Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | under Labour waiting lists have gone up every time we 've had a Labour administration . |
| 2 | The crabs have climbed down the cliffs , for their eggs must be deposited directly into the sea if they are to hatch . |
| 3 | Premiums have gone up an average 17 per cent this year . |
| 4 | Ever since then , as the story goes , journalists have kept up the tradition of ending the final page of each story with the sign -30- . |
| 5 | In the final analysis , organizations have to weigh up the anticipated benefits of particular media against the costs involved . |
| 6 | Here again organizations have to weigh up the relative gains of this approach against the extra costs . |
| 7 | I mean , for instance , in my dreams er cars have taken on a very distinct personal symbolism that has really nothing to do with what you might think , because of personal experiences of mine , and I now know that whenever I dream about cars it always always has this but that 's because of something that happened to me and because of my personal erm kind of experiences , so cars have become a dream symbol . |
| 8 | These manufacturers have pushed up the resolution a little by breaking the display into submatrices , addressed separately , but connected to give a unified picture . |
| 9 | In many cases the becak drivers have put up a fight to prevent their livelihood from being carted off . |
| 10 | Er much to everybody 's fear , really , because we , we , we were stepping into a new area , you can imagine from , from wires to something with no wires , and the risk of that failing , but , but it worked and er from thereon , of course most Fire Brigades have taken on the task and , and er are now on radio contact of this kind . |
| 11 | Even though the certificates have taken on a different appearance , their structure remains the same . |
| 12 | Her parents have set up a trust fund and this competition . |
| 13 | ‘ The new production quotas have stirred up a hornet 's nest — and that 's without the added difficulty of a flu epidemic . ’ |
| 14 | The proceeds have shored up the balance sheet but the trading picture is grim . |
| 15 | Thus , over the years , many life assurance companies have taken on the management of pension funds on behalf of firms and other institutions . |
| 16 | ‘ Companies have taken out a tier of management to save money , appointing financial controllers as directors designate , ’ warns Mr Austin . |
| 17 | The largest companies have drawn up a criteria which demand inter alia that new book purchases must be based on a stock turn of one year ( in other words , the whole print run has to sell out within one year of US publication ) and that the projected gross margin must not be less than 50% . |
| 18 | As far as anyone knows this is the first time legal eagles have taken on a businessman as boss . |
| 19 | 120 golfers have taken on the challenges that Woburn has to offer . |
| 20 | Sudjic implies this when he explains how architects of office blocks have to dress up the imperatives of mechanical engineers , and when he examines , and rejects , attempts to tie the design of tower blocks to the social ills they can contain . |
| 21 | At a New Alresford Parish Council meeting last week , it was announced that Winchester city planners have turned down the application for change of use on the grounds of noise , odours and increased vehicle movement in a largely residential area . |
| 22 | SUPERMARKETS have taken over the consumer food role that farmers and market gardeners traditionally played in selling products direct to the public . |
| 23 | Called the Reptilons , these huge , scaly fiends have chained up the human inhabitants ( these by happy coincidence are the blonde bimbos ) . |
| 24 | TWO Lanarkshire businessmen have set up a reprographics firm which aims to compete with Middle and Far East firms for orders originating in Scotland , writes John Hatfield . |
| 25 | Every effort is being made to obtain compensation , but in the meantime the directors have written off the cost of the property as an extraordinary charge against profits . |
| 26 | Indeed , to the extent that inflationary expectations have built up a momentum of their own that it regards as excessive , the government may be forced to adopt demand management policies which aim to raise the unemployment rate above the natural rate so as to throw the process outlined above into reverse gear . |
| 27 | Many bands have taken on a style of clothes which they bought second-hand . |
| 28 | Since the 1970s , water purification plants have cleaned up the lake , which had become seriously polluted by heavy metals and organic compounds discharged by industrial plants . |
| 29 | The Ford Pay claim coincides with negotiations at Vauxhall where leaders of the 9,000 manual workers have turned down a two-year offer giving 9.1 per cent in the first year and inflation plus £3 in the second . |
| 30 | Is it not the case that although the wage increases of British workers have come down the benefits of that have been dissipated , and that due to the recession induced by the Government productivity has gone down although it has gone up in Germany and as a result unit labour costs in the year to the second quarter of 1991 went up by 3 per cent . |