Example sentences of "they have [det] " in BNC.

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1 Shouting at cats or hitting them has little effect .
2 The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value .
3 The evidence of the available texts and manuscripts is against such an emendation , however , since none of them has such a reading ; and it seems more likely that Ibn Hajar means no more than that Molla Fenari was in his twenties when he made the journey to Egypt .
4 Each of them has many adherents in the discipline , and at first sight it looks as if the approaches are in direct competition .
5 The people who work with Ingrid are carefully chosen , not for their formal training ( apart from Deirdre , none of them has any ) but for their eye .
6 Needless to say , with such a busy schedule none of them has any time for girlfriends .
7 None of them has any connections here , not really ; they 're all bachelors ; at least , in a way .
8 The force between them has some correspondence with Newton 's finding that the gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them .
9 The linguistic and other significatory structures of psychological discourse are rare objects of psychological investigation , so simply focusing on them has some critical impact .
10 So if anybody would like to write I 'll let them have all the addresses , there are about eight there , so erm , otherwise it 's just the urgent action network which is er a constant thing really .
11 Let them have all the lettuces they want .
12 he let them have that , yeah , as soon as he starts crying .
13 After a pause for thought she told Dad that he must go and ask the Captain if he could let them have some cups and saucers and whatever else was available , even if they could not have the hall .
14 of them having all these injections
15 The princes ate their supper in silence , neither of them having much appetite .
16 If the impassioned pleas are directed at those close to the culprits , I can not see them having much effect .
17 B A er had a very clear dominance at Heathrow , erm it was a dominance that erm has effectively been erm given to them on a plate by the government , or successive governments over the last fifty years , erm and which in effect saw off you know , Laker , B Cal , Dan Air , Air Europe , erm and er and er and er it 's it 's them having that dominance and then being able to erm er effectively misuse that dominance by er by using the dom the dominance on say the routes which say Virgin Atlantic do n't fly to er actually damage Virgin on on on the routes that erm that we do fly .
18 Acts undertaken for another purpose and not in order to consent can constitute consent if undertaken in the belief that they will confer a right or impose a duty and if the fact that they are undertaken with such a belief is the reason for them having this result .
19 Restricted access to benefits for the young has , paradoxically , led both to more of them being ejected from parental homes and to them having less to live on when they are .
20 D' you think there 's anything further in me considering my ideas of them having half an hour not working session a week ?
21 do n't get a lot of water with it being , er , are a bit hard for see they 've all got paths down here .
22 That 's why you can see they 've all had them
23 I mean they cut in through Manchuria down the north to , to , across to north China plain , had taken the cities on the eastern seaboard which was what they wanted , I mean th th they really was n't any point in controlling the rural south , it would have taken so many troops , so much administration if they 'd that then they had everything they wanted from the trading ports so there was n't that Japanese presence and so the clearly was different .
24 And they 'd all got er status symbols you see and it was quite a ceremonial thing that they used to have .
25 And erm but then they 'd all Margaret and erm everybody had jumped on the bandwagon and said , .
26 They 'd all met in one room .
27 had to keep dragging them off to the toilet , they 'd never seen blind children you see they 'd all seen adults
28 And and the three individuals who I worked with particularly , they 'd all been more or less written off , and they all come through with distinctions .
29 He wishes that they 'd all got killed .
30 And they 'd all took the long tours you know they really were interested
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