Example sentences of "have [verb] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Recent reconnaissance has emphasized that this source was not merely remote from the centres which it served , but that it could be operated only under conditions of some rigour .
2 Warren Young has commented that this development ‘ demonstrates the uncertainty and ambiguity inherent in the New South Wales approach . ’
3 It is sometimes claimed that people in many cultures are aware of the ill-effects of inbreeding ( Lindzey , 1967 ) , but nobody , as far as I know , has claimed that such knowledge is universal .
4 A leading climatologist has claimed that global warming will increase the risk of structural damage to buildings and will need to be tackled with new building regulations .
5 A witness at the trial of two men accused of the murder of a police informer has claimed that one defendent drove the victim to a meeting with the other , who them killed him .
6 Moscovici ( 1984 ) has claimed that social psychology should become ‘ an anthropological and a historical science ’ ( p. 984 ) .
7 Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) has claimed that radioactive waste from the Springfields nuclear plant is contaminating parts of the River Ribble in Lancashire .
8 National Power has claimed that divulging information on the fuel that they plan to burn will give their competitors vital information about how their plants operate .
9 To be plain , I 'm a bit exhausted , secretly , about the intellectual advantages that are supposed ( by intellectuals ) to accrue from being physically underendowed or peculiar-looking , though it 's possible to keep up the front in public and many a gulled beloved has supposed that this joke of a frame is where my energy comes from .
10 This has supposed that feminist effort should be devoted , first , to showing how the ‘ images ’ in question oppress or denigrate women , and second , to offering positive images of women to replace these .
11 Professor Mathias has stressed that rising output and improving productivity will lower the average costs of a commodity " only if the goods can be cleared to a widening market …
12 A great deal of the argument against central controls has stressed that local government has shown a greater ability to reduce spending than the departments of central government and even the Audit Commission — in the early 1980s — has acknowledged that the operation of central rules may actually have encouraged increased levels of spending and a reduction in the accuracy of information feeding into the centre ( Audit Commission , 1984 ) .
13 Elbit Ltd has reported that net profit for the year to December 31 declined by 14.8% at $30.3m , on turnover that rose 18.1% to $483.3m .
14 Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co Ltd has reported that net profit for the 12 months to March 31 rose 4.3% at the equivalent of $141.7m , on turnover that declined by 1.7% to $2,268.8m .
15 In Bavaria 's parliament , the CSU has enjoyed that German rarity , a clear majority , since 1966 .
16 The Scottish Crofters ' Union , still smarting from the £2.25 cut in Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowance per ewe , has recommended that more priority be given to new or recent entrants to crofting when sheep and cattle quotas are allocated from the national reserve .
17 BGS has recommended that potential export markets should be assessed .
18 There is no reason why a child has to know that some life forms became extinct in order to be able to measure variations between living organisms , nor is there any clear difference in difficulty between these two statements .
19 The Church 's Eastern European resurgence , centred upon its long recognized strength in Poland — a country led from mid-1989 by a devout Catholic prime minister — but now including almost every country from Czechoslovakia to Lithuania , as well as what previously seemed the almost unimaginable resurrection of Uniate Catholicism in the Ukraine , has ensured that Catholic history and geography in the 1990s are likely to look very different from that of the 1980s .
20 Along with the rise of local voluntary and community groups , often funded by the local council , this has ensured that local authority politics have increased markedly in both their visibility and their differentiation .
21 The neurological dominance of the large human cerebral cortex has ensured that basic instinct has come increasingly under its control and has thereby lost its specific and rigidly determined character .
22 We have all done things which are wrong in God 's eyes but through Jesus God has ensured that any punishment we deserve has already been served .
23 However , it is not the world 's statesmen that we have to thank for even this limited achievement in arms control , but the women and men whose political activity has ensured that some action must be taken .
24 It has accepted that progressive aging of the population necessitates a parallel increase in numbers of doctors .
25 ITV has accepted that competitive tendering is a proper way of allocating franchises , but argues that in no other area of business are judgments made without trade-offs between quality and price .
26 In work looking at the labour markets of Los Angeles and New York , Sassen ( 1989 ) has argued that economic growth creates both wealth and poverty .
27 The country 's nuclear lobby has argued that alternative energy sources are either not available or too expensive and Semenyuk told a parliamentary debate on the government 's economic reform programme that : " Experts say that after the introduction of safety measures the plant is among the safest , and not only in Ukraine . "
28 Rivière ( 1984 : 4 ) has argued that such informality is a product of the emphasis by the Guianese Amerindian upon the value of individualism .
29 Nicholas Garnham has argued that this provision of a wide-ranging repertoire also has an economic logic .
30 The sociologist Christine Delphy has argued that this assumption is not simply a mistake or a reasonable rule of thumb that has now become outmoded , but an ideological manoeuvre which obscures the real workings of patriarchal societies .
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