Example sentences of "that they have [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 First , it would undo the anti-inflationary credibility that they have painfully won in recent years , and which is the precise benefit offered by EMS membership .
2 This picture was confirmed by the DCSL , who described her impression as follows : The library is extremely well used and my experience of sitting in there during the school day is that they have also achieved very good curriculum use as well , they have managed to overcome what another school , I think , is having problems with …
3 ‘ And I am aware that they have also fallen quite significantly in the last two or three weeks .
4 The preference is for things so young — like baby chickens with infant vegetables — that they have barely had an independent existence we might have to acknowledge robbing them of .
5 They assemble in colonies many thousand strong and nest in long holes that they have either taken over from rabbits or dug for themselves .
6 In the case he quotes it was decided not to use alternative software , and other users should ensure that they have already exhausted the possibilities of improving the performance of their present software before they turn to other sources .
7 ‘ They had regard for the previous exemplary record of West Ham and the fact that they have already taken action against their players concerned , ’ Kelly added .
8 That does mean that they have already had a very difficult exercise in terms of looking at an , an efficiency effectiveness distribution of funding and how they manage the service , and that 's very much tied in with the children 's services plan , which Mike referred to earlier on , and which is later on the agenda .
9 The allies calculate that they have already dropped on Iraqi targets about one-quarter of the total tonnage of bombs dropped on Germany in the whole of the second world war , and destroyed one-third of Iraq 's tanks and artillery in Kuwait .
10 They have shown a stubborn reluctance to take that course so far , which leads to the belief that they have already promised the job elsewhere .
11 They also told me that they have already held several long meetings .
12 This means that a management policy that is injurious to employee interests can be attacked only on the grounds that the directors lacked good faith , meaning that the directors did not honestly believe that the policy constitutes an appropriate balancing of interests , or that they have altogether disregarded the impact of their decision on the employees .
13 To be able to continue the activities that they have traditionally undertaken , er , with substantial er , grant and financial support from the County Council .
14 A key feature of the battery of initiatives is that they have largely stemmed from a Human Resource Management approach which is directed at employees as individuals .
15 Those values and that conception of society have permeated the American consciousness , so much so that they have largely gone unstated .
16 The trouble with the new community councils is that they have largely fallen into the hands of the incoming middle-class whose views are likely to be coincident with the dominant ideology .
17 Most raw beginners think that they have adequately solved this problem if they quote R .
18 All these factors are increasing the complexity of the work of further education teachers of whom , at present , under half of the full-time staff , and even fewer of the part-timers , are trained in the sense that they have successfully completed a full programme of professional teacher training leading to qualified teacher status .
19 You tell them that this is the card that they have freely chosen .
20 This latter point is not intended to imply that scientists have suddenly ‘ got God ’ ; rather that they have generally refused to admit that , if some event is widely reported in religious writings , there is a very good chance that it did in fact happen .
21 While many new ideas have been promoted for budgetary reform it remains the case that they have generally failed to gain general acceptance .
22 But if Sartre anticipates such later thinkers we should not assume too quickly that they have simply taken his insights further .
23 Nevertheless , the rule is subject to so many exceptions that they have practically destroyed the rule .
24 It is a tribute to the smoothness of the operation that many private pilots do not realise that they have effectively moved into another country 's airspace when they enter the Jersey zone .
25 Is the Minister aware that an Essex GP is calling on national health service hospitals in the Mid-Essex health authority to boost incomes by carrying out privately , in pay beds , procedures that they have effectively banned from the NHS ?
26 They have been collecting goodies from all over the globe , with no trouble or expense spared , and have recently announced that they have just paid a world record price for a rather small amount of tea .
27 On Saturday , 2nd February 1991 , four members of the B.C.R.S. Preservation Group paid a working visit to the Gwili Railway following a tip-off that they have just acquired a six wheel GWR passenger coach , which , when fully restored will be the fourth oldest coach in preservation .
28 It may be that they have just had their operation or they are just about to have it . ’
29 I think that they have just opted out ; they can not afford to look after their land .
30 It is true that when they use words like " aggression " and - " altruism " ( which they do a great deal ) they make a pretence that they have somehow dissociated these terms from their human behavioural origins — but it is only a pretence .
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