Example sentences of "have [verb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In industry the purpose of this process is to make work more interesting , through the restructuring of the components of a work role — either by increasing the number of operations that each worker has to perform or by making changes from one activity to another more frequent . |
| 2 | Much of this story will necessarily be unfamiliar to them but it may offer some understanding of how the work of God here has developed and of what there is that is worthwhile in the legacy of the past . |
| 3 | With the development of the concepts of what international marketing entails , a lively debate has developed as to how the international marketing manager should approach his task . |
| 4 | What has changed is that a convention has developed as to how and when this power is exercised and the modern position is thus that the monarch has , except in the most unusual circumstances and even then only doubtfully so , no discretion as to when Parliament shall be called and disbanded . |
| 5 | The party leadership in Scotland has dismissed that on the grounds that those MPs who are associated with Scotland United represent constituencies where action against the carrying of knives would have the greatest effect . |
| 6 | Fletcher ( op. cit. ) has commented that during all the years when Bennett was studying the Scottish flora and publishing records , he did not once visit Scotland . |
| 7 | Scottish Action on Dementia has calculated that at present there are likely to be at least 91,000 sufferers in Scotland of whom more than half have moderate or severe dementia . |
| 8 | Yorkshire Water has calculated that at the busiest time August Bank Holiday it could have 50,000 people using it . |
| 9 | Mitchell has calculated that on average in the 1760s two new towns per year appeared as the source of printed material and that this had grown to an average of seven per year in the 1790s . |
| 10 | Winter freezing closed the Trent and Mersey Canal for five weeks in 1814 – 15 , and Freeman has calculated that on the canals of the Lancashire plain there must have been twenty-day stoppages in thirty of the winters between 1771 and 1831 and thirty-day stoppages in ten of those . |
| 11 | Blake has calculated that for speeds of up to 2 ½ metres per second , it is more efficient for dolphins to swim at the surface . |
| 12 | And in relation to the greenhouse effect , FoE has calculated that by using energy-efficient fridges , freezers , domestic lighting and washing machines , the annual UK emission of carbon dioxide would be cut by 17.5 million tonnes . |
| 13 | Margaret Hewitt has calculated that in Lancashire between 1861 and 1871 , the districts showing the highest proportion of young married women were not centres of cotton industries . |
| 14 | Left wing William Techoueyres has withdrawn because of a thigh injury and his place will be taken by Perpignan team-mate Laurent Arbo . |
| 15 | The test car I drove had a serious wind noise problem , which will not be the first time Ford has heard that about the Escort , but it otherwise came across as well conceived — it 's easy to load and has a completely flat floor with rear seats folded — and competent . |
| 16 | Britain is a small , crowded island , largely oriented in terms of industry and population to England ( and especially the Southeast of England ) , with a class-based society that has superseded but by no means discarded the characteristics of a status-based feudal society . |
| 17 | The tallest Turk has resigned and in a fit of unparalleled generosity the Commander has ruled that his uniform should be sent instantly to a fast dry cleaners . |
| 18 | Judicial opinion has varied as to the evidential standing and value of video recordings of this nature . |
| 19 | , A Ukrainian physicist has claimed that at least 7,000 people involved in clean-up work following the accident had died of radiation sickness . |
| 20 | The Crown has claimed that by the time he was arrested in the summer of 1991 his alleged computer forays had breached security surrounding a number of systems including one at EC headquarters , another at a world famous centre for cancer research and treatment and others at various universities . |
| 21 | And Professor Bourdieu , in response , has claimed that in fact social stasis is a more prevalent phenomenon than social change in empirical reality , and that he has been thus justified in his pronounced concern over his career with the explanation of such social stasis . |
| 22 | The company has claimed that in environmental terms , there is " little to choose " between pampers and traditional cloth nappies . |
| 23 | Mr de Soto 's early association with Mr Vargas ' alliance , the Democratic Front , has cooled because of the economist 's suspicion that the novelist is being compromised by his allies . |
| 24 | Trial number two has collapsed because of the mental and emotional state of Roger Seelig . |
| 25 | The case against a schoolboy accused of setting fire to a teenage girl while she inhaled an aerosol spray has collapsed because of lack of evidence . |
| 26 | In central Italy the once dominant share-cropping system has collapsed and in its place has emerged a complicated mixture of part-time farmers producing largely for home-consumption , family farmers and capitalist enterprises producing for the market . |
| 27 | Although I am convinced that the prime management problem is ‘ making it happen ’ , one has to accept that in life there is always at least an evens chance that one is going the wrong way . |
| 28 | It believes its success has come because of the ‘ single issue ’ approach . |
| 29 | While this is theoretically conceivable , every writer who has recently examined the problem has considered that in nature it must be a very rare event and certainly not a common factor in the evolution of animal traits . |
| 30 | Nature has produced stones that show us what the earth 's magnetic field has looked like for millions of years . |