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

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1 More recently a string of no less than thirty cylinder seals made of lapis lazuli has been recovered from a Mycenaean house at Thebes .
2 As the focus of the Bretton Woods institutions has moved across the Atlantic to central Europe deep-seated fears have arisen that time , resources and energy will be diverted from the economies of the southern hemisphere .
3 Yet by the end of the 1960s , institutions had once again become places of last resort , and over the past thirty years the numbers of youngsters admitted to institutions has declined sharply in all three countries ( Lammertyn and Antoons , 1990 ; Ploeg , 1986 ) .
4 Although their significance as regional political institutions has been undermined — in the case of water authorities by proposals for privatization and in the case of health authorities by a series of financial and managerial initiatives which have encouraged a shift towards private sector ( market-type ) decision-making ( Pollitt , Harrison , Hunter and Marnoch , 1988 ) — there has been a growth in regional state institutions in other policy areas .
5 However , the renaming of revered academically institutions has not been without problems .
6 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 .
7 Cleanliness in TDC institutions has been a priority with the administration since Ellis 's time at least .
8 The emphasis in child care practice on families before institutions has contributed to a definition of the aims and the means of helping young people which accentuates personal , family relationships .
9 The prevalence of depression among the elderly in institutions has been less well researched .
10 The prevalence of this dimension of psychiatric disturbance in institutions has not been reported .
11 Far from being unimportant , the study of administration and institutions has much to tell us about the increasing effectiveness of the state and central government in an aspect of government growing more important with every passing year .
12 Scott contends that the growth of investment institutions has given rise to a distinct mode of control , namely ‘ control through a constellation of interests ’ .
13 There are no factual data that amalgamation of institutions has any advantages beyond economies of some central services such as catering and purchasing , and perhaps administrative convenience .
14 Competition among state-financed institutions has also been heightened in other services .
15 It is therefore remarkable that the amount of co-operation and collaborative work between local authorities and higher education institutions has been so limited and only shows recent signs of expansion .
16 As a result of these developments , a group of new institutions has evolved , known generally as Colleges or Institutes of Higher Education .
17 These various new proposals have now been put into effect and a Committee for Institutions has come into being .
18 However , to the CNAA 's surprise , a number of institutions has indicated that they wish to take advantage of the new procedures by proposing special arrangements which would , in effect , provide for all their courses to be validated by a method other than the normal one .
19 For the Council , the creation of the new institutions has greatly added to its work , while for the colleges the rigours of course submission and CNAA validation procedures have , in some cases , been traumatic .
20 The educative power of our academic institutions has never been lower : it is journalism that gives the lead .
21 In these unnervingly fast-moving times , even the most established on institutions has to keep recreating itself to capitalise on its attributes — or to avoid extinction .
22 THE DEATH OF TWO NORTH WEST INSTITUTIONS HAS CAUSED SADNESS WITH A PIT SHUTTING AND A FAMOUS STORE 'S TILLS RINGING FOR THE LAST TIME
23 None of these vacancies has been filled .
24 The number of vacancies has fallen .
25 The last Scotsman to score against the French giants has warned Hateley to watch out , however , because the knock-out blow can come at any time .
26 The economic effect of the invasion on ordinary Panamanians has been disastrous .
27 Putting my point across verbally at meetings without notes has never been my forte , which is why I decided to write to the editor of Gay Scotland in the hope that the situation would change for the better .
28 Lotus Notes has been on the market for some time , and is already being used by many of the world 's largest companies .
29 In this approach the high level of unionisation in Sweden is not the result of any cultural propensity on the part of the Swedish population ( because of its ethnic homogeneity ) to seek objectives by way of interest group organisations — a factor which Adams ( 1975 ) notes has sometimes been suggested by way of explanation .
30 Hailed as the first ‘ work groupware ’ application , Notes has unfortunately not targeted the sales it was expected to since its launch in 1989 , and its alliance with SCO was described by the company as ‘ a timely decision ’ .
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