Example sentences of "[conj] they have [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Could the tin and processed food industries have got where they have without the benefit of the tomato compounds which colour , flavour , thicken , and conceal so many deficiencies ?
2 That congregations be given ample opportunity to sing in services , even where they have to be unaccompanied ( 528–529 , 540 ) .
3 Now we have n't , erm talking about er cars as to other forms of transport and on the whole there 's been more complaints about the public transport than they have about cars , but you surely do n't think or maybe you do , I mean what 's bad about cars ? ,
4 According to Barry Morris , Blackpool 's tourism boss : ‘ People are not prepared to accept less in a B&B than they have at home .
5 When he finally paused for breath , I said , ‘ Hold on a moment ’ and explained that , although obviously nobody wants to spend more than they have to on anything , in my case it was a matter of principle , because I wanted my husband 's funeral to be a personal affair in which he would be ministered to by his loved-ones , not strangers .
6 Second , egged on by their accountants , most banks have been reluctant to appear to endorse FAS107 any more than they have to , for fear of encouraging more stringent market-value accounting rules .
7 Who 's going to stay in prison longer than they have to ?
8 So they er they agree that they have an influence on market prices , but they , they wo n't , are not prepared to pay any more than they have to .
9 There is a perception amongst informed people in the community that there may well be a shortage of long stay beds in Leicestershire and you do need to bear in mind that the National Health Service is increasingly going down the road of not keeping people in hospitals longer than they have to because hospitals are perceived as being very , a very expensive way of providing beds and you have to take that into account because that 's a fairly clear national policy and you are likely to see an acceleration in that process from what I read in the national press .
10 I would now like to pursue the resemblance by claiming that blocks as such ( i.e. techniques which are solely performed to deflect attacking techniques ) , have no more place in karate competition than they have in boxing .
11 In some ways people in London ( flower of cities all , as a Scots poet put it long ago ) , both men and women , have more freedom to live as they want than they have in most other cities .
12 ‘ I find it interesting that we have produced more players of other colours in rugby than they have in our cricket .
13 Services can at least do better by parents with learning difficulties in the future than they have in the past .
14 These questions have been explored more fully by researchers in North America than they have in Britain ( Sussman , 1965 ; Cheal , 1983 ) but the findings of recent British studies seem broadly to be in line with this work ( Qureshi and Simons , 1987 ; Wilson , 1987 ) .
15 That is due partly to quite creditable reasons : mothers on their own have more assured rights to benefits and to housing than they have in many other countries ; , they are not compelled to go to work ; and their benefits are more generous in comparison with wages .
16 If anything , farm workers now identify more with farmers than they have in the past .
17 However , it will be interesting to see whether , under the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , their parents will have some liability , and perhaps exercise more supervision over their youngsters than they have in the past .
18 What will basically happen is we would organize the clearance of footpaths within Southwell boundary , and so they would give us an amount of money each year and then we would er take on , we would nominate which footpaths are to be cleared , we have got far more ideas than they have in Nottingham need attention .
19 And the reason that rents in Cambridge are higher than in those in surrounding areas , or the eight that the councillor is talking about is because the rent levels which er the government require us to raise to are historically based on right to buy values and as he knows as well as I do , house prices in Cambridge have been relatively consistently higher than they have in surrounding areas .
20 He 's also been careful to work er with the United Nations who have done er much better so far than they have in er some crises in the past .
21 For all this , primary products exported outside the Bloc have ( at least since 1974 ) been worth more in dollar terms than they have within it ; but given the way goods are priced within it , this may mean less than meets the eye .
22 The second round of the ‘ adidas ’ Challenge tournaments , which were held over the Christmas period , gave a strong indication of the interest and popularity that they have with young players throughout the country .
23 Recognising the difficulty that arises in the countries of central and eastern Europe , can he commit himself to the urgent introduction of EFTA applications , recognising the special bridges that they have with those countries and the Baltic states ?
24 together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust .
25 Now they 're not applying the same rules and regulations in Savac and Sarouac , it 's the island peninsular , maybe their reaction to the Friends of the Earth is symptomatic of a certain degree of bad conscience that they have with the , with the other two .
26 No doubt Cardiff feel that they have to be seen to be doing something to restore both their fortunes and their credibility and that the something should be suitably dramatic .
27 Arts groups have only just begun to take on board the fact that they have to be much more proactive if they are to tap the creativity of people who may be confined to their homes or only get out to day centres with help .
28 Selectors should also avoid books which are so tightly bound that they have to be held forcibly open .
29 So it is important to remember that schools are not factories — however frequently we are told that they have to ‘ deliver ’ the curriculum , and however deliberately we are exposed to the pressures of competition and market forces .
30 A third group of carers take on the job because they feel that they have to .
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