Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pressure of numbers impinges on every facet of the prison system , and in some institutions has resulted in overcrowded conditions that would not have been tolerated a century earlier . |
| 2 | Conservative policy on the inner cities has diverged in some ways from the earlier policies of the 1970s , especially in shifting away from social and environmental programmes towards an emphasis on economic and enterprise-generating ones . |
| 3 | 10% of all vehicles in New Zealand are NGVs , while US legislation enforcing the adoption of cleaner alternative fuels has resulted in many government departments converting their fleets to run on natural gas . |
| 4 | The EIA have been responsible for the ban in the ivory trade , and their campaign on the plight of captured wild birds has resulted in 74 major airlines refusing to co-operate in the transport of wild birds . |
| 5 | Although the division between nomadic and urban cultures has diminished in recent years , most of the older , more established weaving groups have retained their traditional allegiance to either geometric or curvilinear designs . |
| 6 | Indeed , Table 1.3 shows that willingness to move amongst all socio-economic groups has increased in 1983 over the figures given for 1977 . |
| 7 | Redondo , for the union , and González , for the party , hoped to reproduce in Spain the same kind of social welfare capitalism that similar union-party combinations had introduced in northern Europe between 1945 and 1975 . |
| 8 | International relief organizations had warned in early October that large areas of Sudan , Ethiopia and northern Somalia faced severe food shortages . |
| 9 | Perhaps the brothers had waited in vain for me to make some retraction . |
| 10 | After proctors of the lower clergy had objected in 1269 to being committed to a grant simply by the assent of the bishops , a council of prelates in the next year agreed on their own behalf to a subsidy of one twentieth for the king , but only extended it to the rest of the clergy after approval by diocesan synods . |
| 11 | Their relationship is still unresolved , as wise heads had foreseen in 1960 : but their marriage has gained a lease of life . |
| 12 | Her great-grandparents had lived in this house ; it was her great-grandfather who had bought the farm ; but from where had come the money for a Polish immigrant to buy a farm in those far-off days remained a mystery to both her grandfather and , of course , her father . |
| 13 | Neutral currents with the appropriate properties could still exist in the theory of beta decay that Enrico fermi had proposed in 1933 , without the mediation of W or Z particles ( figure I ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Two hundred fans have contributed in one shape or another with people coming with a fiver in the hope it would help . |
| 15 | But in fact there are several provisions which , as Poulter puts it , offer ‘ plenty of scope for maintaining the pattern of multi-faith assemblies which schools have followed in recent years ’ . |
| 16 | Unit costs for maintained schools have risen in real terms throughout the 1980s — by 42% between 1979–80 and 1988–9 . |
| 17 | [ In ] instances when Soviet planners have stipulated a revised set of leading economic indicators , and tied incentive funds to them , other indicators have moved in undesirable directions … planners found that , once again , only direct regulation could bring an improvement for any individual economic indicator . |
| 18 | And the designers have built in reassuring similarities to the products you know and love , such as the ‘ Lotus Classic ’ menu option in Lotus for Windows , which lets you go on using the familiar ‘ / ’ method to bring up menus , until you get used to the state-of-the-art stuff . |
| 19 | Hence cross-boundary flows , and the inability of districts to control referrals from general practitioners , were a major cause of the financial problems such districts have suffered in recent years . |
| 20 | But these conditions do not exist where the original parties have invested in transaction-specific assets . |
| 21 | Elsewhere the authors have explored in more detail the nature and relevance of such approaches to people with learning difficulties ( Swain and Brechin , forthcoming ) . |
| 22 | These are quite different to what the other authors have found in earlier studies . |
| 23 | The dominant approaches in psychology in the first half of this century were summarised by Kammerer in 1940 as follows : Allen and Pearson ( 1928 ) had concluded , on the basis of case studies , that : Whilst the Adlerian Rudolf Dreikurs argued in 1948 that : Since then individual psychology and its therapeutically oriented offshoots have continued in this vein , and debated the degree and nature of pathology supposed to follow , directly or indirectly , from impairment . |
| 24 | The arts have flourished in recent years , with growing attendance at theatre , opera , dance and arts festivals . |
| 25 | Although commercial shipping is no less in need of the RNLI 's services than it was , launches to pleasure boats and fishing vessels have risen in recent years . |
| 26 | But in contrast to Mama Mosambiki 's oblique approach , the Kafala Brothers have chosen in this album to sing directly about the cruelty and devastation of civil war in Angola . |
| 27 | But in contrast to Mama Mosambiki 's oblique approach , the Kafala Brothers have chosen in this album to sing directly about the cruelty and devastation of civil war in Angola . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the investigator 's earlier research in Atlanta , Georgia , shows that , in this city , residential segregation remains , the gap between predominantly black and white areas has increased in important respects , and inequality among black neighbourhoods has increased . |
| 29 | Remembrement in the uplands has resulted in limited losses of semi-natural features . |
| 30 | On the housing front , the gap between the number of owner-occupiers has increased in all regions over the last decade , averaging at 68pc . |