Example sentences of "have [vb pp] to their " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | advise the bank/organisation if the policy is not renewed as soon as practicable after such non-renewal has come to their knowledge ; |
| 2 | They would have read about these things happening , but now it has come to their own door it has been greeted with great sadness . ’ |
| 3 | Farmers here are trying to shrug off the legacy of communism and collective farming which caused the steady decline in agriculture and Don Powell has come to their aid . |
| 4 | Now one of the Russian physiotherapists has come to their home in Lydbrook in the Forest of Dean to work intensively with Stephen . |
| 5 | But customers tried it , and liked it , so the company has bowed to their wisdom and is offering the 41 SPECint92 , 44 SPECfp92 uniprocessor SuperSparc machine with 32Mb memory expandable to 512Mb , a 424Mb internal disk and GX graphics at $16,500 with a 19″ grayscale monitor . |
| 6 | Should we not include people who regularly travel through the area by car , who must have an opinion about the difference it has made to their journey ? |
| 7 | it is hoped that the interesting programme of events has contributed to their wellbeing . |
| 8 | They are tired of the disruption the affair has brought to their lives and would like to take their money and forget all about criminal charges . |
| 9 | They resented us in the beginning but I think as the years have gone by and they have seen the facilities that a new town has brought to their advantage I think they 're more acceptable now , but they did resent us in the beginning . |
| 10 | Even other professional groups , such as social workers , have traditionally adopted a passive , even a subservient role , more usually limited to obtaining client acceptance of medical decisions , helping clients come to terms with them , and finding meaning and satisfaction with what has led to their current situation and state of health . |
| 11 | The continuously falling price and increasing power of desk-top computers has led to their widespread availability and use . |
| 12 | Most parents whose children are taken into care are extremely poor , either permanently or as a result of the crisis that has led to their being unable to look after their child . |
| 13 | Countless people are appalled by what has happened to their capital city , but feel totally powerless to do anything about it . |
| 14 | The remedies of the homoeopathic materia medica have not , as has happened to their orthodox counterparts , had to be abandoned , as one after another they have lost their efficacy or have been shown to be too toxic to be used safely . |
| 15 | They 'd moved to their cottage a few years ago and ran an electrical business in Didcot . |
| 16 | But of course , had Alexander 's argument and Lewis 's interpretation of it been irrefutable , had it been the kind of thing which compelled religious certainty , then all the philosophers in Oxford would have fallen to their knees when they had finished reading it . |
| 17 | Yet the last in the little series of stories about the ark would have recalled to their minds the story of chapter 4 , and would have reminded them that though they were irrevocably , for better for worse , for richer for poorer , the people of God , they did not have God in their pocket , and could never keep him there . |
| 18 | Henry Erskine 's correspondents could have added to their list several other varieties of revenue officer , judicial appointments , university chairs , first appointments in the army or the navy , and where these could be obtained without purchase , advancement in rank in these services , Indian and colonial patronage , and much more . |
| 19 | Most of the dissenting ( Covenanting ) ministers took other jobs and waited in hope for the ruling to be reversed , at peace with their consciences by having adhered to their principles , but many felt it incumbent upon them to continue with their vocation , preaching the gospel and making true Presbyterianism available to the people . |
| 20 | But it does prove , and this is important , that many citizens of Attica may have looked to their deme first and their city second . |
| 21 | If Felipe did n't like it he should n't have agreed to their coming and got them embroiled . |
| 22 | Having opened negotiations with the publishers Blackwood after Mr Noble 's death and having agreed to their request that he should supplement his choice of eleven country essays with a diary of his observations ‘ in English fields and woods ’ from 1 April 1895 to 30 March 1896 , he was busy reading the final proofs of The Woodland Life . |
| 23 | She had not spoken so elaborately for some time , and Betty knew the warning signs ; so , whereas with anyone else she would have appealed to their better nature , in this case she held her tongue . |
| 24 | I 'm firmly convinced that if we had been operating under the old style of management , making a consensus decision , the clinicians would have got to their clinical representative and said there 's no way we want that — we want everything twice as big and gold-plated taps because patients will die , etc. , and their rep would say , " I 'm sorry but it 's completely unacceptable to my colleagues ' . |
| 25 | On the other hand , even efficient ‘ managers ’ , such as Lord Ilay or Henry Dundas , could never claim absolute mastery of Scotland in fact , whatever they may have alleged to their colleagues , for no manager ever possessed a monopoly of desirable patronage , some of which always remained in private hands . |
| 26 | Seb knew it was well past the time he and Carrie should have retired to their respective bedrooms , but he found the thought of mentioning bed vaguely embarrassing . |
| 27 | But rarely can their Christianity have contributed to their standing in society , their wealth or power . |
| 28 | The specialized habits of both these ‘ pseudo-fishes ’ may have contributed to their survival , when none of their bony-plated relatives survived the Palaeozoic . |
| 29 | Rather , sit down with a friend , and talk through what happened , and try to see how your behaviour may have contributed to their behaviour . |
| 30 | Souness is fixing me with the glare he reserves for the enemy , the look that countless midfield players must have known to their terror , a look that threatens to rupture my Achilles tendon , if I hover on a question too long . |