Example sentences of "what they have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's doing what they 've always done for 50 years . |
| 2 | Okay , definition of disability , what they 've actually got to be , to be able to claim is unable to perform any part of their normal occupation . |
| 3 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 4 | Mr Beltrami would tell the jury that on several occasions during the past four years McGuinness had spoken to him in detail about his part in the Ayr murder ; and as he has a commanding presence and deep , authoritative voice , his evidence would have gone far to confirm in the minds of the jury what they had already heard from Mrs McGuinness . |
| 5 | The Literary Lionisers , or those who had survived the damp morning walk to Ramsgate along the sands ( in the steps of the great Dickens on his walk with Hans Christian Andersen ) , were equally divided as to those who wished no more to do with the Imperial , Broadstairs or indeed the Lionisers , those to whom the sudden disappearance of their leader was an added bonus , and those who were determined not to miss what they had already paid for . |
| 6 | Instead they would continue to work towards what they had earlier described as ‘ a national consensus on a desirable frame-work for the curriculum ’ in the quest for ‘ improvement in the consistency and quality of school education across the country ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose some of your own nights when you were on the run were not unlike that , ’ she ventured into what they had never spoken of . |
| 8 | The Tories , and their ruling-class supporters , wish to keep the ordinary worker from knowing what the substance of this social chapter is , how it really just gives more backing to much of what they have already gained through industrial struggles for nearly 200 years , and the extension of these rights to every worker , especially the more isolated ones . |
| 9 | Their liability will not be based on what they have actually paid for their house but what it is deemed to be worth without discount . |