Example sentences of "the [noun] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had acquired his confidence , which I believe I still retain , but for a number of reasons which were quasi-political we drifted apart towards the end of his second premiership , and although we have remained on friendly terms , the intimacy has long vanished . |
| 2 | Indeed , the French envoy de Craon knew more , claiming the Prince had told him about Lady Eleanor 's death long before the porter had even reached Woodstock . |
| 3 | On Oct. 15 , 1989 , a controversial retrial of 15 Islamic extremists ( who had been associates of Bouiali-see above ) was abandoned after the defence had successfully argued that a regional court was not competent to try their case following the Supreme Court 's refusal to do so . |
| 4 | The defence has also succeeded where the employee was under no pressure to take a particular risk but deliberately chose a dangerous method of working . |
| 5 | And appearing only for the defence has always seemed too easy an option . |
| 6 | The Commission 's other research findings — that much of forensic science is far from certain , capable of misinterpretation and relies upon the defence to draw out its limitations — only add to the need for the defence to have already access to real defence experts . |
| 7 | If the income has already borne tax at the basic rate relief will be given for that charge . |
| 8 | When they left the following day , the eastern end of the park had already begun to fill with tattered bivouacs and shelters of thorn and tarpaulin . |
| 9 | Those opposing the park have recently resurrected an old but powerful paranoia : the ‘ internationalisation ’ of the Amazon ( see BBC WILDLIFE , July 1990 , p483 ) . |
| 10 | The majority had therefore experienced secure employment for relatively long periods of time . |
| 11 | Yet the undecorated vessels were given a variety of titles , despite the majority having also come from cemeteries ; biconical and globular vessels were labelled ‘ urns ’ , squat vessels as ‘ plain bowls ’ , and a variety of shapes that could not be fitted easily into the typological scheme were labelled domestic wares , ‘ crude accessories ’ , ‘ wide-mouthed cook-pots ’ and ‘ cook-pots with lugs ’ ( ibid. , pp. 26–9 , pp. 148–70 ) . |
| 12 | Work on the stand has already begun and the club are hoping to extend the plans to include seven executive boxes and a press box . |
| 13 | She had tried , but the rehearsals had gradually taken on the menace of trials of endurance . |
| 14 | But yesterday , in a one-day series which the Pakistanis had already lost , umpires Ken Palmer and John Hampshire became concerned with the state of the ball . |
| 15 | The experts have only to accept that the joint sessions also used groups of models kitted-out for each occasion by Rembrandt from his well stocked theatrical wardrobe and used them for painting as well as for drawing , to come to realize that their efforts over the last seventy years have been largely misdirected . |
| 16 | Under the plan , L&H 's 629 former partners are being asked to pay back over $40m over the next 10 years , with some partners ' personal assessments totalling as much as $400,000. 475 partners are thought to have approved the plan , but the remainder have either expressed their intention to appeal or have declared themselves personally bankrupt . |
| 17 | Enveloped by the cloak , it was impossible to tell if it was male or female , but the worshipper had evidently finished praying . |
| 18 | Does the stairway have securely fitted bannisters and handrails ? |
| 19 | For the first time , the Tretyakov has openly pleaded poverty . |
| 20 | Now the hotel , the railway , and the labourers had all gone . |
| 21 | ‘ The link has never failed . |
| 22 | Bur the Prince had already turned away . |
| 23 | He was a great expert , founder of the arboretum at Westonbirt nearby , and he filled every vista with a dazzling display of ornamental and specimen trees , which the Prince has since added to . |
| 24 | But the Prince has always enjoyed flirting with danger , like his cousin , Prince William of Gloucester , who was killed in a plane crash in 1972 . |
| 25 | ‘ I doubt the prince has really noticed me . ’ |
| 26 | Since then , the population has more than doubled to 300,000 ( see BBC WILDLIFE , February 1989 ) , but the RDC has never used its compulsory control powers . |
| 27 | US intelligence reports of ‘ northern redoubts ’ where Cuban advisers have been training the militia and storing arms and ammunition could also mean a far longer military operation than the Pentagon had originally envisaged . |
| 28 | Still , the Pentagon has yet to bite the bullet and recently awarded $419 million in contracts to Westinghouse and ITT Avionics Division , which have developed the system , to build the first 100 production models for installation in the aircraft . |
| 29 | Further , the nature of the coverage has dramatically shifted . |
| 30 | The Lord of the Manor had apparently lied to us . |