Example sentences of "[vb base] they have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally this will not be necessary if those who send them have a vision for and support the work financially . |
| 2 | All my investigators who want them have got personal alarms of their own . |
| 3 | The minister Nicholas Breton , for example , noted in 1603 that his parishioners ‘ came to service more for fashion than devotion ’ , while the preacher John Angier of Denton in Lancashire believed that his parishioners came ‘ for no other purpose but to sleep , as if the sabbath were made only to recover that sleep they have lost in the week ’ . |
| 4 | The Tories acknowledge they have a fight on their hands against Nigel Jones for the Liberal Democrats . |
| 5 | ‘ I expect they have been taken back to the Wyrmberg . ’ |
| 6 | and then they forget they have to pay for it |
| 7 | It is only when you stop scanning the horizon for monumental shapes that you realise they have been looming unnoticed in the foreground all along . |
| 8 | This is how you realise they have different origins . |
| 9 | Shadow housing spokesman John Battle said : ‘ They have been forced into it , but at least now they realise they have to do something . |
| 10 | We are well aware that in the United States fears have frequently been expressed that lenders may be evading the Truth in Lending law by making insurance virtually compulsory without actually making it mandatory using such forceful persuasion that borrowers hardly realise they have the option of not getting it . |
| 11 | Listening to the old Model 500 records now , you realise they have n't dated at all . |
| 12 | ‘ They say they have gathered in all who would come out from the north side down to Pitnacree , and the south side as far up as Kenmore. , ‘ The Grandtully crowd ? |
| 13 | Ministers say they have deliberately avoided ‘ sounding triumphal ’ about the BMA 's backdown to avoid rekindling the controversy . |
| 14 | Urban motorways have proved no solution to Britain 's chronic traffic congestion — indeed some say they have made it worse . |
| 15 | They are young and middle-aged men , many with wives and children in Turkey , who say they have suffered repeated imprisonments , police beatings and torture because of their sympathies for communist and Kurdish independence groups . |
| 16 | So long as people can walk out of a room and say they have decided to leave on their terms , they retain their dignity . |
| 17 | The police say they have n't the time or resources to worry about hashish . |
| 18 | All say they have had more letters on this foreign-policy subject than any other . |
| 19 | Old residents say they have more in common with the latinos than with the ultra-rich who have taken over their valley . |
| 20 | The rebels say they have captured 30,000 of the government 's men . |
| 21 | According to Richard Baxter , for example , it led to the arrogance of ‘ idle boys who tear out all the hard leaves of their books and say they have learned all when they have learned the rest ’ . |
| 22 | They say they have never heard anything like it . |
| 23 | MOLECULAR biologists in Australia say they have designed a range of new molecules effective in the initial step of destroying the activity of viruses . |
| 24 | ‘ Some people , ’ he said , ‘ say they have ‘ absolute proof ’ that alien beings have landed on Earth . |
| 25 | Some schools say they have an emergency fund they can dip into if family finances are really tight . |
| 26 | Pollsters say they have detected signs of a swing back to the Conservatives — and that Labour support may have peaked last week — but it may not come in time to save the Tories . |
| 27 | GEORGIA 'S democrats say they have finally defeated the armed supporters of ousted President Zviad Gamsakhurdia and can now concentrate on rebuilding the country under Mr Eduard Shevardnadze , the former Soviet Foreign Minister . |
| 28 | To charges that this is too much of a good thing , the BBC say they have always given the World Championship around 70 hours and the audience figures remain high . |
| 29 | National Grid , Britain 's high-voltage supply company , and London Electricity say they have a code of practice for workers handling the gas . |
| 30 | How can a child feel able to tell , and have confidence in those who say they have their ‘ best interests ’ in mind , when the person they have named as their abuser is to be involved in everything that then happens to them ? |