Example sentences of "[prep] they have [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For all the familiarity of Degas ' bronze ballet-dancers , racehorses and nudes , the big questions about them have remained unanswered , even unasked ; when exactly were they made ?
2 In New York alone Christie 's and Sotheby 's between them have mustered eleven oil paintings , thirteen drawings , two bronzes , seventeen prints , six illustrated books , two watercolours and a collage .
3 In their assumption of systematically traceable content , either reflected or mediated , they have considerable common ground , and between them have produced much valuable work .
4 Many of them have done excellent work in the past .
5 Almost half of them have experience of the joys of a threesome , while more of them have seen live sex shows than men in other categories .
6 Here the regionals started with the advantage of not being as bloated as the big banks in the first place , and most of them have stayed that way .
7 As the Party has grown and recruited more articulate and able activists , a number of the old ‘ war-horses ’ have been put out to grass and , quite naturally , some of them have resented this .
8 As you know , the two of them have become good friends , and are going on a long holiday together .
9 Within the new Germany , many of them have become frightened .
10 Nobody will deny that these are complex issues , and that the difficulties surrounding some of them have caused earlier efforts to bring about reform to founder .
11 Both of them have made important progress under the British Presidency which ends on December 31 .
12 This alteration was observed in the patient 's mother and maternal grandmother ( lanes 5 and 1 , respectively ) , who are obligate carriers as both of them have had affected sons .
13 By the same token , I can not help wondering what will be the result of a survey among half the 2,500 members of the British Psychological Society to establish how many of them have had sexual relations with their clients .
14 Some of them have posited underlying mechanisms of language change to account for this ; some have been more interested in relating it to social realities , treating language as a sort of cultural key rather than as a self-contained system with its own particular dynamic ; others have seen it as their main task to suggest linguistic reforms that will modify or eliminate offensive usages .
15 Some of them have spent more terms in schools than others — which must be borne in mind when looking at the position of an individual pupil — but all those factors even out in the local authorities .
16 And Carl sa I was speaking to Carl today and he said , well surely , you know the three of them have weighed that up ?
17 Incidentally , Michael Land reckons that there are nine basic principles for image-forming that eyes use , and that most of them have evolved many times independently .
18 provided all all of them have got that one in .
19 Yeah worth switching on anyway , quite a few of them have got these er carriages in ?
20 But the thing is that now , I mean now that most of them have got some sort of house , an' there 's food an' money around , they know they 're better off but , honest , they know they 've got nothin' as well .
21 So some of them have got both sides , some of them have got a mixture .
22 Well yeah and there 's a couple of factors , one is a good they may er er some of them have got more power , yeah ?
23 Right , okay , what we 're saying here is that the mum and the dad are normal people , they do n't have any problems , but they have got each of them have got abnormal gene and they 're going to have a family , the first baby that they have gets two normal genes , one from each parent , you only get one gene from each parent , fuses so that makes two genes so the baby has two genes , right , the first baby gets two normal genes , right and that baby is normal , which is very clear right , so here we have written this baby is not P K U affected and is normal and does n't actually carry the gene any more , does that make sense to you ?
24 With them have gone much of the outrageously condescending theorising expressed by professionals such as Watney Mann 's head designer Roy Wilson-Smith , who declared in the early 70s :
25 well , I was disappointed when it showed the league table they were n't even in the top six , but they 're seventh , huh but there 's two , two teams above them have played one more game than them , but then
26 In literature , though there are still cases of artisanal and distributive post-artisanal relations , productive post-artisanal relations have long been dominant , and important internal changes within them have taken much publishing into a later market phase .
27 In between they have experienced all sorts of eccentric people and weird events .
28 Open consideration of sexual matters and casual reference to them have become possible to an extent which would have been unthinkable as little as a generation ago and which might have led to criminal — or lunacy — proceedings at the beginning of the century .
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