Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | [ … ] The decision-makers have no agreed set of objectives or common definition of social welfare . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The changes in water flows inevitably associated with dams have enormous impacts on the ecology of any dammed river . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Building , agriculture and dams have also taken their toll . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The pro-divorce camp were quick to spot the traditional Irish view that written laws and authoritative words have a radically structuring effect on reality . |
| 19 | Porfiry 's words have a heightened transpersonal effect because Svidrigailov has just told Raskolnikov the same thing . |
| 20 | Its other mark is that the rich words have gone : i . |
| 21 | His words have a surprising resonance in today 's Eastern Europe . |
| 22 | Since unguarded and uncensored words have usually been anathema in Russia , he mostly limited his performances to select private gatherings . |
| 23 | ‘ The only cases where heavy damages should be awarded are where the words have been published out of malice , ’ said Mr Robertson . |
| 24 | On the island of Manhattan in the middle of New York amidst all the noise and the traffic and the bustle , there 's a huge stone wall on which Micah 's words have been written . |
| 25 | Recognise that where words have been borrowed in the last 400 years , there are some characteristic sound-symbol relationships that reflect the word 's origin , eg ch- in French words like champagne , chauffeur , charade , and ch- in Greek words like chaos , chiropody , chorus , compared with ch- in long-established English words like chaff , cheese , chin . |
| 26 | It does n't matter if the child grows up to be an adult whose logic tells him that he is n't stupid ; if those words have been repeated often enough , he will never have the confidence to realise how much he knows or to make proper use of that knowledge . |
| 27 | Nurses should therefore discover from patients what meaning these words have for them , so that they can be sure that they and the patients are talking about the same conditions . |
| 28 | All of you who read these words have at some time in your youth dreamt the biggest dreams . |
| 29 | Already many thousands of words have appeared on the subject — in official reports and other publications . |
| 30 | It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters . |