Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But experience has taught me that this is the rule of thumb that can be most profitably proposed and acted upon . |
| 2 | It has taught me that the world does n't revolve around me . |
| 3 | In the three years I 've been here , and because C&P was one of the first ICI groups to move into quality , the value of the quality ethos has taught me that it 's the only way to do business . |
| 4 | He says his wife 's experience has taught him that you must take precautions . |
| 5 | But the doctrine of the extended phenotype has taught us that it need n't have been so . |
| 6 | But , says Hall modestly and realistically , ‘ Drilling has taught us that the first models we worked with were only the simplest of a large number of possibilities that were consistent with the observations . |
| 7 | Writing of the work of Chardin , whose most profoundly moving paintings are revelations of how trivial , homely , everyday scenes and objects are transformed for us when we see them through the eyes of a great painter , Proust says , " Chardin has taught us that a pear is as living as a woman , a kitchen crock as beautiful as an emerald . " |
| 8 | Quantum theory has taught us that the vacuum is not a featureless void but is continuously disturbed by particle-anti-particle pair creation and annihilation and that this endows the vacuum with energy . |
| 9 | Experience has taught us that it has not been necessary to invoke the similar or parallel provisions made for those industries . |
| 10 | And we , our little machine here has calculated it that that 's forty miles an hour . |
| 11 | ‘ He has reminded me that the beginning of a reign is a traditional time for the pardoning of malefactors , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Hearing about Rodney 's book has reminded me that I 've got to get down to work on mine . ’ |
| 13 | FOLLOWING on from last month 's report on club management ( p79 of September 's RW&P , Jim Saker of Loughborough University Business School , co-author with Sarah Massey , has reminded us that copies of the full report ( price £15 inclusive of postage & packing ) or the synopsis ( £3 ) and information on training workshops can be obtained from him at Loughborough University School . |
| 14 | Patricia Branca has reminded us that in the Victorian household where the man earned between £100 and £300 a year , an income range which excluded the highly skilled manual worker and included as many as 42 per cent of the middle class , there was only enough money available for the employment of one or at most two domestic servants and very little at all for the rest of the ‘ paraphernalia of gentility ’ desired by the aspiring middle class household . |
| 15 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 16 | All your effort has shown him that you do n't trust him . |
| 17 | Mr Charkin 's research — difficult because of the very large number of publishers in the business , most unquoted — has shown him that average profits are usually less than 5% of turnover . |
| 18 | By this , I do not mean mat Lewis has represented the medieval picture as ‘ better ’ than the modern ; but he has shown us that both are merely pictures . |
| 19 | Psychoanalysis has made unfamiliar with the intimate connection between the father-complex and belief in God ; it has shown us that a personal God is psychologically nothing other than an exalted father , and it brings us evidence every day of how young people lose their religious beliefs as soon as their father 's authority breaks down . |
| 20 | .. he has shown us that we can take on the Americans and beat them . |
| 21 | Market research has shown us that people are far more health conscious and far more sensible about what they drink . |
| 22 | Your master has persuaded me that you found our correspondence helpful , and that I should resume it . |
| 23 | However , Mr Summerchild has persuaded me that taking part in a discussion of this nature might lie outside Mrs Padmore 's job description , and could involve us in difficulties with her union … |
| 24 | ' ’ Giulia is old now and papa has persuaded himself that he is ; he has allowed himself to slip into old age . |
| 25 | My recent visit has convinced me that that kind of solution is now dead . |
| 26 | This appointment has convinced everyone that no matter what the enemy does now , or in the near future , we are here to stay . |
| 27 | Mr Slade 's extensive breeding programme within his flock of 400 pedigree ewes has convinced him that terminal sires do not have to be ‘ big and long ’ . |
| 28 | Although IBM and DEC withdrew their products from Technology following its acquisition by ICL , Coon says that Technology has convinced him that it will not cross sell or give away DG 's secrets to its competitors . |
| 29 | But PC Danby 's success has convinced him that our way is best . |
| 30 | Once a patient has convinced himself that he has still got NSU , it is very difficult to persuade him that all the symptoms he complains of are in fact perfectly normal . |