Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Course abandoned the use of triple and quadruple modules at the time of the 1984 CNAA resubmission for reasons that had to do both with inflexibility for student programmes and with the risk of student failure . |
| 2 | Much later , bacteriophages were found to transfer genetic information , from one bacterium to another , so they became immensely important tools for geneticists and have played a fundamental role in understanding the functions of deoxyribonucleic acid ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 3 | Convinced that niche marketing was the right approach to follow , they decided to build on their experience in audit , accounting and tax for companies with turnovers of £1m to £30m ; investigative work for institutions that have invested , or are thinking of investing , in such companies ; and general litigation support . |
| 4 | Now a Greek team , headed by Professor Cesar Alexopoulos , of Athens University , has developed a technique which seems to provide just that much warning — at least for earthquakes that have hit Greece repeatedly over the past two years . |
| 5 | An interference effect was indeed apparent at the start of the final stage ( Fig. 4.7 ) and did not differ in magnitude between subjects that had received their aversive training in the same context as that used for the test and subjects that had received aversive training in a different context . |
| 6 | Ken Wilson , of the Emmaus fellowship in Ann Arbour , Michigan is not ashamed to give clear step-by-step models for how to pray for relationships that have gone wrong . |
| 7 | Brewers have been aware of this issue for centuries and have developed the practice of adding ‘ copper ’ hops early in the boil to provide bitterness and ‘ aroma ’ or ‘ late ’ hops towards the end of the boil for flavour . |
| 8 | Their leader , Peter Bancroft , 36 , said : ‘ We have been struggling with British Rail 's shortage of drivers for months and have christened our regular train home the ghost train . ’ |
| 9 | And other costs , such as readers and having to buy books because you ca n't borrow them for long enough from libraries to get them recorded or brailled , er those sorts of things really are n't taken account of and you 're simply going to have to borrow money er to pay for your disability in effect . |
| 10 | They knew little about computers and had bought the discs from another counterfeiter who 's yet to be caught . |
| 11 | They knew little about computers and had bought the discs from another counterfeiter who 's yet to be caught . |
| 12 | Forty years on , the Mail and Express remained , with the new Today , but found themselves squeezed between sectors that had doubled in size . |
| 13 | There are some TNCs that have been operating in Latin America , Africa and Asia for decades and have won enviable reputations as model employers . |
| 14 | At the largest scale , the ‘ bubble ’ approach exists in the form of caps or ceilings on national emissions of sulphur dioxide , oxides of nitrogen and carbon dioxide for countries that have signed the relevant protocols put forward by the United Nations . |
| 15 | For companies that have kept at a specified size over the years , working to budgets that they know and understand , are forced to expand to deal with the increased flow . |
| 16 | But it may be that the company is producing a range of products and has set up separate units or subsidiaries to exploit each product market . |
| 17 | Here 's a list of pros that have dropped in on at least one Farnborough session : Neil Blender , Billy Ruff , Claus Grabke , Jeff Hedges , Rodney Mullen , Brad Bowman , Mike McGill , John Lucero , Lance Mountain , Rick Demontrond ( Spidey ) , Todd Swank , Kevin Stabb , Adrian Demain , Puttis , and , most recently , Gary Valentine . |
| 18 | Sometimes the movement of farmers into these regions is actively encouraged by government policies ; elsewhere it is an indirect result of policies that have forced peasants off their lands in order to develop cash cropping and ranching , a process that began with colonial settlement ( section 4.4 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Most people think of artists as having to work totally alone , but I like to have someone there who does n't really disrupt what I 'm doing . |
| 21 | Most people think of artists as having to work totally alone , but I like to have someone there who does n't really disrupt what I 'm doing . |
| 22 | One result of this has been the pervasive influence of linguistic methodology upon such studies of objects as have developed in recent decades ; and while the rise of semiotics in the 1960s was advantages in that it provided for the extension of linguistic research into other domains , any of which could be treated as a semiotic system ( e.g. Eco 1976 : 9–14 ) , this extension took place at the expense of subordinating the object qualities of things to their word-like properties . |
| 23 | And this has prompted one of the oldest museums to put on a special exhibition of sketches that have become collectors ' items . |
| 24 | Yes , yes , I mean this year , with the formula obviously , because the number of fire calls has dropped , it impacts upon er , as I say that , I do n't know whether the actual , the cost , the differential between the number of calls that have dropped and the drop in the S S A , whether it 's comparable , and I do n't suppose they 've got a measure of the drop , in S S A terms it 's far greater than the actual marginal costs of er , not attending those er , extra , extra fire calls . |
| 25 | A row of houses that have lain empty for years since being bought by publisher Robert Maxwell look set to remain derelict , after being left out of a plan to redevelop the area . |
| 26 | That is not to deny the wide range of activities that have involved employers . |
| 27 | These conclusions are reinforced by Curve B , which represents the frequency and length of conflicts that have occurred since the Second World War . |
| 28 | The group of researchers that has seen the first indications of a Z particle is code named UA1 , and is one of the two teams that reported the evidence for the W particle earlier this year . |
| 29 | In practice , however , the majority of employers that have equalised upwards ( i.e. instead of reducing the retirement age for men ) are at this stage allowing women the option to take their pension early without reductions , instead of obliging those already close to retirement to prolong their working life . |
| 30 | Rather more unusual is the single pair of Herons that have nested in the centre of Westham village for many years . |