Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already many thousands of words have appeared on the subject — in official reports and other publications . |
| 2 | ‘ Cynics say — cynics have already said — when your preaching is done , when your lofty words have gone with the wind , when the media has departed to tell another tale , the world will forget . |
| 3 | SHELL forecourts have sailed into a ‘ discrimination ’ row over ferry crossings . |
| 4 | More habitual bankrupts have to apply to the court after five years and argue their case . |
| 5 | ‘ People say Newcastle fans have stood by the club through thick and thin . |
| 6 | A GROWING demand for slate roofs has breathed new life into traditional slate quarrying in north Wales and given a fillip to villages that for centuries have relied on the industry for jobs . |
| 7 | ‘ Five centuries have passed since the discovery of America , a focal point in the history of discoveries . |
| 8 | Without any explanation , he jumped out and approached one of the Ayurvedic healers who for centuries have sat on the roadside here , surrounded by the ingredients of their trade : live iguanas whose fried juices are said to cure impotence ; ginseng for philtres used to spread or extinguish the fires of love ; tree bark to ward off a woman 's menopause ; the bringraj herb from the high Himalayas said to conquer baldness or thicken the beard of the most effete Sikh . |
| 9 | The front bridle legs have to pass over the cross-spar and be free to run in a straight line from the leading edge to the ring . |
| 10 | Other considerations have led to the suggestion that introns could have been transferred horizontally between different species ( 13 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ) . |
| 11 | This is particularly likely to occur for larger cities with very limited amounts of vacant land and in rural areas where environmental and other considerations have led to the imposition of strict controls on new building . |
| 12 | Believers have gluttoned on the god of excess and found it wanting . |
| 13 | Although many pubs , shopping centres , garden centres and schools have stepped into the breach , their play areas ca n't really compare with a good adventure playground in the local park . |
| 14 | The evolution of the role of teachers and the view of the social purpose of schools have led to a multiplicity of demands on teachers which are not necessarily compatible and may be contradictory , if not actually mutually exclusive . |
| 15 | Attempts to highlight and remove differing forms of sexism , sexual inequalities and discrimination in schools have led to a range of policy statements and strategies from local education authorities and individual schools . |
| 16 | Market-driven as ever , business schools have risen to the challenge . |
| 17 | Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society . |
| 18 | TWO Ashington schools have benefited from a green scheme run by students on a health studies course at Northumberland College . |
| 19 | In fact there was a , I think some of the recent erm concerns about schools have come from an image that 's been built up over a period of time that the schools spend very little time on the , on the three Rs for example . |
| 20 | In addition it must be acknowledged that the public schools have adapted to the demand for scientific and managerial graduates by modernising their range of subjects and strengthening their science teaching . |
| 21 | At first the cuts are only occasional , but they become increasingly common until finally all signals have disappeared from the airwaves . |
| 22 | Now that we have provisionally fixed what a signal is , and how one may be recognized , let us consider some examples of signals — the songs of birds , the pheromones of moths and ants , and the dance of honeybees — before we consider the theoretical question of why signals have evolved in the form that we see in nature . |
| 23 | ‘ Signals have to come from the top , ’ explains , ‘ and chief executives and managing directors have to be hearts and minds behind it . ’ |
| 24 | BAD debts incurred by exporters have soared in the past five years , a survey has revealed . |
| 25 | Much less satisfactory , however , is the harsh rule that holds a writer responsible for unintentional defamation , where readers have jumped to a conclusion which was never intended . |
| 26 | The first public taxonomic databases have experimented with the handling of alternative taxonomies ( as in the US Nature Conservancy 's taxonomic inventory with local variants ) , with attaching biological data in such a way that it can be refreshed for subsequent taxonomic changes ( for example , ILDIS/Chapman and Hall Leguminosae phytochemical database ) , and with the use of images ( such as The Plant Fossil Record ) . |
| 27 | The waterfall is a part of the enormously extensive and complicated subterranean water system that has been traced now through this limestone mass if and which links up with the astonishingly deep fissures or gouffres that the speleologists have explored in the mountains to the east . |
| 28 | They may , therefore , form in valleys and basins , especially in areas of calcareous rocks , and theoretically should be nearer the margins of the basins as they crystallise earlier than gypsum before the lakes have shrunk to the same degree . |
| 29 | The Governors of the eight US states abutting the Great Lakes have agreed on a series of voluntary pollution controls . |
| 30 | Therefore monetarists have resorted to the claim that governments can exert control over the money stock if they are determined enough , and in so doing will bring about the desired effect on money incomes and prices . |