Example sentences of "[conj] have [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 High-yield-bond sales through Drexel helped finance the acquisitions that have turned Hasbro into America 's biggest toy company .
2 Do you think any of the erm companies that have done business with Japan would have any such pictures ?
3 Against this background of recent dramatic change in retail patterns that have remained town-based for centuries , the new guidance is welcome .
4 The world 's biggest wildlife hospital says it 's being overwhelmed with animals that have fallen victim to summer traffic .
5 The world 's biggest wildlife hospital says it 's being overwhelmed with animals that have fallen victim to summer traffic .
6 It is these lamps — the Philips SL and PL , the Thorn 2D and the Toshiba Neo Ball among them — that have stimulated design of lighting fittings .
7 Some of the few studies that have taken account of gender suggest that Afro-Caribbean girls are achieving higher levels than boys at school level , partly because they are pursuing different strategies , which are necessary in order to survive in the context of high unemployment and low wages for black male workers ( Fuller , 1983 ; see also Riley , 1986 ; Driver , 1977 ) .
8 Although I recognise that for obvious reasons the Secretary of State will not want to be locked or painted into a figure of 512 as the maximum , which is what it would be , will he tell the House whether , in the light of last week 's discussions with President Yeltsin and the changes that have taken place since Christmas , the Government are now considering the minimum deterrent to be somewhat lower than they had previously considered it necessary to be ?
9 Before we go on to consider these studies of local politics , think about other major economic and social changes that have taken place within Britain since the mid-1970s — such as deindustrialization , or the large increase in home ownership .
10 With all the changes that have taken place in Abbey National since its historic conversion to plc two years ago , Vos is convinced that customers will have noticed an improvement in the quality of service .
11 The changes in health that have taken place in El Salvador have inevitably been uneven , fraught with difficulties and contradictions .
12 Because I think one of the extraordinary changes that have taken place in history at professional level is the much greater interest in things that older historian would have thought was outside their province .
13 It will cover the changes that have taken place in assessment since the original version was first published in 1988 .
14 However the changes that have taken place in society in recent decades , resulting in the rapid growth of youth unemployment , have also resulted in a greatly reduced importance of certification at 16+ for selection purposes .
15 By looking at events that have taken place in Leicestershire over the past 90 years , this project aims to build up a picture of the long-term changes that have taken place in the levels and patterns of violence in various spheres of social life .
16 The validity of this approach has been borne out by other studies combining immunocytochemistry with DNA sequencing that have found accumulation of protein to be invariably associated with the presence of a mutant p53 allele .
17 Notwithstanding the views that have found favour with others I consider this to be a reasonable construction of the statutory provisions and I am comforted in the fact that , apart from an attempt to tax airline employees , which was taken to the special commissioners who decided in favour of the taxpayer , this has been the practice of the Inland Revenue in applying the relevant words where they have occurred in the Income Tax Acts for so long as they have been in force , until they initiated the present cases .
18 but I mean er there is , there is a , a clinic , a special clinic f for fellows that have got trouble with drink .
19 Similar advances have been made in producing plants that have engineered resistance to viruses and fungi .
20 Mr McHardy added : ‘ Given that we are a non-party political grouping and have received support from members of all Scotland 's political parties , we hope that this proposal will not be seen as contentious by anyone . ’
21 But the procedures for establishing relief are cumbersome and have given rise to delays in settling a Name 's tax liability .
22 Many societies have been conserving the environment perfectly well for millennia , and have integrated conservation into cultivation practices , but not as an explicit programme .
23 However , many users , and in particular shareholders , financial analysts , employees and trade unions , require and have demanded information in excess of that required by law .
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