Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] have [be] " in BNC.

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1 The Manpower Planning Information System , to hold staff records By means of direct work measurement using a stop watch , a database of standard times for branch activities has been assembled .
2 Indeed the ability to produce a range of returns on value for money indices has been a major factor in securing continued treasury funding .
3 In recent years , the growth of National Certificate uptake has been especially strong in secondary schools .
4 He claimed that the allied forces had achieved " general air superiority " over Iraq and Kuwait ; that enemy nuclear weapons reactors were " finished " ; that Iraqi aircraft were able to operate from only five of the country 's 66 airfields ; and that Iraqi air defence radar had been reduced by 95 per cent .
5 As a result of a voluntary agreement between the tobacco industry and the government , a system of four tar groups has been established :
6 Constipating drugs such as opioids increase motility while inhibiting propulsive activity , and abnormal hypermotility patterns have been reported to occur in the irritable bowel syndrome and constipation .
7 In all these cases , trial courts had been moved by personal plight to overlook the fundamental principle that trials must be open in every respect .
8 With admissible or near-admissible algorithms the search can end as soon as a spanning hypothesis has been found .
9 The support play has been brillient .
10 The two surviving second division clubs have been drawn together so either Meadowbank or Montrose will make the last four .
11 Four of the knitting patterns have been designed by Pat Menchini and Betty Barnden .
12 However , we have been very active in product development and a specialist range of Omega Elite products has been launched , targeted at breeders and professionals who require a premium food .
13 The hair rig has been a great leveller of angling ability and because on most waters it is self-hooking this can often lead to complacency on the angler 's part .
14 In addition permission has been granted to interview a sample of these patients together with their Responsible Medical Officers .
15 No contingency plans had been made for this eventuality .
16 And contingency plans has been drawn up to relocate vital NIO departments to nearby government buildings in the event of a devastating bomb attack .
17 However , reliability checks have been included in the latest version of the program .
18 Comparable oxygen isotope shifts have been measured in sediments from Swiss and Polish lakes at precisely the same times .
19 Of course progress has been made .
20 contribution rule because income support rules had been constructed on the basis that a 20 per cent .
21 The long-term inhalation of such gases is harmful to health and , although no acceptable exposure level has been submitted , studies have shown that breathing in hydrocarbons increases the risk of lung cancer .
22 That is exactly what has happened with that company because the costs of the base operations have been spread over a much wider network .
23 At the extreme right of the picture the top of the Citicorp Building has been spun through 180 degrees .
24 Previously the rate support grant had been distributed to authorities on the basis of a complex formula which took account of a number of factors , including levels of local prosperity , which influence the need for local services .
25 Another change in local government finance is that the rate support grant has been replaced by the revenue support grant .
26 Many LEAs which have considered ‘ curriculum protection ’ arguments , during a decade of falling rolls , will bear witness to that thesis , but they will also honestly point out that in the face of budgetary imperatives , the purity of the curriculum protection policies has been compromised , and even whole schemes deferred or abandoned .
27 In the United States most of the great curriculum projects in the ‘ sixties had been subvented rather than controlled by government and in both countries university personnel had been heavily involved , bringing with them , in almost equal measure , a power of creative innovation and an unacceptable academic arrogance which ignores realities in schools and distrusts anything ‘ political ’ as a threat to ‘ academic freedom ’ .
28 If you colour your hair because greys are growing faster than you can pull them out , you 'll be pleased to know that Poly Color has been improved .
29 Printers and typesetting houses have been embracing new methods for the last 15 years or so and now rely entirely upon them .
30 Over 260 people had enjoyed the evening and through the generosity of those who contributed prizes or money towards their purchase £137 had been made on the raffle .
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