Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] have [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they arrived in Portimão , a bustling fishing port some ten miles to the west of Praia do Carvoeiro , the tables which sat in rows in front of the quayside restaurants had already begun to fill . |
| 2 | The Next Directory is doing good mail-order fashion business and savage cost-cutting in the group 's buying policy and its high-street shops have all helped to produce profits of £8.3 million in the six months to August . |
| 3 | The brake problems had been caused by the front wheel bearings having mostly ceased to exist , sending the whole brake assembly in and out of alignment . |
| 4 | According to this conception societies have now come to recognize themselves ‘ as the result of a social action , of decisions or transactions , of domination or conflicts ’ ( Touraine , 1977 , p. 1 ) . |
| 5 | Economic changes , the growth of commuting , and migration movements have all helped to modify the social structure of rural areas . |
| 6 | Council officials have already promised to make 44 car parking spaces available in Abbot 's Yard for disabled motorists . |
| 7 | On Exmoor , management agreements have generally worked to stem losses of moor to agricultural development but the annual , index-linked compensation payments have been widely criticised as providing money to prevent a change which is not in the national interest to begin with . |
| 8 | New or secondary issue underwriters have rarely had to take up undersubscribed issues as the timings of such are usually gauged to ensure the full take-up of the shares on offer . |
| 9 | The Home Unions have steadfastly refused to alter the timing of the tour to accommodate the Wallaby tour to South Africa and have also denied the ARU 's request to permit the Wallabies to tour South Africa prior to arriving in Ireland and Scotland . |
| 10 | Maquila proponents have also had to persuade successive Mexican governments that the maquilas are good for Mexico . |
| 11 | Kelly and Sear cast doubt on the theories underpinning the computer forecasts , and suggest that the biggest effect of a volcano on the weather occurs when there is still a lot of dust in the veil and the sulphuric acid droplets have also started to build up . |
| 12 | Four of the country 's main peat retailers have all undertaken to stop supplying peat from SSSIs . |
| 13 | Ironically , in the West , the sale of videotape recorders has often seemed to grow in step with industrial unemployment . |
| 14 | While there have been a few , if any , import restrictions on EC goods coming into this country , our community partners have astutely managed to find ways to restrict the flow of British goods into theirs . |
| 15 | Mr Major 's transport ministers have desperately tried to discover some way in which they could carry out their former leader 's instruction that the railways must be privatised . |
| 16 | It 's more at the medium-term level that you can talk about the system making sensible adjustments to new circumstances , and indeed , many schools and many Local Education Authorities have simply had to do that , they 've had to erm adjust to much smaller numbers of pupils , correspondingly smaller numbers of teachers , and a much more static situation generally . |
| 17 | These factors plus preferential marketing arrangements and external financial support for development projects have all contributed to land degradation . |
| 18 | Coun. Frank Robson ( Lab ) said that Leech Homes had again decided to add more houses to their plans for The Pastures , off Hunden 's Lane . |
| 19 | Service companies have now begun to make cuts . |
| 20 | The Civil Service mandarins have often refused to allow their publication , even when they were concerned with such ‘ innocuous ’ subjects as road safety , rural depopulation or fertilizers . |
| 21 | The row about border controls has already served to deflect everybody 's mind from the main body and thrust of Article 8A , which was meant finally to establish the Common Market by the end of 1992 . |
| 22 | Branch Welfare Officer profiles have been featured in the local press and the Association 's new welfare facilities have also served to provide a focus of interest for the media . |
| 23 | It 's thought a fault in an electric fire set light to the downstairts bedroom — when the twins father Mark Bettinson smelt smoke flames had already begun to creep towards the twins cots . |
| 24 | I pointed out that in practice determinist theories have always had to acknowledge a low level of predictive power for their causal variables . |
| 25 | I acknowledge that experience has shown that local authority councillors have not sought to assert the right to sue in libel , save in a very small number of cases . |
| 26 | The figures are published on a day when arsonists destroyed part of a shopping centre just a few hours after thieves stealing television sets had also tried to start a fire . |
| 27 | Planning-programming-budgeting systems , public expenditure surveys , programme analysis and review , the rationalization of budgetary choice and other planning devices have all failed to displace established bureaucratic procedures and elites . |
| 28 | West German trade unions have already had to take action to re to prevent their government from denying equal conditions to workers in the former East Germany . |
| 29 | Because of the preponderance of older people among the disabled and the cost implications of recognising this fact within the social security system , policy makers have consistently tried to deny the existence of disability among this group , arguing that it is a ‘ normal ’ part of the ageing process . |
| 30 | THE television , the cinema and computer games have not managed to prise Ulster children away from book-reading habits , a straw poll shows today . |