Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar views on such teaching have also been expressed in the USA , where researchers have voiced concern about the preponderance of what they call ‘ frontal teaching ’ . |
| 2 | Both Salomon Brothers Inc and more importantly Goldman Sachs & Co have moved Sun Microsystems Inc shares off their recommended buy lists : basically Goldman thinks Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Intel Corp 's Pentium are going to be more than Sun can handle , hurting its ability to improve earnings on a sustained basis over the next year or so and impeding its gains in market share ; Goldman believes Sun 's financial model may need to change more quickly than the company can realise ; the long-term judgment is based on Goldman 's view of Sun 's business as 80% to 85% client side where it thinks Windows , especially NT , will dominate in client-server systems , even where high-performance client products are needed . |
| 3 | Duty said that the police would n't interfere with the property as long as they could be sure that no criminal entry or damage had taken place . |
| 4 | Marks & Spencer has turned Brooks Brothers ( which it owns ) into ‘ Brooks Sisters ’ , with a women 's range of classic gilt-buttoned navy blazers , grey flannels and front-pleated pinstripes . |
| 5 | In the last general election it was encouraging to find where contest had taken place that enthusiasm for cooperative representation had been considerably increased , and in addition the opportunity of bringing before the general public the benefits of cooperation has resulted in a very material addition to the cooperative forces in the district . |
| 6 | On May 10 demonstrators gathered in front of the KGB headquarters , where Nabiyev had taken refuge , and where negotiations were taking place between the government and opposition groups . |
| 7 | No party or coalition has taken control in Oxfordshire . |
| 8 | Coopers & Lybrand has paid $95m in an out-of-court settlement over its work as auditor to Miniscribe , the bankrupt hard disk manufacturer . |
| 9 | Where Roberts had commended Prince Albert 's provision of three bedrooms because the use of the living-room as sleeping quarters led to unwholesome crowding , the realists began to point out that the crowding occurred in any case , since even those who could afford to rent the extra rooms , could not afford to furnish them . |
| 10 | The UK Department of Trade & Industry has chosen AT&T EasyLink Services Inc 's Open System-conformant electronic mail service for its Open Systems Programme Initiative : it will be used for communications between Open Systems Programme participants , including blue chip companies , suppliers and consultancies ; the initiative is intended to stimulate take-up and use of open systems within UK industry ; value of the pact was not given . |
| 11 | A flock of chattering sparrows came over the Cages , landed on the grass by the litter bin where Woil had taken stance , and then twittered off again over the tigers ' cages . |
| 12 | In the majority of cases , where intercourse has taken place in the ‘ missionary position ’ ( woman lying on her back , man on top ) the natural eversion of the anal mucous membrane during intercourse has brought this sensitive skin into contact with the moisture ( in which the gonococcus can be found in quantity ) produced by both male and female as a result of their sexual exertions . |
| 13 | The bus driver kicked the travelling salesman where Cornelius had kicked Hamish . |
| 14 | Directly accessing the experience of service users avoids inadvertently confounding measures of process and outcome ; where evaluations have used measures of , for example , individual programme goals achieved it may be that the result owes more to staff activity ( in this case , in setting achievable goals ) than to real differences in client experience ( de Kock et al. , 1988 ; Repp and Barton , 1980 ) . |
| 15 | There are two problems with the type of stack found in the KDF9 computer : ( a ) it is of fixed size , so that the programmer or compiler has to take care to keep within its bounds ; and ( b ) in a multiprogramming environment the stack has to be emptied and refilled at each process switch ; the latter could be done on the KDF9 only one element at a time ( although suitable stack dump and restore instructions could be envisaged ) , and the problem was solved on that computer by providing multiple nesting stores . |
| 16 | The Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications has released figures relating to planned investment in equipment by the Japanese telecommunications industry in fiscal 1993 , which ends next month ( Japan confusingly calls it fiscal 1992 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ We have bucked the trend across the world , where governments have suffered election defeats in Greece , Germany , Italy and France . |
| 18 | Such interventions have tended to undermine the autonomy of the state enterprises ' internal industrial relations institutions , especially where governments have funded concessions to the workforce beyond what management was prepared to consider ( cf. Kelf-Cohen 1973 : 176 ) , and have encouraged complex bargaining relations extending beyond the boundary of the enterprise to encompass the political authorities themselves ( see below ) . |
| 19 | In contrast to the recent splits at CP congresses in Lithuania and Estonia , where majorities had favoured party independence [ see 37128-29 ; 37168 ; 37323 ] , a majority of the 792 Latvian CP congress delegates rejected a draft party programme hailed by the pro-independence lobby as the basis for achieving a consensus on the party 's future , and instead voted to remain an integral part of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) . |
| 20 | No large-scale land reform or redistribution has taken place , in part because of restrictions placed on the government by the pre-independence Lancaster House agreement . |
| 21 | Tass said the trains passed between Armenia and Azerbaijan , where workers have blockaded railways to press the Armenians to drop claims to the disputed territory of Nagorny-Karabakh . |
| 22 | No person or group has claimed responsibility or given any reason for the attacks . |
| 23 | It is simply the ability which a person or group has to make others do what he , she or they want them to do . |
| 24 | Whatever concatenation of chance or desire had brought Harry Mack to this place , there was no mystery about the cause of death . |
| 25 | A charter in 1033 , granting the manor of Patrington to the Archbishop of York , describes the boundaries of the manor which , except on the south where changes have taken place along the river Humber , appear to coincide with the present boundaries of the parish . |
| 26 | It was an illusion that a building society has never gone bankrupt ; there was two that had done so , where investors had lost money . |
| 27 | Or Sam had found Zeno by the noise : he was captured . |
| 28 | Gazing up at gay Shepherd apprehensively , Jack saw that his eyes were nugget hard , as if any kindness or compassion had disappeared years ago . |
| 29 | But when such circumstances do arise , questions with respect to the appropriate procedure to be followed in requiring drivers to provide specimens of blood or urine have given rise to some difficulties in the courts and it is to the resolution of those questions that this appeal is directed . |
| 30 | So , lesson one is that where people have found gold in the past , that is where you will find gold in the future ! |