Example sentences of "[vb past] they have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as professionals they were not content to act as mere checkers , but felt that they had an obligation to express an opinion of the work they saw before them , and found they had an extraordinary agreement with the views of Burn , much to the resentment of other judges . |
| 2 | Provided that people in this country believed they had an honest system of government which dispensed even-handed justice , then there was no need to tamper with the law unless public order was threatened . |
| 3 | It seemed they had a mutual acquaintance in ‘ freelance , W. Dennis Suit , president of Overseas Press Services , whom Coleman had met as a ‘ consultant ’ to Pat Robertson 's Christian Broadcasting Network and with whom he had kept in touch , on DIA instructions , because of Suit 's involvement with Oliver North 's ragtag army of conmen , yahoos and armchair mercenaries from |
| 4 | Graeme Stephens , John Moreland , Chris Bellis , Gordon Headley and Mike Travis played fictitious characters named Chris , Joe , Raimo , Norman and Tom , and , said Graeme , who is managing director of LASMO Colombia ; ‘ Our VIP group showed they had a fine sense of humour by entering into the fun , and no libel suits have surfaced yet ! ’ |
| 5 | I went to Grenoble and discovered they had a small project on the outskirts , which had been a piece of wasteland ; they ploughed it all down , replanned it , had a complete new housing estate , hotel , the lot , in less than five years , where the City Council would be thinking about which bit of land to use , what to put there , how to do it , and ten years later they might think about producing a plan , and ten years after that ( that 's twenty years on ) something would appear . |
| 6 | All agreed they had a rough deal as their work often involved great pain . |
| 7 | This is all a far cry from the halcyon days of the mid 80s when investors almost felt they had a vested right to 20 per cent per annum plus returns on a year by year basis . |
| 8 | The National Council for the Aged in the Republic of Ireland reports that in a sample of schoolchildren 62 per cent felt they had a friendly relationship with older people in general . |
| 9 | He said that at the party conference , those who feared they had a weak leader , could take comfort from the belief that there was a strong man waiting in the wings to take over . |
| 10 | BRITISH Rail thought they had a new excuse for late trains yesterday — THIEVES on the line . |
| 11 | This has happened to the many theorists who thought they had a simple explanation for the confusion of thought which led to the surrender of judgment metaphor . |
| 12 | ‘ Funny place to have an office — I thought they had a main HO in Basle , thirty minutes down the autobahn from Freiburg . ’ |
| 13 | Why did they have a folding table for travelling or |
| 14 | Is it , did they have a large staff ? |
| 15 | Grant said they 've a nice flavour the pink ones ! |
| 16 | Well the County made certificates for the Polytechnic phase two student hostels off John Garne Way , er that actually for phase one was about the last time they got an award at all , and er the panel were very pleased with those , they said they had a nice community feel , and yet the occupants had some privacy , they thought they , and they were pleased to see how well phase one had weathered as well . |
| 17 | My master said they had a splendid library , as well they might , but the only work I saw the nuns do was clever and intricate embroidery of curtains , cloths and napkins . |
| 18 | One of the things we did n't mention , deliberately , which I , I know Richard said they had a long debate about was child labour . |
| 19 | He said they had a big swimming pool with the house . |
| 20 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 21 | More than 85 per cent of 614 companies and organisations surveyed said they had a formal policy for counselling and retraining to help employees to survive the trauma of redundancy . |
| 22 | They had they had a few minutes silence for him when he died down Framlingham . |