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

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1 Their victim says she 's delighted that they 've received long sentences .
2 They assume that when a child hears ‘ Two twos are four , two threes are six ’ that they 've got various pictures in their heads , various ideas onto which to attach these symbols and these words .
3 And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it !
4 ‘ And also , when you meet them , they 're exactly the same people — it 's just that they 've got different accents .
5 There are other signs that might lead you to believe that there 's things not as they might be , the legs may not be equal length particularly if only one is dislocated and that 's fairly obvious is n't it because the , the , the ball joint 's not in the socket and there 's a bigger gap so the leg hangs down longer and you 've all changed a baby have n't you and you see that they 've got little creases in the insides of their legs and across their buttocks , and those creases may not be a mirror matching they are normally , so those are clues .
6 I mean the Bradford Dukes always win at Bradford because I 've heard on the grapevine , not from me , that they 've got little bumps round the bends and they fill them in and only the Bradford riders know whereabouts they are , so they skirt round them .
7 They surrendered at Rome airport on Aug. 30 after receiving assurances they would not be deported to Ethiopia , where they claimed that they had suffered political persecution .
8 In mid-October a breakthrough seemed imminent after senior trade officials from Canada , the EC , Japan and the USA , meeting in Ontario on Oct. 17-18 , claimed that they had made substantial progress in resolving the deadlock ( responsible for the suspension of an earlier round of talks between US and EC officials in Brussels on Oct. 11-12 ) .
9 Controversy over the recent securities scandal [ see pp. 38913 ; 38967 ; 39008 ; 39053 ; 39099 ] intensified after three foreign banks implicated in the affair admitted , in evidence before a joint parliamentary committee investigating the scandal [ see p. 39053 ] , that they had contravened Indian banking regulations .
10 Pascoe did n't ask about the people , but he guessed that they had grown angry waiting for the debt to be paid .
11 Other UN inspectors in Baghdad have extended their stay beyond the planned departure yesterday , after saying that they had gathered fresh information on Iraq 's ballistic missile programme .
12 Sjahrir complained to President Truman that they had reimposed Dutch rule .
13 At breakfast together Fisher exploded and attacked the Church Union and all that it stood for and said that they had done great harm and ought to apologize .
14 At the time , some people believed that the drug had changed their lives immeasurably , that they had gained profound insights into the human condition , but , by and large , the major impact of LSD was cultural .
15 Last night Jersey detectives confirmed that they had interviewed 54-year-old Nancy at her South London home .
16 There was no reversal of policy : Nkrumah had been right in assessing their relative positions on Africa , only now the Tories were out to show that they had shed pre-war Conservatism .
17 that they had had insufficient feedback ;
18 as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here .
19 When Henry VIII dismissed three of these gentlemen and various other household officials in 1519 , the Venetian ambassador commented that they had had great authority and had been the ‘ very soul ’ of the King .
20 But where the uproar has come from is from people who have thought that they had got binding court agreements .
21 With their large rate base and relative remoteness from ratepayers the White Paper argued that they had pursued unrealistic spending policies .
22 Fleischmann and Pons claimed that they had produced net power output from this approach at levels that would potentially solve the world 's energy needs .
23 These purchase notice provisions are restricted to owner occupiers of houses and small businesses who can show that they have made reasonable attempts to sell their property but have found it impossible to do so except at a substantially depreciated price because of certain defined planning actions .
24 The available for work condition is interpreted to mean immediately available , and women have to demonstrate that they have made adequate arrangements for the care of dependants .
25 Will the Minister confirm that the present Government have introduced higher taxes than any other Government , and that they have increased national insurance contributions for those on average and low pay by a massive 40 per cent ?
26 In the past I have come across complaints from editors that they have received old material .
27 They suddenly realize that they have become obedient parents and that a tyrannical toddler is effectively ‘ running ’ the household .
28 However , while Moscow has not possessed de jure foreign bases since the mid 1950s it has obtained at times such extensive control over certain installations that they have resembled extraterritorial enclaves and de facto bases .
29 It was argued earlier that man , a creature with unprepossessing qualities for higher social development , became capable of that development because of traumatic social changes which occurred in the past but whose impact was so immense that they have shaped human nature down to the present and have been the determining influences on the evolution of culture , whose function , by and large , is the transmission of the consequences of these primal , traumatic experiences to subsequent generations in the form of ego , and , most especially , superego , development .
30 It may be that they have developed new sensitivities to foods , or that they are becoming chemical-sensitive .
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