Example sentences of "[adj] that they have [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 The four main opposition parties announced on June 30 that they had formed the National Democratic Front to co-ordinate their election campaign .
2 But the Junior also felt a little odd , the playing area being rather off to one side , so Hamer would say it 's this that they 've looked to address — but I still think they could have done it better .
3 I do not mean by this that they have had to invent new beliefs , but they do have to adopt the voluntary camaraderie of the sects .
4 It is fairly clear that they had rediscovered at least some of Mendel 's laws before his work was known to them .
5 It seems clear that they had corresponded during 1796 , and by the time they met again at Stowey they were well acquainted with each other 's work .
6 And if it is clear that they have exercised their right of choice , problems can still arise in determining what precisely they have chosen .
7 The guidance that I have referred to is , as it says , guidance to the court and to practitioners in every discipline , but it is authoritative guidance and valuable guidance which family proceedings courts should make clear that they have had regard to when they are arriving at or announcing their decision .
8 The yew trees in the Grove were dark green and so old that they had grown twisted and lumpy , like arthritic fingers .
9 The walls had long ago disappeared under a solid mass of posters and playbills , some of them so old that they 'd faded completely .
10 Interesting that they 've done it so quickly is n't it ?
11 Because the authors were using different types of data , it is quite possible that they have seen different dimensions of an essentially complex process .
12 Steroids were begun soon after this and in the absence of further relapse it is possible that they have had an effect on the disease .
13 It is possible that they have had some influence upon the Government of the UK during the 1980s , which has been markedly less disposed to intervene as directly in industry than its predecessors .
14 He 's he 's out yes and there are two or three in which have erm you know they 're sorry that they 've gone back and er we feel sorry sort of for them that they 've dropped into and a lot of our young lads have got mortgages and all that but there are some gone back er they need not people erm they 'd finished rearing their families and everything .
15 But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations .
16 Extraordinary that the Soviets had not already grilled and broken this man , unbelievable that they had permitted a trial for espionage to go ahead without the evidence of a confession .
17 Interlocking would have prevented the signalman putting the signals for the express at ‘ CLEAR ’ yet it is strange that although both footplatemen on the express admitted not having seen the home signal on the approach to Charfield both men were equally emphatic that they had seen the proceeding distant signal and they said it was showing a green light and in the clear position .
18 when I speak about it I get so upset that they 've got three or four and they ca n't !
19 Cohen et al ( 1988 ) reported two case histories of runners who , unaware that they had conceived continued intense running regimes during the first and second trimesters of pregnancy ; both women had assumed their amenorrhoea was due to endurance training .
20 Many people with HIV are unaware that they have the virus and may be unaware that they have taken risks .
21 Many advice workers are unaware that they have had a democratic part in the policy decisions that have adopted these training requirements and some even see these demands on them as a personal affront .
22 However , although that enumeration may appear exhaustive , the ingenuity of the legislative institutions is such that they have adopted a number of other Acts outside those categories such as , for example , action programmes , codes of conduct , resolutions .
23 In fact , they like it SO much that they 've moved house EIGHTEEN times .
24 The Gaullist Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) and the centrist Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) announced on April 10 that they had reached an electoral accord providing for a system of " primaries " for the presidential elections scheduled for 1995 and for " common candidates " in regional and legislative elections scheduled for 1992 and 1993 respectively .
25 It is , therefore , highly appropriate that they have chosen ‘ As You Like It ’ for their tenth anniversary production .
26 The conditions in which they had been kept in the notorious Tazmamert prison had been so appalling that they had had to be transferred to a hospital for medical treatment to make them fit for release .
27 The final score was 4–3 to Royston with everyone content that they had given their best .
28 Their victim says she 's delighted that they 've received long sentences .
29 I am delighted that they have done so well that it is now proposed , even in these difficult times , to increase their establishment .
30 He said : ‘ I 'm obviously delighted that they have drawn attention to the situation .
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