Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Before 1939 Swire & Sons had tinkered with the idea of ‘ going into air ’ .
2 It is apparent that even where investigations have commenced within physical geography they have often proceeded to become intertwined with other disciplines .
3 Much less satisfactory , however , is the harsh rule that holds a writer responsible for unintentional defamation , where readers have jumped to a conclusion which was never intended .
4 Meanwhile , the number of students having the advantage of higher education at universities or polytechnics has risen from 780,000 to 1,060,000 .
5 Accommodating the exiled Kuwaitis has given a boost to the depressed property market , especially in the Eastern Province , where rents have tripled in the past year .
6 Where visitors have contributed to the injuries they have sustained due to the defendant 's breach of duty under the OLA 1957 , then the damages to which they are entitled may be reduced .
7 The women who assemble stationery or shoes have to inflict on their families the permanent , sickly , and probably unhealthy smell of glue and solvents .
8 These conventions or maxims have to do with the quantity ( or informativeness ) , the quality ( truthfulness ) , the manner ( clearness ) and relevance of conversational contributions .
9 Perhaps more revealingly , he is also consistently godlike on Radio 4 's Just A Minute programme , where participants have to talk for a minute without repetition or hesitation .
10 There is a crude housing surplus of approximately 500000 dwellings over households , but many of these houses are second homes , or are unfit for occupation , or in areas of high unemployment , where workers have migrated to other parts of the country .
11 It is often surprising to see just how close the water conditions in your aquaria or ponds have come to problems .
12 Constant liaison at the appropriate level is therefore necessary to avoid a situation arising where problems have occurred about which the supplier is not aware .
13 With an excellent track record in providing awards for all industries , City & Guilds has proved to be a very good partner , offering scope for candidates needing NVQs covered by a range of lead body standards .
14 Discussions with individual scientists have revealed that in such cases , informal contacts between supervisors or departments have resulted in the creation of a network of unofficial and informal loan arrangements , totally outwith the control of the libraries concerned .
15 Bush 's sequence of 35 consecutive vetoes , all upheld in Congress , ended on Oct. 5 in relation to a bill to re-regulate the cable television industry , where charges had risen at twice the rate of inflation since deregulation in 1984 .
16 No overall change in the winter status is apparent , although local changes have occurred , for example in the Amberley/Pulborough marshes , where numbers have declined with improved drainage .
17 where men had burst like melons onto the Chaco
18 Bus company Go-Ahead Northern is to re-route its service to Pennywell , Sunderland , from May 30 after 7.15pm to avoid the Pennywell shopping area in Portsmouth Road , where vehicles have come under attack recently by stone-throwing youths .
19 The turnout in Germany as a whole was 77.8 per cent ; that in western Germany was 78.6 per cent ( as compared with 84.3 per cent in 1987 — see pp. 35014-15 ) ; that in eastern Germany ( where voters had gone to the polls three times in the previous nine months — see pp. 37300-03 ; 37467 ; 37762 ) was 74.7 per cent .
20 This , after all , is a place where scorning government has been taken to new extremes ; where voters have boxed in their politicians with ballot initiative after ballot initiative .
21 Relationships can be far freer within a secure framework than when partners or children have to take into account the possible collapse of the whole basic structure .
22 When contra-charges or claims have arisen between the builder and the nominated sub-contractor for such items as damage , breakages or delays then obviously the amount certified by the builder will vary from that certified in the interim certificate .
23 But the distribution rules said shares or discounts had to go to the first named .
24 And the remaining cash is to be set aside to clear up the old Blacketts brickworks off Alexander Street , Darlington , where residents have complained of fly tipping .
25 Parker says that his sensor succeeds where others have failed in that it works under conditions resembling those found in physiological samples .
26 Where reports have led to legislation ( see also Chapter 4 ) , or were otherwise very influential , we have tried to indicate this .
27 It is merely the application of some basic rules of human behaviour that researchers have uncovered over the last hundred years or so .
28 ( 1984 ) suggest that the mixed results obtained in recognition experiments can often be explained by the fact that researchers have concentrated on the effects of schemas on numbers of hits and false alarms in different conditions .
29 It has been in implementation of this principle that states have agreed on specific treaty obligations banning chemical and gas weapons , culminating in the 1925 Geneva Protocol banning Asphyxiating , Poisonous or other Gases and Bacteriological Methods of Warfare .
30 Reports suggested that discussions had centred on the creation of a coalition government which would exclude some of the more militant fundamentalist groups .
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