Example sentences of "[vb past] they have [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However , as professionals they were not content to act as mere checkers , but felt that they had an obligation to express an opinion of the work they saw before them , and found they had an extraordinary agreement with the views of Burn , much to the resentment of other judges .
2 Provided that people in this country believed they had an honest system of government which dispensed even-handed justice , then there was no need to tamper with the law unless public order was threatened .
3 It seemed they had a mutual acquaintance in ‘ freelance , W. Dennis Suit , president of Overseas Press Services , whom Coleman had met as a ‘ consultant ’ to Pat Robertson 's Christian Broadcasting Network and with whom he had kept in touch , on DIA instructions , because of Suit 's involvement with Oliver North 's ragtag army of conmen , yahoos and armchair mercenaries from
4 Non-abusing parents — mainly women — in the majority of cases stated they had no prior knowledge of untoward sexual behaviour prior to investigation .
5 Graeme Stephens , John Moreland , Chris Bellis , Gordon Headley and Mike Travis played fictitious characters named Chris , Joe , Raimo , Norman and Tom , and , said Graeme , who is managing director of LASMO Colombia ; ‘ Our VIP group showed they had a fine sense of humour by entering into the fun , and no libel suits have surfaced yet ! ’
6 I went to Grenoble and discovered they had a small project on the outskirts , which had been a piece of wasteland ; they ploughed it all down , replanned it , had a complete new housing estate , hotel , the lot , in less than five years , where the City Council would be thinking about which bit of land to use , what to put there , how to do it , and ten years later they might think about producing a plan , and ten years after that ( that 's twenty years on ) something would appear .
7 All agreed they had a rough deal as their work often involved great pain .
8 This is all a far cry from the halcyon days of the mid 80s when investors almost felt they had a vested right to 20 per cent per annum plus returns on a year by year basis .
9 The National Council for the Aged in the Republic of Ireland reports that in a sample of schoolchildren 62 per cent felt they had a friendly relationship with older people in general .
10 He said that at the party conference , those who feared they had a weak leader , could take comfort from the belief that there was a strong man waiting in the wings to take over .
11 BRITISH Rail thought they had a new excuse for late trains yesterday — THIEVES on the line .
12 This has happened to the many theorists who thought they had a simple explanation for the confusion of thought which led to the surrender of judgment metaphor .
13 Why did they have a folding table for travelling or
14 Grant said they 've a nice flavour the pink ones !
15 Well the County made certificates for the Polytechnic phase two student hostels off John Garne Way , er that actually for phase one was about the last time they got an award at all , and er the panel were very pleased with those , they said they had a nice community feel , and yet the occupants had some privacy , they thought they , and they were pleased to see how well phase one had weathered as well .
16 My master said they had a splendid library , as well they might , but the only work I saw the nuns do was clever and intricate embroidery of curtains , cloths and napkins .
17 One of the things we did n't mention , deliberately , which I , I know Richard said they had a long debate about was child labour .
18 He said they had a big swimming pool with the house .
19 Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that
20 More than 85 per cent of 614 companies and organisations surveyed said they had a formal policy for counselling and retraining to help employees to survive the trauma of redundancy .
21 It was held that they had a sufficient interest but the Court of Appeal said they had no arguable ground .
22 Only 25% of Italians , for example , believed that they could influence national and local government , and 47% said they had no such influence .
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