Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 For the Council , the creation of the new institutions has greatly added to its work , while for the colleges the rigours of course submission and CNAA validation procedures have , in some cases , been traumatic .
2 However , the proportion of women who are full-time housewives has significantly dropped during the post-war period and , since married women who have paid employment spend less time on housework than those without paid work , this means that overall , there has been a significant decline in the amount of time the average woman will spend doing housework .
3 The incidence of wage queries has certainly reduced since summer , but the first test of the improvements made will be during the next up-man which is due in early 1993 .
4 The composition of the upper strata has clearly changed since pre-industrial times .
5 To this must be added the 157,000 temporary houses ( the provision of temporary houses has now come to an end ) , the repair of war-damaged property , and the use of huts and service camps .
6 The rise of complex , enterprise-wide client/server computing strategies has inevitably lead to demands for a single mechanism that will allow users to access information which resides on databases that may be distributed across a range of hardware platforms .
7 The rise of complex , enterprise-wide client-server computing strategies has inevitably lead to demands for a single mechanism that will enable users to access information which resides on databases that may be distributed across a range of hardware systems .
8 We 'll have a little inspection later on to see if any birds has actually doodled on it .
9 BMC national officer Roger Payne explained that the policy at the BMC is to try and give funding to experienced groups of British climbers attempting the sort of peaks which provide a strong technical challenge but are unlikely to get commercial sponsorship , simply because no-one apart from climbers has ever heard of them .
10 A growing number of disputes over building contracts has inevitably led to more cases coming before the courts or arbitrators .
11 Investment in training has increased and our respondents believe that the quality of their audits has significantly improved by a better focusing of audit effort and improved recording of audit evidence .
12 Moreover , as I have remarked earlier , thinking around the question of what it means to understand cultures has hardly begun in multiculturalism , although there is a wealth of material and debate in cultural studies , social anthropology and philosophy upon which to draw ( cf.
13 Moreover , the creation of political boundaries in the Sahelian countries during colonial and post-colonial times has actually contributed to the disruption of a carefully regulated system of pastoral movements and pastoral-agricultural symbiosis , leading to environmental deterioration and desertification ( Franke & Chasin 1980 : Ch.3 & p.98 ) .
14 ( Has he , too , noted in the informal engagement announcement photographs the New York Times has recently taken to running that the couples more often look like siblings than prospective husbands and wives ?
15 SCIENTIFIC investigation of other societies and other ages has increasingly come under attack from relativists claiming that other cultures , and even other scientific paradigms , can be understood only from within , and only in their own terms .
16 The number of cross channel shoppers has already risen by forty percent this year since restrictions were lifted .
17 Bettelheim and Zelan ( 1982 ) demonstrate how vocabulary load in readers has actually diminished across the years : First readers in the 1920s contained on average 645 different words ; in the 1930s 460 , in the 1940s and 1950s 350 words .
18 Whereas the nineteenth-century state concerned itself with the common affairs of all capital owners , the growth of giant industrial corporations and of large financial combines has now led to the almost complete exclusion of other capitalist fractions from influence over the state .
19 The problem of different definitions and codings has already arisen in the need to harmonise the 1991 SARs from Northern Ireland with those from Great Britain ( Middleton forthcoming ) .
20 The increasing productivity of agriculture through the use of modern industrial methods has also led to a decline in traditional job opportunities in the countryside , and the government is keen to encourage more general diversification in the rural economy .
21 The bouncy Miss Routledge , whose run in Bennett 's Talking Heads has just come to a close , explained : ‘ Alan just selects someone , writes the piece and posts it through the letterbox .
22 West Germany : ‘ the nuclear construction programme of the German utilities has practically come to an end for the time being . ’
23 The success of such authors has probably contributed to the view that the inspiration for postmodernism in Britain has often had to come from foreign models rather than a native tradition of this form of writing , or even much of a disposition towards it .
24 The widespread and in many cases willing and eager involvement of cultural producers in what are really quite normal market relationships has always cut across it .
25 But punters say they are no longer prepared to pay the agreed price because the value of the supercars has now crashed through the floor .
26 John Wriglesworth , the housing analyst at UBS , a Swiss bank , estimates that the stock of unsold homes has already fallen by a third over the past year .
27 The proportion of old people living in cold homes has hardly changed over the last 20 years despite improvements in living conditions , a report shows .
28 Evolution in bilateral animals has usually consisted in a tendency towards more effective integration of segments .
29 They claim that opposition to Saddam Hussein 's troops is growing , as Tim Friend reported on Wednesday , one of the resistance fighters has recently returned to London after being wounded .
30 The reputation of the universities and polytechnics has hardly recovered to this day .
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