Example sentences of "has [verb] that many " in BNC.

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1 Much recent research in social cognition has stressed that many apparently complex tasks satisfy all or many of the conditions for being automatic in this sense ( e.g. social categorisation — Higgins , Rholes & Jones , 1977 ; Higgins , 1989 ; causal attribution — Bargh , 1984 ; social interaction — Langer , 1978 ) .
2 The Government 's official scientific advisers , the Joint Nature Conservation Committee , has recommended that many of the blocks currently being offered to oil companies should be withdrawn from the licensing round .
3 The government has argued that many schools consistently secure good order ‘ not simply by a regime of sanctions and rewards but more broadly by creating within the school … . positive attitudes to good behaviour ’ .
4 Professor Sawyer has argued that many of the small pre-Conquest landowners who appear from Domesday Book to be independent were in fact tenants of lords not named , and thus that lordship may have been more extensive than has sometimes been realised .
5 Experience has shown that many real situations are lacking in mechanisms for monitoring what is going on , and taking the necessary control action when the required standards are n't being met .
6 In fact , research in America has shown that many very happy and successful marriages , whether of five or thirty-five years ' duration , include very little sex .
7 In fact , research in North America and Europe has shown that many buyers never actually use their own timeshare accommodation themselves but do use it for exchange purposes : this kind of owner normally buys a timeshare unit close to his own main residence .
8 Research has shown that many text books written in the subject areas for 11- and 12-year-old pupils have readability ages of 14 .
9 Recent work has shown that many plant species can transmit action potentials and variation potentials .
10 A recent study of the Gloucestershire gentry has shown that many of those from the knightly class who served were young men , whose elders carried the burden of local administration .
11 Lawton ( 1977 ) has shown that many rural districts around London and the other major cities have had persistent population increases since 1921 .
12 Research , including work done by NASA at its National Space Technology laboratories in the U.S.A. , has shown that many indoor plants are efficient in removing unhealthy air pollutants such as carbon dioxide , carbon monoxide , formaldehyde and benzene .
13 Previous application of this method ( viz. a 1-stage Delphi with interactive feedback ) earlier in this research programme has shown that many employers embarking often for the first time on strategic employment policy-making require some means of obtaining confirmation they are on the right lines .
14 He says research has shown that many people would be incapable of driving safely over long distances in the early afternoon even after one drink .
15 However , research has shown that many students first discover Radio 4 when at college without a TV set .
16 An internal survey by the Association of District Councils ( ADC ) , reported in the journal Housing , has found that many local authorities are having great difficulty in exempting from the Right to Buy those properties they consider to be especially suitable for older people .
17 A survey by German scientists has found that many fish in the North Sea suffer from tumours , bacterial ulcers and liver damage caused by pollution .
18 A report commissioned by the UK government on acid rain and nitrogen oxides has concluded that many ecologically sensitive parts of Britain , particularly the wet , upland areas , are in danger of being damaged by emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere .
19 A study conducted on behalf of the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) has concluded that many of the claims made by timber retailers regarding the supposed sustainability of their sources are misleading .
20 This has meant that many studies tend to concentrate on the objective assessment of a fiscally quantifiable reality .
21 The implementation of the single market legislation has meant that many supplies that were previously exempt or zero-rated now fall outside the scope of UK VAT .
22 The very fact that some topics and methods are conventionally the preserve of artists has meant that many have shied away from them in their eagerness to establish their own practice as scientific .
23 This has meant that many enthusiasts for computing in the humanities have an uncomfortable sense of crisis , a feeling of promise unfulfilled .
24 This change , and the more modest gains in the South West and East Anglia , has meant that many smaller towns have experienced increases in office employment ( Marquand 1979 ) .
25 Being only two miles away , their success has meant that many fair-weather ‘ Stiffs ’ supporters have been attracted to their games and in consequence our gate receipts have suffered .
26 In particular , the development of expert systems for use in medical , legal , commercial or educational contexts has meant that many person-computer exchanges take on a conversational quality .
27 The World Bank has admitted that many of the projects it funded in Brazil during the 1970s and 80s resulted in massive environmental degradation and the eviction of over 100,000 poor farmers and their families , many of whom were forced into the shanty-towns of major cities .
28 Chapter 3 has suggested that many soil conservation policies fail , and section 2 of this chapter has identified an historical model of the conceptualisation of the soil erosion problem and its policy solutions .
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