Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] have [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An important influence over this change has come from the US , where shareholders have stepped up the pressure to conform to good community practice . |
| 2 | Where things have gone wrong the two typical queries are : ‘ My fish are ill/dying/dead/refusing to eat ’ and ‘ My fish are killing each other ’ , and many of these I find very distressing , as they are usually the result of the hobbyist having failed to do his or her ‘ homework ’ before setting up their tank or buying a particular species . |
| 3 | He enjoyed the salmon trout he ate at the small inn there but was mighty scathing about the visitors ' book ( as well as about the notion that the lake might actually be beautiful ) : ‘ You will see only two kinds of exclamations in it : one about the beauty of the Lac de Gaube , the other about how good the trout are … which means that only fools or gluttons have picked up the pen to sign their names and their thoughts . ’ |
| 4 | Although managers have drawn up a list of personalities who could be invited to open the centre , identities were not revealed . |
| 5 | But I think those days are now over and anybody who 's been in building societies , there 's now a feeling er that things have altered quite a long way . |
| 6 | I can see from what you 've just told me that things have changed rather a lot in fifty years . |
| 7 | Right so at the point we broke off , you were saying about things that things have changed quite a lot . |
| 8 | Since you signed it 's been a little bit up and down , some goals conceded , not necessarily down to you , so you must be pleased that things have settled down a bit ? |
| 9 | In an improbable , but typical , detour in a review of a book about corsets , she asks : ‘ How has it come about that feminists have picked up the masculine notion that those women who are n't self-confessed feminists do n't known what they 're doing , half the time ? ’ |
| 10 | This happens to be a good strategy for a side with material superiors , and computers have won quite a lot of games with this strategy . |
| 11 | But John King has stuck to his principles and Rovers have strung together an impressive home record . |
| 12 | erm I 've always believed that consistency is an overrated virtue so I 'm not gon na criticise the Conservatives for changing their minds but you have to ask yourself why is this recorded on the agenda today when the sub-committee , planning sub- committee has already met and discussed these matters and things have moved on a little further Well we we really have to look at how the resolution in this paragraph came about in the first place . |
| 13 | Similar regulations and procedures have delayed both the promotion and dismissal of staff and have hampered the ZBS by failing to provide it with adequate transport when needed at short notice . |
| 14 | But modern refinements and materials have brought about a resurgence of the supercharger , making it a credible alternative to the turbo . |
| 15 | It contains three- and four-letter word picture cards , and children have to make up the words using eight cubes with letters on each side . |
| 16 | The merchants and sailors have brought back the raw materials for the city 's industries . |
| 17 | Now banks and councils have to sort out the mess . |
| 18 | Nevertheless undaunted , since things have moved on a bit since nineteen eighty seven , I suppose what I 'm looking for is some guidance as to the way in which policy I twelve has operated in practice . |