Example sentences of "[that] [noun] have [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 The psychologist commented that Balbinder had liked having a reading book and clearly wanted to read but when it came to reading he did not understand what he was doing but relied on guessing .
2 As the apparatus of imperial rule expanded in Asia and Africa , the aristocratic militarism that Bright had decried gained a new lease of life .
3 And I mean there has been up until fairly recently , it 's only in the last few years that relations have tended to get a bit better .
4 By a notice of appeal dated 20 July 1992 the Official Solicitor appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that since the judge had found as facts that ( a ) T. had been able properly and fully to form a balanced judgment and had not been acting under undue influence but had been acting voluntarily , and ( b ) her several expressions withholding consent were valid refusals which bound the hospital , ( 1 ) he had erred in finding himself entitled to make the declaration ; ( 2 ) it had been wrong for him to assess T. 's subsequent intentions and to make assumptions as to whether she would have qualified or changed her refusal in the later circumstances ; and ( 3 ) he had erred in finding that ( a ) there was no evidence that T. had wished to refuse a blood transfusion even though it was at risk to her life , ( b ) lack of understanding of the risks involved justified acting against her expressed refusal , ( c ) her withholding of consent did not embrace the emergency which had arisen and took no account of changed circumstances , ( d ) her expressed refusals did not evince a settled intention to persist in her refusal even if injurious to her health when her best interests required a transfusion ; and ( e ) he was not satisfied that her refusal was continuing .
5 As we try to decide what to eat , we notice that Denice has managed to do a certain amount of major structural damage to her menu , resulting to the pages ' coming out of the middle .
6 It appeared that Goble had refused to pay a sum charged against him as owner of some houses , and the Commissioners had taken legal proceedings against him , and he had then submitted and paid , with costs .
7 Mubarak confirmed after talks with Shaikh Jabir that Egypt had agreed to join a planned Arab peacekeeping force in the Gulf .
8 The visit was Saw Maung 's first foreign trip since the SLORC takeover in September 1988 ; reports in February 1991 had claimed that Myanma had agreed to purchase a large arms package from China [ see p. 38005 ] .
9 It is only in the twentieth century that theorists have attempted to produce a version of democracy in which popular participation is treated with suspicion , if not regarded as positively undesirable .
10 There are also signs that CMHTs have begun to develop a range of operational practices which pragmatically limit their responsibilities from the ( usually over-ambitious ) remits which they are given .
11 Well people are not bound to lose , because some people do finish up ahead , but most people should expect to lose for the simple reason that bookies have got to make a living somehow , and therefore the odds that they offer to entice people to go in are such as to expect the bookie to make a profit , but that does n't mean to say that I am against the idea of people going in for gambling .
12 Bert returned , unfulfilled , and with a gaunt bitter look to him that Alice continued to feel as an improvement Bert asked where Jasper was ; Alice , as usual covering up , said that Jasper had decided to visit a brother .
13 By the time that Jimmy had considered making a run for it , it was too late .
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