Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rapid economic development has vastly increased demand for water in recent years , and the expansion is expected to continue : the water needs of the urban population are expected to increase by 45 per cent in the next 20 years , with industry requiring 30 per cent more water and agriculture 14 per cent more . |
| 2 | This proposition forms the basis of Stenhouse 's concept of the ‘ teacher-as-researcher ’ : an idea which he developed in the context of the Humanities Curriculum Project ( HCP ) , and which has since influenced approaches to curriculum development and curriculum evaluation ( especially teacher self-evaluation ) . |
| 3 | While the election has badly dented ratings for television news and current affairs programmes , it has improved Radio 4 audiences , according to BBC figures . |
| 4 | The long-standing popularity of Japanese woodcut prints in the West has somewhat disguised differences in approach . |
| 5 | The Committee of London & Scottish Bankers ( CLSB ) has been merged with with the British Banker 's Association ( BBA ) ( which has hitherto existed side by side with the CLSB ) . |
| 6 | Mr Gandhi ( who , admittedly , has long preached toughness against terrorism ) is equally practical . |
| 7 | Van Morrison has long had associations with mysticism and his legacy are bands like U2 , The Hothouse Flowers and The Waterboys . |
| 8 | The annual General Household Survey has only included questions on cohabitation since 1979 and estimates suggest that the proportion of women aged 18 to 49 years cohabiting has doubled from 3 per cent in 1979 to 6 per cent in 1987 . |
| 9 | ‘ Today has merely confirmed years of observation , ’ she retorted stiffly . |
| 10 | Mr Fallon , the Schools Minister , hopes he has finally ended months of controversy over Government funding of building work at St Bede 's and St Augustine 's RC primary schools . |
| 11 | Polly Peck raised half of the £560million Del Monte Fresh Fruit purchase cost through its three-for-seven rights issue , but it has just paid £69million for control of Sansui . |
| 12 | The material has already revealed evidence for trepanation , a surgical procedure involving removal of a piece of bone from the skull . |
| 13 | Palo Alto , California-based Legato Systems Inc has agreed to provide its Transport Independent Remote Procedure Call tool kit to Novell Inc in exchange for Novell 's local network Workplace TCP/IP stack — the Novell product will be bundled with Legato 's Networker in its ClientPak II configuration and users with MS-DOS clients on a NetWare local network will be able to do on-demand back-up of MS-DOS and Unix applications by backing them up on a Unix or NetWare server configured with TCP/IP ; IBM has already licensed NetWorker for marketing to its RS/6000 customers . |
| 14 | One course in England has already received approval in principle to run 10 programmes of 40 places each starting next April . |
| 15 | Microsoft has already taken licences on cartoon characters ' voices and electronic rights to reproduce famous paintings . |
| 16 | There are also hopes that a live trade in slaughter cattle could be developed with other EC countries over 1994 — just as has already taken place with slaughter lambs to France . |
| 17 | It is has already transformed areas of information use such as industrial , professional and academic research and has made possible the first practical real-time information services . |
| 18 | Mr Rutskoi has already had responsibility for agriculture taken away , along with his official Mercedes and doctor . |
| 19 | Industrial fishing has already decimated stocks of capelin , the small fish which , like the sand-eel in Shetland waters , is the principal food for many birds and animals . |
| 20 | The centre has already attracted interest from fund-holding GPs in the area as well as customers referred from Darlington Memorial Hospital and Middlesbrough General . |
| 21 | Promotion of the state-owned sector has generally gone hand in hand with promotion of the indigenous , i.e. African , private sector , although in ‘ socialist ’ countries the scope of the latter has sometimes been consciously restricted . |
| 22 | yet the revival of his ‘ non-Gilbert ’ works has hardly caught fire in time to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth in London on May 13th 1842 . |
| 23 | So this is a disc to be greeted eagerly by anyone who has ever heard Nilsson in person and to be investigated by those too young to have done so . |
| 24 | ( 4 ) Cinema has always given primacy of place to images . |
| 25 | THE SCOTCH WHISKY ASSOCIATION HAS ALWAYS ENCOURAGED MODERATION IN DRINKING AND IS TOTALLY OPPOSED TO THE MISUSE OF ALCOHOL IN ANY FORM . |
| 26 | Great Britain coach Malcolm Reilly has always picked men in form which is an encouragement to me to press hard all the time . ’ |
| 27 | Moreover , to maintain a tribe in being has always required acts of will , occasionally of violence , and to think of tribes as in some sense natural phenomena , inert until a civilizing , modernizing process is forced upon them , is to succumb to ideology . |
| 28 | In the preface of his book of etchings 78 Studies ( 1809 ) he says ‘ He has always considered fidelity of imitation is the first improvement in the fine arts . ’ |
| 29 | Kim , who is continuing on the diet as she wants to shed another couple of stone , has always had loads of personality but , as her weight has reduced , an even more bubbly girl has emerged . |
| 30 | ‘ The Church has always had trouble with marriage , ’ said Beuno , ‘ trying to combine two mutually exclusive imperatives . |