Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] have [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courts have themselves shown a willingness recently to subject the decisions of the police to the general principles developed in other areas of the law . |
| 2 | However , while the supermarkets first appeared to threaten traditional wine shops , the merchants have themselves adapted and thrived . |
| 3 | ( The Iraqis had themselves declared on Sept. 24 that Bush was to be put on trial in mid-October for war crimes against Palestinians through US co-operation with the " Zionist entity " and for killings in Panama and Grenada . ) |
| 4 | Subsection ( 2 ) is clearly an exception to the nemo dat principle , since the buyers were able to confer upon the sub-purchaser a title better than that which the buyers had themselves , namely , a title free from the sellers ’ lien and which therefore gave to the sub-purchaser the right to immediate possession . |
| 5 | But in some ways the universities have themselves been subject to a countervailing ‘ vocational drift ’ in the 1980s , as a result of both government pressure and student demand . |
| 6 | They met up and talked with the carpenters ' committee , who would have lent £3,000 out of their fund of £20,000 had they not been astonished to learn that the knitters had themselves no permanent fund " to answer any demand at any time " . |
| 7 | But because this ruled out all danger or adventure , Eternity became destructive to the spirit , and the bureaucrats had themselves to be destroyed . |
| 8 | respecting the provisions of the Legislature on this point and the manner in which these provisions have been eluded , as well as to point out the pecuniary advantages [ the system of bounties which the abolitionists had themselves promoted ] which would accrue to them from a vigorous enforcement of the Abolition Laws . |
| 9 | Spokeswoman Mrs Margaret Fick , one of 70 Second World War veterans who took part in the march , said the pensioners had themselves launched into ‘ Trojan ’ fundraising efforts . |
| 10 | The major reasons for a care order are that the children have themselves committed an offence , they are in need of care , protection and control , or they or another child of the same family have been victims of an offence or are in the same household as a person convicted of a serious offence such as manslaughter , cruelty or suchlike . |
| 11 | However , as many of the novelists have themselves pointed out , the presence of transgressive and subversive features could be shown to exist in their earlier works . |