Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Building , agriculture and dams have also taken their toll .
2 Yesterday , Pavarotti insisted : ‘ His words have probably been distorted by the Press . ’
3 The riddles of babies ' first words have yet to be solved .
4 This assumes that words have clear , fixed meanings and that the purpose of language is to represent states of affairs accurately .
5 By contrast , Germanic philologists of the nineteenth century laboured long and hard to prove that grammatically masculine and feminine words have semantically as well as formally gendered qualities .
6 The desirable goals of accurate reading of handwriting or indeed recognition of spoken words have almost been achieved .
7 With him , it 's that certain words have terribly strong undertones .
8 These words are of significance as they tie in with the title ‘ Futility ’ because all three words have basically the same meaning and their use enhances this feeling of futility throughout the poem for the reader .
9 His words have really come home to me this week .
10 Since unguarded and uncensored words have usually been anathema in Russia , he mostly limited his performances to select private gatherings .
11 Some words have more stringent thresholds than others , and therefore require the collection of more data before we can be sure what we have seen .
12 Many words have more than one meaning of use .
13 He eventually whittled it down to eighteen thousand and his successors have since reduced the number even more dramatically .
14 His successors have cleverly traded on his reputation for robust , no-nonsense Northern philosophy to build an empire — there 's a Ramsden 's in Heathrow now and smaller fry planned for Bristol and Edinburgh .
15 We discuss the idea of goodness in the next chapter , but what we can note here is that these characteristics have traditionally been regarded as examples of the way of eminence — of God possessing perfectly what we possess imperfectly .
16 Lured by stories of pickers making up to $1,000 in a single day , unemployed loggers , SouthEast Asian immigrants and garden-variety opportunists have all rushed in .
17 Guidelines have also been produced by the Royal Academy of Engineering ( formerly the Fellowship of Engineering , see Appendix 4 , Bibliography .
18 The NCET is administering the project and although no guidelines have yet been finalised it looks as if schools will be able to buy approved hardware at supported prices .
19 Only now , when the tribal peoples have almost gone , has the West awakened to the fact that , rather than their lands and possessions , it is their subtle abilities and specialized environmental wisdom , forged since the beginning of time , which are of paramount importance to us all .
20 Like Scots , the Belfast vowel system does not use length phonemically : most vowels have long and short allophones , and the variation in length can be very marked .
21 Existing biolayer/transducer combinations have all achieved ‘ proof of principle ’ capability , and look promising in bioanalysis .
22 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 .
23 Fenway fans have simply grown resigned to seeing fine teams commit one horrendous play to throw away a crucial championship game as good as won .
24 For Clarke , football hooliganism developed at the intersection of these trends : the fans have now taken the traditional values of toughness , masculinity , local identity , collective action and partisanship and made them part of the game 's new , more spectacularised style .
25 I imagine all these Madness fans have never felt an emotion in their life .
26 Further to this I suggest that the optional extra subbuteo old trafford have the name written on the box as opposed to a picture as most of their ‘ so called ’ fans have never been there and so would n't recognise it .
27 Milne said : ‘ The beauty of rugby is that fans have always been able to have a pint afterwards .
28 ‘ The beauty of rugby is fans have always been able to have a pint afterwards .
29 Football fans have that too — ‘ Were n't you there in ‘ 71 when we won the Double ? ’
30 According to this book , contributions of goodness have been made to the Created God , albeit unknowingly , by the countless thousands of individuals who , through many centuries have deliberately lived their lives constantly expanding , supporting and practising those human traits universally acknowledged as virtues .
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