Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Admitting that the security forces were involved in a recent wave of kidnappings and murders of students , he said that his government did not have the means to combat the activities which had taken place over the past few months , aimed at creating a climate of terror and instability in order to justify an attempt to return to the past or the installation of a president who would promise a tough policy . |
| 2 | Millett basically dismisses the activities which have tended to dominate women 's lives as ‘ infantilising ’ , because they restrict women to the level , she argues , of the merely biological , and do not allow them to enter upon the ‘ fully human ’ activities which have been the province of men . |
| 3 | While the major policy-making and orientation roles rested with the members of the Council and its multiplicity of committees , the search for promotional roles in association with the institutions was inevitably a key part of the activities we have seen the CNAA 's officers playing . |
| 4 | None of the agencies involved in the official investigation of the Flight 103 bombing , either British or American , had even attempted to question him about the activities he had observed on Cyprus , despite all the rumours of the DEA 's involvement . |
| 5 | Look back on the activities you have enjoyed in the past and select one to develop . |
| 6 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 7 | And there is a sense in which this applies , but although I can appreciate his point that seeking a good reputation may well dominate the practical order , if it were also to dominate the activities I have designated ‘ second-order ’ then it makes nonsense of the possibility of ‘ disinterestedness ’ , enjoying something for its own sake . |
| 8 | The activities I have tried have been successful , and I shall try many more . ’ |
| 9 | They 'll need you back there to take charge and you can make sure the Marines do n't compromise the defences you 've set up . |
| 10 | A person with a limited vocabulary can usually manage well in familiar surroundings but may experience difficulty , for instance when filling in many of the forms which have become a feature of our modern society such as an insurance form . |
| 11 | However , behind the tendencies we have charted lurks a more intractable problem , that of curriculum expertise . |
| 12 | The trade unions were particularly effective at publicising the difficulties some private contractors encountered in fulfilling the contracts they had accepted ( Ascher 1987:224 ) . |
| 13 | They claimed the Goths who had settled along the Vistula and in the Ukraine as the founders of the Polish state , saying that rule and order had been brought to these lands over the heads of the drunken , idolatrous and stupid Polish peasantry . |
| 14 | At a later meeting of all the chiefs , in the palace , a proclamation was read out detailing the acts which had convinced the ministers that Lij Yasu had become a Muslim . |
| 15 | He accepted that the complainants were under no misapprehension about the nature of the acts they had engaged in . |
| 16 | It was n't Morris , it was n't identifiable , even to a keen archaeologist — not unless he happened to be all too well informed about the experts who had interested themselves in Aurae Phiala , and even in their heirs and heiresses , down to herself . |
| 17 | IT systems are available now which can be trained by experts to perform decision making activities based on implicit information as well as , or even better than , the experts who have trained them . |
| 18 | We would like to point out that many people at the centre told us that the attitudes we had encountered were less prevalent now than they had been in the past , and would continue to diminish . |
| 19 | Another daft view is that all the woes which have beset the Soviet Union and its satellites are because these countries did n't know how to run their economies . |
| 20 | The crowds who had jostled close to each other all day , shoulder to ruthless shoulder , thigh to strange thigh , had left their unexpungeable smell . |
| 21 | By the time the church meetings ended , the Nikolaikirche Square and the surrounding streets were already full to overflowing with the crowds who had failed to gain entry into any of the churches . |
| 22 | By now they had walked some distance along the Haymarket , and were on the edge of Piccadilly Circus where Dr Neil was relieved to see that Stair 's party had disappeared and the crowds there had grown less . |
| 23 | We all imagined he had some secret new money-spinning idea and soon we 'd all be amazed at what he 'd done to the place , and coming here to marvel at the crowds he 'd managed to attract … but I do n't think he was ever looking for a site for some viable business venture ; I think he was just looking for somewhere suited to his burned-out , fed-up , pissed-off mood . |
| 24 | For the labourers he had produced , on a twenty-seven by twenty-four-foot ground plan , a unit containing a lobby , living room , scullery , indoor w.c. , and one large and two small bedrooms . |
| 25 | This relatively smooth response to the second oil shock has been interpreted as a united , collective effort to resolve the severe crisis of the mid-1970s which had exposed Japan 's energy vulnerability and her fragile political consensus . |
| 26 | Since the mid-1970s we have reviewed perinatal mortality rates in Leicestershire to describe the cause and number of perinatal deaths and to use this information to influence local services . |
| 27 | In the mid-1960s its average income was 90 to 94 per cent of the national average , but by the mid-1970s it had fallen to 85 per cent . |
| 28 | I recall how disappointed I was in the morning to discover that the pebbles I had collected so lovingly the evening before were just a pile of dull stones now that they had dried and were away from the beach . |
| 29 | It was close enough to use the under-arm style , and the pebbles I 'd selected were all of roughly the same size , so my fire was very accurate : four shots within splashing distance and a fifth which smashed the neck off the bottle . |
| 30 | The pebbles he has thrown have shown these things . |