Example sentences of "they have [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From that moment they have gone from strength to strength and last year reached the final of the Pilkington Cup only to lose in extra time . |
| 2 | The crunch game came at the second hurdle when Sudbury toppled the mighty London Welsh at Moorsfield , after which they have gone from strength to strength , bolstered by a refreshing brand of running rugby . |
| 3 | Rather there is an essential assumption of that basic face-to-face conversational context in which all humans acquire language , or as Lyons ( 1977a : 637-8 ) has put it rather more precisely : The grammaticalization and lexicalization of deixis is best understood in relation to what may be termed the canonical situation of utterance : this involves one-one , or one-many , signalling in the phonic medium along the vocal-auditory channel , with all the participants present in the same actual situation able to see one another and to perceive the associated non-vocal paralinguistic features of their utterances , and each assuming the role of sender and receiver in turn There is much in the structure of languages that can only be explained on the assumption that they have developed for communication in face-to-face interaction . |
| 4 | ICPIC gives access to details of global environmental legislation including case histories of other companies and the policies they have developed in response to environmental problems . |
| 5 | I congratulate my right hon. and hon. Friends on the positive case that they have made on behalf of the Labour party , especially for common environmental policies and for minimum social standards as proposed by the social charter , which has been agreed by 11 other countries . |
| 6 | The bonus each policyholder will actually get will depend on the reversionary ( or annual ) bonuses they have received to date on the with-profits element of their policies and will probably be paid out as part of the 1993 bonus distribution in February or March 1994 . |
| 7 | Under s16 of the Legal Aid Act 1988 , if the Legal Aid Board suffers a deficiency in respect of an assisted person 's proceedings ( ie they have paid more to the assisted person 's legal advisers than they have received by way of costs from the other side and from contributions paid ) the statutory charge may attach to money or property " recovered " or " preserved " that has been " in issue " in the course of proceedings . |
| 8 | What they have to say by way of appraisal has no effective force unless it is incorporated into the mediation process enacted by teachers and under their control . |
| 9 | The structure of the Pacific — its enormous , landless centre , its contorted and congested peripheries — is due entirely to the plates of which it is constructed and the manner in which they have moved in relation to each other . |
| 10 | Whether they have appeared as part of the C. and A.G. 's audit is a moot point . |
| 11 | They have grown in importance in recent years as a way of financing trade , and in particular of tiding firms over the period from when they have to buy inputs to when they are able to sell the finished output . |
| 12 | Few of the youngsters will have been to a big match ; what they are emulating is what they have seen on television in shop windows and heard on their transistors . |
| 13 | We bury our noblemen there , except that they have to lie at present without coffins . |
| 14 | The owners of the major-league clubs ( they have increased in number from 26 to 28 with the creation of the Florida Marlins and the Colorado Rockies ) will also have to conclude a new contract with the players ' union . |
| 15 | I believe in treating clients like adults , otherwise you find they have reverted to childhood by the end of a trip . ’ |
| 16 | Many people have found it has helped to make a pact with a friend who is also giving up ; or they have asked for sponsorship from their friends , fellow office workers or family ( their support will be invaluable ) . |
| 17 | As we show on page 10 , brewers are refusing to pay for urgent repairs to their tenanted pubs which they have earmarked for conversion to leases because new leaseholders will have to carry that burden when they take over . |
| 18 | Many people who seek professional help for problems of depression , anxiety , stress , relationship difficulties and related issues have discovered the importance of problems they have experienced in connection with their parents . |
| 19 | These aim to foster planning and organising skills , to encourage cooperative working relationships and to enable students to evaluate what they have learned in relation to a residential experience in Europe . |
| 20 | I 've taken a look at three big names in DOS word processing — WordStar 7 , WordPerfect 5.1 and Q&A 4 — to see what they have to offer in comparison with their much-hyped Windows brethren . |
| 21 | ‘ We understand they have found in favour of us and the other UK producers , ’ said a spokesman for Kemira . |
| 22 | ‘ We understand they have found in favour of us and the other UK producers , ’ said a spokesman for Kemira . |
| 23 | ‘ We understand they have found in favour of us and the other UK producers , ’ said a spokesman for Kemira . |
| 24 | Most of it they have left as moorland on which they keep sheep . |
| 25 | And the massive Independent Television outside broadcast unit ensemble helped to make it a busy day at Horsted Keynes with the Bluebell already geared up that day for the official launch of the Southern Q1 they have restored on behalf of the National Railway Museum . |
| 26 | Above all , they have to keep in touch with each other so that they and their students can develop this new profession in a co-ordinated and systematic way . |
| 27 | Having reached a consensus on the shape of the interim administration , which is to steer the country to full democracy , and what that democracy should look like , they have come under pressure from the others involved in the stalled multi-party discussions about South Africa 's future . |
| 28 | They have worked for change within it by , for example , the formation of feminist groups of health workers and professionals , campaigns for more woman-centred services , promoting equal opportunity policies for employees and campaigns to protect abortion rights . |
| 29 | Like other responsible , Labour-controlled local authorities in Wales , they have worked in partnership with the Welsh Office , the Welsh Development Agency , the European Commission and in this case the development corporation . |
| 30 | In other words , NVQs give recognition to people for putting what they have learnt into practice at work . |