Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one scene which for months she had tried resolutely to put out of her mind , that last meeting in the staffroom , the circle of implacable faces , brown , black and white , the accusing eyes , the insistent questions . |
| 2 | It 's a blow to University students who 've had to cancel performances they 've worked hard to produce . |
| 3 | In the past 12 months he has improved immensely to become one of the best in the world and to confirm Imran 's earlier forecasts . |
| 4 | Those local education authorities which have begun seriously to seek a place in the curriculum of their schools for locally-used languages have in many cases to be content with providing their own in-service training on a relatively ad hoc basis . |
| 5 | The consortium du jour is the brand new SGML Open , a group of electronic distribution , authoring and database software companies which have banded together to push SGML ( Standard Generalised Markup Language ) as an international and commercial standard for document and data interchange . |
| 6 | The guide gives plenty of encouragement to groups who 've got together to keep the rights of way open to everyone . |
| 7 | Within a few days she had recovered enough to play practice chukkas , going straight into fast polo as though she 'd played it all her life . |
| 8 | Predominantly a coastal bird , where it can usually been seen in large flocks from now until spring , in recent years it has spread inland to breed . |
| 9 | He lay awake in the big double bed where for sixteen years he had striven desperately to create the heirs to inherit his many rich acres , but there had been no children . |
| 10 | So imagine how you would feel if someone breaks into your new home and destroys or steals the very things you are proud of , the things you have worked hard to buy . |
| 11 | His voice was slurred and she wondered just how many brandies he had had tonight to cure him of his frustration . |
| 12 | The DSD levies , which up to now have been based on the size of the package , are due to rise sharply in the autumn , and will be higher on the materials which have proved hardest to recycle , especially plastic . |
| 13 | Much of this is uncontroversial in principle , but the failure to disclose the report was a severe setback in the evolution of inquiry procedures which has taken long to heal . |
| 14 | But between the caution of a Brierley or a Spalvins and the reckless aggression of Bond , there is a middle group of antipodean entrepreneurs who have borrowed heavily to expand but for whom the expansion has so far paid off . |
| 15 | But it is no surprise that one of the men who has done least to promote peace is Mr Hussein . |
| 16 | There are men who have been in prison for ten years and more for claiming their liberty ; men who have slipped away to struggle overseas ; men who have escaped to Europe to carry on the fight there — they are hounded and they are imprisoned , but their views are heard . |
| 17 | Walker ( 1975 ) has noted that mature students who did not satisfy the GER obtained significantly better degree results than all students while mature students who satisfied the GER did not differ significantly from the norm , and in seeking an explanation for this he points to the fact that those who did not satisfy the GER are on average somewhat older and can be seen as genuine returners , rather than students who have taken longer to meet the traditional qualifications . |