Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] that [pron] have " in BNC.

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1 Bloomsbury , £17.99 THERE is a persistent myth about Georges Simenon , inventor of Inspector Maigret , which holds that he has never received proper recognition as a novelist .
2 Erm and I think that a well I do n't think , it 's essential that we send Regional Railways a letter , which says that we have decided to refund this , erm to assist them in er financially . ?
3 The NRA has also published The quality of rivers , canals and estuaries in England and Wales : a report of the 1990 survey , which confirms that there has been a ‘ real and significant deterioration ’ in the quality of some rivers since 1985 .
4 This knowledge is also recursive , in that the competent policeman or woman needs to know which criminals have a common-sense knowledge about the activities and deployment of the police , which requires that they have the additional common sense to confound the criminal 's working knowledge of the police .
5 which means that we 've got to be polite to people and so on .
6 Firstly we 've had no elections , which means that we 've had little to focus on .
7 We are taught at school that if , when subtracting , the number on the top is smaller than that on the bottom , we have to carry ten from the left , take the bottom number from that ten and then add the top one — only sometimes we find that the top number on the left is a zero which means that we have to carry ten from the one to the left of that , turn the zero into a nine and then carry the ten … what a complicated process .
8 Well it I mean already , it is having quite an im impact erm especially for items like furniture and bedding , and I mean bedding does n't last for ever , especially with a family , and I know erm they 're allowed every so often , but erm I mean I think erm the the cutbacks are becoming more and more and more and and people seem to be which means that we have to look around for voluntary erm agencies that ca such as , who can provide us with furniture or beds and bedding .
9 Well , in theory up to an extent you are the answer which means that we have to buy less things , eat less , and , because we are you know that , I mean , I mean n I do n't want to , I mean I 'm not talking to anyone in particular , but we have a lot of very very big people and .
10 All of the planning office staff are incomers from southern urban backgrounds , a fact which means that they have imported certain preconceptions based on their own experiences and outlook on life .
11 In a neat phrase black holes are said to ‘ have no hair ’ , which means that they have no detailed features .
12 Er now , the source was at university which means that he 's gone gone home .
13 It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works .
14 If I get a movie script which means that I 've got to be away from home for a long period then I turn it down . ’
15 Also my teaching is squeezed into 4 days , which means that I have time to myself at the weekend , including Friday .
16 Which means that you have plenty of time to cool your heels … and fish . ’
17 Er girls were never included as horses as I remember it , but nowadays there are of course , which means that you have more boys available to be ploughmen and this perhaps helps the numbers .
18 Well that 's if you get the , the next page which means that you have to have twenty stamps in all .
19 I was glad then that he did not know the subject of the talk I had just given at the conference — the possibility that space-time was finite but had no boundary , which means that it had no beginning , no moment of Creation .
20 When built 1622 was equipped with continuous stepboards , which means that it had two stepboards per side to allow for entry from ground level .
21 There is no difference between government coverage and party coverage in this respect except that government has more initiative in determining the news , which means that it has more opportunity than the opposition to ensure that its coverage is favourable .
22 Dragon Project researcher , Don Robins , has shown that stone has a ‘ defect structure ’ , which means that it has gaps which can trap electrons .
23 His salary is now £143,000 , which means that it has more than trebled in just a couple of years .
24 Each step should be simple and complete in itself — preferably with some indication that successful completion has been achieved , for example the appearance or the change of colour of a signal light , or the noise of a motor starting or a change of pressure which indicates that there has been a change in the flow of some material .
25 We 've also got to implement the famous Community Care Act , which implies that we 've got to set up an inspection unit of all our own services .
26 My right hon. Friend set out the Government 's policies some time ago in a clear document that was fully backed by the CBI , which believes that we have the right policies to improve our competitiveness and to take advantage of lower inflation and of business conditions around the world as they improve .
27 The European Convention on Human Rights With the challenge to the extra-legal procedures having failed in the English courts , the matter was referred to Strasburg where it was argued that the British practice violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights which provides that everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life , his home , and his correspondence .
28 Many of the dog-whelks sampled on the shore there in October 1981 had their shells encrusted with the tubes of spirorbid worms , which suggests that they had spent the summer below the tidemarks to escape the heat .
29 But micrometeorites often have a loose texture , which suggests that they have never been part of anything big , heavy and hot .
30 Similar findings have also been reported in patients with chronic atrophic gastritis , Which suggests that they have been infected with H pylori at some point in their lives .
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