Example sentences of "they have [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a lifetime they have gone from a self-assured majority to a beleaguered minority , strangely distanced from the city that has grown up around them . |
| 2 | They have waited in an unattractive waiting room for long periods and by the time they reach a counter are at breaking-point . |
| 3 | There are two broad sets of problems to be considered : first , the political impact of the working-class movement in capitalist societies as they have developed since the late nineteenth century ; and second , the political systems that emerged from revolutions carried out under the banner of Marxism as ‘ proletarian revolutions ’ , in Russia , China and other countries . |
| 4 | What liaison they have developed with the special schools , the day centres , or the general service fieldwork teams of the Social Service Department is conducted on an informal basis . |
| 5 | ‘ War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions , when they have developed to a certain stage , between classes , nations , states , or political groups , and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes . ’ |
| 6 | Individual colleges and institutes vary both according to the proportion of advanced work which they provide and also the types of courses which they offer , depending partly on the nature of the institutions which went to make them up and partly on the way in which they have developed in the past few years . |
| 7 | By retaining the link between finance and accounting , local politicians are forced to bear some of the cost of their programmes in the annual taxes that they have to levy in the short run . |
| 8 | They 're asked to make two still images showing what the townspeople might be feeling at this moment — first , about their success in getting the railway to the town , and secondly , about what they have done to the old man , who is now homeless . |
| 9 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
| 10 | Nothing guarantees that the Americans and Russians will go on supplying it as they have done for the past couple of years . |
| 11 | People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past . |
| 12 | They tend , as they have done for the past fifty years , to respond to the events of the day without projecting forward the effects of their policies for the necessary 18–24 months . |
| 13 | I remind him that there are examples of states coming together — as they have done in the Common Market — but then having to co-exist so closely that they can not stand the sight of one another and begin to fall apart . |
| 14 | I wonder how many of them will fill their pages tomorrow or the day after in the way they have done in the past few weeks . |
| 15 | While we have had our differences with the Government about the interim advisory committee and the way in which it has worked , it might be worthwhile at this stage , in what might be our final debate on the work of the interim advisory committee , to thank its members for the work that they have done in the past few years . |
| 16 | But just as they have done throughout the past three years , we find the Opposition spokesmen contradicting each other . |
| 17 | Their small eyes and poor eyesight , combined with their often murky environment , means they have to rely on a short-range echolocation system to find food . |
| 18 | To achieve their objective , they have to rely on the efficient working of the price mechanism such that prices give them the appropriate ‘ signals ’ . |
| 19 | Female crickets can be trained to walk along a ‘ Y-maze ’ ( Figure 8.2 ) , on which they have to turn to the left or right . |
| 20 | Mr Diplexcito , his wife and three daughters have fought a rearguard action for the past two years to stop their cottage at Spittalburn , where they have lived for the past 17 years , being buried by earthworks . |
| 21 | But , since glasnost , they have lived in a different world . |
| 22 | Wherever such arrangements have been attempted , they have led to the growing realisation that segregation does not provide a balanced solution for both traffic and environmental problems . |
| 23 | But , as they have discovered over the past year , tied agents can be expensive and difficult groups of people to do business with . |
| 24 | Like their aquatic counterparts they have to take in a great deal of substance to supply their energy needs . |
| 25 | Besides , the variations in the pattern and emphasis of such courses seem to have grown up largely pragmatically , as a function of the organizational ‘ discretion ’ that both institutions and academics have in responding to the needs , pressures and priorities they have perceived over a long period of time . |
| 26 | The modifications they have made to the rear suspension have made the bike much better . ’ |
| 27 | Students will be asked to identify the contribution of residential experience to their own personal and social development and to identify the contribution which they have made to the residential experience . |
| 28 | Wendy , who is also a keep fit specialist , is overwhelmed by her new pupils ' enthusiasm and thrilled at the progress they have made in a short time . |
| 29 | The instructions and authority they have received from the interim government are not instructions and authority from the Government of the Republic . |
| 30 | Unlike the damaged narcissists , with their compensations of spurious glory or morbidly melodramatized misery , the new pop workers want attention not for themselves , not for their make-believe world , but for what they have to say about the outside world . |