Example sentences of "the [noun] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | This f is used only to detect when the algorithm has reached a summit or plateau . |
2 | It keeps a list , called OPEN , of nodes which the algorithm has found and which are not goals but whose children might be goals . |
3 | A great anger had heated up , one of Robertson 's new windows had been shattered by a stone , and the womenfolk had made a move to drag the teacher out and throw him in the river . |
4 | Some of the womenfolk had turned away , unable to look . |
5 | All the sheep were on lower ground where they could be reached by men on horseback , and the womenfolk had laid in stocks of flour and yeast , so that there was no shortage of food . |
6 | However , prior to the Paras going in , The Prudes had proved a completely distinctive and revelatory experience . |
7 | The porter had stayed almost half an hour — presumably dismantling and re-constructing a perfectly healthy tap — and by the time he had left , it was true , she 'd felt far more relaxed . |
8 | Then , her heart in her mouth , she went into the pub , located the public call box in the lobby and dialled the number the porter had given her . |
9 | They were glad to see it , as they had packed some food in one of the suitcases , and directly the porter had gone they set about preparing a meal . |
10 | Charlotte booked into a hotel in the centre of Boston and hunted down the telephone directory in her room as soon as the porter had left . |
11 | She would be well and truly mystified by the sight of an elderly king who needs to be helped into his chair one minute , but can swing his cane around like a golf stick the next , and even more flummoxed by the depiction of a world in which the porter has closed circuit television , but the method of killing has n't changed a jot . |
12 | While the others seemed still obsessed with the catastrophe of 1870 , Pétain was assiduously and pragmatically studying more recent campaigns such as the Boer War and the RussoJapanese War of 1905 , where the defence had given so good an account of itself . |
13 | It looked as if the defence had made its point . |
14 | Although the defence had demanded the release of extracts from Reagan 's diaries as a means of circumventing the memory lapses suffered by the former President , Reagan had cited executive privilege in order to resist the move [ see pp. 37240-41 ] . |
15 | One day he reported that the defence had claimed that partisan warfare was contrary to the Hague Convention , that the Germans therefore had every right to take reprisals against the partisans , and that any excesses on their part were explained if not justified by their horror of what the partisans did . |
16 | At Southwark Crown Court , he said it was a fraud against the Inland Revenue involving unpaid corporation tax and not , as the defence had claimed , a swindle perpetrated abroad by others against Japanese tax authorities . |
17 | Such things as fingers , hernias and extended navels have caused problems in practice when the defence has submitted that it was not the penis which was exposed but some other similar looking object . |
18 | The defence have said medical evidence gleaned from tests on Mr Harris ' brain shows he suffers from a rare abnormality . |
19 | The response has taken my breath away , I had no idea there were so many people who cared . |
20 | Yes well er if it 's a joint account and the income 's i i if it 's a joint account and the income 's generated from that account , then er it will be er treated as one going to the taxpayer , er you know , half of it going to the taxpayer , half of it going to the non-taxpayer . |
21 | Goremykin , the premier had become a mere figurehead in charge of no major department , and individual ministers reverted to reporting independently and in haphazard fashion to the Tsar . |
22 | He said hundreds of thousands of jobs and lives had been destroyed while the Premier had done nothing but watch it happen . |
23 | The Premier has complained to friends of ‘ middle-aged , pot-bellied ’ commissioners poking their noses in . |
24 | The Premier has appealed to editors of Tory-supporting papers to lay off Chancellor Norman Lamont and hide the depth of the economic crisis . |
25 | The Treeman had kept them safe in the deepest wildwoods while war raged . |
26 | Thirty minutes and the tent had gone . |
27 | They found the various members of the company still rigid and separate , like a circle of tent pegs after the tent has blown away . |
28 | And afterwards , for a second she had felt him relax against her , his body spent , his feelings so near the surface she could almost reach out and touch them , and then he had wrenched himself away from her and the defences had gone slamming back up , shutting her out . |
29 | Palaeomagnetic studies on the continents had indicated that continental drift had , in fact , occurred , while more detailed information on the Earth 's crustal and sub-crustal structure had led many to accept the existence of a relatively mobile zone within the mantle ( the asthenosphere ) . |
30 | Although the basic position of the continents had remained unchanged since the Mesozoic , variations in the sea level might have opened up land passages between areas now separated by shallow seas . |