Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , that they have appropriated a look , a style , and imbued it with no more than a vacuous narcissism , a barbaric bricolage mirroring a generation lost cynical ironic gestures and strategies . |
| 2 | No , they have gone a bit cool towards her . |
| 3 | They have conducted a number of Antique Roadshows in different part of the diocese , and would be pleased to hear from parish secretaries who would like to the come to the parishes . |
| 4 | Animals also need to cope with the severity of winter , and they have developed a variety of ways of doing this . |
| 5 | Figure 3.4 At birth , herring gull chicks will peck equally at models of adult bills of either herring or laughing gulls ; but after seven days they have developed a preference for the model of the adult of their own species . |
| 6 | They have developed a bond with the Dragon Princes down the centuries which is now bred into their very spirit . |
| 7 | Forehand and McMahon ( 1981 ) have written a very helpful and detailed therapeutic account of how to help parents with non-compliant children , and they have developed a method of helping these parents through an activity they call the ‘ Child 's Game ’ . |
| 8 | IBM Corp has a less than impressive record in turning developments in its laboratories into commercial products , but perhaps that will change when an outsider is installed at the helm , and IBM researchers say they have developed a polymer film that can capture and hold vast amounts of data in the form of hologram images at speeds 100 to 1,000 times faster than current Winchester disk drives . |
| 9 | When you listen to one of the rather better Kylie records , they have taken a girl who does n't really have a great voice , who is an actress , and slowly they have developed a career where she actually now has a sound which is similar to some of the girly groups in the 60 ’ s , in a totally different way . |
| 10 | In pursuit of this goal they have developed a number of specialized techniques . |
| 11 | They have developed a means of cutting down the rate at which water passes through their systems and out through pores ( stomata ) in their leaves . |
| 12 | Mind you they have done a bit more to it since Wiggie 's been there in as much as she 's had a big curtain put across |
| 13 | However , although that enumeration may appear exhaustive , the ingenuity of the legislative institutions is such that they have adopted a number of other Acts outside those categories such as , for example , action programmes , codes of conduct , resolutions . |
| 14 | They believe they have adopted a model that offers hope to all the poor of El Salvador . |
| 15 | They have waged a campaign against Town . |
| 16 | They have converted a meadow into 30 " mini-meadows " of one square metre , each planted with grasses and plants . |
| 17 | There is a frisson between them as if they have discovered a game of role-playing which both find sexually stimulating . |
| 18 | The power of decision being committed by the statute exclusively to the housing authority , their exercise of the power can only be challenged before the courts on the strictly limited grounds ( i ) that their decision was vitiated by bias or procedural unfairness ; ( ii ) that they have reached a conclusion of fact which can be impugned on the principles set out in the speech of Lord Radcliffe in Edwards v. Bairstow [ 1956 ] A.C. 14 ; or ( iii ) that , in as far as they have exercised a discretion ( as they may require to do in considering questions of reasonableness under section 17(1) ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) ) , the exercise can be impugned on the principles set out in the judgment of Lord Greene M.R. in Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v. Wednesbury Corporation [ 1948 ] 1 K.B . |
| 19 | Usually they really believe this and do not accept that they have made a mistake . |
| 20 | If Hamer have sought to redesign this feature so that it looks better overall then I 'd suggest that they have made a mistake . |
| 21 | I know few people in my situation will admit they have made a mistake for rear of looking silly . |
| 22 | They can be bare records of numbers and events or they can be windows on a living school and most heads will be able to think of ways in which reports can be used to enrich governor perceptions , prompt good questions and solicit positive advice and support as soon as they have made a breakthrough into a sense of their responsibility for creating a favourable climate . |
| 23 | Detectives think they have made a breakthrough in their search for a college rapist . |
| 24 | When they re-emerge , a morning later , they have made a television set , a video recorder with space to insert cassettes , three appropriately sized cassettes labelled with the names of the programmes and three alternative pictures of ‘ scenes ’ from each cassette to fit the TV screen . |
| 25 | They have made a host of friends who will greatly miss them . |
| 26 | The supervisor can see from the depth gauge that they have made a seal , and contact between bell and supervisor would then be via a through water communications system . |
| 27 | ‘ They have turned a £14 billion surplus into a massive deficit . ’ |
| 28 | The kitemark and logo of the ACRG signify that successful students have completed a planned programme of studies involving at least 500 study hours by which they have achieved a level of attainment appropriate for admission to higher education . |
| 29 | Users often do not notice that they have miskeyed a word , and many systems do not make it clear why they have failed to find anything . |
| 30 | Indian friends have testified that they have witnessed a Cobra at night with its ‘ jewel ’ glowing , moving through the undergrowth In search of water . |