Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] that [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the long term , that might be a more effective way of encouraging investment than some of the short-term proposals that we have heard today . |
| 2 | The kind of norms we are concerned with here are sometimes called community norms in order to distinguish them from the superordinate norms that I have mentioned , and I shall suggest below that a major difference between superordinate and community norms is that , whereas ‘ standard ’ norms are uniform , community norms are sometimes more aptly described as variable norms . |
| 3 | To illustrate the point , and to suggest some possible choices , I shall pack a fictional bag for three very different trips that I have taken recently — a six-week winter trip to Nepal , including a trek to Everest Base Camp , a week 's backpacking in North Wales and a camping and birdwatching trip to New England during the Fall . |
| 4 | For some , homesickness is so bad during the first few months that they have no alternative but to go back home again . |
| 5 | everybody does a bit of camera work and sound and things and everybody experiences those different roles that you have so far covered , you know , across the documentary , but not in every act . |
| 6 | I have n't taken into account the suggestion forms that I had this morning and some quiffs that I have n't had . |
| 7 | An exercise that is always valuable , is to rewrite a few articles that you have read . |
| 8 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 9 | From the discussions that I have had with those groups and from some statements that I have received — I do not want to go into detail because they were confidential — I am confident that a solution could have been found which would have formed a reasoned consensus for those groups , for the interests that they represent and for the House . |
| 10 | A well-known example is the sentence ‘ I have plans to leave ’ ; this is ambiguous : a ) I have plans to leave ( i.e. I am planning to leave. ) b ) I have plans to leave ( i.e. I have some plans/diagrams/drawings that I have to leave . ) |
| 11 | My answer to the first part of his question is that in the few weeks that I have had my present portfolio , two or three times in public I have stated my firm belief that it is in the interests of the people of Northern Ireland , the police and the security forces — indeed , in the interests of all of us — that the law be applied even-handedly and that those responsible for applying the law should do so . |
| 12 | Well this is the risk you have to take but er , and it 's a , it 's a profit at this stage where er people are coming up to receiving lump sums in retirement and wonder how best to invest it , well seems to me there 's no better investment than to , than to put it into tax free sources that you have available to you . |
| 13 | Think of some things that you have learnt in your life — for example , how to operate a new washing machine . |
| 14 | I 'll just erm pick up on maybe some things that you have n't already mentioned . |
| 15 | 17.48 ( i ) Pupils should have opportunities to write in a range of forms including a number of the following : notes , diaries , personal letters , chronological accounts , pamphlets , book reviews , advertisements , comic strips , poems , stories , playscripts. ( ii ) Building on experiences of a range of different stories that they have read and heard , and/or through discussion of their work with the teacher or their peers , pupils should learn to handle the following elements of story structure with increasing effectiveness : an opening , setting , characters , events and a resolution . |
| 16 | It is usually recommended that a person should tell their sexual partners that they have HIV infection . |
| 17 | I must tell my right hon. and hon. Friends that we have an ally . |
| 18 | I have been told by well-meaning friends that I have a touch of fever … well , so be it ! |
| 19 | I remind hon. Members that we have a debate tomorrow on this subject and that there will be a public expenditure debate later . |
| 20 | I ask the House to settle down and listen to the statement , and I remind hon. Members that we have a busy day ahead of us . |
| 21 | Does the LEA wish to allow long-established bookings that they have previously subsidised to continue — perhaps OAPs , the disabled or unemployed , or Guides or Scouts ? |
| 22 | He added : ‘ Following the closure of Swan Hunter 's , the government has finally agreed to talk to the EC about getting the same subsidies for all British shipyards that we have been giving to our competitors in the EC for years . |
| 23 | It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poor , so that … the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting . |
| 24 | Thumbed through some papers that they have got , in front of the shop , and found one set of erm , papers from nineteen thirty-six concerned the French National Anthem , and I thought that was a second amazing coincidence , er , and so I had to buy myself that that set of papers for about a pound . |
| 25 | Here he is , h h he has the very unpleasant duty of explaining and justifying the drafting of this measure a a and I do hope it would be , it would be really rather an unexpected realisation of an ambition , but nevertheless one hopes eternal if my Noble Friend were to get up and say that as a result these few remarks that I have been tempted to make that some kind of effort is going to be made to tidy up as th th the processes whereby er such stuff appears , is allowed to appear on the pages of the Statute Book er er I do recall that when the Charities Bill was going through several committees , my Noble Friend was n't who who was d d dealing with the Bill in , on behalf of the Government was exceedingly helpful and I hope that he will show the same degree of goodwill today er and , and , and er h if he 's very clear and devote is very considerable energies to persuading those professional obs obfuscators who are responsible for this kind of garbage to do better in the future . |
| 26 | In response to claims by MAS that the BBC has circulated a list of 67 records that they have allegedly ‘ banned ’ due to their being unlistenable , a spokesperson for Radio 1 said ‘ Absolutely . |
| 27 | So many poison-producing amphibians give vivid and unmistakable warnings that they have such defences at their disposal . |
| 28 | The above are a few samples that we have collected . |
| 29 | Erm these er very sad cases this week of individuals , frankly no fault of their own , er committing horrendous crimes that we have seen . |
| 30 | When the naive inductivist , and many other empiricists , assume that there is something unique given to us in experience that can be interpreted in various ways , they are assuming , without argument and in spite of much evidence to the contrary , some one-to-one correspondence between the images on our retinas and the subjective experiences that we have when seeing . |