Example sentences of "have [verb] [that] they [verb] " in BNC.

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1 A fourth man , said to have provided the bomb , has added that they had nothing to do with it .
2 We have to respond to these developments and it is being made clear now in public , that the Health and Safety Executive are giving every indication to employers that they are not going to rigorously enforce the law and indeed in the local authorities a leading figure there has said that they want to take a softly softly approach .
3 Now every opinion poll in er Britain for the last twenty two years has said that they believe that has shown that the people believe that the troops should not be in Northern Ireland .
4 A Gallup poll of businessmen has revealed that they expect interest rates to be 1.6 per cent higher under Labour .
5 Research has shown that they ate lasagne , pizza ( though tomatoes had not been discovered ) and ice-cream , along with dormice , sow 's teats and a disgusting sauce made of sun-dried , salted fish-guts .
6 This research has shown that they swim away from the European coast in a roughly north-westerly direction at a depth of about two hundred feet until once again they reach the edge of the continental shelf .
7 Experience has shown that they call for more work from officials , and that they meet with resistance from officials ( see Jenkins , 1978 ) .
8 Research done among the Greenland Eskimos has shown that they have almost no record of heart disease .
9 However , to the CNAA 's surprise , a number of institutions has indicated that they wish to take advantage of the new procedures by proposing special arrangements which would , in effect , provide for all their courses to be validated by a method other than the normal one .
10 This in part reflects the view of a majority of colleges that they have now reached the optimum size for operating as a cohesive academic unit and do not envisage any growth of total student numbers ( although of these a significant proportion has indicated that they wish to change the ‘ mix ’ of students , by admitting more graduate students in place of undergraduates ) .
11 Our analysis of the main early and late promoters ( P A2b and P A3 , respectively ) of B.subtilis phage φ29 has indicated that they share many of the functional characteristics of the E.coli rrnB and rrnD P 1 promoters .
12 A High Court judge has ruled that they do n't have the same rights as traditional gypsies .
13 In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense .
14 They were once found almost everywhere in Britain , but pollution of our rivers and the destruction of the otter 's natural habitat has meant that they 've disappeared from many parts .
15 The fact that women have decided to participate in the difficult but just struggle of El Salvador has meant that they have developed politically and ideologically and that there have been many changes in men 's attitudes , After the triumph , I believe these changes will become more apparent .
16 It does not cover simply keeping goods after the accused has discovered that they have been stolen : Broom v Crowther ( 1984 ) 148 JP 592 .
17 Research over the past decade has led to remarkable advances in our understanding of these acid-base transport systems and has established that they have several major physiological roles .
18 Yet recently Dr Hsu of Zurich has suggested that they record what must have been one of the most spectacular incidents in earth history .
19 Something for the weekend , sir , she said , stopping him just as he was about to leave with another young man — you see she 'd noticed that they had n't talked before going off together , they 'd just started kissing and were going to drag each other home without discussing anything , and they were young , really young , eighteen .
20 I used to take them home on quite a number of occasions if I 'd known that they lived in the immediate vicinity .
21 It was Jeff who 'd insisted that they stop off for a drink .
22 You 'll have heard that they lifted the army off the beaches at Dunkirk .
23 ‘ But people did n't like living the way the merchant wanted them to ; most mums and dads would n't serve their children rotten food , and hated having to pretend that they did .
24 I know that such experiences are often said to be the result of the individuals concerned having read a book or article or seen a film or television programme about the particular place and then having forgotten that they have done so .
25 On appeals against the assessments , the taxpayers having conceded that they had received an emolument as a result of participating in the concessionary fees scheme but maintaining that the cash equivalent of the benefit had to be determined under the principle of marginal costing , the special commissioner found that the school incurred no additional expenditure in educating the taxpayers ' sons other than on certain items of equipment and on food that together cost less than the concessionary fees paid and allowed the appeals .
26 Three members of the audience were then selected at random and , having ascertained that they had no objection , were hypnotised and , while in the hypnotic state , were asked those questions which they had formerly been unable to answer .
27 This is because many intending EFL teachers have already obtained QTS ( perhaps through a modern languages PGCE ) and are now looking for an ‘ add-on ’ EFL qualification ; others may have decided that they want to work in a context ( usually adult education in Britain or overseas ) where QTS is not necessary or appropriate .
28 No nation in Europe , had the question been fairly put to them , would have answered that they wished war . ’
29 Having said that they do .
30 And I hope that members appreciate as I say , the range and scale of work , which is that , you will also have seen that they 've been able to open now one evening a week , and for a very small service with a budget of about three hundred and fifty thousand pounds , erm they are doing sterling work .
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