Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the demise of the traditional industrial landscapes nostalgia for them has grown . |
| 2 | ‘ Leave them alone until someone who understands them has examined the site . |
| 3 | She notes that a more detailed look at the results above shows that boys are more likely to obtain three A level passes than girls , even though the gap between them has narrowed over the years . |
| 4 | ‘ If critics have any reason for existence , ’ one of them has said , ‘ this is it : to give assurance of value , and to provide somehow perhaps anyhow — the means by which readers may be put in possession of the valuable book . ’ |
| 5 | Love and trust still exist , but because the emotional machinery that registers them has gone wrong , we do not feel as we used to . |
| 6 | The employees modify their expectations ; some of the trust between them has gone and with it , as Goffee noted , loyalty or commitment to the organization is reduced . |
| 7 | ‘ Now that opposition forces have overthrown Siad Barre , the single objective which united them has gone . |
| 8 | I have five children and not much money and not one of them has gone wrong and they all treat me with great respect . |
| 9 | Over the past 15 years perinatal mortality rates have more than halved while the social and political pressure to measure and interpret them has increased . |
| 10 | The promotion has led to some shops selling out of £120 vacuum cleaners , and the Cambuslang , Strathclyde , factory that makes them has defied the recession by switching to seven-day working . |
| 11 | There are unlikely to be any Scottish Conservative Back Benchers either , not only because there are so few of them but because none of them has participated in this debate , apart from a brief intervention by the hon. and learned member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N. Fairbairn ) that could hardly have been described as serious participation . |
| 12 | Other sugar substitutes like saccharin , cyclamate and aspartame , are all targetted at dieters , combining a sweet taste with no calories ( although each one of them has faced questions concerning safety ) . |
| 13 | This is probably because they are all adapted to forest or woodland conditions and none of them has developed the close-knit social formations that are characteristic of open-country animals . |
| 14 | Each of them has reached me and I know not how to save myself . ’ |
| 15 | One of them has escaped from a particularly unusual commitment — he was once an angel , but has chosen to become a human being , for the love of humanity . |
| 16 | The development of these powerful new means of communication and the accompanying development of personnel highly skilled in them has expanded the means of control of information as well as its dissemination . |
| 17 | Dividing the strata into two broad bands — the male non-manual and the male manual workers — Table 2.2 demonstrates the degree to which the distribution of earnings between them has remained relatively constant over the past fifty years . |
| 18 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 19 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The number of business managers and City executives among them has soared , ’ Hamilton-Phillips explains . |
| 21 | It is difficult to accept the praises of some American critics for the overblown gigantism of the Beaux-Arts , particularly as none of them has followed Ruskin 's injunction to see architecture as mirroring the life of a society in all its facets . |
| 22 | Under the right conditions they come into existence at a great rate , but no one of them has existed for long , and all will be destroyed within a few months . |
| 23 | So far three critics have attempted this comparison ( with varying statistics ) , but none of them has done justice to the intensity and range of Shakespeare 's pronouns . |
| 24 | They caress him and speak , they offer him nourishment , warmth , sanctuary ; but none of them has seen Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 25 | Once they dominated the countryside , but intensive farming led to many being ripped up and the sheer cost of maintaining them has seen many fall into neglect . |
| 26 | The job of quietening them has fallen to Bob Burgreen , the chief of police . |
| 27 | Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s . |
| 28 | He and his son are largely responsible for the countless impressions of Rembrandt 's graphic works , repeatedly reworking the plates so that Rembrandt 's authorship of them has become something of an ethical dilemma . |
| 29 | We can for instance , endlessly discuss the need to maintain and reinforce brands , now that the service promise bound up with them has become so important . |
| 30 | To put it into some form of perspective it is perhaps worth reviewing the whole issue of how fonts get displayed on a computer screen and why the method chosen to display them has become so important . |