Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amnesty has received repeated reports of violation of detention procedures . |
| 2 | This work will be used to examine possible policy changes — to the tax treatment of husband and wife , for example — and has developed new indicators of welfare effects , measures of standard of living , labour supply effects and other responses . |
| 3 | The private sector does not aim to produce a comprehensive system of health care ; in Britain it has developed specialized aspects of health care provision . |
| 4 | However , in the USA , the chemical fallout from industry and agriculture has prompted an environmental expert to warn of the many unseen air pollutants which are not covered by the Clean Air Act and are damaging not only to human health — linked to ills from leukaemia to heart disease — but are implicated in the formation of ‘ acid rain' which has devastated vast tracts of forest ( Begley , 1988 ) . |
| 5 | En route , each member of the quartet has attracted varying degrees of ridicule . |
| 6 | Each of our advisors is registered with Fimbra , the Financial Intermediaries Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association and as such has to meet high standards of knowledge , experience and professional competence . |
| 7 | More recently , the BLM has leased large tracts of wilderness to be used as garbage dumps for cities in the Los Angeles area . |
| 8 | A parliamentary commission in Ukraine has uncovered gross violations of safety regulations at the Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear plant . |
| 9 | Observation has revealed extensive areas of detergent responsive light soiling . |
| 10 | Exploration for platinum mineralisation associated with basic and ultrabasic rocks in the Huntly area of Aberdeenshire has revealed enhanced levels of platinum and locally of gold . |
| 11 | If the holder 's vehicles suffer prohibitions because of unroadworthiness or overloading , if he has made false statements of intent which have not been fulfilled , if there has been a material change of circumstances relating to the licence holder or if an unnominated operating centre has been used , the LA may also revoke , suspend , curtail or prematurely terminate the licence . |
| 12 | The freshness and innovation of the dance underground has shown remarkable powers of survival in the face of media attempts to drag it kicking into the mainstream . |
| 13 | Auger spectroscopy of igneous and metamorphic rocks has shown fine films of carbon covering grain boundaries . |
| 14 | The meaning of the decision in Lonrho has produced radical differences of opinion in courts here and abroad . |
| 15 | The school has its own experimental farm , and has produced special strains of rice for the commune . |
| 16 | Deaf education has been associated with a great deal of dogma which has had varying degrees of influence over the years . |
| 17 | Chemical control of sweet potato pests has had varying degrees of success , with many chemicals being too expensive . |
| 18 | Social disorder is not new but throughout history , it has had varying degrees of prominence as a problem . |
| 19 | Our musician , Mr. Robert Turner , is currently the musical director of a successful Male Voice choir and has had countless years of experience in the world of music — but only hours of experience with computers . |
| 20 | , A Ministry of Agriculture report has detected alarming levels of tecnazene in water downstream of potato crisp factories , chip shops and in sewage works . |
| 21 | A nationwide survey by the Indian Council of Medical Research has detected high levels of pesticide residues in cows ' milk , and toxic metals including arsenic , cadmium and lead in infant canned products . |
| 22 | Paul Mayewski of the University of New Hampshire , who has compared current levels of sulphur dioxide with those after volcanic eruptions , said : " I would say that we 're underestimating the effect of warming due to carbon dioxide because we 're dumping so much sulphur dioxide into the system " . |
| 23 | By contrast , the United States has experienced analogous problems of concentration but has a much larger black population . |
| 24 | Let me take this opportunity to say what a wonderful thing it is that for almost fifty years now , the British government has spent huge sums of money to keep this unique library up to date . |
| 25 | While this has sometimes been aimed at the complete subversion and overthrow of the established political order , as in the case of the Bader-Meinhoff group in West Germany and the Italian Red Brigades , more recently it is concern over nuclear weapons , and specifically the installation of cruise missiles that has engendered extra-constitutional forms of dissent both in this country and abroad . |
| 26 | An expanded repertoire has meant new sources of money . |
| 27 | There is no doubt that many disks will become degraded and that the variety and rapid rate of technological obsolescence which has affected the hardware and software involved has created major problems of preservation and access . |
| 28 | Rather , over the past twenty years it has created discrete areas of fashion which do not automatically seek to emulate or follow one another . |
| 29 | The advancing good management project again , has prioritised certain kinds of disadvantage organisations , to ensure that they 're getting funded , and that 's also reflected in the representation on the Committee . |
| 30 | The sharp increase in effluent has deprived aquatic organisms of oxygen . |