Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before Sam 's Son spawns further progeny we need to consider whether criminal authors have themselves become the victims of this new and draconian confiscation legislation . |
| 2 | UK companies have themselves taken over foreign companies and , within the UK , companies have been restructured to strengthen their international position . |
| 3 | But in some ways the universities have themselves been subject to a countervailing ‘ vocational drift ’ in the 1980s , as a result of both government pressure and student demand . |
| 4 | The drug barons have themselves become substantial land holders , effectively controlling several departments . |
| 5 | Soviet officials have themselves consistently indicated that they have hopes in this respect . |
| 6 | In a new report to the council he points out some serious problems … first of all persuading terrified tenants to make a formal complaint … then there 's the threat of violence … both tenancy officers have themselves been threatened and , when convicted , many landlords are still being fined low amounts . |
| 7 | Some members of these families have themselves experienced school failure and rejection as children . |
| 8 | Firstly the local tyrants , evil gentry and lawless landlords have themselves driven the peasants to this , so th there is more to it than that , and secondly a revolution is not a dinner party or writing an essay or painting a picture or doing embroidery , it can not be so refined , so leisurely and gentle so temperate , kind , courteous , restrained and , and magnanimous . |
| 9 | If , as Lord Bruce of Donington points out ( letter , April 2 ) , the new Parliament will be presented with a Bill before most members have themselves been able to read the text of the treaty , this is presumably in the hope that they will railroad it through before the British presidency commences in June . |
| 10 | The major reasons for a care order are that the children have themselves committed an offence , they are in need of care , protection and control , or they or another child of the same family have been victims of an offence or are in the same household as a person convicted of a serious offence such as manslaughter , cruelty or suchlike . |
| 11 | The differences between those consequences have themselves varied over the years : the current position is set out at 15.11 . |
| 12 | With the passage of time , however , the owning institutions have themselves grown to the point where the costs and risks are something they can manage for themselves , at which point the freedom and other advantages of sole ownership have taken over . |
| 13 | Authorities have themselves acknowledged fears that ‘ counter-revolutionaries ’ , still at large despite a nationwide crackdown on dissent , might try to sabotage the anniversary . |
| 14 | ‘ All those people are out there struggling to cope , and in many cases have themselves become abusers — they know no better , ’ she said . |
| 15 | The courts have themselves shown a willingness recently to subject the decisions of the police to the general principles developed in other areas of the law . |
| 16 | However , while the supermarkets first appeared to threaten traditional wine shops , the merchants have themselves adapted and thrived . |
| 17 | What is absolutely clear is that the three prisoners have themselves vehemently protested their innocence from day one . |
| 18 | However , as many of the novelists have themselves pointed out , the presence of transgressive and subversive features could be shown to exist in their earlier works . |
| 19 | Many councils have themselves encouraged their growth — sometimes to avoid the implications of centrally imposed financial constraints and sometimes explicitly to make co-operation and partnerships with the voluntary and private sectors easier and less dependent on committee cycles and bureaucratic indecision . |