Example sentences of "the [noun] have [vb pp] [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 The need to extend one 's knowledge of primary health care and the need for knowledge of research results on the impact of community-based health care projects , was a sound motivating force for Family Development Nurses and the majority have taken part in various courses and research projects .
2 ‘ I 'm thrilled that the board have shown faith in me by giving me the chance to work with them for another 12 months .
3 A table showing how the courts have apportioned damages in various types of case will be found in Kemp & Kemp , The Quantum of Damages ( Sweet & Maxwell ) Vol 1 at 23 – 004 and 23 – 005 .
4 Any of the 'ates any of the 'ates have got oxygen in
5 Thus despite the fact that the Thatcher government in the early 1980s was committed to a tight control of money supply and set targets for the broad monetary base M0 , and despite the fact that the authorities have expressed interest in monetary base control , this has not been the form of policy pursued .
6 Over the years graduates of the course have found employment in the United Kingdom and a number of overseas countries in a wide range of occupations .
7 ‘ But all the lads have got confidence in me .
8 The club have shown faith in me and that kind of backing deserves loyalty from me . ’
9 Where there is nothing to show that the parties have used language in any other than its strict and ordinary sense , and where the words interpreted in that sense are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances , it is an inflexible rule of construction that the words shall be interpreted in that strict and primary sense even though they may be capable of some popular or secondary interpretation and even though the most conclusive evidence of the intention to use them in such popular sense is tendered ( Enlayde Ltd v Roberts [ 1917 ] 1 Ch 109 : obligation to reinstate property destroyed by fire included an obligation to reinstate where the destruction was caused by incendiary bombs ) .
10 The fish have modified muscles in their flanks which generate and transmit these electric discharges .
11 There are many facets to being a player of that quality and the years have brought changes in different ways .
12 Most of the changes have taken place in the past 200 and many in the past 50 years .
13 More probably , the mass desertion is another sign of how the people have lost faith in perestroika and its unfulfilled promises .
14 In class societies , the elites have found compensation in art .
15 Vehicles from the collection have taken part in almost every ceremonial occasion in Scotland since 1946 .
16 Around a hundred of the staff have taken part in the buyout , which we are very pleased with .
17 Since the Government have supported independence in Russia , Lithuania and other parts of the world , when the people of Scotland democratically and peacefully vote for independence , what will the Government say to them ?
18 Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is good news that , even in the teeth of an international recession , the Government have achieved reductions in interest rates , which means that the family man with an average , typical mortgage of £30,000 pays £100 a month less ?
19 Does he know that thousands of construction workers in Wales are out of work , yet Shelter Cymru tells us that 63,000 families in the Principality have experienced homelessness in the past year ?
20 Both Britain and the US have used polonium in the atomic bombs they have exploded .
21 Further work from many parts of the world have demonstrated chlamydia in a proportion of patients with non-gonococcal infection and , when they have been tested , in their sexual partners .
22 ‘ Given the acrimony between the parents who both vie for the children 's affection and blacken each other 's characters and motives in the process , I am of the view that the children have become pawns in their game of hurt and ascendency .
23 and it 'll flow out , okay , now we know that 's the difference in colour and I 've already told you that the arteries have got muscles in their walls , what 's the difference in between the wall of the muscle , muscular wall , let's put my teeth back in , the muscular wall of the artery and the wall of the vein ?
24 One of the main reasons why teachers have fallen in public esteem is that the public have lost confidence in teaching methods , which , in turn , seem to have lost contact with common sense as perceived by the man on the Clapham omnibus .
25 The only real alternatives to the Pitcairn plume containing recycled continental or sedimentary material are that the magmas have assimilated sediment in crustal magma chambers or they have exchanged oxygen during subsequent submarine weathering .
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