Example sentences of "[pron] they have [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inhabitants of ancient Mesopotamia had to contend with variations of climate , scorching winds , torrential rains , and devastating floods over which they had little control . |
| 2 | Much has been written about the pioneering spirit of the men and women who left their homelands in times of primitive travel facilities and poor communications , to settle on virgin land of which they had little or no knowledge . |
| 3 | From this change , it is said , followed another change , from prescribing as the cure more self-help and hard work among the poor , to recognition of the need for government intervention to support the poor in an economic situation over which they had little control ; from ‘ individualism ’ to ‘ collectivism ’ as it is often put . |
| 4 | In some areas , such as vision , what happens to the food they eat , explanations of day and night , shadows and plant growth , many children had well-established views which they had little difficulty in expressing . |
| 5 | Many teachers feel aggrieved at having ‘ taken the rap ’ for the introduction and implementation of theories and methods over which they had little control . |
| 6 | Even the National government and the Conservative Party leadership felt obliged to pay some attention to a movement with which they had little sympathy ; they frequently referred to pacifist feeling as a reason for slow rearmament and later for " appeasement " of Germany and Italy . |
| 7 | Taking the Gengshen Reforms as a sign that political reform was acceptable , they had tried to conduct campaigns along the lines of those in the western world , of which they had some limited knowledge . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Let me just it 's nothing special , it 's only a circle , but if you were to take that for a , as , as an example if you like as a picture of God 's purposes for us , you see the circle is , is , geometrical it 's , it 's , it 's perfect , there is nothing that is odd about it , there is nothing er , there 's no difference about it , it is perfect and that was God 's purpose and God 's plan for you and for me , that our , that our time , our being should be perfect in , in harmony with him , you think of all the things in your life personally , and then think of all the things in the , in the life of your com of our community , those things that mar it , those things that spoil it , those things that stop today be the perfect day for you that 's not God 's purpose for you they 've all come as a product , a direct result of sin , it was n't how God intended it , it was n't how God made it , his plan , his purpose for you and for me was to live and to dwell together with him in perfect harmony for ever , and there |
| 17 | I 'm not the only one they 've all got this cold have n't they ? |
| 18 | There 'd been a lot of changes under the malais , I 'll give them that , even if most of the development was for reasons of military necessity and accomplished , like the Japanese for whom they had more than a sneaking admiration , with forced-draft labour . |
| 19 | Like Maurice , with whom they had some affinities , Nevin and Schaff had a horror of party-spirit and sectarianism , and also of the individualism they found deeply entrenched in much American Protestantism , especially in the revivalist movements which came more and more to the fore through the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | Reagan was their great friend and ally , with whom they had this supposed special relationship and who shared Mrs Thatcher 's much-publicised belief that no deals of any kind should be made with terrorists or governments that supported terrorism . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | You build a bond up with them , so that they see you as a friend with whom they have this special relationship . |
| 23 | Yet it seemed to me they had much to learn when it came to manners and plain humanity . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | Between them they had many more divisions and better rockets than the West . |
| 26 | Far from helping the men help themselves to their rights , neither the Salvation Army nor the housing agencies told them they had any . |
| 27 | If they do take them they have little to gain by declaring the fact . |
| 28 | And now that was the attitude that that that they they had that er a lot of them , not not everybody of course that just and she had this attitude , erm anybody that had lost their baby were lucky , you see . |
| 29 | Yes but in Russia they they had this kind of framework before communism began |
| 30 | 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 . |