Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland have had disruptions to their scrummaging routines this week though , as both McGeechan and Dixon reasoned , it is not as if they have had to fuse any newcomers to the pack , where Peter Wright 's sabbatical to loosehead worked well against the French . |
| 2 | Environmentalists have ceased to feel any degree of confidence in talking about emotion . |
| 3 | Officials say that they have tried to keep any disturbance to a minimum by limiting the closures to Sundays only . |
| 4 | What is clear however , is that when hearing appeals from the Secretary of State as to whether there has been a material change of use , the courts have consistently held that the question is one of fact and have declined to substitute any decision of their own for that of the Secretary of State . |
| 5 | There are arguments here , as there are in relation to mistake , that the law should impose a duty on men to consider consent , and therefore should treat them as reckless if they have failed to give any thought to the matter . |
| 6 | Almost one-fifth of the sample have failed to publish any papers on any subject after completion of their PhD , and another fifth have not published anything related to their research areas . |
| 7 | Almost one-fifth of the sample have failed to publish any papers on any subject after completion of their Ph D , and another fifth have not published anything related to their research areas . |
| 8 | In the United States , three studies have failed to demonstrate any reduction in suicide rates with the development of Suicide Prevention Centres ( Weiner 1969 ; Lester 1974 ; Bridge et al. 1977 ) . |
| 9 | Similarly , the prevention of further episodes of self-poisoning or self-injury continues to be a problem , and while retrospective investigations have given support to the policy of psychiatric intervention , prospective studies have failed to demonstrate any effect on repetition rates . |
| 10 | Borings made at the deepest of the present pits have failed to find any bottom to the deposit . |
| 11 | Other studies have failed to show any relationship between these histocompatibility antigens and susceptibility . |
| 12 | Clayton and colleagues have reported findings in isolated rat stomach antrum in vitro where indomethacin enhanced the release of LTB 4 as well as LTC 4 , LTD 4 , and LTE 4 in the presence of calcium ionophore A23187 , but other studies by Wallace et al have failed to show any increase in gastric mucosal synthesis of LTB 4 after acute administration of indomethacin . |
| 13 | Ellis and Shepherd ( 1974 ) first drew attention to this but a number of experiments by Young and his colleagues have failed to show any influence of age of acquisition of words on dichotic listening ( Young and Ellis , 1980 ) or tachistoscopic hemifield asymmetry ( Ellis and Young , 1977 ; Young and Bion , 1980b ) even when it is the age at which words are first read rather than heard that is under investigation ( Young , Bion and Ellis , 1982 ) . |
| 14 | Two studies have failed to show any effect of N-acetyl-5ASA enemas in ulcerative colitis , although a third reported sigmoidoscopic and histological improvement . |
| 15 | I can only assume this is the reason they have failed to make any progress in hunting down our missing grandstand . |
| 16 | Successive Governments , of both left and right , have failed to make any impact upon the excessive use of imprisonment as a means of punishment by the judiciary . |
| 17 | Editor , — Chris Ham states that ‘ The introduction of contracts has helped to enhance the accountability of providers to purchasers , ’ but from our own research we are aware of some purchasing organisations that have failed to exercise any control over the financial and strategic operations of providers ( presented to the Health Economics Studies Group , York , 1993 ) . |
| 18 | But only social psychologists who research aspects of small group behaviour have managed to achieve any kind of realism with such models . |