Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] these [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Although crowds have gathered to watch these beatings , the police are never able to find anybody who has seen anything .
2 As Strong points out , the treatment of drug abuse , alcoholism and mental illness is marked by serious differences of opinion and some doctors have struggled to de-medicalise these areas in the face of the hostility of their peers .
3 The principal changes in the law by which the framers of these Acts have sought to effect these objects can be summarized as follows :
4 Traditionally , we have tended to see these situations from the adult 's point of view .
5 Means of communication that have developed since the inception of the press in the 17th and 18th centuries — notably , television and radio — have tended to adapt these theories to suit their own special requirements .
6 But many socialists , though increasingly aware of the difficulties associated with highly centralized and bureaucratized modes of planning , have tended to interpret these difficulties differently .
7 However , the various academic disciplines have tended to investigate these issues in their own separate ways , with the result that the analyses are typically confined to only particular aspects of the question and thereby remain largely inconclusive .
8 I have had to carry these abilities into my present job ! ’ .
9 Indeed , I am persuaded that the central criteria against which I have had to measure these applications will be met , and that patient care will be advanced very considerably .
10 I have promised to keep these reports brief .
11 But I think that you have got to regulate these things and choose couples , like you may , as you do for adoptive children and not , just like throw in anybody these things have got to be controlled .
12 What I have found using these criteria will be the subject of the next two chapters , of which the chick is the sole and proud subject , but the rest of this chapter will be concerned , not with my own experiments , but those of the other hunters for god 's organism whose work has dominated the last decade .
13 Some theorists have attempted to counter these objections by reference to the ‘ social contract ’ , a theory which provides a general account of political obligation ( see especially Murphy , 1979 ) .
14 Dynacord have attempted to reduce these inefficiencies ( and , as a consequence , physical dimensions ) by using dynamic signal processing , or DSP , to compensate for such inherent delays and distortions .
15 Subsequent theories ( notably the work of Herzberg ( 1974 ) ) have attempted to overcome these problems .
16 Since the early 1970s , when government first introduced internal efficiency reviews , successive administrations have refused to make these reports public .
17 I guess i have to start watching these games again sometime soon — have nt seen them for years — i could relive the period — watching the games and sending out match reports to rec.sport.soccer the day after — 4 years after the events took place — sort of a madmans project i guess … but could have been — really — fun if i had the time ( ie no work & no wife/kid … )
18 The students have to learn to confront these things without making overt moral judgements , without lessening their competence or self discipline and without being sick in the ambulance .
19 I have tried to like these wines , but so often I have been disappointed .
20 Systems such as HARPY have tried to alleviate these problems by relying heavily on the properties of finite state grammars , applying all higher level knowledge constraints simultaneously through pre-compiled knowledge networks , and delaying decisions about the correct acoustic-phonetic interpretation until the end of the utterance .
21 Should the youth workers have tried to integrate these boys into ‘ the community ’ , or to isolate them from it ?
22 In the non-formal sector , however , some groups have tried to address these issues .
23 Over the years many obstacles have arisen to halt these dreams , yet still for many the ultimate objective remains .
24 Literary scholars have begun to pose these questions of various national literatures .
25 Studies by others on stained tissue using the electron probe and the proton probe , which is more than an order of magnitude more sensitive , have failed to confirm these findings .
26 Other experiments led to similar conclusions but , unfortunately , tests performed elsewhere have failed to confirm these findings .
27 A role for apical Na + / H + exchange in maintaining the acid microenvironment is suggested by observations that the microenvironment pH is increased by luminal perfusion with amiloride or with Na + free media , although other studies have failed to confirm these findings .
28 Others have failed to replicate these findings ( Barbur , Ruddock , and Waterfield 1980 ; Blythe , Bromley , Kennard , and Ruddock 1986 ; Campion , Latto , and Smith 1983 ; Weiskrantz 1980 ) .
29 Other authors , however , have failed to replicate these findings ( Gardner and Branski 1976 ; Boles , 1979 ) .
30 In other experiments , Papi has shown that pigeons do not home accurately if their nostrils are blocked , or if their olfactory nerve is cut , or if they are experimentally distracted by a strong smell ; but other experimenters have failed to repeat these results and it has proved impossible to train pigeons to make the relevant olfactory distinctions ( which is a standard , and powerful , method of testing for sensory abilities — p. 43 .
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