Example sentences of "they have [verb] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're not professional aerobatic pilots ; they have to earn a living like the rest of us . |
| 2 | They have conducted a number of Antique Roadshows in different part of the diocese , and would be pleased to hear from parish secretaries who would like to the come to the parishes . |
| 3 | Animals also need to cope with the severity of winter , and they have developed a variety of ways of doing this . |
| 4 | Figure 3.4 At birth , herring gull chicks will peck equally at models of adult bills of either herring or laughing gulls ; but after seven days they have developed a preference for the model of the adult of their own species . |
| 5 | They have developed a bond with the Dragon Princes down the centuries which is now bred into their very spirit . |
| 6 | Forehand and McMahon ( 1981 ) have written a very helpful and detailed therapeutic account of how to help parents with non-compliant children , and they have developed a method of helping these parents through an activity they call the ‘ Child 's Game ’ . |
| 7 | In pursuit of this goal they have developed a number of specialized techniques . |
| 8 | However , although that enumeration may appear exhaustive , the ingenuity of the legislative institutions is such that they have adopted a number of other Acts outside those categories such as , for example , action programmes , codes of conduct , resolutions . |
| 9 | They have waged a campaign against Town . |
| 10 | They have converted a meadow into 30 " mini-meadows " of one square metre , each planted with grasses and plants . |
| 11 | There is a frisson between them as if they have discovered a game of role-playing which both find sexually stimulating . |
| 12 | Married women with young children feel they have to take a job as well , jeopardising their family relationships . |
| 13 | I know few people in my situation will admit they have made a mistake for rear of looking silly . |
| 14 | They can be bare records of numbers and events or they can be windows on a living school and most heads will be able to think of ways in which reports can be used to enrich governor perceptions , prompt good questions and solicit positive advice and support as soon as they have made a breakthrough into a sense of their responsibility for creating a favourable climate . |
| 15 | Detectives think they have made a breakthrough in their search for a college rapist . |
| 16 | They have made a host of friends who will greatly miss them . |
| 17 | The large launches sent out to do the repairs cost £300 per hour to run and sometimes they have to do a couple of days steaming to attend . ’ |
| 18 | The kitemark and logo of the ACRG signify that successful students have completed a planned programme of studies involving at least 500 study hours by which they have achieved a level of attainment appropriate for admission to higher education . |
| 19 | Indian friends have testified that they have witnessed a Cobra at night with its ‘ jewel ’ glowing , moving through the undergrowth In search of water . |
| 20 | Aha , just as they thought , and they have kept a lookout for movement , a flash that reveals the enemy position . |
| 21 | They have analysed a form of arranged marriage which was practised in Taiwan . |
| 22 | All the national officers are held to account , they have to give a report of their activities and delegates can challenge them . |
| 23 | The corollary is that they have accepted a range of obligations to provide support for non-household kin . |
| 24 | If teachers regard themselves as professionally accountable to themselves and their colleagues then they have accepted a commitment to the maintenance and improvement of their practice . |
| 25 | With this , they have obtained a generalization of the above solution in the case when . |
| 26 | Candidates over twenty-five may be allowed to enrol if they have obtained a position of responsibility in a non-accounting career — that means that you wo n't necessarily need A-levels to do the course . |
| 27 | For most people , change of type or tenure of housing has been relatively infrequent once they have obtained a home of their own in either the owner-occupied or local authority sectors . |
| 28 | SIR — In addition to the problems encountered by Spanish researchers in finding a post in Spain after they have obtained a doctorate in another country ( see Nature 306 , 502 ; 1992 %and ; 361 , 578 ; 1993 ) , there is also the slowness of the procedure for obtaining recognition in their title . |
| 29 | Until now they have represented a mass of public opinion which is noisy rather than articulate , and more remarkable for its courage than its ability to coalesce as an organised force . |
| 30 | They have seen a lot of world now — Rome , London , New York and Paris — and like most girls of their age are not yet discontented with this necessarily tourist oriented relationship with the outside world . |