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

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1 If so , bearing in mind that intention in this context is not the same as motive and that the tort may be committed without any ill will towards the plaintiff , it is likely to be a rare case in which A's words have had a causative effect on B's conduct and yet A escapes liability on the ground that they were only ‘ advice . ’
2 Fortunately , the relations between the American and the British peoples have improved a great deal since then .
3 For example , the sanctions against non-members have played an important part in sustaining trade unions through difficult conflicts with employers : ‘ scab ’ labourers and strike-breakers have a hard time .
4 The past two centuries have seen the gradual evolution of separate educational establishments catering from their time of inception for identifiable disabilities and categories of handicap ( Warnock Report 1978 ) .
5 Its rear legs have joined the general staff , who are all in discussion with their backs towards me .
6 To my knowledge , such considerations have had a major influence on the circumstances of many other homeless people in West Yorkshire and elsewhere .
7 A STAGGERING 67 schools have entered The Northern Echo 's Schools Cricket championships for 1992 .
8 Using the terminology of " information-processing skills " , these readers have automatised an invariant process by practice , and the recognition of words becomes a component subskill .
9 In this extract the hero approaches Stonehenge : Some readers have found the human sacrifice image ‘ juvenile ’ , and it is reminiscent of the general level of The Vale of Esthwaite ; but in Wordsworth 's defence one must point out that everybody believed that Stonehenge had been the scene of human sacrifice , and continued to do so until this century ( see , for instance , Hardy 's Tess of the D'Urbervilles ) .
10 EIGHT lucky readers have earned a special night out at Durham Wasps ' final home play-off match .
11 In this time it seems that all other areas of the Lakes have had a new guide , and some of them two .
12 A number of journalists have overlaid the evangelical/secular distinction with a generational difference .
13 In addition , the short units have enabled a great variety of topics to be included .
14 The OTC traders have gained an enormous amount of extra business from the Government 's Business Expansion Scheme ( BES ) .
15 Many organizations have gone the whole way and created entirely different systems for each of these needs .
16 With the increasing complexity of control information many organizations have devised a formal Management Information System ( MIS ) to cope with this problem .
17 Archeologists have discovered a creeping village .
18 Cheque and banking frauds have seen a massive increase in Frankfurt , Berlin and Hamburg .
19 Lord Scarman 's inquiry was not on the same scale as the famous Kerner Report in 1968 on the US riots , but since the publication of his Report in November 1981 his views and prescriptions have played an important role in fashioning political debate about the riots .
20 Pesticides have had a damaging effect on a lot of wildlife , including birds of prey , but for some reason this does n't seem to have affected barn owls as much as the sparrowhawk and peregrine populations .
21 More recently , pelagic fleets of several nations have fished the Southern Ocean effectively for pelagic and demersal fish , squid and krill ; for overviews of their catches and potential see Grantham ( 1977 ) , Eddie ( 1977 ) , Everson ( 1977 ) and Knox ( 1983 ) .
22 Will the Prime Minister confirm that 140 nations have signed the United Nations nuclear non-proliferation treaty , including Tory Canada ?
23 Alter almost three decades of escalating research effort , punctuated by occasional headline reports in the lay press , biosensors have become an integral part of analytical biochemistry .
24 Ian Pollock 's clients have included the Royal Shakespeare Company , Pentagram Design , Penguin , Pan , Rolling Stone , Dry Blackthorn Cider , Saatchi & Saatchi , New Scientist and Esquire .
25 Their designers have discovered a blind spot in the way humans play chess , and they have built machines with one ability : to sit in that blind spot and stab out of it , over and over , during the course of the game .
26 The designers have produced a complete range , including shoes you would n't normally associate with Doc Martens .
27 OLDER cars have to undergo an annual MoT test — so why not drivers too ?
28 Here the influences of the professionals , psychologists , psychiatrists , psycho-analysts and paediatricians have played an important part in convincing us ( as every mother knows ) that the quality of physical care has a profound effect on the social and emotional development of children .
29 MPs of all parties have condemned the current laws which makes it legal to own and sell detection equipment but illegal to use such a device on the road .
30 The other parties have followed the Conservative lead and we have completely changed the face of political presentation since the early 1980s .
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