Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] they have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Liberal Democrats had the highest share of the vote in several authorities where they have proven local government strength .
2 Patients were not included in the study if they had undergone previous gastric surgery or if they were receiving cytotoxic drugs or >5 mg/day prednisolone .
3 She judges everybody by their star sign , too , avoiding Scorpios because they 've got a sting in their tail , Geminis because they 've got split personalities and Taureans because they 're stubborn , irrespective of the staggering complexity of human nature .
4 Commercial banks have generally been able to provide the finance necessary to support the huge increase in investment because they have collected substantial deposits from savers .
5 They have been informed that they do not qualify for their bounty because they have spent insufficient days at summer camp , despite serving 51 days in the Gulf .
6 Ultimately the pressure for reform came from the Whitehall ministries because they had to use local government to execute many of their plans , particularly for local economic development and urban renewal and they found that the machinery was simply ineffective .
7 The creations are totally different and have some dissimilar effects but both creations have not been controlled by their creators so they have had disastrous consequences .
8 The initiative in budgetary matters rests mainly with the president , but , once he has submitted his proposals , they can not become law until they have obtained Congressional approval .
9 The system has proved a remarkably cost effective way of ensuring that people are not appointed to consultant posts unless they have reached appropriate levels of training and experience .
10 They probably seemed as ridiculous to the boy as they 'd seemed boring to Nevil , who had been right to say they had harmed him with their indulgence and from whom they would willingly now have asked forgiveness .
11 Attitudes outside Parliament were very similar , and would have reduced Labour 's chances of winning the next election if they had advocated non-nuclear defence in 1957 .
12 In a large flameproof casserole , fry one large chopped onion and 100g/4oz salt pork or streaky bacon for 5 minutes until they have turned golden brown .
13 Banana skins , for example , are sometimes dried for weeks until they have gone black , then the inside off the skin can be scraped off and smoked .
14 That 's obviously been accepted by the labour group because they have taken extra money out of reserves , we 're simply going to take some more out to meet our er our figure that we 're trying to achieve .
15 After the revolution , Romanians sat in their flats lit by a maximum of two 40-watt bulbs by order , usually wearing winter coats as they had become accustomed to years of sudden power cuts , and watched television pictures of their late rulers perusing menus to decide what to eat .
16 Though it seems reasonable to assume that the ideal candidate for cardiac transplantation is one who has irreversible cardiac failure and severe symptomatic restrictions despite all treatment but with no requirement for intravenous or interventional support and no secondary end organ damage , in practice many of the patients referred for consideration of transplantation require active support in hospital and have been referred in some cases because they have developed secondary end organ damage .
17 And so the A N C has to make sure that while it works for the aspirations of its people it must also protect the country and I 'm afraid in this context it means it has through negotiations and other means also conceded made concessions in order to save the situation and the only organization that is now working for the national interest even losing its own supporters in the country is basically the A N C and it 's quite a remarkable thing to see that leaders are prepared to l lose political support because they have to make sure that the country does n't .
18 For example , in areas close to the sea the newcomers have been predominantly retired couples whose impact i n the local housing market has again caused resentment in those regions where they have become concentrated , such as Devon and Cornwall .
19 If your client buyers do not fall into this category , for example if they have negotiated direct , then it may well be that your firm has its own financial services department .
20 The time to consider whether one wishes to opt out and whether one was opposed to a certain system is always when a decision has been made , but I 'd have thought it would have been far in the interests of the people of Banbury and the children and parents of Banbury if they 'd taken full advantage of the discussion on the tertiary college and had made their opinions known , and in the light of the results coming out and say a satisfactory decision had arisen that was frankly the time to get into the business of opting out .
21 Turkey has an excuse for its ignorance : the objects , it says , were looted from tombs where they had lain undisturbed for 2,500 years .
22 A large number of dogs who end up in the rescue homes would be on the vet 's euthanasia list if they 'd had different owners .
23 A person , or their partner , is at increased risk if they have had high risk sex in regions of the world where the prevalence of HIV infection is greater than that in the UK .
24 Move them to the cold outside world when they have made strong roots .
25 In the opinion of the deputy judge the operation of that Part , concerned as it was with giving the authorities powers to secure compliance with or detection of evasion of the Act , came to an end when they had secured sufficient evidence to justify a charge .
26 And th th and they would be police ones if they 'd got blue lights and
27 Indeed , it now seemed to be the case that men did not marry women unless they had had sexual relations with them beforehand .
28 That means that we have even fewer uniformed officers on our streets because they have to do civilian tasks such as manning telephones .
29 How 're yuh gon na keep'em loyal to proprietary systems after they 've seen generic PCs is today 's equivalent .
30 And I admit to being guilty of one of Dewey 's charges : as an editor , I have not shared reviewers ' comments with other reviewers , and I have certainly published papers after they have received negative reviews yet may not have explained why to those reviewers who labour so hard on my behalf .
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