Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [noun pl] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its annual report , published in November , Lautro weighed into the life offices , complaining that the unexpectedly high costs of policing their activities had dented its finances , and beefing that members had not taken the task of compliance seriously . |
| 2 | The cost of replacing your possessions has risen greatly in recent years . |
| 3 | As her prize Trudie receives three thousand five hundred pounds but she says her real reward has been the satisfaction of knowing her efforts have helped others . |
| 4 | For the first time she could sense what it must be like to possess the surgeon 's power almost of life and death , the satisfaction of knowing your actions had helped to save a life or bring a new one into the world , and she had been a part , albeit a small one , of the drama . |
| 5 | The successful receptionist models could be used to devise special training to enable CAB receptionists to ascertain the depth of a problem ; they could serve the dual function of assessing which clients have just come in for a form or a local address and they could make appointments for others in person or by telephone and smooth the queue . |
| 6 | The question of arming our cutters has been discussed fully on several occasions and a decision against this step has always been reached . |
| 7 | But , he said , they should never be seduced into thinking their policies had been so effective that there was no risk of relapse . |
| 8 | In passing our studies have helped to clear up some of the outstanding biological problems that underlie the reproductive biology of Bufo bufo , such as why it is that the males so greatly outnumber the females , and why they are smaller . |
| 9 | Both crises arose from discontent over the financing of the war , but it is perhaps a measure of the king 's failing powers that whereas in 1340–1 the lead in attacking his ministers had been taken by the king himself , the initiative now rested with a group of lay nobles , chief amongst whom , if some of the chroniclers are to be believed , was the young Earl of Pembroke . |
| 10 | He also comes very close to describing what anthropologists have actually found is the case as regards property in pre-capitalist systems . |
| 11 | Without a thesaurus , the records would need to be searched by naming all the metals individually , but without knowing which metals have actually been recorded in the records . |
| 12 | As virtually all H pylori infected subjects have active chronic gastritis which precedes the development of atrophic changes , it is not possible to assess the direct effect of H pylori infection on acid secretion from that study without knowing which subjects had developed atrophy . |
| 13 | After months of legal moves , the bid to have him extradited to Jersey to face trial for murdering his parents has been stalled . |
| 14 | By designing its machines to have a modular architecture upgrading , it becomes a simple task of swapping one processor card for another . |