Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past few decades , the world 's demand for tin has fallen dramatically as packagers have reduced the thickness of the metal in tinplate or have turned to other materials for their containers , aluminium for instance . |
| 2 | The remaining patients ( 23 ) have remained asymptomatic with respect to the biliary system or have died of unrelated causes at amedian of 13 months ( range 5–24 ) . |
| 3 | It is reported that Mrs Thatcher has been keen to ensure that those promoted are sympathetic to her scale of values or are not unwilling to break away from the style of middle-of-the-road consensus policies that have predominated in recent years . |
| 4 | For grammars restored to Tory councils ( and the 80-odd that have stayed with Tory authorities ) , the outlook is not quite so bleak . |
| 5 | Having dealt at length with the management and , to a limited extent , with the financing of public sector higher education , we shall now consider in more detail the ‘ pooling ’ arrangements that have obtained in recent years and the likely criteria upon which NAB 's financial decisions will be based . |
| 6 | And , of course , cruise missiles deployed in Britain will be here under exactly the same arrangements that have applied to American forces already based in the UK . |
| 7 | Our own straw poll of leading businessmen bears little resemblance to some of the bullish comments that have appeared in various surveys recently . |
| 8 | The sort of examples that have appeared in recent years include , in a variety of media , the following : |
| 9 | The three broad value orientations affecting leadership and organization that have appeared in western societies during this century form different patterns which distinguish organizations from each other . |
| 10 | The mythologies of tragic sacrifice that have coalesced around gay writers like Oscar Wilde and Joe Orton tend only to impede a fully contextual understanding of how their sexuality and textuality inform each other . |
| 11 | First , it focuses on those aspects of emotion that have to do with prevailing mood , especially changes associated with feelings of depression and elation , though also including other emotional reactions , such as general irritability . |
| 12 | As well as reporting policy requirements to advice workers , the manager must pass back to the area office any new training needs that have emerged from basic advice work . |
| 13 | One of the factors common to businesses that have fallen on hard times is an inability to adapt and change and a failure to recognise that the market place is changing around them . |
| 14 | But there will be pressure on the company to produce ‘ quick fixes ’ for traditional industries that have fallen on hard times . |
| 15 | In-depth interviews will be conducted with British and continental businessmen and women in order to uncover differences in value orientations and business conventions that have led to cultural misunderstandings in the past . |
| 16 | Although writers and writing are the subjects of most of these essays , the themes they present are essential to understanding both the extraordinary political changes that have swept through Eastern Europe , and the human condition under communism . |
| 17 | Tempting as it is , the idea of free markets as casinos or slave-masters sits uncomfortably with many of the other big changes that have swept over international finance . |
| 18 | We also assessed the level of cadherin expression on cultured LC ( that may represent the in vitro equivalent of LC that have migrated to regional lymph nodes in vivo ) and measured the ability of cultured LC to bind to KC , L cells and LEC cells . |
| 19 | Insurance companies are warning that premiums on property in areas that have suffered from severe storms in recent years are rising because of global warming fears . |
| 20 | The Outer Kingdoms are more worldly as one would expect from nations that have to deal with marauding Norse and Dark Elf raiders . |
| 21 | Unlike the October 1987 crash , when the Dow average fell more than 500 points , Friday 's retreat was concentrated on takeover stocks that have surged in recent months . |
| 22 | Many of these pioneer voluntary bodies still exist , and they have been joined by large numbers of organizations that have arisen in recent years to tackle the needs of particular groups among the disabled , so that voluntary effort continues to play a major part in meeting the needs of the handicapped . |
| 23 | The evidence for the use of these various terms as tempo indications within quite well defined limits is to be found in the many treatises of the period , notably those dealing with the metronome , but most persuasively in those scores that have survived with notated timings for each movement ( see table 2 ) . |
| 24 | Certainly those responsible for some of the decisions that have lead to outright closures could learn a lot by looking at these institutions which date back to the nineteenth century and earlier and will no doubt continue to survive . |
| 25 | As with all systems exercises , because the model does not reflect functional groupings that have evolved for administrative convenience or other reasons , making the link between the model and the organisation was problematic . |
| 26 | After all , cells that have passed through different bottlenecks may be distinguished by all but the most recent mutations — and this means the majority . |
| 27 | Given the number of mergers that have happened over recent years , it 's becoming a rare event when a firm can celebrate its centenary with the same name it started out with . |
| 28 | Their outward appearance gives no hint as to the wealth of amazing finds that have come from local beaches in the past . |
| 29 | A full list of gliders which can be towed in included , and the concluding paragraph in the fully detailed glider-tugging section states , ‘ Most of the numerous accidents that have occurred during glider-towing operations could have been avoided if pilots had better known and followed these basic rules of safety ’ . |
| 30 | Savanna regions outside Africa have also experienced development problems that have resulted in environmental change . |