Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pos pn] [noun] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 2 | Even today , a third of the population of the city is employed in industry , many of them in the one in which their families have worked for generations . |
| 3 | SCOTVEC 's Board has agreed that the local officers should now be known as Field Officers , rather than their former title of External Moderator , because the new title reflects much more faithfully the way in which their jobs have evolved over the five years of National Certificate 's life . |
| 4 | At home Keith is a naughty boy and frequently has breath holding tantrums to which his parents have responded by smacking and shouting at him . |
| 5 | At home Keith is a naughty boy and frequently has breath holding tantrums to which his parents have responded by smacking and shouting at him . |
| 6 | This map and the sense of movement from one place to the next form the frame of the book , equivalent to Boccaccio 's paradisiacal garden to which his storytellers have fled from the plague-infested city , and it ensures that Narratori delle pianure is read not as a collection of stories , but as a succession . |
| 7 | Mr Raynor asks if this column can help in identifying the origin of this poster which his family have owned for many years — doubtless readers can help ! |
| 8 | But first , it is worth briefly summarising the evidence which our surveys have given about problems over credit use — as far as the relationship between borrower and lender is concerned . |
| 9 | ‘ One must judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them . ’ |