Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MORE than 14,000 shoppers have backed a campaign to support Sunday trading but the issue will remain in deadlock for another three weeks , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 2 | But 60,000 shoppers have backed a campaign to give shops like VG , Mace , Spar and Londis , the right to sell papers . |
| 3 | ‘ The words have to set the atmosphere , you see . |
| 4 | If so , bearing in mind that intention in this context is not the same as motive and that the tort may be committed without any ill will towards the plaintiff , it is likely to be a rare case in which A's words have had a causative effect on B's conduct and yet A escapes liability on the ground that they were only ‘ advice . ’ |
| 5 | These characteristics have engendered an ‘ enclosed order of railwaymen ’ ( Gourvish 1986 : 577 ) , with a strong loyalty , discipline and dedication to the railway among all groups of employees . |
| 6 | Perhaps some of your one-night stands have passed the word around that you are readily available . |
| 7 | These DES guidelines have generated a barrage of terms used with increasing ease by headteachers and officers , but still unfamiliar to most staff and governors . |
| 8 | Fortunately , the relations between the American and the British peoples have improved a great deal since then . |
| 9 | For Europe , the nineteenth century was the great time when languages were identified and codified in single forms , minority languages in part eliminated , consciously national literatures and musics invented , and the territory mapped ( appropriately described as a ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ land , even though very few peoples have occupied the same territory for more than a thousand years ) . |
| 10 | For example , the sanctions against non-members have played an important part in sustaining trade unions through difficult conflicts with employers : ‘ scab ’ labourers and strike-breakers have a hard time . |
| 11 | In this pavement — as in others of a comparable design — the squares have assumed an overall structural importance and greatly influence the character of the work . |
| 12 | The fans have created a special Anglo-Gallic chant for him , and they call for his reinstatement when he is not in the team , as was the case here for all but the last six minutes . |
| 13 | Members get newsletters , the option to buy tickets first and some fans have met the band . |
| 14 | For years those fans have suffered the frustration of supporting the team through thick and thin only to see the best seats at big matches filled by the detested ‘ fur-coat brigade ’ . |
| 15 | The side 's financial future is in doubt after relegation from the premier league.Now the fans have enlisted the support of their local MP to ensure they 're back on the track for the new season . |
| 16 | Thus football fans have incorporated the term ‘ hooligan ’ into their own social talk and use it as a term for referring to boys who commit acts generally thought worthy of some praise . |
| 17 | The fans have got a right to expect that , ’ said Keegan . |
| 18 | COUCH POTATO fans have launched an S.E.S … |
| 19 | AD LIB RALLY LATEST … over in Gloucester rugby fans have spent the weekend celebrating after a famous win over Saracens … but the price of victory for the cherry and whites was an injury to scrum half Marcus Hannaford which has put him in hospital and put the good name of the sport to the test |
| 20 | More than 5,000 Swindon fans have signed a petition calling on the sports governing body to return the club to the first flight , replacing another side which has already pulled out of the league . |
| 21 | FOOTBALL : Nearly 400 Wolves ' fans have signed a petition protesting at the design of a new kit to be worn by the club next season and launched at Saturday 's final home game against Middlesbrough . |
| 22 | The past two centuries have seen the gradual evolution of separate educational establishments catering from their time of inception for identifiable disabilities and categories of handicap ( Warnock Report 1978 ) . |
| 23 | But the ravages of the centuries have robbed the glass of their fifteenth century colours . |
| 24 | The last two centuries have brought a variety of attempts in theology to cope with these questions , and both the alternatives bequeathed by Lessing have been followed . |
| 25 | Chaka Khan has been around forever , and recently her trademark whoops and screams have sounded a little forced . |
| 26 | Its rear legs have joined the general staff , who are all in discussion with their backs towards me . |
| 27 | Only the National Assembly has the power to amend the constitution or vote itself out of office — an unlikely prospect given that only 50 or so assemblymen have accepted the government 's offer of a $175,000 tax-free retirement pension . |
| 28 | The patient with the hippo bite told me that hippos have become the most dangerous animals in Africa . |
| 29 | Still , that most provinces have reached a stage where compensation of any form is under consideration is itself a remarkable turn of events . |
| 30 | Instead , the Taiwanese turned to impoverished Vietnam , and the Koreans have become the most conspicuous foreign investors in Myanmar . |