Example sentences of "the [noun] have [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JUST AS the calculator has produced its own brand of innumeracy , so the word-processor is generating its own style of illiteracy . |
| 2 | The writer has to give it these things to make it real for the reader . |
| 3 | But he says the case has cost him more than that . |
| 4 | Small businesses struggling to beat the recession have adopted their own version of the exchange rate mechanism to stay out of the red . |
| 5 | The University has completed its own survey ( through consultants ) of the backlog of repair and maintenance of university buildings , and has reviewed the level of funding which might reasonably be put towards the backlog in addition to its customary allocation for repairs and maintenance . |
| 6 | The miller down the ages has made his own peculiar contribution to the low esteem in which he was held . |
| 7 | The Duchess has started her own charity aimed at children in need , particularly in Bosnia . |
| 8 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 9 | Historical and sociological studies of the curriculum have shown us that school subjects are not simply rationally selected for explicit educational aims but are reflections of larger social and political forces . |
| 10 | The secretaries have got it this time , and we are just left at the bottom of the ladder again . |
| 11 | The H2-antagonists have had their own complications . |
| 12 | Pogo 's production is expansive and clear , especially on the slower , more serious ‘ Bad Person ’ , and the rappers have devised their own slang , too , so repeated listening is encouraged . |
| 13 | It 's arguable that the industry has done itself more damage by its inflated claims than anything else , because they spared people like Rifkin into action . |
| 14 | She tried , bitterly , to resist this fatal colouring ; she tried to reduce the trip to words upon a notice board ; but the mind had gone its own way , and she could not force it back into its grey and natal landscape . |
| 15 | ‘ The catch in this heaven , ’ she went on , ‘ is that the brain has only got so much dopamine to offer , and once the cocaine has used it all up , then that 's the end of the pleasure . |
| 16 | I think the time has probably passed now , all the schools have got their own budgets , they 've got their own builders who are giving them a good service , and I doubt whether this is the time to resurrect that , especially with local government review not far off , and the future of a county-wide D S O in some doubt , when it comes to local government review . |
| 17 | In a field which is continually changing , the trainers have to keep their own interpreting skills up to date and their knowledge of the services in which they are training students to work and continually improve their understanding of the cognitive and linguistic processes which underpin those skills . |
| 18 | 7.3 What is required is a purpose designed method of reporting incidents of violence and the Department has developed its own report form . |
| 19 | The rest I 've put in the gutter off the path and of course the wind 's blown them all back off again . |
| 20 | The car has made it that way and it would be almost impossible for public transport to knit it together in the way that the railways did in the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | The pound has found its own level and if the UK continues to creep out of the recession with a stronger pound , anything is possible . |
| 22 | ‘ I must confess the fire at the manor has caused me some problems , ’ admitted Christian . |
| 23 | And now the stroke has affected him that way . |
| 24 | Because there had been a recent spate of thefts from boats in the area the Club had formed its own teams of vigilantes who patrolled the moorings and by chance one of these noted down the camper 's registration number . |
| 25 | The authors have added their own glosses on and redefinitions of some statements of attainment . |
| 26 | The speakers have chosen their own topics , based on their own interests and enthusiasms , and it is important that they convey their zest for the subject to an audience , preferably establishing at the outset that the subject deserves the audience 's attention . |
| 27 | The Faculty has established its own computer network and provides facilities for students to wordprocess their work . |
| 28 | The sport has given him all this , and could take him from it in an instant . |
| 29 | The other problem we faced , which was the most serious , was that the management had created their own trade union . |
| 30 | He rejected the argument that the defendants had done something more by refraining from setting up certain answers to the claim permitted by the Dubai law ; as a matter of policy it was never their intention to do so and ‘ It is no consideration to refrain from a course of action which it was never intended to pursue ; see Cook v. Wright ( 1861 ) 1 B. & ss. 559 , 589 , ( above , p. 214 ) . ’ |