Example sentences of "[pron] they have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a move could provide the mechanism for Digital Equipment Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp to extricate themselves from OSF 's seemingly doomed operating system effort which they have each supported to the tune of tens of millions of dollars . |
| 2 | Or you could ask people to give their opinions of a subject on which they have strong views . |
| 3 | They are not aware of all such emissions , however , from all plants and other creatures — just those with which they have close ties . |
| 4 | A Tory economic strategy which rests on Sunday shopping , cable television and fun parks rests on people behaving in ways in which they have 110 need to at all . |
| 5 | The minimalist interpretation is too weak since it assumes that people are never bound by authority regarding issues on which they have firm views . |
| 6 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 7 | As people increasingly realise that decisions are being made which affect their daily lives , but over which they have little influence , they will demand more say — for themselves and for their elected representatives . |
| 8 | But by the age of 18 months children seem to have a relatively clear understanding of the actions over which they have direct control and the events in the material world which they can influence only indirectly via their actions or the actions of other people . |
| 9 | Disruptive behaviour can be reduced dramatically by schools concentrating on those factors over which they have direct control . |
| 10 | This can not be achieved by existing military contractors moving into civilian markets for which they have few skills , but by giving the market-oriented companies more access to ‘ front-line ’ technology . |
| 11 | The one is that the use of white-collar staff rather than blue-collar workers does not imply that the former are doing ‘ complete ’ jobs over which they have full control . |
| 12 | Transnational practices are , of course , abstract concepts , but they refer directly to the practices of agents and derive meaning from the institutional settings in which they occur , and because of which they have determinate effects . |
| 13 | In addition they choose from units which permit them to study those national and regional histories of which they have some prior knowledge , as well as less familiar societies and cultures , and from units in which the emphasis is on a particular aspect of or approach to history , for example , the history of the Origins of Modern Science , of Modern Political Thought or of Mass Communication and Society . |
| 14 | The actions of political forces and corporate bodies , within the resistant medium of social collectivities over which they have some influence but which they can not shape ex nihilo , may either conserve or transform in various ways the system of economic class relations . |
| 15 | Er in the meantime we we leave them erm er a list or a a sheet like or something similar to this , I have n't got one for at the moment , erm asking them to list out all those business with which they have some er may be some link up . |
| 16 | Most Africans had and still have just this one significant resource over which they have any control : their labour power and that of their children . |
| 17 | Other car makers will tell you they have similar projects on the drawing board , just waiting for management approval . |
| 18 | Consequently , they feel sensual desire only for women with whom they have few affectionate ties , and who are not highly esteemed by them , nor by others in their social circle . |
| 19 | The bulk of the remainder are held by companies who show a strong preference for holding the stock of companies with whom they have important trading connections . |
| 20 | Their views frequently are less innovative ( not necessarily in a pejorative sense ) than the next generation over whom they have considerable control . |
| 21 | You build a bond up with them , so that they see you as a friend with whom they have this special relationship . |
| 22 | Even Trollope has his abbey , although he despised both Disraeli 's challenge to Young England and his novels : ‘ To me they have all had the same flavour of paint and unreality … a feeling of stage properties … and that pricking of the conscience which must be the general accompaniment of paste diamonds . ’ |
| 23 | If they do take them they have little to gain by declaring the fact . |
| 24 | Between them they have 90 years of selling Remembrance Day poppies . |
| 25 | Between them they have seven children . |
| 26 | But that 's so quickly out of date again you see the good wood cos I mean they they have new government schemes , schemes every year do n't they ? |
| 27 | on Saturday and yet , that you have to be careful because they they have that I 've forgotten what her name was on on Wogan saying next time you go into a D I Y store and you see a mahogany toilet seat you know do n't boy buy it think of the forest . |