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

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1 Every industrialized country faces similar problems and is either considering similar solutions or has already implemented some of them .
2 He managed to turn Llewelyn 's imposing new title , compounded of the old sacred name for a reassurance to the Welsh , and the added flourish for English ears that had scarcely heard of Aberffraw , into a satirical comment , but he did it with great delicacy .
3 The actual animals that have ever lived on Earth are a tiny subset of the theoretical animals that could exist .
4 Next , in the order in which she would need them , were her flannel petticoats , her cotton bodice and frilled drawers , her black woollen stockings , her long boned stays and the combinations that had so irritated her skin when she was small .
5 Phrase structure rules would implicitly have been adopted , legitimating certain combinations that have successfully occurred , as well as others that had not yet occurred but might very well have , and with similar success , had the choice of words and message had to be different .
6 Vitally for small manufacturers , the more parts they use from large manufacturers that have already gained Type Approval in another application , the cheaper the tests will be ; MIRA 's inspectors will be able to cross-check data they already hold for , say , a wheel , a light or a mirror , using their discretion as to whether they think its new role is fit and proper .
7 The local community-based organizations that have since formed have been more basic in their opposition to any mining and have taken political organization — through lobbying , petitions , demonstrations and public meetings — as their mode of operation .
8 The same thing , if somebody 's annoying you like that , ignore them like I said , I do n't mean I wo n't just let them sit there I 'll touch my brakes a couple of times perhaps do the old bit with the mirror and like I said , normally if they 're if they 're responsible drivers that have just happened , they got a bit close then maybe they 'll drop back as I 've done
9 By marrying Anne , Tim will cement the strong ties that have always existed between the armed forces and royalty .
10 I lay on his bed later and strove to want him , strove to feel even a faint shadow of the sensations that had always engulfed me before , when I had known they must be frustrated .
11 The first Rolls-Royce went on sale in Hungary recently , joining the many Mercedes and BMW cars that have recently flooded the country , particularly in 1989 .
12 Outside the circle a few mounds and stones were all that remained of the huddle of huts that had once crowded under the broch 's protection .
13 As their lips met , she knew in a flash that this kiss of love was even more wonderful than the words that had just thrilled her .
14 management services and branches and what systems have been reduced and the branches that have actually kept the ones they 're on to .
15 Far greater numbers of girls opted for technical subjects than had ever done so before .
16 In addition to the Pahlavi rugs , Persia produces workshop items in styles that have evolved from those made during the Qajar dynasty ( which ended in the 19th century ) , and there are also numerous village and nomadic groups who , allowing for some minor modifications to the market , still make rugs that have hardly changed for generations .
17 Otherwise , the figures on present-day variations strongly suggest that since then it is nasal environments that have subsequently led the change , closely followed by fricative and voiced stop environments .
18 Another , less direct , observation which suggests that song serves to stimulate females is that males in polygamous species of North American wren have more complex songs than have closely related monogamous species .
19 When The Waste Land appeared , Untermeyer had become more irate : ‘ The Dial 's award to Mr T. S. Eliot and the subsequent bookpublication of his The Waste Land have occasioned a display of some of the most enthusiastically naive superlatives that have ever issued from publicly sophisticated iconoclasts ’ .
20 That is why , no matter what the last-minute mediators may say , there is a danger that their aim will be interpreted not as an effort to secure Mr Hussein 's compliance with demands that have somehow escaped his attention , but as an attempt to offer him an easy way out .
21 The headlights revealed only the worn flagstones of the farmyard , the archway into the byre on the ground floor of the house , the crumbling steps that had once given access to the living quarters above .
22 What is unexpected is the extent to which decline has extended beyond the conurbations into those adjacent districts that had previously grown so rapidly ( Spence et al .
23 " The Archbishop the next day travelling to Rochester , told his story to some of his familiars and had scarce concluded it when he was siezed with a sudden shivering and sickness , that he could scarce get to the village of Halling , a place of the Bishop of Rochester , where he had no sooner arrived by going to bed that night he died of a fit of collick " .
24 In the past 25 years he has also been responsible for the construction of the mortality tables produced by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau for use by the life offices and has also taken an active part in the development of a new method of analysing sickness insurance statistics .
25 He had done a reasonable amount of pilot work , firing for some of the older shunt link drivers and had also fired on the local ‘ pick-up ’ , but this at last was the real thing .
26 You will find that since Mr Madison 's British visitors left Washington , we have added a number of attractions and have greatly improved the roads .
27 Despite the scepticism which accompanied the launch of Pump technology and surrounded the whole concept of custom fit , it now has a strong band of converts and has even spawned a series of copycat technology among competitors .
28 Observers have simply failed to remark the scientific nature of much of the thinking of so-called ‘ primitive ’ peoples and have perhaps overstated the ‘ scientific ’ nature of thinking in their own societies .
29 The drama for women , of course , is that we have been encouraged to become dependent and hold others in dependent relationships and have rarely sought to differentiate : womens ' groups can be as tyrannical as any other when they do not allow diversity and disagreement .
30 The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers .
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