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

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1 Vitally for small manufacturers , the more parts they use from large manufacturers that have already gained Type Approval in another application , the cheaper the tests will be ; MIRA 's inspectors will be able to cross-check data they already hold for , say , a wheel , a light or a mirror , using their discretion as to whether they think its new role is fit and proper .
2 Landowners have bought old farms for use as holiday homes and have then claimed planning permission to house local workers , provide employment and manage the land .
3 The strength of any particular syllable can be measured by counting up the number of times an s symbol occurs above it ; the levels in the sentence shown above can be diagrammed like this ( leaving out syllables that have never received stress at any level ) :
4 Just as we should not expect too much from those West German areas that have simply erected speed restriction signs without reinforcing the message with physical infrastructure , so design changes alone , though better than legal changes alone , are still inadequate .
5 Secondly , the companies that have already spent money on cleaning up are reluctant to see others let off the hook .
6 It is clear that the Banks are preoccupied with keeping staffing to a minimum ; have no regard for retaining Key Posts and have totally disregarded Relief Staff .
7 In many cases green ferns , and particularly bracken , can darken during pressing , or you can deliberately look for ferns that have already changed colour .
8 This is an area where we can make much more progress and I 'm delighted to see the advances that have already taken place .
9 Mr Cojuangco comes from one of the families that have long controlled business and political affairs in the Philippines , and to some extent still do .
10 But most of us still feel hard-pressed to keep up with those changes that have already taken place .
11 To put the point graphically , while Marx and his nineteenth-century comrades would have no great difficulty in recognizing the economic and the political spheres today , despite the major changes that have undoubtedly taken place in the last hundred years , in the cultural-ideological sphere the opportunities for hegemonic control on a global scale have changed out of all recognition .
12 Clearly worried by growing opposition to reforms that have drastically eroded living standards , Mr Yeltsin reshuffled his government last week in an attempt to shield some of the younger , more radical ministers he appointed last autumn from the wrath of the Congress .
13 In the last year I have been helping residents with a variety of local problems and have successfully applied pressure on Oxfordshire County Council to act on the problems caused by the gypsies at the end of the Abingdon Road , near the Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre .
14 But that did not put a stop to the myths that have always surrounded Earth 's nearest neighbour
15 A PRIVATE member 's bill to introduce payments for Crown servants who were exposed to radiation during nuclear weapons tests and have since contracted leukaemia and other cancers , and to the dependants of those who have died , was presented to the Commons by Mr Bob Clay ( Lab .
16 The discursive mode of Amalgamemnon is also plausible realistically in as much as the future and other unreal verb forms are commonly used in news broadcasts to describe scheduled events , to make meteorological and economic forecasts , and to speculate as to the possible consequences of events that have already taken place .
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