain activities . |