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

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1 The Warmfield company has claimed that all procedures for dumping — which it claims will consist mainly of meat and fish and industrial waste — are safe , although it has refused to disclose full details .
2 Popper has claimed that some versions at least of Marx 's theory of history , Freudian psychoanalysis and Adlerian psychology suffer from this fault .
3 An internal memo by a senior employee at the Rocky Flats plant in Colorado has disclosed that substantial amounts of highly radioactive plutonium are stored in unsafe or untested containers and in unstable condition and are not suitably protected against fire .
4 The ‘ racialization , of British politics throughout the last 20 years has ensured that most areas of public debate — law and order , the welfare state , unemployment , youth , education , the inner cities , the family — now have a racial dimension and often one in which black communities , but especially black youth , appear as threats in a wider demonology of scroungers , shirkers , muggers , drug pushers , school failures and inadequate parents ( Hall et al . ,
5 In Pakistan an old system dating from the British occupation has ensured that large parts of the North-West Frontier Province remain out of bounds to government officials .
6 It is even harder to assess the social impact , and although Bollom ( 1978 ) has argued that local attitudes to second-home owners depend on the structure of the local community , and that antipathy to second-home owners ironically tends to decline with increasing percentages of second homes , another study ( Downing and Dower , 1972 , 32 ) has argued that :
7 In his excellent review of studies of ‘ what managers do ’ , Hales has argued that three areas of difficulty may be encountered in the published research evidence on managerial work , viz :
8 The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) has said that current proposals for a powerful new multilateral trade organisation ( MTO ) are not compatible with the goal of sustainable development set by last year 's Earth Summit in Rio .
9 Mr Reenan has revealed that other parts of his tape ‘ simply did n't make sense ’ .
10 Hertfordshire County Council has revealed that primary schools with the greatest additional funds had fourteen times the extra amounts available to the poorest schools .
11 The Ministry of Agriculture has revealed that high levels of a contaminant were found in several samples of apple juice .
12 She has decided that pretty compliments from members of the opposite sex are what , after all , is important in this life .
13 For seventeenth-century Somerset , J. H. Hamer has shown the influence of White Down fair near Crewkerne , and Christopher Gerrard has shown that two fairs at Taunton held only a few weeks apart had a major influence on the trading of cattle and horses in the West Country .
14 He has shown that certain sections of the population look for immediate , simple satisfactions , while the intellectuals take pride in rejecting kitsch and deny themselves these simple pleasures .
15 Little is written about Black women and racist attacks , yet experience has shown that Black women in particular not only bear the brunt of racial violence but also of oppressive policing .
16 Thayer ( 1986 , 1989 ) , for example , has shown that self-report measures of how peppy , active or vigorous a person feels correlate well with a broad range of physiological measures of arousal , usually better than the intercorrelation of such measures with one another .
17 Research has shown that significant changes in the levels of these particular vitamins can alter those reactions and thereby affect energy and well-being .
18 In a study of six sites in southern Britain , which were previously occupied by ancient woodland , Kirby ( 1988 ) has shown that considerable variations in ground flora occur in relation to the rotation cycle , the canopy species and its density .
19 The ‘ Shakespeare and Schools ’ project , at the Cambridge Institute of Education , has shown that secondary pupils of a wide range of abilities can find Shakespeare accessible , meaningful and enjoyable .
20 Eastern Europe has shown that non-market economies with slow growth can pollute the environment more than most .
21 Roig ( 1981 : 14 ) , for example , has noted that strategic changes in the public enterprise are often more ‘ rhetorical ’ than ‘ effective ’ .
22 Like others before him , he has noted that some aspects of Mayan and other Mesoamerican civilisations bear an uncanny resemblance to artefacts from the great dynasties of China .
23 It has been shown that our thinking in terms of models such as ‘ democracy ’ , ‘ individualism ’ and ‘ rule of law ’ does not always adequately reflect reality , and sociological theory has demonstrated that simple notions of causality do not explain complex effects of action ( Luhmann , 1982 ; see also Prigogine and Stenger , 1985 ) ; also , theories of language tell us that we structure reality through the language we use ( Lacan , 1968 ) .
24 A study by an independent team of scientists carried out at the government 's request , has concluded that vast areas of natural habitats have been degraded , while the construction of 3,000 km of cattle fences has interfered with essential wildlife migration routes between protected areas such as the Kalahari , Okavango swamplands and northern grasslands .
25 Other research has indicated that five years after divorce half of all custodial parents have remarried ( Leete and Anthony , 1979 ) .
26 The Home Secretary has indicated that State-run prisons of this standard may take about 20–25 years to achieve .
27 This Irish study has indicated that most patients with colorectal carcinoma have low serum cholesterol values .
28 The Transport Secretary , John McGregor , has announced that concessionary railcards for the elderly and young people will be retained after rail privatisation .
29 These past five years my pernicious enfeeblement has meant that six months of the year I have had to hibernate , to entomb myself in the disused redoubt beneath Cliff Top , but at last I am free .
30 This has meant that many enthusiasts for computing in the humanities have an uncomfortable sense of crisis , a feeling of promise unfulfilled .
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