Example sentences of "have operate [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between these two extremes there are various alternatives , two of which have operated since the ending of the gold standard in 1931 . |
| 2 | Some public trading activities , notably posts and telecommunications , have operated as parts of central government departments . |
| 3 | Arthur Pearcy 's book US Coast Guard Aircraft Since 1916 is a history of the Guard comprising detailed descriptions of over 90 different types of aircraft that they have operated over the years , coupled with information on the designation systems and the colours and markings used by this fifth military air arm of the United States . |
| 4 | Heads have operated without a clear managerial line of accountability " ( DES 1990a:18 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ For some time now we have operated on a customer-led basis , ’ explained Paul . |
| 6 | Locomotives which have operated at Ravenglass have included steam engines from Steamtown , Carnforth , the Lakeside Railway at Southport , Lightwater Valley at Ripon , the Fairbourne Railway in Wales and , quite regularly , from the Romney , Hythe and Dymchurch Railway in Kent . |
| 7 | As Weatherall suggested in his 1992 Harveian oration , this implies either that the positive selective forces favouring the thrifty genotype were not as strong in Europeans or that the negative selective forces of a sedentary , well nourished lifestyle have operated for sufficiently long to diminish the frequency of the genotype . |
| 8 | A team of 24 firemen who have operated for 17 years without pay and raised the money for their own equipment are the most recent winners of the Guinness Stout Effort Award in Malaysia . |
| 9 | Yes and then of course you get business organizations , the and much business is now internationally based , we 've , we recognize this recently from the erm the purchase of Rover by B M W erm but of course the big companies have operated for long across international boundaries , whether it be oil companies like Texaco or chemical companies like I C I erm or MacDonalds , you know one of the symbols that erm lets you know Russia had been opened up to the international community was the erm presence of a MacDonalds ' erm shop in Moscow . |
| 10 | In the UK the Restrictive Trade Practices Court and the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) exist to investigate whether collusive agreements exist or collusive conduct has taken place and , if so , whether they have operated against the public interest . |
| 11 | The present wave of Troubles has its basis in the Catholic grievances about discriminatory practices which have operated against them ever since the state 's inception ( cf. |
| 12 | But they have operated against terrorists , they those terrorists have committed a crime and through intelligence the S A S have been in situ and have immediately shot those criminals . |
| 13 | ‘ We have operated in recessionary conditions in Scotland for some time so can cope with this . |
| 14 | Often people become accustomed to odours especially those arising from works which have operated in a particular vicinity for a long time . |
| 15 | A major reason for this unconcern is that various fraudsters who have operated in the field have given ESP a bad name : underfunded scientists have far better things to investigate than a phenomenon which seems , on the basis of the available evidence , to be nothing more than a farrago . |
| 16 | In fact much of the actual evidence that these processes have operated in the past concerns households , rather than wider kin groups which operate across households ( Chaytor , 1980 ) . |
| 17 | Both of Ambrose 's ( 1986 ) mechanisms of capital accumulation have operated in a straightforward fashion . |
| 18 | For one thing , the sheer range and historical variation of the sites where encounters between ‘ white ’ and ‘ other ’ have taken place and the immense variety of specialized and popular discourses that have operated in these encounters have by now put into circulation a multitude of selective images . |
| 19 | Their parallels with the case of Finland are unconvincing since Soviet policies towards Afghanistan and Finland have operated in quite dissimilar political and strategic environments . |
| 20 | And at the last three meetings the bookmakers have operated in a confined square which certainly has n't been the answer to congestion problems . |
| 21 | The S A S have operated in Northern Ireland and have been for a long time . |
| 22 | Lambeck and Stephenson ( 1986 ) and Wellman ( 1987 , 1988 ) provide contrasting interpretations of the uplift mechanisms that have operated in the region . |
| 23 | In addition , in some systems which have operated from time to time in the UK and elsewhere , there is a procedure whereby people are asked attitude questions about the product before the show and after it , and given the opportunity to select the test product ( from a list ) as a prize or gift . |
| 24 | In order to do this , Jerry Falwell and the other Baptist pastors in the movement have to operate with almost watertight compartments for , on the one hand , their religion ( in this box Catholics and Jews are doomed sinners ) , and on the other , their politics ( we are all part of a shared Judeo-Christian tradition ) . |
| 25 | As translators , we have to operate with lexical items and grammatical structures at various stages of the translation process . |
| 26 | These have to operate for prolonged periods and are robust and solid pieces of equipment , for space and weight are not serious constraints . |
| 27 | However , all subsidiary companies have to operate under broad general guidelines . |
| 28 | It is certain that even those entrepreneurs and managers who seek to act as professional industrialists have to operate in an environment which is hostile to them , and in which the pursuit of marginal returns is an uphill struggle . |
| 29 | I know you have to operate in secret , but we must keep it that way . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's hard ’ , said one Probation Officer , ; ‘ we 're not actually part of anything and have to operate in a sort of no man 's land . ’ |