Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some pessimists have calculated that enormous exercise workouts would be needed in order to achieve even modest weight loss , but it is now recognized that exercise does effectively help to burn up calories by speeding up the body 's metabolic rate for some time afterwards . |
| 2 | By contrast , local authorities have calculated that full training costs , including time spent abroad by staff , would cost around £5,000 per teacher , or almost £12 million in total . |
| 3 | But even allowing for those one strong young man could have come up the stairs to Wolski 's room and in a few minutes and one journey have stripped that soulless place of all evidence that for almost three decades , since 1946 , Wolski had lived there . |
| 4 | Since the early days of the transition from the old to the new system of local government , agency arrangements have continued to be disputed between counties and districts , and in some cases counties have withdrawn or altered agency arrangements into which they had previously entered ( Alexander 1982a:60 — 5 ) . |
| 5 | Nowhere does a glass of Tetley 's ale taste so good ( though for us it had to be lemonade ) as when you have completed that two-hour trek over the brow of Ilkley Moor-or " ovver t'top " as they say up there . |
| 6 | Other Hawaiians have claimed that geothermal exploitation disrupts their worship of the goddess , Pele . |
| 7 | A number of observers have claimed that modern ideology is marked by the ruthless demystification of tradition ( i.e. Horkheimer and Adorno , 1973 ; Horkheimer , 1978 ; Abercrombie et al . , |
| 8 | Other authors have claimed that visual laterality effects occur when judgements have to be made from memory , that is , beyond the coding stage ( Hardyck , Tzeng and " Wang , 1977 ; 1978 ; Kirsner , 1980 ; Kirsner and Brown , 1981 . ) |
| 9 | Both Halsey and Goldthorpe ( 21 ) , ( 22 ) , separately have found that the privileged continue to be so over the years when we have claimed that educational opportunity was available to the able child . |
| 10 | Environmental groups have claimed that British Gas 's operations have caused damage to crops and game animals . |
| 11 | Lastly , we and others have reported that long term treatment with angiotensin I converting enzyme inhibitors can normalise urinary albumin excretion in normotensive diabetic patients with microalbuminuria and prevent diabetic nephropathy . |
| 12 | Some authors have reported that right eye sighting dominance is more common than a dominant left eye among dextrals while the association between the side of the preferred eye and preferred hand is less predictable among sinistrals ( Friedlander , 1971 ; Porac and Coren , 1975 ) . |
| 13 | We have reported that endoscopic dilatation is an effective and safe short term treatment for corrosive oesophageal strictures . |
| 14 | Also Wallace and keenan have reported that intracolonic administration of platelet activating factor may have a protective role in the gastrointestinal tract in animals . |
| 15 | Several studies have reported that abnormal lipoprotein levels frequently accompany diabetes mellitus ( Hayes , 1972 ; Garcia et al , 1974 ; Chase & Glasgow , 1976 ; Nikkila & Hormila , 1978 ; Mancini et al , 1980 ; Lisch & Sailer , 1981 ; Steiner , 1981 ) . |
| 16 | For the most part , however , those who in this century have disliked or feared democracy , at least in the sense of popular power , have found more subtle and sophisticated ways of formulating these traditional sentiments . |
| 17 | More recent studies have recommended that nasal oxygen be used for elderly patients or for patients in general . |
| 18 | Like middle age , this takes me unawares , for even when I have noticed that single paragraph on the front page of newspapers , I still ca n't work out what is happening . |
| 19 | Consumer bodies have said that enforced labelling would lead to better foods . |
| 20 | Many writers have said that English word stress is so difficult to predict that it is best to treat stress placement as a property of the individual word , to be learned when the word itself is learned . |
| 21 | It mattered to Randolph Ash what a man was , though he could , without undue disturbance , have written that general pantechnicon of a sentence using other terms , phrases and rhythms and have come in the end to the same satisfactory evasive metaphor . |
| 22 | The public have written thirty letters , representing about a thousand people , living in all corners of have written and recommended refusal . |
| 23 | We have seen that graph-search terminology provides a useful framework for clarifying and examining issues involved in automatic speech processing . |
| 24 | We have seen that economic analysis may be of help in making difficult policy choices . |
| 25 | But we have seen that vertical separation with restraints may well be more socially undesirable than vertical integration . |
| 26 | Thus we have seen that British capitalism in the 1860s abandoned non-economic compulsion of labour ( such as the Master and Servant Acts which punished breaches of contract by workers with jail ) , long-term hiring contracts ( such as the ‘ annual bond ’ of the northern coalminers ) , and truck payments , while the average length of hiring was shortened , the average period of payment gradually reduced to a week , or even a day or an hour , thus making the market bargain more sensitive and flexible . |
| 27 | Like the malarial swamps out of which the Most Serene Republic rose , we have seen that human altruism , communal feeling and social responsibility arose out of the egoistic , sadistic and erotic drives with which nature had endowed man . |
| 28 | Some economists have argued that short-term unemployment should be excluded from the official figures in order that the statistics be made more useful to policy-makers . |
| 29 | In this paper I have argued that criminal law is an extremely sophisticated , demanding and complex subject which can be presented as an ‘ introductory ’ course in legal education only by serious amputation and therefore distortion . |
| 30 | For several years some shadow Cabinet members — notably Robin Cook — have argued that electoral reform is the way forward for the party . |