Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , as she so sweetly says , through her tears , to those who have over many years tried to gently persuade her to go straight away and live the rest of her life in comfort . |
| 2 | The manner and extent to which safety recommendations are followed up is an area where there is considerable room for improvement on the part of the many regulating authorities who have to some extent misjudged the degree of public anxiety on this subject . |
| 3 | lives or is that talking about they 've approached straight line that 's already there in heaven , in other words , the , the , you know that the understanding which I have it from this bible is er that seems to be suggesting that er that 's talking about apos the apostles ' lives before they died , our spiritual lives with brightest ones who have at that er point been made perfect by being prepared to go where they 're going |
| 4 | We may regret we live in a permissive society but I doubt whether even the most staunch defender of a better age would maintain that all or even most of those who have at one time or in one way or another been led astray morally have thereby become depraved or corrupt " . |
| 5 | To Tessa Pollard and Liane Saunders who have at various times voluntarily assisted with secretarial chores . |
| 6 | There are feelings of anger and resentment at being singled out by the disease , at being unable to achieve the control one fought so hard to obtain , at being forced to accept defeat , at being forced towards recovery by the sheer weight of consequences and sometimes by the final threats of others who have at last truly come to the end of their patience and understanding , at having to give up the " trusted friend " , at having to face up to issues one most wanted to forget and at having to make an inventory , admit one 's wrongs and make amends . |
| 7 | If it were possible to unfold the entire long history of the world 's religions in such a manner that it could be scrutinised , assimilated and judged in a single all-embracing operation , the verdict would be that it had strayed so far from the basic human need , and so far from the intentions of those good and sincere people who have throughout that history struggled to maintain its integrity , that it might well be condemned outright as a story of failure unmatched by anything else that has ever happened on earth . |
| 8 | There is a sense of which that good housekeeping with the inevitable consequences of government policy can be , can be in terms if you like , or benefits to the council tax payers , who have after all in a under the complete disaster of the poll tax which nobody but nobody in this chamber I suspect knew more unless there is at least one partisan tory who will try to save it , it was really a wonderful experiment and it 's a shame it did n't continue . |
| 9 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 10 | Marx , for one example , regarded class in capitalist society as a collection of persons who have in common a particular relationship to the means of production , namely , that of ownership or non-ownership . |
| 11 | Although a wide range of mutual aid groups are now available , involving reciprocal aid among people who have in common one particular type of life stress , members typically only discover or are discovered by the organisation some considerable time after the event ( Richardson and Goodman , 1983 ) . |
| 12 | A common national curriculum , then , is to be welcomed , and in itself it poses no threat to the Local Authorities , who have in any case been more concerned with the distribution of resources and the advising of schools on the presentation and delivery of the curriculum than with direct curricular decisions . |
| 13 | The Regional Council would like to thank the following organisations for their co-operation during the design and construction of the Gilmerton Bypass : and all others who have in any way contributed to this project . |