Example sentences of "[that] they have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the result the justices on the second day of the hearing , the evidence having been taken the day before and the justices having indicated that they had reached a decision but would give their reasons the next day , made not an interim care order but two prohibited steps orders . |
| 32 | I had the impression that they had reached a moment of reflection in some important exchange . |
| 33 | Ramsey confessed that they had done a lot of harm and ought to apologize but said that the best of them were trying to , and that the Church of England ought to apologize to the high churchmen for the way in which it sometimes treated them . |
| 34 | Some heads of department claimed that they had done a lot of thinking about policies and practices in anticipation of the appraisal . |
| 35 | No patient said that they had noticed a click from their ribs but this question was not routinely asked . |
| 36 | They still believed that they had put a 2Mb memory upgrade into one of these machines to give it a 4Mb of RAM . |
| 37 | We can cut money off , let's make some easy quick decisions about cutting money off , let's chop out the arts you could do that on one line easily and I think you have to look at the long term you have to look at what happens in terms of our culture , our civilization if you do do that , how people change and to me it 's about and that was raised last night too about how an saying that they had put a limit on the cost of opera tickets forty pounds , compared |
| 38 | Bonefish Straker reckoned that some Bahamian kids must have stolen the boat as a means of getting home , but we would never know who had wrecked her , only that they had removed a dinghy load of gear including her chronometer , sextant , VHF , barometer , spare sails , lines , fenders , and even the mattress off the starboard quarter-berth . |
| 39 | Extraordinary that the Soviets had not already grilled and broken this man , unbelievable that they had permitted a trial for espionage to go ahead without the evidence of a confession . |
| 40 | The university authorities claimed after the talks that they had offered a package of generous proposals in an attempt to settle the dispute . |
| 41 | This profession , which most members had come to brimming with conviction that they had found a way of linking their idealism to an honourable way of earning a living , has been devastated by continuous attack from the media . |
| 42 | Although all felt that they had found a means of living which enabled them to be open to this reality , they nevertheless say that it was experienced as a gift and a grace beyond anything that could be achieved by conscious effort . |
| 43 | ‘ The forensic people told us that they had found a trace of paper in his nostrils . |
| 44 | In 1990 , to great excitement , Kenneth Blum of the University of Texas at San Antonio , and Ernest Noble of the University of California , Los Angeles , announced that they had found a gene peculiarly common among alcoholics . |
| 45 | It was frequently said of great men in the ancient world , for example of Plato , that they had had a god for a father and a human mother . |
| 46 | After seven hours of talks it was announced that they had signed a peace agreement . |
| 47 | Jed-Forest confirmed last night that they had suspended a player until next season because of misbehaviour on a recent trip to Twickenham . |
| 48 | Reflecting , Chris thought that they had learnt a lot about working as a team . |
| 49 | In your May issue you carried a letter from two climbers from Tunbridge Wells who announced that they had negotiated a season ticket agreement for users of High Rocks . |
| 50 | On Nov. 1 Bulgarian police said that they had seized a quantity of plutonium-239 said to be Russian in origin . |
| 51 | She described liquidators Cork Gully as ‘ corpse snatchers ’ and said it was unfair that they had taken a total of £7.9m in expenses over 10 years . |
| 52 | Usually they really believe this and do not accept that they have made a mistake . |
| 53 | If Hamer have sought to redesign this feature so that it looks better overall then I 'd suggest that they have made a mistake . |
| 54 | The supervisor can see from the depth gauge that they have made a seal , and contact between bell and supervisor would then be via a through water communications system . |
| 55 | Users often do not notice that they have miskeyed a word , and many systems do not make it clear why they have failed to find anything . |
| 56 | In short , that they have appropriated a look , a style , and imbued it with no more than a vacuous narcissism , a barbaric bricolage mirroring a generation lost cynical ironic gestures and strategies . |
| 57 | The corollary is that they have accepted a range of obligations to provide support for non-household kin . |
| 58 | The power of decision being committed by the statute exclusively to the housing authority , their exercise of the power can only be challenged before the courts on the strictly limited grounds ( i ) that their decision was vitiated by bias or procedural unfairness ; ( ii ) that they have reached a conclusion of fact which can be impugned on the principles set out in the speech of Lord Radcliffe in Edwards v. Bairstow [ 1956 ] A.C. 14 ; or ( iii ) that , in as far as they have exercised a discretion ( as they may require to do in considering questions of reasonableness under section 17(1) ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) ) , the exercise can be impugned on the principles set out in the judgment of Lord Greene M.R. in Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v. Wednesbury Corporation [ 1948 ] 1 K.B . |
| 59 | However , although that enumeration may appear exhaustive , the ingenuity of the legislative institutions is such that they have adopted a number of other Acts outside those categories such as , for example , action programmes , codes of conduct , resolutions . |
| 60 | Indian friends have testified that they have witnessed a Cobra at night with its ‘ jewel ’ glowing , moving through the undergrowth In search of water . |