Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHOPPERS have been warned not to buy rabbit meat in Latvian markets after 42 animals infected with lethal bugs were stolen from a research centre . |
| 2 | In the past few days shoppers have been paying one last visit to the store , many angered by a trend which has seen Liverpool stripped of many of its landmark shops . |
| 3 | SHOPPERS have been warned to be extremely careful about buying cheap goods after dangerous chemicals were found in packets of household washing powder . |
| 4 | Of course , when communist leaders like Trotsky talked about how , after the revolution , the communist state would move the features of the landscape around like so much furniture in a room , they still stood only on the threshold of the environmental disasters which have ensued throughout the communist world as dams have been built , rivers redirected , forests cut down , and refuse dumped with abandon to meet the requirements of the latest Five Year Plan . |
| 5 | ‘ The only cases where heavy damages should be awarded are where the words have been published out of malice , ’ said Mr Robertson . |
| 6 | On the island of Manhattan in the middle of New York amidst all the noise and the traffic and the bustle , there 's a huge stone wall on which Micah 's words have been written . |
| 7 | Recognise that where words have been borrowed in the last 400 years , there are some characteristic sound-symbol relationships that reflect the word 's origin , eg ch- in French words like champagne , chauffeur , charade , and ch- in Greek words like chaos , chiropody , chorus , compared with ch- in long-established English words like chaff , cheese , chin . |
| 8 | It does n't matter if the child grows up to be an adult whose logic tells him that he is n't stupid ; if those words have been repeated often enough , he will never have the confidence to realise how much he knows or to make proper use of that knowledge . |
| 9 | It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters . |
| 10 | Frequently they are relevant and will be followed on appeal — but during the six months to a year it takes for an appeal to come to a hearing the minister could have changed , while the current appeals will have been lodged long before the words have been spoken . |
| 11 | That is , once candidate words have been selected , frequently there is more than one allowable candidate . |
| 12 | Where two or more words have been incorrectly joined together , it is possible to utilise the structure of the word tree to note where ends of words may occur . |
| 13 | However most of these assume that misspelled words have been identified , and concentrate on methods of comparison of the word in error to a number of candidates . |
| 14 | When all candidate content words have been assigned a score , use the Student 's t-test ( see Appendix A ) to determine whether the difference between the means of the correct-word scores and the highest-other-word scores is statistically significant . |
| 15 | it 's the way the words have been used that we 're interpreting wrong . |
| 16 | My words have been grubby confetti , faded , tacky , blown far |
| 17 | Key words have been much used in recent years in the retrieval of information . |
| 18 | The selected affixes and function words are represented within the planning frame in phonological form , and , as we have already noted , the phonological forms of the content words have been retrieved from the lexicon : when all these phonological representations are put together under the control of the planning frame , we have the positional-level representation for the sentence , a level at which a specific sentence is represented in phonological form . |
| 19 | When all the words have been entered , the branches are automatically colour coded and placed around the focus . |
| 20 | When all the words have been entered , the branches are automatically colour coded and placed around the focus . |
| 21 | It is fair to claim that those words have been amply borne out in the intervening period and are confirmed again in this order . |
| 22 | Those words have been taken out and replaced by ’ an ever closer union ’ but what is the difference ? |
| 23 | Now I do nt believe everything I read and I only believe half of what I see , but if these words have been uttered by the ‘ poor mans Billy Bremner ’ , then even I think it 's a bit rich ! |
| 24 | Duke of Northumberland 's Archive ( Alnwick and Middlesex ) The Percy family and its successors have been prominent in English history since the thirteenth century , firstly as earls , and later as dukes , of Northumberland . |
| 25 | The ‘ wild ’ characteristics have been bred out of them for many generations and few would survive long if released into the wild . |
| 26 | The formal systems model provides an invaluable checklist for ensuring that all the general system characteristics have been considered when developing Human Activity System models . |
| 27 | As far as possible original characteristics have been carefully preserved , though the wall can not be seen from passing trains . |
| 28 | … until subject matter theories with different epistemological characteristics have been formulated , the focus of our spatial planning must continue to be on supermarkets , roads and airports , and not on the needs and desires of those individual human beings that the facilities allegedly are constructed to serve . |
| 29 | Its characteristics have been briefly described . |
| 30 | For simplicity in deriving the analytical results sinusoidal approximations to the characteristics have been used , but nevertheless the general conclusions are valid in most cases . |