Example sentences of "[noun sg] they have [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Town might have been expected to dispose of a side they have already beaten twice this season , but not necessarily with ten men for 68 minutes of the game . |
| 2 | It is apparent that even where investigations have commenced within physical geography they have often proceeded to become intertwined with other disciplines . |
| 3 | As a result they have traditionally commanded higher wages than most other manual workers . |
| 4 | Their 15-9 victory over Wales at Cardiff Arms Park last December was beyond dispute the most significant result they have ever achieved on foreign soil . |
| 5 | Better by far to tackle equity withdrawal on big loans , where better-off house-buyers borrow £20,000 more than they need for a house-purchase , to buy that flashy car they have always wanted . |
| 6 | After Jericho the next city to be attacked is Ai , but here the Israelite troops are routed , and the people of God have a taste of the fear they have hitherto inspired in others . |
| 7 | In the short term , such equity based investments can of course be volatile , however , over the medium to long term they have consistently provided excellent returns compared with deposit-based savings . |
| 8 | In practice they have also assisted Welsh local authorities in land availability studies and with advice on land disposal for development . |
| 9 | They will have to exchange information on work they have already done before starting an Alvey project , and agree to license the results to other companies . |
| 10 | statistically , I get far more phone calls from record companies , lawyers and very occasionally from publishers telling me about a new act they have just signed . |
| 11 | Confident that the anointing they have all received is the person of the Spirit of the Anointed One , who remains with them ( 2:27 ) , John knows he can safely leave their instruction to that same Spirit who is true and who shows them how to abide in Christ , the Christ who will one day return ( 2:28f ) . |
| 12 | By thus consenting they form one body politic and it is implied in the contract that the majority have the right to conclude for the rest and let me quote for when any number of men have by the consent of every individual made a community they have thereby made that community one body with a power to act as one body which is only by the will and determination of the majority it being necessary to that which is one body to move one way a single body ca n't move in two opposite directions simultaneously . |
| 13 | Sam thought for a second he could smell damp straw — ’ … and carried many miles to a place they have never seen before and from which they can never return . |
| 14 | ‘ Licensed retailers have now got the kind of security they have long desired and the chance to take their own business into their own hands and reap the rewards , by being able to play to their strengths and provide what their customers want . |
| 15 | AMAZED American doctors say Lester Piggott is the fittest 56-year-old they have ever seen . |
| 16 | The public will rarely buy a record they have never heard , particularly when it comes from a new or unknown artist . |
| 17 | None the less , the attention they have rightly drawn to parochial religion and to non-predestinarian elements within the church should not be allowed to obscure the fact that during the period from 1560 to 1625 credal predestinarianism claimed the allegiance of the great majority of Elizabethan and Jacobean churchmen , or that during the 1630s this creed came under a concerted and unprecedented attack from the ecclesiastical authorities . |
| 18 | RE teachers have responded positively to many of the insights of the modern world but in the process they have sometimes allowed the pendulum to swing too far to the other side . |
| 19 | Purity has , rightly , become something of a bugbear to contemporary women : our purity has become men 's concern and in its name they have radically restricted our options and liberties . |
| 20 | Chris feels it is some of the best stuff they have ever done . |
| 21 | Where once they fought pitched battles against each other they have now joined hands to fight the common enemy the FA and greedy clubs . |
| 22 | Primary teachers and secondary English teachers regularly impart a great deal of knowledge about language to their pupils and encourage them to make explicit , and to share with others , the implicit knowledge they have already acquired as language users . |
| 23 | Increasing the range and diversity of role models children meet in mathematical textbooks and building on the knowledge they have already acquired are two of the ways we can contribute to building the self-esteem shown in many Government reports to be crucial for success . |
| 24 | Right or wrong they have simply attempted to state the facts . |
| 25 | Many of the diplomas and certificates offered by the University are intended to prepare students for a particular career path , or to enhance their prospects in the career they have already chosen by extending their knowledge and developing their skills . |
| 26 | It is difficult to see why head office should he delighted at the prospect of losing the control they have hitherto exerted and enjoying the cash-flow from the healthy divisions . |
| 27 | You need to know who they have been to see , what advice they have already tried and what they thought about it . |
| 28 | Enthusiastic supporters claimed that the movement gave to ‘ the Free Churches a unity they have never had before ’ although this same observer recognized that it was ‘ the Establishment that lies at the foundation of our contention ’ . |
| 29 | Readers can hardly remain passive consumers , or be seduced by the covert ideologies , of a text they have literally had to piece together , page by page , for themselves . |
| 30 | Catherine Oates ( Mrs Wright ) concurs : ‘ Of course they have radically altered my life but I was glad to exchange the tyranny of the nine-to-five day for the tyranny offour-hourly feeds . |