Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sounds as if IBM Corp has thrown in the towel and acknowledged that it will never make it with a word processor of its own : it has become a member of Wordperfect Corp 's Customer Advantage Programme , a fancy name for a company-wide licence for IBM to distribute and use Wordperfect products throughout the company with ‘ significant savings ’ and simplified licence administration . |
| 2 | Technology has improved our hairstyles , but our hair has suffered in the process . |
| 3 | Quizmaster Magnus Magnusson KBE has landed in the hot seat himself . |
| 4 | It was a goal of the highest class , reflecting the progress the 29-year-old striker has made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to earn fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers . |
| 5 | It is very clear from the findings of the Survey that little or no change has occurred in the patterns of demand for the major categories of material studied on earlier occasions : the overwhelming majority of items requested are still modern publications , and the demand for foreign-language publications ( and , indeed , for publications in particular foreign languages ) has remained constant . |
| 6 | The division has followed in the footsteps of Pochin 's mobile concrete pumping division who achieved the accreditation last year . |
| 7 | Every other improvement for the guitar has occurred in the realms of hardware and pickups . |
| 8 | The Ministry of Defence has declared in the past that people up to 10 kilometres from an accident could be affected . |
| 9 | If the scatter dice is an arrow the shell has landed in the direction shown 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 , or 10″ away from the aiming point as shown by the artillery dice . |
| 10 | If the scatter dice is an arrow the shell has landed in the direction shown 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 , or 10″ away from the aiming point as shown by the artillery dice . |
| 11 | Furthermore , by means of various statutes , e.g. the Fire Safety and Places of Sport Act 1987 , etc. , Parliament has placed in the hands of local authorities the power to control the condition and usage of business premises . |
| 12 | Our Parliament has prevailed in the face of fascism , Marxism and communism , where others succumbed . |
| 13 | The ownership and use of cars in the Netherlands has doubled in the past fifteen years . |
| 14 | This means that EEC law must be examined not only when the UK legislation has been passed to implement an EEC obligation but in all cases in which the EEC has legislated in the field under consideration . |
| 15 | Mr Dinkins has stayed in the headlines by pandering to Jewish sensibilities , and by removing from his campaign a volunteer who once read an antisemitic poem on the radio and praised it . |
| 16 | Dick Spelman , general manager of marketing for the Halifax , Britain 's biggest mortgage lender , said the current recession has resulted in the first post-war collapse of house prices . |
| 17 | Healy has returned in the guise of successful club DJ and mastermind behind the group E-Zee Posse . |
| 18 | Fodor has written in The Modularity of Mind that the consequence of accepting the representational theory of mind in cognitive psychology is a kind of ‘ methodological solipsism ’ ( that is , we deal with representations , not the with relations between organisms and real objects out there ) . |
| 19 | Too much competition between the two main houses has resulted in the whittling away of the seller 's commission in many transactions and buyers will now be hit in order to restore profit margins . |
| 20 | In the Near East , the constant rebuilding of mud brick houses has resulted in the formation of considerable mounds known as tells ; the one at Jericho is over 15 metres high . |
| 21 | Cambridgeshire has adopted in the Chevely area a federal solution by technically ‘ closing ’ ( say ) three schools and enlarging a fourth to operate as a single administrative unit for the four school populations on their own sites . |
| 22 | The application of systematic thinking to , for instance , the courses offered by the Open University has resulted in the production of syllabuses , learning methods and study materials which are not only of extremely high quality but are profoundly influencing the approach of teachers and administrators all over the world and at many levels of educational activity . |
| 23 | Lautro should reconsider its practice of issuing a press notice and consider deferring the issue of a press notice until after the person affected has had an opportunity to apply for the notice to be rescinded , to make representations to that effect , and Lautro 's board has ruled in the application ( post , pp. 581F–G , 582A ) . |
| 24 | Both prism and grating spectrographs are simple to construct and operate , and many decades of experience has resulted in the development of reliable instruments . |
| 25 | The colt 's sheer presence has resulted in the smallest field for many years which could count against him . |
| 26 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 27 | Er , for , for , what N C V O has done in the year . |
| 28 | Mark Clayton 's cooking has progressed in the year he has been head chef at Eastwell Manor , near Ashford , Kent . |
| 29 | A significant part of the other third of its income has come in the past from moneys from the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 30 | ‘ This connection is particularly important at the current time when we know the numbers of women on low income has doubled in the last decade . ’ |