Example sentences of "the [adj] have [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Madeira has always been Portuguese , the British have influenced its thinking and development , but less so in recent years , particularly since the 1974 Revolution and the coming of the island s own political autonomy . |
| 2 | Why ? because this is not your country , because the British have done you a favour by letting you in . |
| 3 | He believed the offer of passports would ‘ split the community into those who have passports and those who believe that the British have betrayed them . |
| 4 | The British have to end their predetermined belief that the suspects are guilty , ’ he told Associated Press . |
| 5 | It is not the first time the British have found themselves in the path of an offensive , it is the first time they 've evacuated , in such numbers and with such urgency . |
| 6 | Even the British have found it so . |
| 7 | French state and technocentric-inspired planning have had great successes in both telecommunications and space ; but the British have had their acknowledged successes also — most notably in the broadcasting field , where a traditional consensual policy has been modified step-by-step and channel-by-channel down the decades since 1922 . |
| 8 | The problem about the word communitarianism is that the French have pinched it . |
| 9 | And the few have to carry it all . |
| 10 | These dates have now become a bone of contention in Hong Kong as rugby administrators in the British territory have belatedly realised — even though they are not admitting it — that the Japanese have outsmarted them and gained a precious advantage for the next World Cup . |
| 11 | We employ 30,000 people in the UK business and I speak to 15,000 of them every year in groups of 200 or less , because I think the Japanese have shown what good human relations can achieve . |
| 12 | Simultaneously the sexual radical movements of the 1970s have undermined our preconception of the ‘ naturalness ’ and inevitability of contemporary gender roles and sexual attitudes . |
| 13 | On occasion even the latter have lost their usual reticence and blundered . |
| 14 | The Chinese have drunk it hot , for more than 2000 years . |
| 15 | The military have resumed their parasitic role , the basic-needs development strategy has been jettisoned , foreign investment encouraged and the IMF has stepped in . |
| 16 | Following the cosy deal in which Reed bought Travel Information Group from Mr Murdoch to help him alleviate his debt problems , the two have gone their separate ways to strengthen their competing US businesses . |
| 17 | It is slightly closer to the thylacine since both are marsupials , but the two have evolved their big carnivore design independently on different continents ; independently of each other and of the placental carnivores , the true cats and dogs of the Old World . |
| 18 | The miracle grains introduced in the 1960s have played their part in the agricultural revolution but there is no sign that new strains are on their way . |
| 19 | Not content with that championship the Anglo-Scots have joined their Welsh and Irish counterparts in holding a triangular under-21 tournament at the London Welsh ground on the weekend of November 7 and 8 . |
| 20 | ‘ The Seven have done our work for us , Soren . ’ |