Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [pron] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as a result of that we really have got overcapacity which we 've declared publicly so , you know , we 're not saying anything different today than what we said when we first purchased the business in July and August . |
| 2 | In upholstery you really do get what you pay for and you usually have to take the quality on trust since you can not see all the underpinnings of frames , filling and springs unless you are shown a sample cross section and have it all explained to you in the shop . |
| 3 | as if nothing else had been said , he added : ‘ I know he 's unbalanced . |
| 4 | When we act as if we already have certain qualities , experiences , relationships , opportunities or material possessions , we exert a powerful magnetic attraction for what we want to come into our lives . |
| 5 | You talk about achieving a balance between idealism and realism as if we already have a perfect one . |
| 6 | When I decide to talk to you this way , my hours are spiked as if we really have a date planned . |
| 7 | The problem is that it has the effect of actually reinforcing alienation , leaving room for that disjunction from the natural world which allows certain scientists to behave with inconceivable cruelty in their laboratories , which allows workers in slaughter houses to treat animals as if they simply had no rights or feelings at all , which allows people to justify all manner of exploitation , as if there were no moral obligations or injunctions upon us whatsoever . |
| 8 | And there were other tubes and other wires which crept under there , coupled to other tanks and other machines which quivered and laboured as if they also had some dim expectation of life . |
| 9 | In this research , the investigator plans to study the possibility that adults on occasion expect young children to behave as if they already have an accurate conception of the process of communication , and that as a result of being expected to behave in this more mature way they come to realise why that behaviour is appropriate . |
| 10 | They have the same wistful air as the terrace further back , as if they too had once entertained hopes of the lane going somewhere in life . |
| 11 | It 's as if everyone else had given up and the Government then said , ‘ Oh , give the workers some money and let them have a go . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Summerchild , ’ he could be saying , briefly and flatly , as if there never had been a case . |
| 13 | She had a way of looking slightly obliquely at me , as if she knew something I did not — not anything to do with the role she was playing , but about life in general ; as if she too had been taking lessons from the stone head . |
| 14 | It made her feel as if he still had some sort of claim over her , and she really hated and resented that . |
| 15 | ‘ But the coronation of whom , my lady ? ’ enquired the prince , as if he too had accepted that she was indeed the lady Anne . |
| 16 | He let her go as if he too had been dragged down by past memories . |
| 17 | It was as if he really had struck her , then . |
| 18 | He was acting so strangely , as if he never had suspected her of being a thief , nor followed her doggedly . |
| 19 | as if it always had been ? |
| 20 | I shrank away from him , feeling a coldness run out all over me as if I really had died . |
| 21 | as if someone else had strictly forbidden him to speak . |
| 22 | There had been a light snowfall the previous night but it looked as if someone else had been here , visited the witch then gone back to the line of trees , covering their tracks by using a switch of old branches so no imprint could be seen . |
| 23 | She 'd tacked the first sketches for this picture up on the wall and they looked as if someone else had drawn them . |
| 24 | In all three works it seemed a little too often as if you simply had to programme in the appropriate music , push the right button , and out it came with a pat brilliance , with an irreproachable but impersonal expertise . |
| 25 | Well , does n't seem as if anyone else has put up the score but it was Tottenham 1 — Leeds 1 . |
| 26 | They still have it in with But we never had a one here . |
| 27 | So you , well then you 'll still not know what you 're going out with because you still have a few days from last week to get . |
| 28 | This obviously adds great weight to its publications , in that they clearly have wide acceptance amongst those involved in the building process . |
| 29 | The landlords of this period often had a bond of sympathy with their tenants in that they too had to struggle for a living , and that their living conditions , especially in the tenth and early eleventh centuries , were not widely different . |
| 30 | He has also to appreciate that as supervising officer his position within the building contract is unique in that he often has responsibilities to both his client and the contractor . |