Example sentences of "be have their [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's erm , a list of dates for the junior school , they 're having their photographs taken again . |
| 2 | Erm Isaac Azimov writes er , rather amusingly about this , he says why did , why did Weismann bother , he said Weismann was Jewish , of course , Weismann knew that since time immemorial , er , Jewish little boys have been having their foreskins chopped off , Weismann only had to look at his own children , when they were born , to see that even Jewish little boys are born with foreskins . |
| 3 | OUP is pleased to announce that Volumes 1 and 2 of The Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English are having their sub-titles promoted and will henceforth be known as The Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms and The Oxford Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs . |
| 4 | Other doctor 's patients are having their operations postponed in order to allow the patients of G P fundholders to be treated first . |
| 5 | Professor John Davies , of Strathclyde University , claims more young drug users are having their lives wrecked by the courts than by the drugs themselves . |
| 6 | If they face this honestly it is somehow less offensive than if they pretend that they are having their pets mutilated for ‘ the cat 's own good ’ . |
| 7 | The 15 other boys in his class are having their heads shaved so that Mark will not be out of place when his hair falls out during his treatment . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he has monitored the extent to which people over 60 years are having their eyes examined since 1989 compared with previous years ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 9 | More and more Ulsterfolk are having their eyes opened and are realising that independence is the only way forward . |
| 10 | Scientists who have been preparing commissioned material for publication in Western journals and books are having their manuscripts frozen , often without notification and , at best , with a curt note from the publishers . |
| 11 | They are to have their claims heard by an industrial tribunal . |
| 12 | Three coal mines in Yorkshire which employ fifteen hundred people between them are to have their futures reviewed with the intention of closing them down . |
| 13 | Under the present programme , 300 rhinos are to have their horns sawn off . |
| 14 | For example , ‘ I forgive you for being so patronising towards me ’ would make them feel that they were having their sins confessed to them . |
| 15 | The sheep flocks were to have their restrictions lifted immediately . |
| 16 | Around 70 per cent of Yugoslavia 's 6,500,000 workers would have their salaries increased by 22 per cent , but the remainder were to have their salaries reduced . |
| 17 | Infact it is alot easier doing something like this than going into the ring because you see all their fresh faces and all they care about is having their quetions answered . |
| 18 | Maisie put out her tongue at him ( no easy task for someone who is having their teeth brushed ) and made a farting noise . |