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

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1 Thus some courts have reasoned on the hypothesis that if an issue is deemed to be one of law then this must inevitably involve substitution of judgment on their part .
2 Although , as seen above , some courts have persisted in a form of prior categorisation to decide whether natural justice should be applicable , many courts have eschewed such labels .
3 Some shareholders have called on Sir Derek , who masterminded the ISC takeover , to take responsibility for the debacle and resign .
4 Despite some improvements having occurred in her problems , she continued telephoning the therapist , making threats of suicide and demanding to be seen .
5 Pressure of numbers impinges on every facet of the prison system , and in some institutions has resulted in overcrowded conditions that would not have been tolerated a century earlier .
6 Some institutions have experimented with a fixed camera operated by the teacher , so that no one else needs to be in the room to operate the camera .
7 Indeed , a few authorities have retreated from corporate structures-management teams have been disbanded and some chief executives dismissed .
8 I 'm not quite sure when the official handing in date for this essay is , because of the fact that some essays have overrun from last term .
9 Unless some merchants had withdrawn to the country , while continuing to manage their businesses there must have been significant investment in urban industry and commerce by the agricultural sector to maintain the balance between town and country in West Sussex .
10 Relatively few cases had come to court , and those that had , the court had tended to take a restrictive interpretation of the crucial words .
11 It was doubly ironic for Coventry who in the previous few minutes had attacked with more conviction than at any time throughout the game .
12 ‘ We are profoundly concerned about the length of some waiting times first non-urgent outpatient appointments which in some cases have increased since the National Audit Office examination ’ .
13 The concern of some researchers has extended to the ways in which boys are allowed to dominate girls in schools .
14 Many of the living echinoids are protected by spines , some sharp and breaking off easily into the unwary foot , others stout and clublike ; a few groups have taken to burrowing into sediment , and the spines have become small and felt-like .
15 Numerous attempts have been made to stifle theories which some power-holders have found to be unpalatable but which have , over time , become more generally acceptable .
16 Some deputies had voted against an Anglo-French expedition because they thought that Egypt was a distraction from the proper concern of a French government over the lost provinces ; other Frenchmen already envisaged an understanding with Russia .
17 It is at least worth a footnote to any textbook on handling disputes that few employers have to contend with their management arm solemnly sitting down and condemning the negotiating strategy and then publicly relating their views to the press .
18 But some buy-outs have ended in the bankruptcy court or in acute distress .
19 In addition , some authorities have transferred to their colleges of higher education advanced courses previously located in other major establishments .
20 The name was found most commonly in its ancient heartland and surrounding parishes , though a few branches had ventured off the hills to settle in and around Chesterfield .
21 I got married twenty three years ago in China , well , we just invite er , invited er our friends , and er former school mates to ma , to my home and we did n't make any vow , er we just gave a banquet to the friends , and er , in China people now can get married in many ways and er some foreigners have come to China to get married in a traditional Chinese way , and they have to er , carry their bride in a sedan chair .
22 To their surprise , they found that some schools had grown in number from one week to the next .
23 Some schools had benefited from government funds allocated to implementing the national curriculum , with one reporting a grant of £20,000 over three years .
24 Some schools have asked for that to be kept for the sch er you know for them as well .
25 But soon Owen 's erstwhile disciple T. H. Huxley began to question the dinosaurs ' relationships to lizards ; he saw the closeness of birds to some reptiles , and inferred that at least some dinosaurs had gone on two legs rather than four , the Iguanodon among them .
26 And so you might find that some offices have to think of two or three D S S offices and refer various people to the , to various ones .
27 Few words had passed between them over the past week , and now she could see that it was with an effort he said , ‘ Your mother tells me about this idea of hers .
28 Australian mining companies have been pressing hard for the upgrade for the past 18 months but , ironically , demand for Landsat data in the last few months has dropped by 60 per cent .
29 The criticism by Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary Robin Cook followed the disclosure by Which ? magazine that some premiums had doubled since 1987 .
30 This is necessary in order to clarify certain observations that some authors have made about the precise aspects or forms of psychosis to which creativity might be especially connected .
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