Example sentences of "have [vb pp] their [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ULSTER pensioners have given their answer to government proposals to accounts . |
| 2 | Schofield , who had threatened legal action to force Leeds to allow him to play for Manly in the close season , revealed : ‘ Manly have withdrawn their offer in view of the problems . ’ |
| 3 | In the remoter corners of water authority empires , which have had little more than a decade in which to professionalize themselves since their formation in 1974 , gangs of river maintenance staff inherited from the far less environmentally accountable river boards have guarded their independence from interference by senior central management within their own organizations . |
| 4 | This chapter looks at geomancy and the variety of ways , of which the magical approach is but one , in which people have modified their environment in order to achieve inner change . |
| 5 | They have earned their rest from work . |
| 6 | ‘ They have earned their money by building houses that have benefited people like themselves , ’ he says . |
| 7 | Some people have noticed their similarity to material distributed by Mr Round . |
| 8 | So by these and many more ingenious techniques , the anurans have minimised their dependence on moisture for mating and for hatching and rearing young . |
| 9 | by John Bailey Bream , once referred to as the matchman 's favourite fish , have seen their popularity amongst specialist anglers rise dramatically over the past few years . |
| 10 | Some music writers have equated it with dullness , while others have championed their lack of image and ordinariness . |
| 11 | Language understanding also involves being able to relate the information in successive sentences , which is why psycholinguists have turned their attention to discourse interpretation , that is , to the comprehension of whole passages rather than single sentences . |
| 12 | The fact that in recent years a very large number of children have had their work in art , music , drama and dance submitted for public examinations ( Vickerman , 1986 ) suggests that there are some compelling reasons why arts teachers seem to be willing to overcome their basic feelings of unease about this process . |
| 13 | What is happening is that women have shown their competence in practice and this has helped to change machista attitudes . |
| 14 | And if it is clear that they have exercised their right of choice , problems can still arise in determining what precisely they have chosen . |
| 15 | Where badgers have shouldered their way under sheep-fencing , look for dried earth or polishing on the wire , and for the odd loose guard hair . |
| 16 | Farmers too have played their part with distinction . |
| 17 | And for over 20 years those children have swallowed their Calpol without complaint . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think it is any surprise that some of our best swimmers , like Andrew Jameson , have reached their peak through training at an American college . ’ |
| 19 | Financial markets have demonstrated their lack of confidence in the monetary targetry embodied in the MTFS . |
| 20 | Once people like Carol have spent their money on rent , the poll tax and heating damp houses , Mr Holman explains , they have nothing left and hence there is no cash economy on which business and work can be based . |
| 21 | Undoubtedly LEAs have reassessed their stance on accountability issues as a result of the Auld Report , but at school level the impact of the national debate seems to have been erratic . |
| 22 | In this culture a soft feeble person is said to ‘ lack horns ’ : men who have proved their manhood in war and battle , as well as in their marriage beds , are entitled to sport ornately carved horns on their door-posts . |
| 23 | HongMid possibly thinks that , now that the Japanese banks have abandoned their role as lender of first resort and some of the borrowers are not the forces they were , global banking might make sense again . |
| 24 | MAI Systems Corp 's CLS Software Inc and Brooke Acquisition Corp units have followed their parent into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection . |
| 25 | ‘ Again , in the event that planning permission is granted , they have indicated their intention of tunnelling into the mountain from behind , at a point which is uninhabited and out of sight from the road at least ’ . |
| 26 | In war Willses have served their country on land , at sea and in the air . |
| 27 | Of course some are useful in identifying spies who would have otherwise gone on undetected but often this is not all it seems , as the Russians may have decided to expose one or two spies who have served their purpose in order to protect a more important one still at work . |
| 28 | The teacher and part time tutors have combined their work on reading , writing and numeracy skills with liaising between the students and external agencies . |
| 29 | The villagers have taken their case to Department of Transport officials in Manchester . |
| 30 | There has been a greater emphasis on cosmic perspectives generally — such as the ‘ panspermia ’ theory ( the notion that the ‘ seeds ’ of organic life drifted to Earth from outer space ) — to explain both the origin of life on Earth and the frequent recurrence of plagues and viruses which have taken their toll of life in the past . |