Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The requirement that member states should co-operate to find and return such objects has also encountered the opposition of the UK and Germany .
2 The question of self-determination of the German states has recently become a subject of heated debate .
3 British Gas Plc , which employs some 27,000 operators has already shown an interest .
4 But the big spend as the group sorts out its core operations has already meant an increase in borrowing which have risen to £21m at the end of September compared with £160m the year before .
5 Her desire to break with traditional policies has also involved a rupture with many traditional Tory interests and leaders .
6 A combination of the country 's high external debt and recently introduced liberal economic policies has severely increased the numbers of unemployed and led to mass migration from rural to urban areas .
7 The new phenomenon of a deficit on manufactured trade has not , however , created any crisis in the UK 's international position : even the decline in net exports of manufactures has not fulfilled the prediction implicit in the adage ‘ export or die ’ .
8 Vickers ' analysis suggests that paradoxically this creation of new agencies to regulate such activities has actually increased the ability of government to intervene in certain areas of the economy .
9 The difficulty in meeting the relaxed comparable income eligibility criteria and the complexity of preparing the plans has severely limited the number of plans agreed .
10 Indeed the obstinacy with which company law has clung to the traditional legal model of the division of power in the company between the managers and the shareholders has sometimes had the effect of concealing from us the fact that company law regulates a variety of different sorts of companies .
11 A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle .
12 But that 's what , but The Sunday Times has always got a world news section at the back in it .
13 As with the Indus River dolphin , the construction of dams has seriously affected the Ganges susu , both through draw-down of rivers and loss of habitat .
14 The increase in secondary school enrolments in DET schools has far outstripped the rate of population increase .
15 Although in the case of the UK there have been substantial additions to the official reserves in recent years ( a consequence of foreign exchange market intervention , even though the UK has , technically , a floating or market-determined exchange rate ) this growth in the reserves has not matched the increase in capital flows .
16 Going from files to user-friendly , on-line , relational databases has clearly eased the problem but has not solved it .
17 The Law Commission pointed out in a report in April that the use of computers has greatly facilitated the ability to plan and implement in one country a fraud that has its deleterious effect in another .
18 Not only has the quality improved , but the frenzy with which we threw away 4-bit , 8-bit , and 16-bit computers has now reached a plateau at 32-bits .
19 American dominance of the top weights has unduly obscured the vitality of our own fighting tradition at the lower divisions .
20 The quality elements are the detailed procedures to be applied by centres or by SCOTVEC to ensure that assessment of candidates has accurately reflected the standards laid down for the award .
21 The increase in the use of knives has also heightened the fears of doormen and bouncers , who already ‘ do n't know if they are going home at night ’ .
22 However , the disappearance of organizational links between the press and parties has not affected the manner in which those linkages continue to be perceived .
23 In a side that trades heavily on the commitment of a classy midfield quartet , the cool defender 's ability to score vital goals has often proved a trump card for Charlton .
24 And yet Big Ears has publicly abused the Cliff Adams Singers and the Jack Emblow Quartet .
25 ‘ Colour Of Spring ’ , released in ‘ 85 , was the majestic , towering album that Talk Talk 's growing legion of fans had always known the band could make .
26 The heroism of the Glosters over 2 centuries had already won the regiment more than 30 battle honours by the time the First World War broke out .
27 There were reports that international relief organizations had vastly over-estimated the number of refugees fleeing Kuwait and Iraq following the outbreak of hostilities on Jan. 16-17 .
28 Their secret organizations had long planned a revolution ; it took place on 18 September 1885 , when the Turkish governor-general was expelled , and a telegram sent to Prince Alexander welcomed him to his new realm .
29 She and her brothers had always found the idea of ancestral spirits appearing during the Cia ceremony an awesome prospect , but her sense of unease had been greatly heightened on this occasion by the fear of unknown punishments that seemed certain to follow the incident involving her baby gibbon at the governor 's palace .
30 By the 1850s attempts to understand the arrangement of animals had thus reached the limits possible if one assumes that species are fixed in time .
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