Example sentences of "[vb base] they have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The minister Nicholas Breton , for example , noted in 1603 that his parishioners ‘ came to service more for fashion than devotion ’ , while the preacher John Angier of Denton in Lancashire believed that his parishioners came ‘ for no other purpose but to sleep , as if the sabbath were made only to recover that sleep they have lost in the week ’ . |
| 2 | Students frequently say they have done the recommended reading , taken the necessary notes and reviewed all their materials , but still can not come up with a solution to the problem posed . |
| 3 | So long as people can walk out of a room and say they have decided to leave on their terms , they retain their dignity . |
| 4 | Pollsters say they have detected signs of a swing back to the Conservatives — and that Labour support may have peaked last week — but it may not come in time to save the Tories . |
| 5 | However some employers must have moved more quickly , since the Scotsman for the same day carried the following report : The masters say they have engaged workmen from England who have proved equal to the occasion , while for the past few weeks an experiment was made with educated females at the case . |
| 6 | Urban motorways have proved no solution to Britain 's chronic traffic congestion — indeed some say they have made it worse . |
| 7 | Now that the Croatian Commission has been confirmed in its role , and the archaeologist who first put pressure on the government in Belgrade to put in the claim has become Minister of Culture , we may begin to see some of the evidence they say they have collected . |
| 8 | But the council say they have pledged to keep the homes out of private ownership unless it is absolutely necessary . |
| 9 | They say they have obtained my name and address from an agency : clearly they have decided to market them in the North-East in a big way . ’ |
| 10 | But landlords say they have sent rents rocketing and forced many out of business . |
| 11 | Licensees say they have sent rents soaring and already forced many out of business . |
| 12 | Sometimes when I listen to people who say they have lost their faith , it strikes me as less surprising thin they suggest . |
| 13 | ‘ Some of them say they have lost £1,000 in revenue since the scheme was implemented . ’ |
| 14 | San Diego-based Brooktree Corp and TRW Inc 's LSI Products Inc say they have reached a settlement of the patent infringement lawsuit filed by Brooktree in 1991 , and that terms of the agreement are favourable to both parties ; the settlement marks the end of all Brooktree 's current patent litigation . |
| 15 | When individuals , through socialisation , accept the rules and expectations of their society that make up its culture and use them to determine how they should act , we say they have internalised society 's cultural rules . |
| 16 | IBM Corp has a less than impressive record in turning developments in its laboratories into commercial products , but perhaps that will change when an outsider is installed at the helm , and IBM researchers say they have developed a polymer film that can capture and hold vast amounts of data in the form of hologram images at speeds 100 to 1,000 times faster than current Winchester disk drives . |
| 17 | They are young and middle-aged men , many with wives and children in Turkey , who say they have suffered repeated imprisonments , police beatings and torture because of their sympathies for communist and Kurdish independence groups . |
| 18 | Some Minpins say they have seen his back legs , huge and black and very hairy , shaped like lions ' legs but ten times as big . |
| 19 | ‘ They say they have gathered in all who would come out from the north side down to Pitnacree , and the south side as far up as Kenmore. , ‘ The Grandtully crowd ? |
| 20 | They say they have lived there all their lives and will be very unhappy to go . |
| 21 | In the health authorities we have read reports that say they have misused the money . |
| 22 | Officials say they have identified new sources of timber that would not conflict with protecting the owl , but environmentalists are concerned that the government has called for a much smaller reduction in the timber " harvest " than the Thomas report . |
| 23 | According to Richard Baxter , for example , it led to the arrogance of ‘ idle boys who tear out all the hard leaves of their books and say they have learned all when they have learned the rest ’ . |
| 24 | Vodaphone say they have carried out their duty to the letter of the law . |
| 25 | MOLECULAR biologists in Australia say they have designed a range of new molecules effective in the initial step of destroying the activity of viruses . |
| 26 | According to the Wall Street Journal , scientists at the Murray Hill , New Jersey lab are using a new filtering technique to achieve the large gains in capacity , and say they have succeeded in transmitting signals error-free over 8,125 miles at 20 Gbps , double the previous record for long-distance transmission . |
| 27 | Jamie and Becky Blandford made the announcement this morning , just two years after their wedding.The Marquis 's solicitors say they have entered what is described as a period of separation in their marriage.Their first child is due in August . |
| 28 | Unisys Corp and Honeywell Inc say they have settled the pending lawsuits over the sale of the Sperry Aerospace Group to Honeywell in December 1986 — Honeywell reckoned that it paid too much because Unisys held back material information ; Unisys will make a pre-tax payment to Honeywell of $43.2m over three years toward a $70m total settlement , with the remaining funding coming from insurance and an investment banking firm ; as a result of the settlement , Unisys will report a net extraordinary charge of $26.4m against its first quarter figures for the period to March 31 ; it says the charge will be offset by a larger than expected net gain from implementing the FASB 106 and FASB 109 accounting changes that it already announced it would make . |
| 29 | The headline-making survey , which questioned 18,876 people , also found that men between the ages of 25-34 say they have enjoyed the attentions of an average 10.3 women . |
| 30 | They say they have found a link between eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia and pictures of slimline models . |