Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , an exception provides that recognition will not expire solely because the death of a shareholder or shareholders has left the recognised body with no shareholder able to exercise such voting rights . |
| 2 | It is not surprising that single lines of trees or hedges have proved ineffective — these simply do not provide enough material to scatter or absorb much sound . |
| 3 | All men even if they are not so fortunate as to be scientists or artists have still within them the capability to transform their lives into ones of creativity . |
| 4 | Before 1939 Swire & Sons had tinkered with the idea of ‘ going into air ’ . |
| 5 | For the last eight years , Messrs. Wright & Sons have had the contract for the maintenance and working of the North and South Staffordshire Railways . ’ |
| 6 | Because of the way in which my visit to the judges and the prison was arranged , I am quite confident that no ‘ set-piece ’ situations or activities had been organized just for my benefit or to create a more favourable impression of the judicial system or the detention centre . |
| 7 | They tell of women murdered by Iraqi soldiers , because husbands or sons had joined the rebellion ; of heavy shelling of residential areas ; of summary executions of anybody suspected of aiding the rebels ; of bodies left lying in the streets . |
| 8 | Involuntary reception into care : if a child or young person is in a situation of acute danger the youth department is entitled to intervene , but parents or guardians have to be informed immediately and the case be brought before a court for a care decision before the end of the day following the admission ( s. 42 ) , Where force is necessary , the police department must act but under the professional guidance of the youth department . |
| 9 | All these particular strategies or skills have the common goal of helping clients feel more in control of both their symptoms of stress , and their life in general . |
| 10 | To illustrate these models we consider a simplified version of the intertemporal substitution model developed above : we shall assume that consumers or demanders have full current information , but suppliers do not . |
| 11 | It has almost always been the case that some group or groups have controlled and exploited other groups . |
| 12 | Where significant innovations have happened , it is astonishing how often through history other individuals or groups have been working along parallel lines of thought . |
| 13 | Once the relevant occupier or occupiers have been identified the next stage is to ascertain the status of the plaintiff . |
| 14 | A more likely suggestion would be that it is evidence of the estate workers continuing to live on the site and work the land long after the owners , managers or bailiffs had departed . |
| 15 | The application of natural justice to preliminary hearings or investigations has tended to produce polarised arguments : the public body arguing that procedural rules have no place in the context of such hearings or investigations , and the individual asserting that they should apply in their full vigour . |
| 16 | But by the time crime categories or definitions have been established , the most important foundation stone of ‘ our crime problem ’ has been well and truly buried in cement , beyond the reach of any liberal ‘ scientific ’ shovel . |
| 17 | The distribution of price changes or returns has often been found to be leptokurtic . |
| 18 | The campaign of Benson & Hedges has evolved remarkably over the past dozen years and has now reached a point at which the motifs chosen to dissemble the product are themselves classic symbols of dissembling — pretty fans for the summer months in 1988 , attractive fishing lures for the autumn . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , if a creditor , with grounds for suspecting that a company is in financial difficulties , makes a search he is all too likely to find that no recent annual returns or accounts have been filed . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , the number of students having the advantage of higher education at universities or polytechnics has risen from 780,000 to 1,060,000 . |
| 21 | 4. 9 councils in Yorkshire have been testing foods for Listeria and are encouraged that food handlers & manufacturers have been improving their hygiene practices . |
| 22 | Her holy obstinacy , her sulky refusal to bend her stubborn head to emperors , fathers , lovers , or dragons had proved strong enough to conquer even the need to kill . |
| 23 | If the crops have been destroyed by the storm or animals have got loose , it will affect every group . |
| 24 | I felt that on this particular piece it did struggle through the heartwood at times , especially on the figure 's right-hand side as this was extremely hard in places , with dense interlocking grain where a branch or branches had formed . |
| 25 | No fertilizers or pesticides have ever been used here . |
| 26 | Several important works or environments have been recreated . |
| 27 | Nowhere inside our brains or eyes has any neuroscientist ever found anything remotely resembling our constant everyday experience of light . |
| 28 | According to some reports approximately 9,000 suspected Islamic activists or sympathizers had already been arrested since a state of emergency was imposed in February [ see pp. 38790-91 ] . |
| 29 | There have been several imaginative schemes where special schools or units have been placed alongside mainstream schools . |
| 30 | Diverse cultures , religions and races have often found common ground and contact in rugby and lasting bridges between nations or peoples have been supported by sporting encounters at all levels . |