Example sentences of "the [noun] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had acquired his confidence , which I believe I still retain , but for a number of reasons which were quasi-political we drifted apart towards the end of his second premiership , and although we have remained on friendly terms , the intimacy has long vanished . |
| 2 | Indeed , the French envoy de Craon knew more , claiming the Prince had told him about Lady Eleanor 's death long before the porter had even reached Woodstock . |
| 3 | When he returns for his payment she shows him another body , claiming the porter has not done the job asked of him . |
| 4 | Bush hailed the verdict as a " victory against the drug lords " but Noriega 's chief attorney Frank Rubino , promising lengthy appeals , stated that it had been a political case ; the defence had effectively been prevented from treating it as such , and the judge had instructed the jury on April 3 not to consider any political aspects of the case . |
| 5 | The assistant recorder was right to find , as he did , that the allegations of agency set out in the defence had not been made out . |
| 6 | On Oct. 15 , 1989 , a controversial retrial of 15 Islamic extremists ( who had been associates of Bouiali-see above ) was abandoned after the defence had successfully argued that a regional court was not competent to try their case following the Supreme Court 's refusal to do so . |
| 7 | The defence has also succeeded where the employee was under no pressure to take a particular risk but deliberately chose a dangerous method of working . |
| 8 | And appearing only for the defence has always seemed too easy an option . |
| 9 | The Commission 's other research findings — that much of forensic science is far from certain , capable of misinterpretation and relies upon the defence to draw out its limitations — only add to the need for the defence to have already access to real defence experts . |
| 10 | Aduna said he gave international organisations an early warning five months ago , ‘ but the response has not been good ’ . |
| 11 | If the income has already borne tax at the basic rate relief will be given for that charge . |
| 12 | Mr Smith said the Premier had not just humiliated himself and his Government through the sterling crisis — he had humiliated Britain . |
| 13 | In addition , the inability to have more than one ‘ page ’ open at the same time for cross-referencing is a definite limitation of the microfilm system for advice work . |
| 14 | When they left the following day , the eastern end of the park had already begun to fill with tattered bivouacs and shelters of thorn and tarpaulin . |
| 15 | We 've been in the park have n't we ? |
| 16 | Those opposing the park have recently resurrected an old but powerful paranoia : the ‘ internationalisation ’ of the Amazon ( see BBC WILDLIFE , July 1990 , p483 ) . |
| 17 | The flat rate addition will be expressed as a percentage but , as the formula for calculating it and the figure itself have yet to be agreed with the European Commission , the amount of the addition has not been announced . |
| 18 | But the opportunity had not arisen , and Aldrich had taken no initiative in effecting any introduction . |
| 19 | Now the opportunity had once again been given to them , she felt that they must do nothing to jeopardise the future . |
| 20 | The opportunity has also been taken to add office space on the ground floor by converting the arcade . |
| 21 | The opportunity has not been missed to point unfavourably at the controversial plans for the Bode Museum in Berlin which , it seems , will not now be restored to its original appearance as when built for Kaiser Friedrich in 1897–1904 . |
| 22 | It turned out that the forms had all been filled in correctly but the DSS had n't read them properly . |
| 23 | Secondly , the forms have not been amended in line with the samples enclosed with the order . |
| 24 | Older women were least likely to be eligible because they had started working at the factory when the married women 's option ( i.e. to pay reduced NI contributions ) was in full operation and the majority had not considered it financially worthwhile to pay full contributions . |
| 25 | The majority had therefore experienced secure employment for relatively long periods of time . |
| 26 | Yet the undecorated vessels were given a variety of titles , despite the majority having also come from cemeteries ; biconical and globular vessels were labelled ‘ urns ’ , squat vessels as ‘ plain bowls ’ , and a variety of shapes that could not be fitted easily into the typological scheme were labelled domestic wares , ‘ crude accessories ’ , ‘ wide-mouthed cook-pots ’ and ‘ cook-pots with lugs ’ ( ibid. , pp. 26–9 , pp. 148–70 ) . |
| 27 | Although some US rugby enthusiasts were able to tap into these satellite transmissions to view the matches live , the majority have not seen the heroics of the best players in their sport . |
| 28 | Some people have previously worked in the English companies when they were privatised and have some direct experience , but the majority have not . |
| 29 | The majority have simply been using it as a solvent . |
| 30 | The majority have so far agreed . |