Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] have [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , most recent work into the psychological attitude of people as to whether areas are urban or rural has used multivariate techniques . |
| 2 | Built in Test ( BITE ) where available has helped diagnostic procedures a great deal , but problems still remain . |
| 3 | The furniture , the pictures , the loved knick-knacks , all told their story of a lifetime spent together in this small community where both had played useful parts . |
| 4 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 5 | In the case-studies of 15 boards it was clear that half had made significant progress . |
| 6 | As far as their training and qualifications were concerned , one-third had no qualifications at all and less than half had obtained basic school qualifications . |
| 7 | Most reviews concern departmental activities , although some have examined cross-departmental work ( such as government forms and property management ) . |
| 8 | Although Trusts only came into operation in April ninety one , the evidence suggests that many , that many have improved patient services in many w many areas waiting lists have been cut through greater efficiency and increased use of day surgery . |
| 9 | From a random group of 45 ( out of 90 ) county court judges and 24 ( out of 48 ) stipendiaries , he found that 52 had attended public schools ( 75 per cent ) and 56 Oxford or Cambridge ( 81 per cent ) . |
| 10 | Fewer than one-fifth of respondents had experienced upward mobility and slightly fewer than one-tenth had experienced downward mobility . |
| 11 | An international review of evaluated programmes published in 1978 concluded that most of these early programmes failed to influence smoking behaviour ( although several had achieved educational objectives such as improving knowledge and understanding of the relation between smoking and disease ) . |
| 12 | Newcastle and Glasgow would Appear to be in a somewhat better position , for although both have lost substantial numbers of jobs in manufacturing , a more optimistic picture has emerged in the late 1980s , based on public — private-sector investment and cultural developments . |
| 13 | Would have thought that Forrester 's value would have gone up after Saturdays double strike — and Whelan 's worth more than that , although both have had limited exposure unless you happen to be a Leeds fan . |
| 14 | Previously performed colonoscopy and/or barium enema had shown that seven had had total colitis , one patient had disease affecting the transverse colon , and three patients distal colitis — that is , the most proximal extension was below the splenic flexure . |
| 15 | And er on the M forty between junctions four and five between High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , there are two narrow lanes in both direction with a contraflow system at Boulter End which might add to the confusion , and that 's got single line traffic running both ways . |
| 16 | Of sympatric species , those flowering together deposit pollen on different parts of the bat body , thus avoiding interspecific pollination , and some have staggered flowering times . |
| 17 | ‘ After a longer period , donors and patients sometimes meet and some have become great friends . ’ |
| 18 | Instead of lengthening their bodies , like the caecilians , they have shortened it , their vertebrae having become fused together , and far from losing their legs , they have developed them enormously , and some have become prodigious leapers . |
| 19 | One of the problems is that we have not found a way of doing it cheaply , and this has caused great anxiety . ’ |
| 20 | Indonesia has banned the export of raw rattan and this has encouraged other countries , like Sri Lanka , to emulate the rattan swidden' method . |
| 21 | In recent years the Sussex Ornithological Society has lowered the water level of one of the smaller lakes in autumn and this has attracted good numbers of waders . |
| 22 | Counties such as Berkshire , Hampshire , Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire have been faced with increasing government demands to provide more new housing and this has produced vociferous opposition from local residents who see their traditional communities under threat . |
| 23 | Most prefer market-seeking investments and few have created new exports . |
| 24 | Since April , 11 trainees have found jobs through the society and 12 have attained vocational qualifications . |
| 25 | All patients were volunteers and all had had previous vagotomy for benign duodenal ulcer disease . |
| 26 | Most of these bars have live music , and all have staggered happy hours ( or is it happy stagger hour ? ! ) , so with a bit of forward planning we make sure your budget goes as far as possible . |
| 27 | Snipers of all sides pick off civilians , and all have murdered helpless prisoners . |
| 28 | They will be marketed under the Rhodicare trade mark and all have controlled rheological features and the stabilising and thickening properties of xanthan gum . |
| 29 | Most projects had been efficiently run , and many had helped disadvantaged groups . |
| 30 | Seeds of biennials were sown on the programme in June , and many have made fine plants to fill borders , windowboxes and containers , which will grace our first programmes come next spring . |