Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With precious little to celebrate , and even less money with which to do it , many have stopped drinking champagne altogether . |
| 2 | And I have stopped taking things for granted . |
| 3 | Local councils throughout the United Kingdom have stopped using peat in favour of environmentally friendly alternatives , a new survey carried out by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) has found . |
| 4 | I have stopped telling customers that it used to be ripened under piles of manure , as it seemed to stop them from buying it . |
| 5 | Although many other Scots have stopped speaking Gaelic they too have rather poor communications with the rest of Britain . |
| 6 | But some gun dealers have stopped selling replicas , because they 're worried about them falling into the wrong hands . |
| 7 | Boots have stopped selling car seats but say they will offer further information to people who 've bought the Rainbow seat . |
| 8 | Oh , dear McAllister , I have stopped making sense . |
| 9 | Isotope generated artificially by fission reaction and thermo-nuclear weapon tests since 1954 have given cascading systems of radioactive products in atmosphere , surface , soil and vegetation . |
| 10 | Now with Richie Dixon joining Doug Morgan , the coaching sessions have altered to ease Dixon 's passage into the backroom team . |
| 11 | The management cuts , which aimed to reduce staff at Ford by more than 1,000 , have altered reporting structures within individual departments in the company and shifted emphasis towards supplies . |
| 12 | There is evidence that some of the larger predators have favoured eating places , for example under trees in hot climates ( Haynes , 1982 ; Behrensmeyer , 1987 ) . |
| 13 | [ After a study of chief executives in 50 US manufacturing companies ] In summary , chief executives have limited scanning capacity , and organizations have limited resources … . |
| 14 | If you 've never skippered a yacht before , but you 've always wanted to , or if you have limited sailing experience , join Villa-Flotilla in Nidri . |
| 15 | Borrowings include £98 million [ 1991 £70 million ] which is the subject of interest swap agreements under which counterparties have undertaken to pay amounts at fixed rates of interest in consideration for amounts payable by the Group at variable rates of interest . |
| 16 | The companies have undertaken to make capital investments of £95 million in 1983 and to limit their spending on advertising and publicity to 16 per cent of their turnover . |
| 17 | Reports tend to confirm that most of the fish have completed spawning activities and seem ready to feed . |
| 18 | But events have conspired to leave McGeechan well short of a full Lions choice . |
| 19 | History and geography have conspired to bring Greece to a moment of decision . |
| 20 | Such factors have conspired to add momentum to the drive for even greater central control by government . |
| 21 | Moreover , as we have seen , firms have developed facilitating devices such as information agreements , trade associations , and price leadership to help them solve the problem of achieving and maintaining agreements . |
| 22 | My dream is achievable because all we have to do is stop doing some of the things we are already doing : stop using the productive forces we have developed to create disabilities through warfare , environmental pollution and industrial accidents ; stop creating disabilities through poverty by using our vast wealth not in pursuit of capital accumulation and profit , but in ensuring that we all have the necessities to sustain material life ; and stop judging and treating people on the basis of the contribution they can or can not make to the development and operation of these productive forces . |
| 23 | ( In the SCAN scheme of analysis — see reference 2 — which we have developed to provide feedback to curriculum designers on the use of their material , we call these 1 and 3 levels of teacher guidance respectively , the level of demand is similarly classified unc The classification has been found useful much more widely . |
| 24 | The Tories have identified 73 constituencies , 11 of them marginals , where where 100 or more overseas residents have registered to cast proxy votes on April 9 . |
| 25 | Preliminary observations suggest that the acceleration of the exodus from the larger cities coincided with a period of intensive family raising and with large-scale clearance of sub-standard housing , while in contrast , the last ten years have witnessed falling fertility , population ageing , higher divorce rates and other changes leading to different housing requirements , as well as government efforts to redevelop inner city areas and curb the rate of decentralization . |
| 26 | So far I have written of the individual in relation to his , or her , environment of other people and have pointed to object relationships as the key connections between the inner world of the individual and his outer world . |
| 27 | ‘ I have received threatening phone calls and letters , saying I always want something for nothing , ’ he said . |
| 28 | " The meeting having considered the application of the Schoolmaster of Kildaltan for the payment of the sum he expended upon building his House — they have examined said accot. — and reprobate the conduct of the Schoolmaster in carrying on a work of such magnitude without authority — and they refuse to countenance such conduct … " |
| 29 | Several empirical studies have examined digitizing error by comparing digital data to their source maps ( Traylor 1979 ; Otawa 1987 ; Keefer et al. 1988 ) . |
| 30 | Computing and equipment suppliers that have joined include Alcatel NV , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp , GEC Plessey Telecommunications Ltd and IBM Corp . |