Example sentences of "the [noun pl] have [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus in Jaca there were allotments for the poor labourers and no agrarian destitute class ; around Saragossa the labourers had enforced a customary eight-hour day and worked in their free hours on their own plots ; but on the great estates of dry Aragon labour conditions could only be matched in Andalusia . |
| 2 | Experiments illustrated in figure 1 on fires in a storage of goods on pallets in open racks showed that in three minutes after ignition , the flames were growing at a dangerous rate , and that after eight minutes the flames had encompassed the whole height of the racking ( 18 m ) and were producing large volumes of acrid smoke . |
| 3 | As they ran into the garden , stumbling clumsily against each other , there was a hollow explosion : the flames had reached the uncovered paraffin tin . |
| 4 | He had quite liked the thought of being fit and athletic some time in the future , although the signs had taken a long time coming . |
| 5 | I must go and enquire if the artists have had a successful afternoon . ’ |
| 6 | Is the Minister aware that , while the science research councils have fared badly under the present Government , the humanities have fared a good deal worse under the direct rule of his Department ? |
| 7 | However , in cases on other provisions of the Act reported to date the courts have adopted a broad , purposive , interpretation , and it therefore seems reasonable to assume that s3 could apply to all the situations described . |
| 8 | The conceptual basis underlying the Nat Bell decision has been removed as the courts have rejected the limited theory of jurisdiction , and have moved through the collateral fact doctrine towards the theory of extensive review . |
| 9 | Here we find similarities with the position in breach of contract where the courts have recognised the innominate term as a method of reducing the hardship of categorising terms of the contract , irrespective of the consequences of the breach , as conditions ( see below ) . |
| 10 | It may be helpful to know that the courts have treated the following as contracts of sale contracts : to make and supply ships ' propellers according to a specification , Cammell Laird v. Manganese Bronze & brass ( 1934 H.L. ) ; to prepare and supply food in a restaurant , Lockett v. A. & m . |
| 11 | He relied upon the great development that has recently taken place in the law of judicial review whereby the courts have asserted a general jurisdiction to review the decisions of tribunals and inferior courts . |
| 12 | In other contexts the courts have taken a broad , purposive approach to the interpretation of the 1977 Act ; thus in Smith v Eric S Bush ; Harris v Wyre Forest DC [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 514 the House of Lords held that a disclaimer of liability on a surveyor 's report , which purported to prevent the surveyor owing a duty of care to the recipient of the report , was subject to s2 of the Act and was required to be reasonable . |
| 13 | However , recently , the courts have taken a more laissez-faire attitude to exclusion clauses and fundamental breach on the basis that the parties should be free to agree that there should be no liability under the contract even for a fundamental breach , if that was their desire , see Photo Productions Ltd. v Securicor Transport Ltd. [ 1980 ] . |
| 14 | The courts have shown a similar bias , though usually for a different reason . |
| 15 | By extending judicial review to cover such non-governmental bodies performing ‘ public functions ’ , the courts have provided a valuable means ( even if of marginal importance ) of exercising legal control over the pursuit of governmental aims and policies . |
| 16 | It is now necessary to see how the courts have interpreted the reasonable foreseeability test . |
| 17 | The sentencers have used the new powers , not to reduce the numbers being sent to prison , but as a way of substituting a tougher penalty for petty offenders . |
| 18 | Moreover , the Germans had made a further — and fateful — error : they had omitted to occupy the Channel ports , as they might easily have done , without loss , during their initial advance . |
| 19 | At Verdun in February 1916 the Germans had achieved the greatest concentration of air power yet seen — 168 planes , fourteen ‘ Drachen ’ balloons , four Zeppelins . |
| 20 | Other papers in the Public Records Office showed the misgivings of the naval staff about the two incidents , for by now the Germans had found the dead soldiers , and there were fears of reprisals against any British submarine crews subsequently captured — indeed it may be that these events had some bearing on the subsequent shootings of British commandos captured in that area . |
| 21 | John says the Germans have got a new Maastricht banner a deck chair with a towel over it . |
| 22 | The Germans have had a different structure of labour laws for many years . |
| 23 | One of the sons had done the right thing and had taken the pressure off me for a while . |
| 24 | We measured the phosphorylation of the proteins of synaptic membranes prepared from brains dissected at various times after training , and , sure enough , the phosphorylation of one key presynaptic protein was affected thirty minutes after the birds had pecked the bitter bead . |
| 25 | She described a case where the Guardians had taken a whole family into the workhouse , the father being ‘ hopelessly out of work ’ . |
| 26 | The proposals had envisaged an autonomous Tibet , with China responsible for defence and foreign affairs . |
| 27 | Again , the proposals have attracted a considerable number of comments , with a minority favouring a return to the proposals in E 32 . |
| 28 | During an earlier panic about garotting robberies and stabbing incidents in 1856 , The Times had enjoyed the good fortune actually to discover some real foreigners to blame for the outrages , pointing the accusing finger at ‘ men who have been discharged from the foreign legions ’ . |
| 29 | The hunters had become the hunted . |
| 30 | But the hunters have become the hunted . |