Example sentences of "that they have [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Further south , government forces reported that they had on May 12 taken from Garang 's forces the town of Liria ( east of Juba and on the road to Torit ) and on May 28 Kapoeta ( some 50 km north of the border with Kenya ) .
2 Everything she hated was white : that slice of custard just now ; these little stones hard as sugared almonds at a christening ; the cones of rice , curly as white hyacinths , floating in a sea of whipped egg white , that they had as a supper treat ; the damask of the tablecloth that her sweaty palms would soil ; the chilly marble of the fireplace in the white salon ; the glistening pearls of tapioca that lurked at the bottom of soup .
3 Er and the proposal that I shall report is the and in particular those matter our certainty of responsibility between various agencies needs to be addressed erm it arose obviously are much more widespread than in the past week , but er I was granted in fact to give consideration to this result of the parish meeting , conventional routine parish meeting at Barnham er on the fourth of January erm which led to the largest parish meetings I think they 've had in many years erm when because people were incensed with the suffering and the hardship that they had as a result of the flooding on the night of Thursday the thirtieth of December erm should let me say first of all that erm I would congratulate all those who were involved er in dealing with the present emergency operations erm it 's quite superb , it 's erm it seemed to be erm a remarkable reflection on the capacity er that to deal with certain circumstances reflects very well on this authority and in saying that I mean it 's not just the opposites to the men and women who are involved , but also whereas I 'm sure many members are here that members amongst our numbers have putting on very long hours in dealing with the present circumstances and I congratulate on the activities .
4 It pandered to their inflated notion of their own importance ; and the restiveness of the working class during this early phase of Russian industrialization gave them renewed hope that they had at last found a willing instrument for their revolutionary dreams .
5 On one occasion , when time had been scheduled in a departmental meeting for discussion of my questions , ten out of twelve members of staff present indicated that they had at one time or another received complaints from girls ( usually in the third or fourth year ) about the male bias of their overall literary ‘ diet ’ .
6 Now when I tell you about lodging houses , we had four registered lodging houses in Ipswich that they had at that time .
7 He would n't let me pay that for it , he said that they had at the shop .
8 H M Customs and Excise confirmed yesterday that they had to be implemented by 1 January 1990 .
9 The armoured or plated dinosaurs include some species that seem too heavily burdened with protective armour to have been very active , but this does not necessarily mean that they had to be cold-blooded .
10 She described a recent visit to her local Samaritans ' branch , where a voluntary worker told her that they received telephone calls from teenagers who were ‘ so filled with fear , and so depressed by the constant threat of a nuclear accident ’ that they had to be deterred from committing suicide .
11 Paddy quickly took command , but with most of their gear missing and two men so badly injured that they had to be left behind , there was nothing for it but to try to make the rendezvous with the LRDG .
12 The problem is that the early lists of historic buildings were done at such a pace that they had to be assessed largely on the basis of their exteriors .
13 Only slowly did the various industries realise that they had to better the ‘ lot ’ of their workers and reduce the occupational risk .
14 Next day in a further raid on this airfield another Beaufighter was to be slightly damaged , as was a Maryland , while a Wellington and a Blenheim were so badly hit that they had to be written off .
15 About 50 per cent of the animals were so sev-erely maimed that they had to be put down .
16 Some of these were intended to cover such large areas ( 150 metres by 60 ) that they had to be woven in situ , since they would have been too long and far too heavy to transport to the building , and certainly could not have been manoeuvred through its maze of passages .
17 Anglo-Scots had a theory — perhaps justified by Bridie 's remark — that they had to be twice as good as a home-bred player to break through into the national team , whereas those North of the Border believed the corollary .
18 Before he could get to the specimen , its entrails had decomposed so badly that they had to be thrown away , so it was a gutted specimen that he eventually saw .
19 In contrast with the patient and virtuous English , the French were portrayed as , at best , dissembling , unscrupulous and bellicose ; in fact , the patriotic exuberance of some clergy so overwhelmed Christian charity that they had to be warned against making their prayers too bloodthirsty !
20 When in 1857 something new began to grow in Nova Scotia Gardens , financed by Angela Burdett-Coutts at the prompting of Dickens , the residents protested so vehemently that they had to be pacified by the architect and restrained by the law .
21 I 'd pretty much made up my mind that they had to be forced into action , but it was such a difficult decision .
22 The Orphists were not adequately represented at this Salon , since Delaunay himself refused to show there , but at the Indépendants of 1914 the Orphist canvases were so numerous and of such large dimensions that they had to be placed in the largest and most important hall on the ground floor .
23 ‘ Whilst recognising that staff in other parts of AEA would undoubtedly be more concerned , he and his colleagues in the UK and overseas subsidiaries knew that they had to ‘ Keep their eye on the ball , push ahead with product development , sell hard and achieve their demanding targets for growth . ’
24 And that that came round er I mean they were stamped and er the turn you know the each I I do n't I do n't remember what what they were examined , but er th you know the the that was the law that they had to be .
25 Although the seriousness of the crime meant that the youths had been tried as adults , the fact that all were under 16 years of age at the time of the attack ( April 1989 ) meant that they had to be sentenced as juveniles .
26 approximately twenty-five per cent of the children evacuated were in such a filthy condition that they had to be specially treated .
27 Indeed in the Rubin and Kozin ( 1984 ) study subjects were asked to describe ‘ flashbulb memories ’ without the constraint that they had to be related to newsworthy events .
28 It was only when Gould declared on 28 February 1837 , that Darwin 's island specimens of the Galapagos mocking bird differed so profoundly that they had to be categorised as three completely distinct species , that the alarm bells began to ring .
29 In response to the CNAA 's complaint the DES agreed to circularize colleges warning them that they had to be prepared to satisfy CNAA requirements , and indicating that the DES would not be prepared to entertain new courses in excess of likely demand .
30 I knew a self-employed barman by the name of Kenny who , the Christmas before , had thought up the wicked scheme of telling the chestnut-roasters that they had to be licensed street vendors .
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