Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Mackay has treated claims that eligibility has substantially fallen as speculative . |
| 2 | What we would be dealing with are more of the implications , or this is how , for whatever reasons , it has come to pass that people write journalistic stories in this kind of way — might there not be other , better , more adequate ways of writing journalistic stories ? |
| 3 | Sir David said that in the last few days , the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , has written to say that NHS funds can not be used in this way . |
| 4 | The fact that this has occurred indicates that Marx 's and Engels 's original formulation probably does not do justice to the nature of power in a modern capitalist society . |
| 5 | A cynic will remember that research into the opinion-forming powers of newspapers has tended to conclude that readers expect to have their existing views confirmed . |
| 6 | While it has been demonstrated by the work of Piaget and others that , at primary school age , children 's understanding functions at the concrete operational stage , more recent research in primary history has tended to suggest that children 's " historical " thinking can be developed and encouraged by certain teaching techniques . |
| 7 | This essay has tried to show that money is an important part of the American political system and that its importance has been increasing . |
| 8 | Williams , Flew therefore claims , has failed to show that equality of opportunity entails even a prima facie commitment to equality of outcome . |
| 9 | Besides , I 'd began to think that Mala had been right . |
| 10 | But the army 's approach was already public knowledge when Gloucester advanced his claim to the throne , and the threat , as Mancini suggests , may have helped to ensure that Richard 's usurpation met no overt resistance . |
| 11 | But the army 's approach was already public knowledge when Gloucester advanced his claim to the throne , and the threat , as Mancini suggests , may have helped to ensure that Richard 's usurpation met no overt resistance . |
| 12 | If Belinda had been a more devious soul , she might have thought to suggest that Deana 's harping on the subject of Dr Russell spoke rather strongly of a crush on her side as well , but Belinda was n't devious , so she simply blushed even more and found on the desk in front of her a diabetic patient 's chart that suddenly needed her urgent attention . |
| 13 | It will not have escaped notice that minuses predominate towards the right hand side of the table . |
| 14 | But intuition used to be the favoured type of knowledge , and St Thomas Aquinas , for example , would never have allowed intuition to constitute a specifically feminine attribute , because it would have meant admitting that women were nearer God . |
| 15 | On the other hand , nobody could have failed to notice that Dr Dunstaple was in a state approaching nervous collapse . |
| 16 | The reader can not have failed to notice that J. A. Fodor is fast emerging here as the bête noire , in that he both presents the strongest case for the representational theory of the mind and champions the conclusion which flows from it about the impossibility of concept-learning . |
| 17 | I 've heard say that Grandad used to rise at five o'clock in the morning during summertime to water the garden , all carried by hand , of course . |
| 18 | Gainza had resigned claiming that agents from the United States Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) were intent on supplanting the Venezuelan police force in the fight against illegal drugs . |
| 19 | A little earlier the mother of Dr Neil 's surgery boy , who carried out the doctor 's errands on the bicycle which lived in the outhouse , had come to say that Eddie had broken his arm and would not be fit to carry out his duties . |
| 20 | At an early stage Edward III had come to realise that war was expensive and that his policy of subsidising princes to act in his interest against the French was not the way forward . |
| 21 | After fifteen years she had come to assume that Daniel had died in Auschwitz . |
| 22 | Growing up among the tough men of Cornwall , Harry had come to believe that popularity was all ; that it could be bought with success , and that success could be got by a closed fist and a big voice . |
| 23 | I wondered if she could see into my mind , and I did n't care , for during that one short walk I had come to believe that Lili would not harm me . |
| 24 | Scarlet , when aware that she was consciously asking her friend for advice and support , felt guilty , for she had come to believe that advice and support were commodities for which you paid professionals , rather as you paid prostitutes for love and bought your vegetables instead of growing them yourself . |
| 25 | Yusuf had written demanding that El Cid leave Valencia at once . |
| 26 | Mr Causeley at Jackson 's saying in his superior Southern style that people had written complaining that Machin had said ‘ bobbin-waggler ’ when he should have said ‘ throcket-shuttle ’ . |
| 27 | The report by Ramaphosa and others to Tambo said that Mrs Mandela had participated in the beatings of Stompie and other youths , and that the Crisis Committee had decided to demand that Mrs Mandela should produce Stompie and disband her private bodyguard , the so-called Mandela United Football Club . |
| 28 | But they 've got to realise that Rome was n't built in a day ! |
| 29 | You 've got to remember that David has a 20-year history of being a rock star , and he 's broken his word and come back from retirement about three times . |
| 30 | If you care about changing women 's lives you 've got to consider that Clare , you ca n't just throw Mrs Ramsay out — ’ |