Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have [adv] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was pointed out in argument that , pursuant to regulation 7 of the Income Tax ( Building Societies ) Regulations 1986 , tax which was due but not paid on or before the due date could have been the subject of an assessment on Woolwich under paragraph 4(2) or ( 3 ) of Schedule 20 to the Finance Act 1972 ; but for the reasons I have already given any such assessment would , in my opinion , have been a nullity in the circumstances of the present case . |
| 2 | We sat on its terrace overlooking the harbour , watching the sky blush rose-red and devouring plum oysters , crabs , and langoustines caught that same day — and the first snails I have ever had that did not taste like bits of black rubber boot fried in garlic and olive oil . |
| 3 | There were also the nascent nationally organized environmental pressure groups which have since played such an important role in influencing the political agenda . |
| 4 | " Dr Dunstaple , please ! " protested the Magistrate , who was one of the few cantonment-dwellers who had never experienced any affection for Dr Dunstaple . |
| 5 | In recounting my coming out story in later years I have always sited this period of my life as extremely important to my subsequent emergence as a lesbian . |
| 6 | The judges hearing the petition said that they hoped that the delay would cool protests which had already cost some 70 lives . |
| 7 | I remember teaching a class of social workers who had once received some lectures on Freud . |
| 8 | Reductions they 've actually altered those in the last b budget , er which has benefitted particularly the business property element . |
| 9 | The Prince of Wales has an obvious love of the countryside and for 20 years he has somehow found some private time to express this through the medium of watercolour painting . |
| 10 | Increased expenditure on criminal legal aid made advocacy economically attractive to those firms which had traditionally ignored this down-market branch of legal practice . |
| 11 | Draw up a list of 20 things you have never done that are silly but do n't cost much money and work your way down the list by doing one each day ( eg leave your car in the garage and hitch a lift , turn the daily newspaper into papier mâché , go to the shops wearing a funny hat , shake hands with the next 10 people you meet ) . |
| 12 | This book seems to be based on the techniques I have long suspected some producers use to keep a discussion going for the full length of a programme whether there is anything in it or not , to keep up the emotional temperature even about unexciting things , and to emit statements which are just distorted enough to get people objecting , whether they are worth objecting to or not . |
| 13 | ‘ Partners who have never seen each other for 10 years may be forced into a situation that could cause stress and rekindle bitter feelings . ’ |
| 14 | In terms of needing help , these are precisely the most vulnerable groups , and for good reasons they have therefore received more attention in earlier work on the elderly . |
| 15 | Yet the definition is useful in drawing our attention to those agglomerations of more recent origin , those which have become important in post-medieval times , acquiring a church and a separate status , and the large numbers of hamlets which have never had any particular distinguishing features about them . |
| 16 | The protest vote theory , though valid , was not sufficient to explain why 2 million adults took the trouble to vote for organic smallholders and kindred green souls who had hitherto made little impression on the political scene . |
| 17 | Sometimes it was the children who forced the pace , pleading in all innocence to join their brothers , sisters , or friends who had somehow won this great distinction of a place on a Kindertransport . |
| 18 | Likewise with friends they 've probably got fewer friends but the friends they have got are very close friends and they know them on a much deeper level . |
| 19 | husbands think their fault is they 've no money , when in all accounts he 's probably had more to spend on his luxuries than she 's had on food . |
| 20 | Masklin wondered how many times it had industriously cleaned this corridor , while it waited for nomes to come back … . |
| 21 | Lot is captured in a sacking of Sodom , and to rescue him Abraham goes into battle with 318 men against the combined armies of four kings who have already routed those of five others . |
| 22 | Answers from the guys who 've actually seen some football this year ( you lucky , lucky people ! ) — actually I saw a Yale match last week — complete farce but that 's another story ! ! |
| 23 | The match-winners were Newton , who added five penalties to the 478 points he had already scored this season , and Ness , the Scots captain . |
| 24 | And Doña Ximena and her daughters stood trembling , like women who had never seen such things before : and when the Cid saw it he made them seat themselves , so as no longer to behold it . |
| 25 | Briefly , over a 14 month period starting in May 1968 , 1400 general practitioners throughout the United Kingdom recruited 23000 women who were using oral contraceptives and a similar number of women who had never used these preparations . |
| 26 | She had risen this morning with the intention of going into town and meandering among the shops , perhaps treating herself to a new bonnet , or buying Cissie those pretty boots she had so admired some days ago when the two of them had walked up and down Ainsworth Street , browsing in all the shop-windows ; afterwards , Beth might have called in to the delightful tea rooms at the comer of the boulevard . |
| 27 | Students who come to him after an hour or more of reception learning may be more ready to take an active part than students who have already spent most of the morning burrowing in the library or measuring the school buildings . |
| 28 | He 's been so busy catching murderers we 've hardly seen each other for three weeks . |
| 29 | Dogs are those cows which have further deteriorated such that they provide no cash throw-off , due to the effect of a small market share in a very mature market . |
| 30 | 122 miles you 've just pushed this seven and a half ton truck I believe yet what was the one moment that really stood out or really got you going ? |