Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | A new book criticising Hollywood 's current output and accusing it of undermining traditional values has provoked fierce debate in the US . |
| 3 | Conversely , bankers ' unwillingness to rely on some electronic sea waybills as collateral for present day letter of credit issuances has thwarted generalized acceptance . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A new generation of chefs has raised British cooking to poetic heights — with some unfortunate exceptions , says AISLING FOSTER |
| 6 | Ecuador 's Ministry of Energy and Mines has granted provisional approval for the project in spite of local and international objection . |
| 7 | The growing diversity of family patterns has received widespread public and political attention in recent years . |
| 8 | The sale of council houses has produced substantial capital receipts , and smaller amounts have come from the sale of other assets . |
| 9 | But none of these mail order products has undergone regulatory scrutiny . |
| 10 | ‘ One of my clients has got long hair and there 's no way I 'd let anybody cut it . |
| 11 | The United Nations has reported intense fighting around Srebrenica , the Moslem enclave it is trying to protect . |
| 12 | Morphology of individual colonic pressure waves has eluded reliable classification . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mr Heseltine 's behaviour both in public and in private throughout recent months has commanded warm admiration from his Cabinet colleagues . |
| 15 | It emerged that Michael Heseltine , Kenneth Clarke , Malcolm Rifkind and Tristan Garel-Jones from the Trade , Home , Defence and Foreign Ministries had signed public interest immunity certificates to keep the Whitehall memos out of court . |
| 16 | I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ . |
| 17 | And more often than not , out of the sun would come the yellow-nosed Messerschmitts , long before our fighters had had sufficient time in which to gain their best operational height . |
| 18 | In Vienna , emancipation began with the liberal reforms of 1848 , and by the 1860s Jews had obtained full freedom of migration . |
| 19 | Endeavours to enforce assimilation to Graeco-Roman culture upon the Jews had provoked fierce resistance . |
| 20 | These seven officers and ten or so ratings had done rudimentary training with gear they bought mostly in the Cairo bazaar , and they were most interested in the COPPist 's equipment , which included some new suits designed by Siebe Gorman but not tested fully by the wearers . |
| 21 | For a week the superpowers had played nuclear poker as President Kennedy warned Soviet leader Krushchev to dismantle Russian missiles based in Cuba . |
| 22 | The vote had the effect of removing from the top of the political agenda , if only temporarily , an issue which for many months had caused divisive debate in the country at large , and had threatened to overshadow Pope John Paul II 's visit to his homeland , due in June . |
| 23 | In the post-war period , these districts had undergone precipitous decline from their pre-war position as thriving communities servicing the world 's largest port . |
| 24 | Reports on Aug. 8 said that UN-IAEA inspectors had discovered sophisticated centrifuge technology used to produce enriched uranium at al-Farat , 30 km south-west of Baghdad [ see p. 38211 ; 38307 ; 38360 ] . |
| 25 | The Catholic and especially Buddhist revivals were partially reactions to earlier activities of Protestant missionaries , who as part of their strategy to gain converts had produced polemical literature and established schools , including those which provided the best available English-language instruction . |
| 26 | The extent to which guidelines have influenced social behaviour is difficult to assess . |
| 27 | Many schools have used continuous assessment of course-work as part of the work leading to GCE O level ( Mode 3 ) ; and still more have used it in the CSE examinations . |
| 28 | Schools have shown increasing interest in it , helped by such excellent organisations as the Institute for Contemporary British History , but there is limited room in the curriculum for the twentieth century , let alone for the period from when the text books end and memory begins . |
| 29 | Unique in his fish-keeping experience , he wonders if other Gadfly readers have encountered similar savagery . |
| 30 | Poor readers have attracted increased attention of late . |