Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Council house building has all but stopped , while sales have stripped out the better stock . |
| 2 | Similar difficulties are likely to arise where a provision has more than one status ; eg where a procedure is treated , for some purposes , as also being a rule . |
| 3 | Sheffield Wednesday 's makeshift striker has all but clinched a big money move to Ewood Park at the second attempt just three weeks after signing a new four-year contract at Hillsborough . |
| 4 | Homeopathy has more than 2,000 remedies , made from all sorts of plants and even snake venom . |
| 5 | O D A funding of British N G O activities has more than doubled in the last three years . |
| 6 | ICI has more than 40 chemical plants on Teesside . |
| 7 | In the past year the number of catalogued CD-ROM titles has more than doubled to more than 2,000 and looks likely to continue to grow just as fast . |
| 8 | ( b ) If the computer has more than one processor register , then instructions are necessary to transfer values to and from these registers , the source or destination of the value being either another processor register or a store location . |
| 9 | Airtime suppliers are to charge what they like , but competition should mean that call rates fall , especially as the recession has all but capped the once fast growth . |
| 10 | Where a word in a sentence has more than one meaning , dictionary definitions can be used to select the appropriate sense . |
| 11 | Bonn 's roll of 36 000 is by no means untypical : Munster has more than 40 000 ; Aachen 's technical university nearly 32 000 : Koln nearly 40 000 . |
| 12 | In Hereford and Worcester , the amount of land covered by roads offices and houses has more than doubled since the war.In Gloucestershire the figure is ninety-five per cent , with a similar impact on pasture-land . |
| 13 | Certain UK fields , which are scheduled to commence production during 1993 , are expected to be completed at considerably higher costs than originally forecast ; in particular , the Piper field has more than doubled its originally projected cost . |
| 14 | For example British Aerospace has more than doubled to 375p this year . |
| 15 | The University of Munich has nearly 45 000 and Berlin 's free University has more than 47 000 , with another 25 000 or so at the Technical University there . |
| 16 | The Association has ever since this Congress played a prominent part in the affairs of the international deaf community through its membership of the World Federation , and it has itself greatly benefited from its international links . |
| 17 | And in the same period the government 's tax revenue has more than doubled to S$12.1bn . |
| 18 | The price of petrol thus has to reflect the cost of a single-occupant trip by bus or rail , so that private motoring only becomes cheaper if the car has more than one occupant . |
| 19 | The pre-modern relationship which prevailed for centuries has just as enduring an influence . |
| 20 | The IBM 370 range of computers has more than 180 different instructions , but some of these provide the same operation ( such as " add " ) on different data types ; we could reduce this number by using a tagged architecture , as described in 2.6 . |
| 21 | In the last five years the UK colour TV industry has all but disappeared as firms from the Far East have taken over . |
| 22 | The emphasis is on teamwork and on productivity ; our productivity per employee has more than doubled over the past two years . |
| 23 | In the last decade , the demand for security safeguards has more than doubled , and suppliers have mushroomed to meet that demand . |
| 24 | A very large economy such as the U.S.A. has more than 100 million workers , the large European countries have about 25 million workers . |
| 25 | Since the 1960s the amount of purely speculative experimental work on aircraft has all but ceased . |
| 26 | The figure has more than doubled in just a year . |
| 27 | There are some waters that lie in valleys where the wind has little if any influence on the water , apart from a scurrying ripple that makes little difference to the temperature layers , dissolved oxygen , or food distribution . |
| 28 | Ministers argue that the total expenditure on legal aid has more than doubled in five years , from £49 million in 1987 to a forecast total this year of £104 million . |
| 29 | In time of crisis , the United States has more than once confronted the ‘ all or nothing ’ choice of military intervention or abandoning its client . |
| 30 | The club has more than two hundred stewards to control the crowds as well as search the ground before anyone gets through the turnstiles . |