Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] that [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pretender nearly gave the game away by holding his skirts too high crossing a stream : ‘ some women whom they met reported that they had seen a very big woman , who looked like a man in woman 's clothes . ’ |
| 2 | And he has realised that he had nothing to lose even if I am spying for Carlotta . |
| 3 | On the shores of uncharted CCT requirements the Computer Co-ordination Section has realised that it had to come up with a leaner , meaner , faster name for the Section . |
| 4 | In conducting this exercise the Commissioner has explained that he has adopted the wide test of subversion formulated by Lord Harris in 1975 and that his duty ‘ is to look at each case individually and say whether the Home Secretary could reasonably take the view that the warrant was necessary in the interests of national security ’ ( Lloyd , 1987 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ My husband has married only once , ’ she told me ‘ but he has forgotten that he has any duties . ’ |
| 6 | The outcome is the same if he has forgotten that he has a knife on him . |
| 7 | Sabre has stressed that it had no formal link with Clydesale Office Equipment , which has now closed down . |
| 8 | A fourth man , said to have provided the bomb , has added that they had nothing to do with it . |
| 9 | The attractiveness of Britain today for new business and job creation has ensured that we have consistently secured more Japanese and American investment than any other member state of the European Community . |
| 10 | The wistful look back to the glorious and not-so-glorious age of steam has ensured that there has been a rush to print off books about the railwayman 's experience . |
| 11 | De Matteo ( 1977 ) has argued that one has to understand sign language in terms of its visual imagery and he has particularly highlighted the syntactic devices used in ASL which derive from a visual representation of events . |
| 12 | Councillor has said that we have , that his group do not believe in the testing of seven year olds . |
| 13 | But Mr Ashdown , who is demanding a full-scale coalition , has so far rejected anything that Labour has offered , threatening to vote against a Queen 's Speech that does not include a commitment to electoral reform ; and Mr Kinnock has said that he has made no overtures — not even played the ‘ opening chords ’ — which would lead to a post-election pact . |
| 14 | It is a peaceful house in a peaceful place , an air of stillness and quiet lies all around it , and everybody I have taken to see the house has said that it has a very special atmosphere . |
| 15 | The party has said that it has no intentions of reducing its campaigning activities. , but will seek to improve its financial position through increases in membership fees and reductions in staff and publicity costs . |
| 16 | JWP Inc , the Rye Brook , New York electrical and plumbing services conglomerate that bought struggling Businessland Inc and almost immediately regretted it , has decided that it has had enough of computers altogether and on Friday announced that it will sell its information services business ; it has retained Lazard Freres & Co as its financial advisor to attempt to find a buyer ; the unit now provides personal computer-related hardware , software and integrated services primarily to large corporate and institutional customers , has some 3,000 staff and had 1992 revenues of $1,700m . |
| 17 | Research done among the Greenland Eskimos has shown that they have almost no record of heart disease . |
| 18 | ‘ I had the option of pulling him out because I was concerned about the ground , but the run has shown that I have been far too soft on him . |
| 19 | Analysis of the nuclear DNA of the mole salamander Ambystoma has shown that there has been crossing with males of related sexual species . |
| 20 | The Select Committee has taken an interest and has recognised that we have fully funded the programme that we set out . |
| 21 | They argue that his experience in Northern Ireland has demonstrated that he has qualifications for the job , combining authority with even-handedness . |
| 22 | At 32 , the actor turned producer-director has proved that he has the clout to raise money for stage and screen and the artistic talent to ensure that it 's well spent . |
| 23 | THE REPLACEMENTS ' singer Paul Westerberg is about to begin work on his first solo LP , and has indicated that he has no plans to return to the group . |
| 24 | By refusing a referendum on Maastricht this Government has declared that it has no respect at all for the wishes of the electorate . |
| 25 | Zon International has announced that it has taken over the UK distributorship for Solar lighting products . |
| 26 | THE BRITISH government has announced that it has set up a small stockpile of strategically important materials for use by industry . |
| 27 | Serious chipmakers ca n't afford to be out of the market , and Hitachi Ltd has announced that it has developed a new type of AND gate for Flash memory , which achieves the world 's smallest cell surface memory of just 1.28 square microns . |
| 28 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 29 | They were once found almost everywhere in Britain , but pollution of our rivers and the destruction of the otter 's natural habitat has meant that they 've disappeared from many parts . |
| 30 | The fact that women have decided to participate in the difficult but just struggle of El Salvador has meant that they have developed politically and ideologically and that there have been many changes in men 's attitudes , After the triumph , I believe these changes will become more apparent . |