Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [adj] [noun] have " in BNC.

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1 Fourthly , Realism accepts that political acts have moral significance , but only in a sense which relates to the interests of the political agent and which has more to do with prudence than with traditional ethics .
2 Ken Smith , electronics director of the Scottish Development Agency , thinks that these firms have helped to promote the growth of other electronics firms in the region and the fact that they are foreign-owned is unimportant .
3 The first of the lists published by Turan ( base date 849 ) records that sixteen years have passed since the death of , among others " Mevlana Shams al-Din [ -i ? ] " ulema-i sultan Fenari-oglu " ; the two lists reproduced in part by Menage ( base dates 856 and 858 ) likewise show the death of " Mevlana Shams al-Din sultan al- " ulema Fenari-oglu " to have occurred in 833 ; and Nesri records the death of " Shams al- " ulema Shams al-Din ibn Fenari " as having occurred in 832 : in each case his death is at least implicitly associated with a great plague occurring in Bursa in that year .
4 The people of the Baltic states will be baffled at the petty party points that Conservative Members have tried to make out of the great victory that was achieved by those people .
5 Prof Nick Emler , a psychologist at Dundee University , insists that most ten-year-olds have a highly sophisticated grasp of concepts such as morality , justice and right and wrong .
6 It frequently happens that feminist women have relationships with men who are sensitive , communicative , share emotional and domestic chores and are committed to feminist ideals .
7 We need a signature one signature on unless of course the company says that two people have got to sign it but you have to find that out .
8 It says that recent years have seen a transformation in Britain 's manufacturing base , and it condemns those who do not recognise it and continue to run down the achievements of British industry .
9 Poor survey : Chartered surveyors are being badly hit by the construction slowdown , according to a new survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors which says that small practices have suffered a 28% drop in workload in the past year .
10 A verse by Sighvat says that famous princes have brought their heads to Cnut from Fife to buy peace ; where this fits in is not clear , although as it also refers to St Olaf , and in the past tense , his death in 1030 had evidently occurred before it was composed .
11 The other is the note in Appendix F , which says that some hobbit-names have been retained by Tolkien without translation , ‘ though I have usually anglicized them by altering their endings , since in Hobbit-names a was a masculine ending , and o and e were feminine . ’
12 He says that past problems have now been rectified .
13 It says that several customers have placed orders for KRS1 computers with more than 32 processors , including one from the Cornell Theory Center .
14 She says that three shops have closed down since Christmas .
15 Now if you violate any of the assumptions ordinary squares , right , then the procedure will produce or may produce misleading results , we can only be confident in statistical terms about ordinary leased squares parameters , right , because we know and show in theory that they hold providing a number of assumptions are met , like you have serially uncorrelated errors , right , we do n't have m multi co-linearity amongst the regresses , right , we have constant variance throughout the sample now if any of those er assumptions are breached , violated then our , any statistical results that are generated from erm the technique that assumes that those assumptions have n't been breached erm are invalidated and we can get very misleading er parameter estimates , right , in the presence of auto correlation or multi-linearity erm .
16 Editor Simon Hinde warns that some insurers have increased their premiums by as much as 20 times the inflation rate to pay for past losses .
17 In the CD booklet , Krenek points out that Gould 's tempos are not accurate ( no surprise ? ) and regrets that other performers have been affected by them .
18 Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies shows that richer households have benefited more than poorer ones from the government 's tax and benefit changes .
19 In the wake of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , a damning report from English Nature shows that ancient woodlands have declined by nearly 50% in the past 50 years — that is faster than the felling of the rainforests in Brazil .
20 The isometric view of PARTA shows that two arcs have been struck from the yoke centre to pass through the connecting rod " small end " centre ( one lying in the vertical plane , the other in the horizontal ) .
21 Experience shows that many clients have difficulties in expressing their problems and may be anxious .
22 Despite what many people claim , however , Freud did not say that dream interpretation shows that all dreams have a sexual content .
23 Lending to small business owners has become an important profit centre for banks and the importance of establishing an efficient means of raising finance is also vital to the economy , because ‘ recent evidence shows that small firms have been the major creator of new jobs in the 1980s ’ .
24 One treasury suggestion is to cut senior personnel because one estimate shows that junior ranks have taken the brunt of the cuts so far .
25 Like mother , like grandmother : research shows that big babies have big grandmas , even though their own mothers may be small .
26 Careful investigation often shows that these people have a dual problem : they are sensitive to foods and chemicals on the one hand , and they are hyperventilating on the other .
27 A 13-page report lists a catalogue of concerns from a number of agencies and reveals that 1,772 individuals have submitted objections .
28 Does my right hon. Friend agree that that huge increase in real income clearly demonstrates the overall success of Conservative policies and would not have come about without the tax cuts that all families have experienced ?
29 Survival International calculates that 100,000 people have been killed in Guatemala in the last 25 years and over a million forced to flee what is described as the brutality of the US-supported government there .
30 Suppose , in some population , a particular site in the DNA is completely random and unspecified : that is , it is equally likely to be C , G , A , or T. Suppose that individuals with A or T , say , are fitter than those with C or G , and that those with A are fitter than those with T. Full specification requires that all individuals have A at the relevant site .
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