Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growth of large corporations and banks with international involvements has expanded commercial activity which requires clerks and salespeople . |
| 2 | In particular , many local authorities has acquired high-rise flats which were hard to let . |
| 3 | In the large conurbations , the creation of unitary authorities has required new quangos and joint boards to handle such issues . |
| 4 | The rapid increase in the number and diversity of states has had long-term consequences for global politics . |
| 5 | A new book criticising Hollywood 's current output and accusing it of undermining traditional values has provoked fierce debate in the US . |
| 6 | Conversely , bankers ' unwillingness to rely on some electronic sea waybills as collateral for present day letter of credit issuances has thwarted generalized acceptance . |
| 7 | The continued expansion of the S.M.E. Centre 's activities has created excellent opportunities for high calibre staff in the following posts : |
| 8 | Although an independent report on its activities has recommended continued support for the centre at Rijswijk in the Netherlands , many fear that the Dutch government will adhere to an austerity programme that provides no money to operate the centre . |
| 9 | A new generation of chefs has raised British cooking to poetic heights — with some unfortunate exceptions , says AISLING FOSTER |
| 10 | Ecuador 's Ministry of Energy and Mines has granted provisional approval for the project in spite of local and international objection . |
| 11 | The growing diversity of family patterns has received widespread public and political attention in recent years . |
| 12 | The sale of council houses has produced substantial capital receipts , and smaller amounts have come from the sale of other assets . |
| 13 | But the first reason was religious : ‘ part of the leiges has taken new opinions of the scripture , and has done against the law and ordinance of holy kirk ’ . |
| 14 | The excellence of our products has created major markets for us in healthcare , research and industry . |
| 15 | But none of these mail order products has undergone regulatory scrutiny . |
| 16 | THE National Union of Journalists has elected 55-year-old John Foster as its new general secretary . |
| 17 | The combination of movement in the brick core , ingress of moisture and the corrosion of iron cramps has produced numerous cracks in the marble skin which have further weakened the structure . |
| 18 | Part of the problem is that the church over the centuries has given mixed signals about the family . |
| 19 | ‘ One of my clients has got long hair and there 's no way I 'd let anybody cut it . |
| 20 | The opening of East European borders has provided new opportunities for rampant free-marketeering and with it the exploitation of the workers in these countries . |
| 21 | The United Nations has reported intense fighting around Srebrenica , the Moslem enclave it is trying to protect . |
| 22 | Morphology of individual colonic pressure waves has eluded reliable classification . |
| 23 | The physical difficulty of working with oceanic animals has limited cetacean study in the past , and much of the information available on whales over the last few centuries has , ironically , come from the whaling industry . |
| 24 | The provision of home recordings has provided important benefits : the validity of parental observations was objectively determined ; a log of compliance with home recording was obtained ; and there were fewer time constraints on its use . |
| 25 | Mr Heseltine 's behaviour both in public and in private throughout recent months has commanded warm admiration from his Cabinet colleagues . |
| 26 | It posed questions about the core curriculum , gave an outline of such a core and stressed the need for schools to have written educational aims . |
| 27 | Resentment at press-gang methods had caused sporadic revolts in rural Java , though the full extent of this horror was not yet known . |
| 28 | Demonstrators reacted violently to the news that two NDP candidates had won local seats , and attempted to burn down a police station ; four supporters of independent candidates were killed , and some 60 civilians and seven policemen injured . |
| 29 | Where previous designs had riveted aluminium-alloy plates for the structure and gas turbine engines , the AP1-88 employs marine construction methods and diesel power . |
| 30 | The armed forces joint command announced on Dec. 12 that army units had inflicted heavy casualties on guerrilla forces in the previous 48 hours in the Huallaga valley , about 500 km north of the capital , Lima , and that about 100 Sendero activists had surrendered . |