Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The Essex Gliding Club 's plans for the former bomber station at Ridgewell near Clare , due to be discussed by Braintree planner on March 29 , have aroused unprecedented opposition among residents .
2 Conservative Governments have honoured that commitment in full and , as a result , continuous strikes , the British disease as they are known , have been eliminated .
3 Will the Minister confirm that we have stopped medium-term cover for the Soviet Union longer than any other OECD country ?
4 Both the Indonesian and Malaysian governments have criticized Western countries for failing to provide assistance to tackle the fires , and have accused the West of demonstrating hypocrisy in attacking forestry policy in the region while failing to respond to the crisis .
5 Other researchers have criticized this test for being insufficiently rigorous .
6 Working from samples taken from the ice cap , French researchers have calculated that snowfall in Greenland in 1967 contained seven times more lead than in 1989 .
7 We have calculated potential correlations between any disturbed motor function and the presence or absence of cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy .
8 Even where elected representatives are aware of the vote-catching potential of courting the ethnic communities , they have given little thought to the educational implications of their policies , and even less effort to ensure that the policies are implemented .
9 I have given two examples of the use of planned ignoring ; but it should be borne in mind that ignoring is not an all-purpose disciplinary approach .
10 ‘ If the savings by the closing are in the order that the authorities are suggesting , then the small payment being suggested would appear to make a lot of financial sense , while at the same time recognising the very valuable contribution of men who have given many years of service . ’
11 They have given many parties in their time , but on New Year 's Eve they have always gone out to the gatherings of others — sometimes to several gatherings in the course of the evening , and some years separately , not always meeting even for the magic chimes .
12 Australia 's defeats at Swansea and Llanelli , and only four tries in five matches in Wales , have given new hope to home players and fans only 12 months on from the 38–3 record home defeat at the hands of the Wallabies .
13 Gilbert is now acknowledged to have been a brilliant geomorphologist who made a contribution which anticipated many of the developments half a century later and whose deductions regarding stream and landscape mechanics ‘ have given new life to quantitative geomorphology in the twentieth century ’ ( Chorley , Dunn and Beckinsale , 1964 , p. 572 ) .
14 We have given strong support to the Sports Council and its efforts to raise participation in sport .
15 So we have given variable amounts of information about the speaker or the hearer or the time or the place as we have discussed different fragments of discourse .
16 Some innovative health authorities have given financial assistance for the establishment of advocacy schemes , though such money must be provided as a ‘ donation ’ or ‘ gift ’ rather than as revenue with strings attached .
17 Then at last he said : ‘ Gentlemen — and ladies , pardon me — I have given much thought to these matters and I wish to say here in confidence to you , that while there remains between myself and many of those present differences of interpretation as to what is really occurring in Europe at this moment , despite this , as to the main points that have been raised in this house , I am convinced , gentlemen , convinced both of their justice and their practicality . ’
18 The Government have given renewed priority to improvements in the infrastructure — in roads and railways and other transport .
19 One of several players to have come into the Armagh side of late to join the more experienced brigade , Mark is following in the footsteps of two of Killeavey 's most distinguished players , Gareth and Padraig O'Neill , both of whom have given great service to the county .
20 Other hon. Members have given specific examples of their constituents .
21 Alternatively or additionally subjects may genuinely feel that there is greater subjective difference within the few films they have given high ratings to than within the many they have given lower ratings to and have been at least partially successful in avoiding what Poulton ( 1989 ) terms equal frequency biases .
22 However , even with their aid it is thought by some to be unlikely that the outer Moon could have been melted quickly enough to yield those highland rock samples that have given radiometric ages of about 4300 Ma and older .
23 Although the Central Consultants and Specialists Committee has backed the changes in working patterns , task forces have given mixed reviews on consultants ' commitment to the changes .
24 For example , a company may pay off its bank overdraft ahead of its other liabilities because the directors have given personal guarantees to the bank .
25 With regard to the modest intestinal permeability test-intestinal morphometry relationship , it should be noted that previous attempts to correlate the intestinal permeability test results with jejunal histology have given conflicting results in patients with and without coeliac disease .
26 In the table at the right of Figure 1 I have given rough figures for the numbers of neurons and synapses in the human neocortex .
27 More widely still , Willses have given essential help in promoting the United World Colleges and inaugurating the International Baccalaureate .
28 Both Catholic and evangelical churches ( particularly those based in the United States ) have given economic aid to villages , particularly in the Ixil ‘ development pole ’ .
29 For far too long we have given free publicity for such tourist spots as Edinburgh Castle .
30 I hope I have given some idea of what a single neuron with its trigger feature and projective zone an accomplish , and now I must explain a bit about the neocortex , which is the stage on which neurons perform to bring about higher mental processes .
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