Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [pron] have [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Uncles and aunts were likely to be out of touch with what was happening to their family on the continent , and sometimes there were tensions and disagreements which had caused them to move away in the first place .
2 He stated that he had met too many people who had become mentally disturbed by playing about with ideas and activities which have done them deep emotional damage .
3 Five years after the fire , his work now nearing its end , he is at the centre of a specialist team of restorers replacing the recarving swags and pendants which had adorned the King 's Bedchamber and adjoining rooms since the time of Charles II and which now lie boxed or in pieces on shelves and benches at the South East corner of the palace .
4 It is not surprising that practitioners and lecturers who have followed Brian Way 's philosophy for all their professional lives feel very threatened .
5 Q SHOULD I try to get rid of the large number of slugs and snails which have got into my compost bin ?
6 Significant people and groups who have risked much in support of the bishops will be disappointed and disenchanted .
7 At the other they were an opportunity , perhaps the only opportunity , of breaking with institutions and attitudes which had led to disaster ; an opportunity which had to be grasped because such radical change could only be imposed from outside .
8 A simpler solution than electoral reform is to abandon the policies and attitudes which have barred Labour from power , which is what Mr Kinnock has been about .
9 The person brought up in the city who has a natural and instinctive knowledge of the curative properties of herbs and wild flowers ; the person who experiences déjà vu or the one who seems to recognize a ‘ stranger ’ although the two have never met before ; the person born with talents he has not had time to acquire — is it not a possible explanation of the genius of such prodigies as Mozart that he actually brought with him skills and talents he had learnt in a previous lifetime ?
10 He had seen the pose in several paintings in the churches and galleries he had visited in the past two weeks .
11 Sumner , before his home crowd , will compete with many Cleveland Park track specialists and riders who have made spectacular progress in previous World Championship tournaments .
12 And only two years ago the common people had risen in anger , and themselves done to death the rebel earls and knights who had dared to take arms for Richard !
13 This project investigates the effects of takeovers and mergers which have occurred in the ten year period from 1975 .
14 I was in lane 1 , which I found strange considering the positions and times I had achieved in the semi-final .
15 We all know widowers and widows who have failed to recover from loss , whose family or friends can find no way of breaking into their misery and sadly , but inevitably , become tired of trying .
16 Omar is part of a multiracial London club network of singers , rappers and musicians who have grown up listening to modern ‘ cutting edge ’ music and their parents ' record collections .
17 However , the Commerce and Industry Group of the Law Society does offer a range of lectures and meetings which have proved to be useful .
18 But fascinated as I was by these aquatic birds , I longed to see the falcons and owls I 'd seen at the zoo flying free , and this is a rare occurrence .
19 This advantage was , however , more than offset by the fact that those senior Allied officers and statesmen who had advocated the invasion of Turkey , in order to step up the pressure on the Central Powers in the Middle East and so save lives in the war of attrition in France , had lost the argument .
20 We should note , in the first place , how very slow the advance of democracy has been , and how many hindrances and setbacks it has encountered .
21 The imposition of this Procrustean model necessitated preventing the resurgence of the liberal democratic ideas and values which had informed the Republic and , at the same time , managing the diverse forces which composed the Nationalist camp .
22 Health policy can only be understood within the context of the ideas and values which have shaped its development historically .
23 By recording body temperatures throughout the day of groups of well-adjusted shiftworkers , intolerant shiftworkers , and day-workers who had given up shiftwork because they could not tolerate it , Reinberg has demonstrated that it is indeed the best-adjusted group whose circadian rhythm was most immutable .
24 So you must remember that whenever you 're dealing with speed or anything to do with hours and minutes you 've got to change your minutes to the decimals of an hour before you can use your calculator .
25 The signature was not the signature of the letters and contracts he had seen at Jackson 's .
26 The bodies and researchers which have considered the problem of access to lawyers all conclude that cost has a deterrent effect on seeking legal advice initially and then pursuing a claim .
27 Furthermore , in an attempt to reward men for military service and to encourage others to serve in France , Henry had pursued a policy of granting lands and titles which had come into his hands , thereby creating an important interest , other than his own , in the extension and maintenance of the conquest .
28 Referees and opponents who have crossed Souness during this dreadful Anfield season swear he must have had a humour and charisma bypass at the same time .
29 These then are the origins and development of the concepts and proposals which have become the substance of the Maastricht Treaty , but about which the public has been notably ill-informed .
30 However , since then there have been further reviews and proposals which have had to take some cognisance of the creation of the single market .
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