Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been instances recently where vast commercial organisations and even governments have been compelled to rethink their policies and their methods because a sufficient number of individual supermarket shoppers have decided to demonstrate the strength of their feelings by boycotting a particular item . |
| 2 | Faced with a staggering array of products in every size , shape and shade , many cynical American and European shoppers have concluded ( correctly ) that there is scant difference between them . |
| 3 | MORE than 14,000 shoppers have backed a campaign to support Sunday trading but the issue will remain in deadlock for another three weeks , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 4 | But 60,000 shoppers have backed a campaign to give shops like VG , Mace , Spar and Londis , the right to sell papers . |
| 5 | A natural consequence of the growth and sophistication in international capital flows is that decision-makers have become more aware of potential short-term gains . |
| 6 | We see , therefore , that a number of specializations have appeared since computers were introduced , but typically these have been reabsorbed into the mainstream of computing . |
| 7 | The dams have provided people and industry in the Pacific Northwest with clean , abundant power at only 40 per cent of the cost of electricity in most other US states . |
| 8 | Notoriously these words have crept into ordinary usage from medieval philosophical Latin . |
| 9 | Already many thousands of words have appeared on the subject — in official reports and other publications . |
| 10 | I do n't think your words have reassured them at all . |
| 11 | In languages which sound melodious to English ears like Italian and Spanish this has already happened — many words have lost their final vowels . |
| 12 | Its other mark is that the rich words have gone : i . |
| 13 | ‘ Cynics say — cynics have already said — when your preaching is done , when your lofty words have gone with the wind , when the media has departed to tell another tale , the world will forget . |
| 14 | This is n't satisfactory ; the echoing words have gone public . |
| 15 | He said , ‘ The words have gone out of my mind . ’ |
| 16 | Experiments with mid-class descriptions of isolated words have shown that the resulting equivalence classes are fairly small ( Shipman & Zue 1982 , Huttenlocher & Zue 1984 ) . |
| 17 | If so , bearing in mind that intention in this context is not the same as motive and that the tort may be committed without any ill will towards the plaintiff , it is likely to be a rare case in which A's words have had a causative effect on B's conduct and yet A escapes liability on the ground that they were only ‘ advice . ’ |
| 18 | So it has come up with the idea of a tape ‘ loop ’ to delay the broadcast of ‘ live ’ debates for long enough for an engineer to hit a panic button until the offending words have passed . |
| 19 | The modern word ‘ chin ’ , for example , used to be pronounced ‘ kin ’ in Old English and many other similar words have changed their pronunciation . |
| 20 | Yes , they probably would sing it in Latin in the Catholic , they they certainly use erm , Latin , and of course the words have changed depending whether it 's a King or a Queen on the s on on on the throne , and from , it 's gone from God Save Our Lord The King , to God Save Our Gracious Queen , and that came in , of course , in the time of Victoria , and then had to be brought in again , er , at the time of erm , Queen Elizabeth . |
| 21 | As Gower tried to bury the misery of rejection in the preparations for his wedding to Thorrun Nash in Winchester Cathedral in a fortnight , he admitted : ‘ My words have come back to haunt me . ’ |
| 22 | The social and cultural conditions under which Marryat and his successors have written , even up to the present , have led them to explore individual personality mainly in terms of officers and warrant officers rather than members of the lower deck . |
| 23 | Pogo 's production is expansive and clear , especially on the slower , more serious ‘ Bad Person ’ , and the rappers have devised their own slang , too , so repeated listening is encouraged . |
| 24 | The unique qualities of strength , high moisture absorption , excellent washing and colour retention characteristics have led to Irish Linen 's renowned reputation throughout the world as the best fabric for Household Textiles . |
| 25 | These characteristics have applied to much of the RB liberal provision for the unemployed . |
| 26 | These characteristics have engendered an ‘ enclosed order of railwaymen ’ ( Gourvish 1986 : 577 ) , with a strong loyalty , discipline and dedication to the railway among all groups of employees . |
| 27 | However , from our practice certain common characteristics have emerged . |
| 28 | In fact , similar managerial characteristics have continued to prevail in larger , technologically-advanced firms . |
| 29 | Both characteristics have inhibited their own effects on psychology . |
| 30 | The British case represents the kind of compromise commentators on our national characteristics have come to expect . |