Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may all seem trivial , but I wonder how many fishkeepers have possibly given up the hobby at an early stage because they were unaware their fish were dying from nothing more sinister than overfeeding with resultant ammonia/nitrite stress — and nobody told them . |
| 2 | While the official party line remains that the Liberal Democrats would vote against a Queen 's Speech that did not contain a commitment to introduce proportional representation at Westminster , party strategists have not ruled out the option of abstaining . |
| 3 | It was n't his fault that powerful and doting parents had systematically brought out the worst in him . |
| 4 | This did not mean their parents had happily shelled out the £2,000 for the trip — many had been sponsored by local firms and one girl had taken out a bank loan . |
| 5 | Engineers have recently scaled up the process to separate at a rate of a few milligrams per hour . |
| 6 | Glaciers have also gouged out the weaker rock along the lines of ancient faults , and deepened the existing valleys there . |
| 7 | He claimed at a press conference that the plant 's management and government officials had deliberately played down the scale of the fire . |
| 8 | Two Medau class members from former days have also tracked down the Truro class . |
| 9 | Writers have sometimes brought in the phrase ‘ The Greeks had a word for it . ’ |
| 10 | It can be argued that mass communications have simply speeded up the whole process of change enormously , rather than imposed a massive and rigid uniformity . |
| 11 | All the good timber had been felled and sold in the 1930s and saplings had quickly crowded out the original vistas . |
| 12 | The song is , it appears , about the lack of sex education in schools , a subject which we at Public NME feel is indeed worthy of airing , and what a shame more of our nation 's pop stars have n't taken up the musical cudgel , so to speak . |
| 13 | By comparison , badger aroma is much less pungent and less acrid , though it can be quite strong in the vicinity of the sett , where the occupants have repeatedly marked both the ground and each other . |
| 14 | So far — perhaps because of difficulty in finding a sufficiently masochistic emissary — the Americans have not taken up the suggestion . |
| 15 | If the police had never set up the jewellers shop , they would , in my judgment , have been doing the same thing , though of course they would not have been doing it in that shop , at that time . |
| 16 | Markets have always sought out the most profitable locations , and this has inevitably created problems for declining areas . |
| 17 | A survey has found just two white rhinoceroses in Hwange National Park , Zimbabwe , raising fears that poachers have virtually wiped out the animal in the country 's main game reserve . |
| 18 | The police have also taken on the football hooligans , the hippies , and the criminal gangs . |
| 19 | By the 1860S , middle-class holiday-makers had effectively taken over the resorts . |
| 20 | As she soon discovered , the explanation for this unseemly merriment was that when the priest directing the operations had solemnly inquired how the sick patient was , the child had irreverently blurted out : ‘ I am bursting , let me out , I want to pee . ’ |
| 21 | She had tried , but the rehearsals had gradually taken on the menace of trials of endurance . |
| 22 | In many areas of the country black clouds had completely blocked out the sun , and noxious gases were making normal life impossible . |
| 23 | Soldiers had since picked up the habit of wine-drinking in France during the war and upon returning to England had educated the middle classes , further increasing the popularity of Champagne in the immediate post-war years . |
| 24 | The receivers had already paid off the debt to the bank which gave rise to their appointment , but had not paid themselves first , as they were entitled to do under the terms of their appointment ( p 99 ) . |
| 25 | Meanwhile New Scientist understands that ministers have not taken up the offer of the Greenfield committee to hold further meetings to consider the issues of generic drugs further . |
| 26 | In contrast , the utility-based argument associated with Buchanan ( 1958 ) does not quarrel with when the resources are used but rather points to the fact that debt-holders have voluntarily taken up the debt and are being compensated for decreased present consumption by the enhanced future consumption that interest and repayment will allow , and hence are not made worse off . |
| 27 | How is it , then , that such findings have not brought about the introduction of a formal corrective mechanism ? |
| 28 | The water authorities have not ruled out the possibility of flooding large Parts of the Dales , however , and , ever greedier in their search for uplands to despoil and destroy , will have to be watched carefully . |
| 29 | as if to prove it , our green-fingered experts have again picked up the top prizes in Aberdeen district council 's gardening competition . |
| 30 | The two clubs have obviously sorted out the wide gap between their respective ideas of the compensation Stoke should receive and it 's now become clear that Macari will be allowed to negotiate his new terms WITH Stoke City 's approval . |