Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 A family of four ( played by actors ) is shown , where each one has fallen into money problems through unwise use of credit .
2 One way or another we 've had a pretty busy six months .
3 Very many men will admit , if they are honest with themselves , that at one time or another they have felt sexual attraction for a young girl — or boy .
4 Either for that reason or another he 's got a monumental chip on his shoulder .
5 Er , so some how or another you 've learned them , right .
6 I replied , ‘ There it is , you know , one way or another I 've had this and that stolen from me ’ .
7 For some reason or another I 've found a pizza that does n't affect his skin
8 On taking her history , it was discovered that when she was twelve or thirteen she had had frequent nose bleeds and had lost a great deal of blood .
9 This means that a surplus of 38 votes can only be transferred if there are 3,800 voting papers or fewer which have expressed on them subsequent preferences for continuing candidates .
10 Miss Sullivan said : ‘ The typical person coming to us is a divorced man in his 30s or 40s who has remarried , often to a woman in her 20s , and wants to start a family .
11 But the best-laid schemes of mankind and its security police can be blown aside in the squeeze of the assassin 's trigger , sending one to heaven and one to hell and not for any good or ill they 've done to him .
12 ‘ But sooner or later one has to come back down to earth , ’ she went on .
13 They are doubly attracted when it is clear to them that any movement will be all one way , and where all they have to do is to bide their time and wait for the inevitable profits .
14 In most common diseases of western society , we know more or less what has gone wrong , even if we do not know why it has gone wrong .
15 This can be seen in premature foals or those which have had an unduly prolonged birth resulting in temporary lack of oxygen to the brain .
16 The Christians sought to protect the destitute , or those who had fallen in status and resources like widows and orphans .
17 The Literary Lionisers , or those who had survived the damp morning walk to Ramsgate along the sands ( in the steps of the great Dickens on his walk with Hans Christian Andersen ) , were equally divided as to those who wished no more to do with the Imperial , Broadstairs or indeed the Lionisers , those to whom the sudden disappearance of their leader was an added bonus , and those who were determined not to miss what they had already paid for .
18 Some said he slept in his study while others believed he wandered about the corridors waiting to catch escaping pupils or those who had gone missing .
19 The best kept secret of this election may be that poll tax collectors plan a massive drive to catch those who have failed to register for poll tax , or those who have registered but failed to pay it , when they present themselves at the polling booths tomorrow .
20 Many examples of good rehabilitation practice have developed simply because medical teams have seen obvious need : cardiac rehabilitation , or the support given to people on long-term dialysis or those who have undergone organ transplants , are a few examples .
21 Every District General Hospital should provide rehabilitation facilities for its coronary patients , be it those recovering from acute infarction or those who have had coronary artery surgery or angioplasty .
22 Unless a turnover system were to be introduced , such as the optional arrangements in Germany , the royalty would only operate in relation to works which are still in copyright works of art either produced by living artists or those who have died within the last fifty years .
23 High and very far to the north I could just hear an aeroplane , only the third or fourth I had heard at night since coming to the island .
24 Where practical we 've chosen to repeat information or at least summarise pertinent details within this volume so that you should n't need to keep swapping from one book to another .
25 And then when I was about twenty four , twenty four or five I 'd got twenty men working for me , so er we were n't doing so bad .
26 Yes , I think whenever one makes judgment about therapy being better or worse you have to say er on what criteria and there are certainly certain criteria on which group therapy would do better for certain problems like us making feel people feel better if they had a symptom or problem which erm make them feel worse because , because they felt isolated from the community , so it means other people who have got the same problem makes you feel better erm and er certainly suggestion therapy can produce dramatic results especially in the short run .
27 When I asked her how easy or difficult she had found the exercise , Sylvia told me that she had been quite surprised at how simple it had been .
28 In a moment or two they had left the Trevi behind them .
29 Now I suppose this is just appealing to my sense of power or something , being able to walk in and take charge and in a minute or two they 've settled down and they 're not panicking because you 've arrived and all their burdens are on your shoulders and they do n't have to worry any more because the doctor 's there … this I find profoundly satisfying as long as I can , in fact , cope with what 's happening .
30 We have looked favourably at a number of their items in the past but over the last year or two they have acquired a growing respect for the estimable sound of their CD players .
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