Example sentences of "have [verb] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Schools Council report ( 1970 ) has emphasized that the problem is not that this sort of pupil leaves school at the earliest opportunity but that as far as school learning goes they ‘ leave ’ at the age of about 12 . |
| 2 | PR 's sole concern is with the relationship between the number of votes each party has received and the number of seats it has been awarded . |
| 3 | The number of responses is in itself a clear indication of the interest the Green Paper has aroused and the importance of the issues it has raised . |
| 4 | Nearly 50 years later the language has altered but the substance looks strikingly familiar . |
| 5 | Mr Williamson has recognized that the adaptation of existing buildings would be allowed . |
| 6 | Cronenberg himself has commented that The Fly and others of his films are about how viruses deform bodies , and that his originality lies in that he is ‘ on the side of the virus ’ . |
| 7 | The court has heard that the couple met in June 1991 , while Miss Warburton was on work experience at the Crown Prosecution Office in Salford , where Green worked . |
| 8 | He has heard that the King is ill and he has sent for me , from the distant land beyond Kelfazin , to find the cause of his sickness . |
| 9 | Everyone has heard that the mustard giants make their money from the amount of the condiment that is left on the sides of our plates . |
| 10 | Although the rate of growth has fallen since the oil crises of the 1970s , Japan 's productivity advantage has been magnified by very low rates of increase in unit labour costs . |
| 11 | Now the oil price has fallen and the business has collapsed . |
| 12 | This shows that the number of farms has fallen by 14% ; the number in the smaller size bracket generally ( under 30 hectares ) has fallen and the number in the larger size brackets risen . |
| 13 | The duo also play the ‘ Somerset Psychos ’ , introduced after Harry has explained that the West Country has no regional opera company . |
| 14 | Walking the river in the close season , when the bankside and aquatic vegetation has blossomed and the water is running clear and low , is the best time for actually spotting the chub as they go about their daily business . |
| 15 | The lineout remains a big headache , although Drikus Hattingh has won good ball at the front and No 8 Adriaan Richter has blossomed as the tour has unfolded . |
| 16 | The lateral membrane/intercellular space staining , however , has vanished after the instillation is terminated . |
| 17 | If this is passed the government falls : however , despite the fact that such motions are debated every few months , only one has succeeded since the constitution was drawn up in 1958 . |
| 18 | A report published by the University of Bucharest has claimed that the country is " saturated " with pollution , as a result of inadequate or unenforced controls during the Ceausescu years . |
| 19 | Popper has claimed that the possibility of understanding meaning as in the sentence alone , independent of its social context , increased with the growth of literacy . |
| 20 | Eurotunnel dismisses these fears as unwarranted but international expert on terrorism , Professor Paul Wilkinson , has claimed that the Tunnel could attract tourists ‘ like wasps to a jampot ’ . |
| 21 | A pundit of the Electoral Reform Society , noting that the French Socialist manifesto produced for the 1981 general election envisaged twenty-one separate reforms , has claimed that the STV would have enabled voters to show which of them they approved of . |
| 22 | Of course , ‘ capitalism ’ is not identified as such , just as Barthes ( 1972 ) has claimed that the bourgeoisie is ‘ the social class which does not want to be named ’ , and just as the YCs themselves preferred the label of ‘ ordinary ’ to a class identification . |
| 23 | Thirdly , as regards the Science Policy Research Unit 's proposal to assess engineering research , no member of the unit has claimed that the project was turned down by the Social Science Research Council because of ‘ lobbying by outsiders ’ . |
| 24 | In response , the President of Inhutani II has claimed that the project will benefit the local people . |
| 25 | Thus , Prest has claimed that the assumption about indirect taxes can be justified only where the supply is perfectly elastic ( leaving aside the case of totally inelastic demand ) , whereas the assumption about income tax can be justified only when factor supplies are completely inelastic . |
| 26 | The rebel government effectively in charge of the Pacific island of Bougainville has claimed that the island has been seriously polluted by the huge Panguna copper mine . |
| 27 | Farman has claimed that the assertion of the chemical industry that its activities would only contribute 1 per cent to the green-house effect over the next 120 years are " seriously underestimated " . |
| 28 | The prosecution no longer has to establish that the complainant resisted . |
| 29 | Because of the low status of part time training and the realisation that it makes the period between registration and achieving a consultant post even longer , the proportion of doctors training part time has dropped as the proportion of women graduates has increased . |
| 30 | ‘ I believe the time has come when the Chamber should say that we can no longer afford to fund the lights from subscriptions alone , said Mr. King emphasising that unless all traders contribute there may well be no lights this year . |