Example sentences of "of [det] [Wh pn] have [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Records in England and Wales and Northern Ireland , however , still held the names and addresses of many who had long ceased to practise , some of them no longer alive , and so the records as they stood could not be described as ‘ live ’ . |
| 2 | But in one town , many of those who 've recently lost their jobs have quickly found new employment , as Clare Lafferty reports . |
| 3 | However , high interest rates in 1989 and 1990 brought about a sharp reduction in sales , and some of those who had already bought their houses found themselves in financial difficulty . |
| 4 | Perhaps half of those who had previously voted for the middle-class parties now voted for the NSDAP . |
| 5 | Seventy-two per cent of those who had previously worked were currently unemployed as a direct result of their heroin use : 17 were dismissed for continual lateness and/or absenteeism ; two were dismissed for theft from work to finance their habit ; two lost their jobs when they were imprisoned for burglary or possession of heroin ; one was dismissed after two years of illness related to his drug use ; and one went bankrupt trying to support his habit . |
| 6 | In short , the single most significant factor in the unemployed status of those who had previously worked had been their use of heroin . |
| 7 | Of those who had previously worked , the reasons given for their current unemployed state were as follows : short-term MSC contract , or redundancy , 36 per cent ; dismissal because of lateness , etc. , due to heroin use , 23 per cent ; imprisonment , 14 per cent ; collapse of business , 9 per cent ; pregnancy , 9 per cent ; boredom with job , 9 per cent . |
| 8 | But perhaps the greatest personal satisfaction was earned by Gerard Larrousse as he watched Aguri Suzuki finish sixth in the Larrousse-Lola and poke a championship point in the eye of those who had recently stripped the French team of its hard-won rewards from last year . |
| 9 | In the main survey , only one per cent of those who had recently bought on credit had difficulty making payments — because of illness , unemployment , or other unforeseen financial demands . |
| 10 | In the main survey ( Appendix 1 , comments on Table 24 ; and more detailed cross-tabulations not included in Appendix ) , only three per cent of those who had recently bought on credit had had any problems with their credit arrangement , after buying ( nearly half the problems were difficulties over paying , and problems which people thought were the fault of the credit firm were very rare indeed ) . |
| 11 | Thus , Chartism was the eldest surviving child of Owenism ; and the six points of the People 's Charter brought into sharper focus , and as a realisable political objective within the given constitutional framework , the expectations of most of those who had earlier looked , if not for the re-creation of man on Owen 's visionary model , at least for a rapid and general application of co-operative practice as the means to a better life : who had , in short , looked for the reconstruction of the state as an industrial democracy . |
| 12 | There was also a growing body of opinion in Westminster and Whitehall amongst many of those who had initially welcomed Sandys ’ 1957 Defence White Paper , that his doctrine was not as sensible as they had first thought . |
| 13 | Half of those who had never used credit were in this ‘ never good ’ group . |
| 14 | This not only helps to prevent heart attacks but is also used to aid the recovery of those who have already suffered them . |
| 15 | For the benefit of those who have somehow failed to read the widespread newspaper accounts ? ’ |
| 16 | I have in my own way tried to point out that , of the world 's leading rugby nations , the game in south Africa has suffered badly not only as a result of its years of isolation — as many of those who have just visited the country during the New Zealand and Australian tours believe — but precisely because our officials have for a very long time been at the forefront of the trend towards professionalism . |
| 17 | On this score there is much to deplore and despise in the activities of those who have systematically contributed to the breakdown of our society by embracing policies which have removed , progressively , the props of discipline and authority . |