Example sentences of "have [verb] [conj] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The City view is that the fall in corporate earnings has stopped and that next year 's increase could be around 15 p.c . |
| 2 | The US Environmental Protection Agency has calculated that these unregulated substances could , if they are not incorporated into the Montreal Protocol , account for 40 per cent of stratospheric chlorine levels by 2075 . |
| 3 | Nevertheless the force can produce statistics to show that the overall level of violence has fallen and that important arrests and finds of guns and explosives have been made . |
| 4 | In particular , the induction , promotion , and progression of normal or inflamed squamous oesophageal epithelium to Barrett 's mucosa and ultimately adenocarcinoma as a result of chronic gastro-oesophageal reflux disease has varied but distinct morphological stages suitable for the study of sequential gene expression . |
| 5 | The sense of betrayal has been deepened by London 's refusal to acknowledge any moral responsibility to provide general refuge ; instead , it has claimed that domestic political considerations demand the exclusion of potentially millions of Chinese immigrants . |
| 6 | A year long investigation by a US Congress subcommittee , prompted by last year 's Perrier scare , has claimed that some bottled waters may be less safe than tap water . |
| 7 | But the practice market has collapsed and some less fortunate firms are being forced into entering individual voluntary arrangements ( IVAs ) to protect themselves from their creditors while trying to straighten out their finances . |
| 8 | The Humane Society of the United States has reported that two toy gun manufacturers — Ray Plastics and LNJ Toys , makers of the new Gotcha enforcer gun — test their products by firing shots into the eyes of rabbits at distances of five feet , three feet , six inches , three inches and half an inch . |
| 9 | A survey by the International Chamber of Commerce ( ICC ) has reported that major industrial companies expect to double their spending on cutting pollution over the next decade . |
| 10 | In an attempt to respond to this need for training , WACC 's Pacific Regional Association has organised and funded four desktop publishing workshops since 1987 specifically to upgrade the skills of Christian communicators in the Pacific islands and help them to use the new technology to maximum effect . |
| 11 | The Food Advisory Committee 's latest review of labelling legislation has recommended that all alcoholic drinks should be subject to the same legislation that governs all other foodstuffs . |
| 12 | Movement makes its proper effect when the choreographer has selected and co-ordinated appropriate movements to make sentences flow from one to another with such style , quality and expression that the design makes sense . |
| 13 | Rex , for instance , has argued that most black people form an underclass in British society , occupying the most disadvantaged positions in employment , housing and other areas relative even to the white working class ( Rex and Tomlinson , 1979 ) , while Miles refers to the formation of a distinct black ‘ fraction ’ of the working class ( Miles , 1982 ) . |
| 14 | Hoffman-Bustamente has argued that these differing patterns of socialisation and social control for boys and girls have tended to concentrate those women who do break the law into certain categories of offence . |
| 15 | The Swiss Post and Telecommunications authority is going to face competition in paging services : the Federal Communications Office has said that two rival paging networks will be set up — the PTT will get one licence , the other will be put out to tender ; licence applications must be in by the end of April . |
| 16 | Although the Department of the Environment has said that other developed countries in Europe , including Italy , should be able to dispose of their own waste , the consignments are being dealt with by the municipal toxic waste department in Manchester . |
| 17 | A representative of the National Association of Waste Disposal Contractors has said that 20 new plants , each with a capacity of 30,000 tonnes , would be needed to deal with clinical waste alone . |
| 18 | Although Martin has said that some bass players like to be able to significantly alter their sound while they are actually playing on stage , I 've never seen the need to have all the gubbins on the bass to do that , then have lots more gubbins on the amp to do more of the same . |
| 19 | The author has felt that these latter efforts have not in some way brought out the real flavour of the game in the sense that the play does not take place on a real pitch , surrounded by players who get in the way of run-making and occasionally do their stuff by bowling the batsman out or sending him back to the pavilion by some other means . |
| 20 | Hearts chairman Wallace Mercer , who has revealed that two big deals are in the pipeline |
| 21 | A BRITISH minister has revealed that some 300 000 names of people who have committed , or are suspected of committing , offences under immigration law have been entered onto a computerised index used by the immigration service . |
| 22 | Multiple nuclei describes a big city that has expanded and absorbed small towns and villages and has thus created outlying service areas . |
| 23 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that he has listened to hon. Members and representatives of people with disabilities who are worried that the additional room or larger property that they need to accommodate their disabilities might take them into a higher band and that he has decided that any such people should fall within one band lower than would otherwise be the case ? |
| 24 | It would seem that Madam ( please call me ‘ Falklands ’ ) Thatcher has decided that 145 local tax collection offices should be closed over the course of the next four years , with the loss of 3000 Inland Revenue jobs . |
| 25 | Our prospective study has shown that serious clinical symptoms associated with seroconversion for HIV among intravenous drug misusers occur often . |
| 26 | Buchholz has shown that non-prime odd numbers can give very good results , but are not reliable unless they have no divisors less than about 19 . |
| 27 | This study has shown that colonic phenotypic changes are very common in ileal reservoirs when several biopsy specimens are analysed . |
| 28 | However , X-ray analysis has shown that all these forms of carbon consist of small graphite-like crystals . |
| 29 | And Thoburn 's research has shown that persistent social work can in fact bring about the return of children to natural parents who previously could not cope . |
| 30 | A recent survey by the National Schizophrenia Fellowship has shown that 45 psychiatric hospitals will close by the year 2000 . |