Example sentences of "they have in the " in BNC.

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1 What future will they have in the recession that continues under the present Government ?
2 Did they have in the road this wide , when they could 've had
3 What did they have in the house ?
4 We took four years to do it , partly so people would get accustomed to the idea , and it was fantastic that during those four years people worked at least as hard and as well as they had in the previous four .
5 Consumers were not choosing efficiency and manufacturers were not improving efficiency as much as they had in the past .
6 As a middle-aged bishop he was reluctant to believe that miracles still happened in his world as they had in the time of the Lord and his apostles .
7 to distrain by their lands and chattels all those who shared in that liberty , and have lands within the bounds of the disafforested districts , to contribute towards the payment of the 200 marks to the King , in proportion to the lands they had in the said district , and the advantage they gained from the disafforestment .
8 In Danzig it was not possible for the Nazis to proceed as they had in the Reich .
9 Across the water , the loud hailers were blaring and squealing as they had in the winter , when Tzani-bey had caught and herded the Order .
10 ‘ We were doing some vocals and Damon ( Albarn ) was in one of his mad moods and was climbing up one of the acoustic screens they had in the studio .
11 All they had in the house was six eggs for scrambling and the remains of Ethel 's heart .
12 ‘ We went to The Grateful Dead 's house last time we were in San Francisco , the house they had in the '60s .
13 Many of us will remember their enthusiasm for the work of the Lord and the joy that they had in the fact that God should use them in such a way .
14 In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s .
15 Once the phase of immediate implementation was passed , this group came little by little to realign itself with many in the first group against whom they had in the conciliar years themselves taken quite a clear stand : a new status quo must be achieved if the Church was not to be upset by ceaseless change and debate .
16 I was most impressed with the quality , variety and complexity of some of the items prisoners were making and the apparent pride they had in the quality of workmanship .
17 He had done better than they had in the sense that he had claimed the crown of France and , by treaty , had come close to exercising its authority .
18 It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness .
19 Rod Bristow saw universities changing more over the next five years than they had in the previous half century .
20 This suggestion was , not surprisingly , refused by Mrs Thatcher , who , despite the fact that her Government used the guillotine in Parliament to ensure a jury can no longer have a say in the public interest , as they had in the trial of Clive Ponting , declared in a written reply to Baroness Ewart Biggs , that :
21 The funding councils no longer have the power , as they had in the original Bill , to direct institutions about how they should spend funds derived from private sources .
22 It was a source of satisfaction to him that his bridges found as ready a use in the civilian market as they had in the military .
23 They 're more or less as a , I do n't think there 's a great lot of difference onl I d I , they 're not pushing , they have n't the same , the , I would like to say , I would say they have n't the same interest in their union , they 've not the same interests in the union as they had in the earlier days when there was a union .
24 W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War .
25 This was because those steps had been reasonable ones to take even though they had in the event aggravated the losses .
26 We have erm er just bought Saboo Saison out so er the twenty percent share holding they had in the airline we 've now bought back in-house .
27 They used to do what little chores they had in the morning and then again after their wives did most of it .
28 But other things , they had in the garden like vegetables and like gooseberries , things like you know , the fruit .
29 Does my right hon. Friend agree that general practitioners , whether fund-holders or not , as a result of the new contract — which initially was often bitterly opposed — are now giving patients a much better service than they had in the past ?
30 Er , consumer confidence fell away and U K consumers kept more of their cash in their pockets er , in fact , erm , they saved over two and a half billion pounds more in the first quarter of ninety one than they had in the same er , quarter of last year .
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