Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [that] the " in BNC.

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1 Alar withdrew from the market but subsequent studies in Britain and America have since concluded that the cancer risk was negligible .
2 Certainly there are many difficulties facing Irish studios — but we have long believed that the wholehearted support of local musicians when it comes to making albums would make an enormous , positive difference .
3 As the House knows , we have long believed that the Community should be open to European countries who want to join and can take on the responsibilities of membership .
4 Those of us lucky enough to be linguists involved in teacher training have long felt that the potential contribution of linguistics to education is enormous .
5 We have long argued that the Post Office scheme is detrimental to the survival of townland names .
6 Ramblers have long argued that the army 's needs should be subjected to independent scrutiny , adding the independent National Parks Review panel had agree with the group .
7 My Lords , I have long thought that the time had come to change the self-imposed judicial rule that forbade any reference to the legislative history of an enactment as an aid to its interpretation .
8 I have long thought that the hon. Gentleman imagined that we were living in Ethiopia , having listened to some of his speeches about the economy .
9 But environmentalists have long claimed that the scheme has been underfunded , badly run and above all exploited by the tourist trade .
10 These studies have all confirmed that the teacher assumes a critical role in children 's computer-based activities , and one which may differ in a number of important respects from that traditionally adopted .
11 Notably the Banking Acts of 1979 and 1987 , the FSA 1986 , the Basle Concordat and capital adequacy arrangements have all meant that the Bank has lost a certain amount of discretion in implementing supervision ( see Chapter 12 )
12 Most palaeontologists have hitherto supposed that the nearest common ancestor of man and the modern great apes died out about 30 million years ago .
13 These cases are an indication of the liberal attitude currently being taken by the courts , which have obviously recognised that the old saying that a security on a dwelling is ‘ as safe as houses ’ has become a bit of a mockery .
14 The Premier League have already demonstrated that the almost regal Sir John Quinton and the most pleasant man in the street , Rick Parry , are postmen — and nothing more — for the 22 clubs .
15 If we now turn our attention to the second type of conflict enumerated by Freud , that between the ego and the superego , we have already noticed that the externalization of the superego , particularly of its archaic and providential aspects , is easily possible and seemingly well under way in many societies .
16 Farm lobbies have already ensured that the treaties recently negotiated with Bulgaria and Romania are less generous on agriculture than the earlier batch .
17 I have already hinted that the New Age is a revamp of ancient and still existing practices mainly from India , Tibet and China .
18 We have already argued that the data used in discourse analysis will inevitably reflect the analyst 's particular interests .
19 We have already argued that the concept of a syndrome is not of use as far as theoretical analysis of language disorders is concerned , because it is not the case that a small number of syndromes ( defined as sets of symptoms which always co-occur ) actually exist .
20 I have already explained that the most important change that we have made is to shift the balance between what is paid centrally and what is paid locally , so I can answer the hon. Gentleman 's question .
21 I have already accepted that the judges are the best persons to say what the judges ' tariff is , as Watkins L.J .
22 I have already accepted that the court should be slow to make a finding of adverse possession in a case such as the present …
23 I have already said that the success of a Government 's defence policies depends on the conviction that those policies and their spokesmen carry in the eyes both of prospective opponents and of present friends .
24 I have already said that the Government are considering the matter urgently .
25 I have already said that the Opposition support the Bill .
26 We have already noted that the experiment summarized in fig. 3.8 ( Westbrook et al .
27 I have already noted that the experimental results presented so far have not been conclusive .
28 We have already noted that the Minor schools were not obliged to establish library committees , that their proposal documents were slim , and that no " link-person " role was adopted by the Coordinating Committee in respect of Minor Project schools .
29 We have already noted that the Tories received fewer votes than Labour in 1951 : although they increased their share of the vote in 1955 , this share was actually falling by 1959 .
30 We have already noted that the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949 made provision for the establishment of a statutory system of legal advice , but that the appropriate part of the Act was never brought into force .
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