Example sentences of "[is] [conj] [noun] have " in BNC.
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1 | In Britain the assumption is that citizens have no right to official information , and receive only what the government chooses to tell them . |
2 | Other news is that Rohan have re-designed their full-length salopettes which were once leaders in the field . |
3 | What I find strange is that England have got nothing to do with our tour of Ireland and Wales , yet they get the big game and all the money . ’ |
4 | The rhetoric of the Right in recent years , is that women have acquired rights and opportunities in the public world , especially in the labour market , but this , it is alleged has been at the expense of their families . |
5 | What is happening is that women have shown their competence in practice and this has helped to change machista attitudes . |
6 | The advantage of this method is that profits are normally taxed only once ; the drawback is that firms have some leeway to relocate profits , paying inflated prices for imports from group subsidiaries in low-tax countries . |
7 | One of the problems they face , however , is that hotels have a relatively long pay-back period . |
8 | What is worse is that managers have been downgraded in comparison . |
9 | The most likely explanation for the recent record levels of libel awards is that juries have confused these two functions , and part of the blame must lie with judges for having failed adequately to explain to juries the purpose of their damages award . |
10 | The hypothesis is that adults have available both ways of developing competence in a second language . |
11 | Stuart Anderson , their secretary , says : ‘ The general message is that Kent have put their house in order , turned the corner and are confident that improvements on the field will be matched by overall prosperity . ’ |
12 | It is natural to ask … why it is that countries have Constitutions , why most of them make the Constitution superior to the ordinary law , and , further , why Britain , at any rate , has no Constitution , in this sense , at all . |
13 | Is my hon. Friend aware that the main barrier to CHP is that producers have to sell their electricity to the pool and then buy it back at a much higher — an uplift price ? |
14 | The other view is that institutions have just evolved . |
15 | Job preferment stigmatises those who do not need help , starts a backlash from whites and reinforces the myth of racial inferiority , the most pernicious effect of which is that blacks have believed it as much as whites . |
16 | But the bottom line is that choices have to be made . |
17 | The truth is that businesses have a number of goals . |
18 | The feeling is that cheats have had an advantage and are also risking the tours . |
19 | My main complaint about this set is that CRD have no properly updated the notes , and the actual printing of the booklet leaves much to be desired . |
20 | Leaving aside the question of whether these descriptions may be generalized beyond the British context , a problem with the approach is that writers have tended to concentrate on the ‘ outward and visible signs ’ , the more manifest differences in collective bargaining structure , unionization , pay determination , conflict and so on , without providing a more general framework within which these phenomena may be seen . |
21 | However , a difficulty with extra-mural study is that teachers have to work very hard in order to keep classes in being , since there are no external compulsions on students to attend , and their motivation and level of interest are very variable . |
22 | One reason is that users have grown used to roads , for example , that are offered either free or at fees that reflect the cost advantages with which governments start out . |
23 | The other is that Americans have grumbled louder and longer than anyone about the rubbish they throw out . |
24 | One bit of good news is that prices have stopped falling in the south — where CALA has 60 per cent of its sales and where the recovery is most noticeable . |
25 | What good news it is that SNH have given a £7,000 grant for repair work on the path to Blaven , one of the most spectacular mountains in the Skye Cuillin . |
26 | More important is that executives have learned to act more effectively without taking the personality route . |
27 | the bad news is that Tranmere have n't lost at home this season … the good news is that top scorer John Aldridge is carrying an injury … |
28 | The good news is that plans have been made for a third building . |
29 | What you , what they do n't realize in this paper is that Spurs have got about three games down on everyone else . |
30 | Because my understanding of the situation is that Harrogate have expressed , I 'll come to you in a moment Mr , Harrogate have expressed support in principal for the idea of a new settlement . |