Example sentences of "they have [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And they 've also agreed that any alteration of the plan will be referred back to this Council for their consideration .
2 is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them .
3 Well they 've they 've obviously varied and most of them are economic based .
4 about how many copies where they 've actually gone that that is some that is sent out to all school 's and quite considerable numbers are sent out .
5 Drivers tended to recall situations which they had previously rated as risky .
6 But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated .
7 They had rather hoped that political questions would take up at least as much time as trade problems during this week 's visit to Japan .
8 It is a dramatic change in attitude by the Germans , for they had repeatedly stressed that domestic competitions would take priority over international events .
9 They had not realized that this had happened .
10 Those Muslims who were out on the streets looked bad-tempered : they had not eaten or drunk since before dawn , and were in no mood for smiles or pleasantries .
11 The group who face the most difficulty getting adequately trained are women doctors , and they made their voices heard at the conference despite the organisers admitting with startling candour that they had not anticipated that this issue would arise .
12 Where the returns from criminal work had been too limited to support more than a small number of firms , they had now increased while other firms felt under economic threat .
13 Subjects heard sentences from four different sets , in random order , and after a distractor task , were given a forced-choice recognition test in which they were given both sentences they had originally heard and new sentences which were constructed either by combining information from within a set , or combining information from different sets .
14 They had all made that shrill moan during their funny parties , and by the time of Gary 's birth , Mary had come to recognise them for what they were — satanic incantations .
15 If the parliamentary debates here have aligned Christians against Muslims they have also proved that both sides appreciate the need for change .
16 They have also shown that 60 per cent of the energy released from fossil fuels is wasted .
17 They have repeatedly stated that all prisoners in Tibet are ‘ criminals ’ who have broken the law and the constitution .
18 Difficulties arise when individuals are asked to develop , qualities which they do not possess or which they have previously dismissed as irrelevant or not worth possessing .
19 Harlow should of applied for a designation a long time ago if Harlow had been designated then surrounding councils would have had to live up their responsibilities to provide adequate sites for travellers which they have not done and successive governments have also failed to apply the caravan sites act nineteen sixty eight adequately .
20 If they have since discovered that this contact can be fulfilling and life-enhancing — and this is certainly not always the case — it is because they have benefited from the broader range of experiences which this contact has offered .
21 Unfortunately they went back to their bad old ways during the autumn in the championship , but they have now regained that hungry look which can only spell trouble for their rivals .
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