Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1978 an organisation called the Liberal Association for the Movement of People ( LAMP ) has been striving to address these problems . |
| 2 | This consists of the Auditing Guideline , Communications between Auditors and Regulators under Sections 109 and 180(1) ( q ) of the Financial Services Act 1986 , which was issued in July 1990 ; and Practice Note 3 , Client Assets — Guidance to Auditors of Investment Businesses , issued in December 1990 and which has been amended to reflect recent changes in the rules relating to client money following the issue of The Financial Services ( Client Money ) Regulations 1991 . |
| 3 | The Financial Services Act has been amended to implement these provisions . |
| 4 | ‘ This dungeon has been built to hold mightier things than us . ’ |
| 5 | While titles and locations have been placed in retrieval fields , this has been done to emphasize these elements and to stress the ideas of sources of information , seen as an important concept in history teaching . |
| 6 | Other Member States also see the LFA Directive being primarily concerned with agriculture , conservation being a subsidiary consideration , except in the Netherlands where the Directive has been implemented to maintain cherished landscapes by supporting traditional agriculture . |
| 7 | The range of options in this course has been extended to provide specialised Diplomas in Local Government , Project Management and Information Management as well as Development Administration . |
| 8 | In the civil service merit pay has been extended to cover all grades from April 1990 . |
| 9 | The Audit Commission originated in these concerns of the Layfield Committee , but its role has been widened to encompass general questions relating to efficiency in local government . |
| 10 | The CIOB is now a joint awarding body with the CITB for accredited NVQ 's and SVQ 's in Building Site Supervision [ level 3 ] and Building Site Management [ level 4 ] , and the SMETS curriculum has been revised to support these qualifications . |
| 11 | No attempt has been made to choose worthwhile bars that can be visited for a coffee break en route . |
| 12 | The issue of the document should not be taken to imply any commitment of any kind has been made to pursue possible solutions to the requirements described . |
| 13 | Clearly an attempt has been made to select key groups , but they are not used very effectively to date major sequences and odd conclusions were drawn , which were to have far reaching effects . |
| 14 | Since the FMI 's launch some attempt has been made to address these problems through courses at the Civil Service College , and more generally through what Tyson ( 1987 , p. 70 ) describes ‘ as a long-term process of personal development and change ’ ( see also Financial Management in Government Departments , 1983 , pp. 7–8 ) . |
| 15 | Pounds ) has been budgeted to subsidize local authorities ; and |
| 16 | The technique has been demonstrated using inorganic crystals , but organic polymers are easier to work with and much less expensive than crystals . |
| 17 | The Court 's competence has been accepted to cover such matters as , for instance , Sunday trading , working hours , the equality of the sexes and whether or not a road should be built through the English countryside at Twyford Down in Hampshire . |
| 18 | The Giuliani campaign — advised by Roger Ailes , the media guru who turned the Bush campaign around — has been trying to persuade Jewish voters that Mr Dinkins is a clone of Jesse Jackson and no friend of Israel . |
| 19 | The minister of agriculture and resettlement , Kumbirai Kangai , has been trying to reassure white farmers . |
| 20 | And about 500 yards away in Neasham Road , Mr John Atkinson , company director of Profix Fabrication , has been trying to find new markets for his steel products . |
| 21 | In Britain , the government has been trying to encourage commercial recyclers such as waste-paper merchants to join forces with the packaging industry to give more packaging a second life . |
| 22 | A Tory friend of mine who has been trying to write nice things about the Conservative campaign has been tearing his hair out in desperation , not just because they are doing so badly — but because they deserve to . |
| 23 | China is North Korea 's closest ally and has been trying to defuse recent tensions . |
| 24 | Version 6 of Empress Software Inc 's Empress RDBMS has been upgraded to support 64-bit architectures , and is initially available on Cray Research supercomputers , Sun and SGI workstations , HP/9000/400 Series and PCs running SunSoft 's Interactive Unix . |
| 25 | This property has been exploited to introduce new genes into the chromosomes of animal cells ( New Scientist , vol 95 , p 562 ) . |
| 26 | A COMPANY has been formed to run two sawmills which have been bought out by management from the previous owners . |
| 27 | A committee has been formed to organise special events throughout the year . |
| 28 | There is a pretty conservatory where meals are served , a large , colourful garden and several interesting outbuildings such as the 17th-century half-timbered stable block which has been converted to provide four bedrooms , and the cellar , bread oven and fishpond dug by the monks from Bordesley Abbey . |
| 29 | Scottish Nuclear New 's network of local correspondence has been expanded to cover various departments at Peel Park . |
| 30 | Alex has been trained to produce vocal answers to questions from a human . |