Example sentences of "[noun] have " in BNC.

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1 There have been instances recently where vast commercial organisations and even governments have been compelled to rethink their policies and their methods because a sufficient number of individual supermarket shoppers have decided to demonstrate the strength of their feelings by boycotting a particular item .
2 SHOPPERS have been warned not to buy rabbit meat in Latvian markets after 42 animals infected with lethal bugs were stolen from a research centre .
3 Faced with a staggering array of products in every size , shape and shade , many cynical American and European shoppers have concluded ( correctly ) that there is scant difference between them .
4 MORE than 14,000 shoppers have backed a campaign to support Sunday trading but the issue will remain in deadlock for another three weeks , it was revealed yesterday .
5 But 60,000 shoppers have backed a campaign to give shops like VG , Mace , Spar and Londis , the right to sell papers .
6 In the past few days shoppers have been paying one last visit to the store , many angered by a trend which has seen Liverpool stripped of many of its landmark shops .
7 SHOPPERS have been warned to be extremely careful about buying cheap goods after dangerous chemicals were found in packets of household washing powder .
8 Sirius and Canopus have returned to the evening sky , though Sirius is still low in the south-east .
9 Thus parents , employers and decision-makers have an obligation to have a full understanding of mental handicap in order to approach the issues involved with a true sense of proportion .
10 A natural consequence of the growth and sophistication in international capital flows is that decision-makers have become more aware of potential short-term gains .
11 [ … ] The decision-makers have no agreed set of objectives or common definition of social welfare .
12 ‘ Technology ’ in this sense has two dimensions , one measuring the familiarity of situations which decision-makers have to deal with , the other measuring the innovative judgement required in the search for a method of analysing and solving problems ( Perrow 1970 ) .
13 I have n't set any essays on Napoleon have I ?
14 We see , therefore , that a number of specializations have appeared since computers were introduced , but typically these have been reabsorbed into the mainstream of computing .
15 Paramount have thrown caution to the wind and employed MICHAEL CIMINO to write and direct a movie entitled Heaven Is A Sometime Thing .
16 Currently in pre-production , Paramount have their top scripthounds on a storyline dominated by the part that won Whoopi an Oscar in the original movie .
17 In Bharatpur , the competition between Rajiv Gandhi 's ruling Congress ( I ) party and the assorted forces of the anti-Congress opposition is so finely poised , and the pool of royal admirers so deep , that three prominent relatives of Maharajah Brijendra Singh have slipped into a democratic version of an old autocratic vice : the royal family feud .
18 Neither Mr nor Mrs Singh have the confidence to take on such a role .
19 Unemployment and economic collapse have changed our views .
20 The movement remains remarkably strong : despite all that the government and economic collapse have done , TUC membership is still above the ten million mark , and many unions enjoy the loyalty and energetic commitment of tens of thousands of active members .
21 Earlier or later maturity are quite normal and natural , although extremes ( ovulation and menstruation have been known to occur as early as six years of age ) are due to malfunction .
22 The changes in water flows inevitably associated with dams have enormous impacts on the ecology of any dammed river .
23 This deficiency is frequently obvious in foals whose dams have not been fed sufficient calcium , and the foals may have dramatic leg defects as a result .
24 Building , agriculture and dams have also taken their toll .
25 Of course , when communist leaders like Trotsky talked about how , after the revolution , the communist state would move the features of the landscape around like so much furniture in a room , they still stood only on the threshold of the environmental disasters which have ensued throughout the communist world as dams have been built , rivers redirected , forests cut down , and refuse dumped with abandon to meet the requirements of the latest Five Year Plan .
26 The dams have provided people and industry in the Pacific Northwest with clean , abundant power at only 40 per cent of the cost of electricity in most other US states .
27 And would politics based on religion have disappeared in Glasgow if not for the rise of the Labour Party ?
28 Philosophers of religion have considered what it means to say that something ‘ is ’ .
29 This is what philosophers of religion have attempted to explore in their complex analyses of existence .
30 Some philosophers of religion have seen God as a higher stage of this process .
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