Example sentences of "[conj] they have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turkey has an excuse for its ignorance : the objects , it says , were looted from tombs where they had lain undisturbed for 2,500 years . |
| 2 | The Liberal Democrats had the highest share of the vote in several authorities where they have proven local government strength . |
| 3 | Possible Lower Palaeozoic sources will only be of interest where they have escaped premature maturation brought on by burial under thick Devonian cover , a factor very difficult to assess ahead of analytical work in areas where the Devonian has itself suffered erosion . |
| 4 | For example , in areas close to the sea the newcomers have been predominantly retired couples whose impact i n the local housing market has again caused resentment in those regions where they have become concentrated , such as Devon and Cornwall . |
| 5 | Where they have considered human reasons these have tended to be simplistic explanations of defence or relationships to field systems and land uses . |
| 6 | John and Simon , although they had sounded cheerful on the telephone , were fractious , upset , and ultimately a crashing bore . |
| 7 | Although they had made high mileage cars look like low mileage ones , they had sold them at high mileage car prices . |
| 8 | They 'd hesitated for almost a year before they 'd made the move , finally spurred along by the fact that they 'd grown sick of talking about it . |
| 9 | Having a parasite is a very special , very intimate experience , as Bill Cater learned when he interviewed scientists and wildlife cameramen who had come back from exotic parts to discover that they 'd acquired various new things to share their lives with . |
| 10 | Their victim says she 's delighted that they 've received long sentences . |
| 11 | In particular the chaos of the media ; where Front 242's use of TV images of terrorism and catastrophe was as a backdrop to their own survivalist strength , with Butthole Surfers it 's more the case , as David Stubbs said , that they 've fallen foul of the media overload , are carried by a momentum that is not their own . |
| 12 | They assume that when a child hears ‘ Two twos are four , two threes are six ’ that they 've got various pictures in their heads , various ideas onto which to attach these symbols and these words . |
| 13 | On the acquisition front we retained David , Barry and all the staff at Argyll Services on board in September and now that they 've got used to our paperwork they 'll be looking forward to showing us what they can do in 1993 . |
| 14 | And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it ! |
| 15 | No , no we 've got another office at Knebworth which is a village approximately six miles north of here , what I will also be doing automatically is passing your details through to the office so that as you 're looking for character property and village property they 'll be particularly appropriate okay , but also to make life easier we actually carry their details here so anything that they 've got available I 'll be able to give to you now |
| 16 | just label the triangle that they 've got opposite over opposite and hypotenuse and adjacent and translate what they 've got written there and use those . |
| 17 | ‘ And also , when you meet them , they 're exactly the same people — it 's just that they 've got different accents . |
| 18 | There are other signs that might lead you to believe that there 's things not as they might be , the legs may not be equal length particularly if only one is dislocated and that 's fairly obvious is n't it because the , the , the ball joint 's not in the socket and there 's a bigger gap so the leg hangs down longer and you 've all changed a baby have n't you and you see that they 've got little creases in the insides of their legs and across their buttocks , and those creases may not be a mirror matching they are normally , so those are clues . |
| 19 | I mean the Bradford Dukes always win at Bradford because I 've heard on the grapevine , not from me , that they 've got little bumps round the bends and they fill them in and only the Bradford riders know whereabouts they are , so they skirt round them . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They surrendered at Rome airport on Aug. 30 after receiving assurances they would not be deported to Ethiopia , where they claimed that they had suffered political persecution . |
| 22 | In mid-October a breakthrough seemed imminent after senior trade officials from Canada , the EC , Japan and the USA , meeting in Ontario on Oct. 17-18 , claimed that they had made substantial progress in resolving the deadlock ( responsible for the suspension of an earlier round of talks between US and EC officials in Brussels on Oct. 11-12 ) . |
| 23 | Controversy over the recent securities scandal [ see pp. 38913 ; 38967 ; 39008 ; 39053 ; 39099 ] intensified after three foreign banks implicated in the affair admitted , in evidence before a joint parliamentary committee investigating the scandal [ see p. 39053 ] , that they had contravened Indian banking regulations . |
| 24 | He opened his eyes quickly , unaware until then that they had fallen shut . |
| 25 | New points in the revised announcement 47 from the OPB include additional stress on the need for trustees to have considered all the options and the application should demonstrate that this has been done ; that they had sought independent legal advice ‘ from lawyers who do not advise the company on such matters ’ ( the OPB does not regard another partner in the same firm as ‘ independent ’ ) and the OPB would find it ‘ helpful ’ to see copies of correspondence between them ; and specific details of the information sent to members which should be contained in the application . |
| 26 | The yew trees in the Grove were dark green and so old that they had grown twisted and lumpy , like arthritic fingers . |
| 27 | Pascoe did n't ask about the people , but he guessed that they had grown angry waiting for the debt to be paid . |
| 28 | If they had now become dangerous , the only plausible explanation is that they had received significant new support . |
| 29 | If they had now become dangerous , the only plausible explanation is that they had received significant new support . |
| 30 | Other UN inspectors in Baghdad have extended their stay beyond the planned departure yesterday , after saying that they had gathered fresh information on Iraq 's ballistic missile programme . |