Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] have [pn reflx] " in BNC.

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1 Some manufacturers had themselves licensed as credit brokers , and in their advertisements offered INTEREST FREE CREDIT to any who purchased their goods — ‘ over a period of 12 months APR 0% ’ .
2 Each of the lower feeders had their own cropping techniques , and a general assumption can be made that such techniques had themselves a co-evolutionary impact on plants .
3 It is illuminating that much of Askwith 's article is devoted to Blakemore 's apparent surrender to these demands having himself ‘ invited most of Britain 's leading ophthalmologists ’ to bear witness to the clinical benefits of his work .
4 Some members of these families have themselves experienced school failure and rejection as children .
5 ‘ All those people are out there struggling to cope , and in many cases have themselves become abusers — they know no better , ’ she said .
6 Many torturers had themselves suffered physical or sexual abuse as children .
7 Graduates of Oxford and Cambridge predominated , and over 70 per cent of all masters had themselves attended HMC ( Headmasters ' Conference ) schools .
8 Many councils have themselves encouraged their growth — sometimes to avoid the implications of centrally imposed financial constraints and sometimes explicitly to make co-operation and partnerships with the voluntary and private sectors easier and less dependent on committee cycles and bureaucratic indecision .
9 The differences between those consequences have themselves varied over the years : the current position is set out at 15.11 .
10 If , as Lord Bruce of Donington points out ( letter , April 2 ) , the new Parliament will be presented with a Bill before most members have themselves been able to read the text of the treaty , this is presumably in the hope that they will railroad it through before the British presidency commences in June .
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