Example sentences of "[verb] that they have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | unalterable conviction in favour of the adoption for our Palace of Administration of the revived national style — a style so characteristic of our own age it is beginning to be called Victorian — we protest against being obliged to tolerate an effete Palladian or mongrel Renaissance architecture to please those who wish to claim the merit of a breadth of view and of artistic sympathy by denying that they have any prejudices on the subject , one way or the other . |
| 2 | No official reason was given for McCreath and Winter leaving , but rumours suggest that they had tired of their peripheral roles within the band set-up . |
| 3 | Thus it is claimed that they have two important advantages over tricyclic and related antidepressants — they are better tolerated and are less toxic in overdose . |
| 4 | Revealing that they had cystic fibrosis at job interviews reduced likelihood of being employed for those with mild to moderate disease . |
| 5 | The monopolistic merchants found that they had insufficient capital to advance the loans required ; there was much evasion of the monopolies ; and the export trade itself was disrupted by the crown 's impressment of merchant shipping for war , and its political pressures on Flanders . |
| 6 | You mentioned the accounts of the Maxwell Charitable Trust as having five hundred thousand of assets , I saw those accounts for the first time the other day and I found that they had five hundred and one thousand of assets of which er five hundred thousand consisted of a a purely hypothetical transfer of an asset from a Liechtenstein trust to the U K trust and that asset had no valuation done on it as far as I can make out a and no reference to any valuation appeared in the accounts , so we actually had B I M apparently owned by a charitable trust on the face of it with figures of five hundred and one thousand of assets , but in practical accounting terms and valuation terms , no evidence that those five hundred and one thousand pounds er of assets had any valuation approaching that figure . |
| 7 | Conversely , the Profitboss accepts that they have greater skills in packing , driving and cleaning than him . |
| 8 | In the exams , as in professional life , students must demonstrate that they have versatile , enquiring , and analytical minds , and these are qualities that both training offices and tutors must foster . |
| 9 | Erm , I 'm just not sure why any any person would think that they have more right to life than animals do . |
| 10 | I do not think that they have any intention of using them — nor have the Russians — but the risk that , as the system disintegrates , people may simply sell off the smaller nuclear weapons is a real one . |
| 11 | During that two hours they realised that they had much in common . |
| 12 | Closer to them , it was possible to make out individual characteristics ; to see that they had trailing leaves instead of hair and huge , reaching branches instead of arms . |
| 13 | Both admitted that they had much in common with the Liberals , but both dreamt of political careers with the Conservatives . |
| 14 | Those who said they never revealed that they have cystic fibrosis were more likely to be employed ( 64% ( 110/172 ) v 53% ( 311/585 ) , difference 2.5% to 19% ) , than those who revealed their cystic fibrosis at job interviews , but the questionnaire did not ask about responses to confidential medical questionnaires . |
| 15 | Teachers in special schools are paid an additional allowance , but the small size of the schools and the move towards integrating children with special needs into ordinary schools mean that they have fewer prospects for promotion than teachers in mainstream schools . |
| 16 | The Hindus , he knew , at least refrained from eating pigs ( unlike the Chinese or the disgusting Christians of Byzantium ) , but he had heard that they had other habits the very thought of which made him swoon . |
| 17 | He believed that they had greater capacity to do so than previous generations and hence would be less in need of support from the state when they reached old-age — there was therefore no need to establish complex insurance machinery . |
| 18 | Some of the professionals believed that they had greater patience than their able-bodied colleagues , and often pointed out that their patients and clients had greater confidence in them and were more likely to take their advice . |
| 19 | Most of the disabled professionals believed that they had more knowledge of disability than their colleagues . |
| 20 | The Government will ensure that they have acceptable plans for achieving this ’ . |
| 21 | When a major confrontation is anticipated , counsellors should ensure that they have sufficient time available to pursue the matter fully , and at the end return to some reasonable level of mutual understanding . |
| 22 | As explained above , such students can usually complete the LLB ordinary programme within two years but , as they are not entitled to an SOED or LEA grant for this period , they must ensure that they have sufficient financial resources to cover the cost of their studies . |
| 23 | He says that they have little information to go on , so the search has to be very wide . |
| 24 | The extremely well-britched U2 are about to incur a few expenses as it would appear that they have half-inched some of the NME 's STUART BAILIE 's bon-mots . |
| 25 | And maybe somebody would come to your door and say their wee boy or their girl was making their first communion , and they were in dire straights and could n't buy anything for them , and you would more or less have to give them your book to help them out , but you would go with them so that they did n't go over the score and get just exactly what that wain needed , you know , and just hope that they had enough money to pay you at the end of the quarter , you know . |
| 26 | He by no means dismisses the claims of these poets , but gently and respectfully sets them aside — ‘ I do not feel that they have much part in this essay . |
| 27 | He also noted that they had narrow bodies , as the B.E.T . |
| 28 | Regan and Stewart ( 1982 ) had also earlier argued that they had insufficient legitimacy since members were neither elected or selected on the basis of expert knowledge , prerequisites of authority . |
| 29 | They are good educative examples of the search process , but it can be argued that they have little to do with practical intelligence . |
| 30 | Responsibility lies with the SROs , but it could be argued that they have insufficient resources to carry out this role , and should merely be ombudsmen ( although there is also some doubt as to their ability to act in this limited capacity given their degree of underfunding ) . |