Example sentences of "they have [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people are likely to judge the reforms on how long they have to wait for treatment — the issue behind the ‘ Jennifer 's ear ’ controversy during the election campaign . |
| 2 | They have gone through privatization and ceased being Civil Servants and gone out into the cold and now they are suffering this blow , so they do , I think , deserve the most generous possible treatment . |
| 3 | Inspector 's Report and the Council 's formal response to his recommendations will be published together after they have gone to committee . |
| 4 | From that moment they have gone from strength to strength and last year reached the final of the Pilkington Cup only to lose in extra time . |
| 5 | The crunch game came at the second hurdle when Sudbury toppled the mighty London Welsh at Moorsfield , after which they have gone from strength to strength , bolstered by a refreshing brand of running rugby . |
| 6 | To allow for this , there is a special tax form for retired people to reclaim any tax they have overpaid on investment income . |
| 7 | They have fallen with anger and sadness . |
| 8 | Rather there is an essential assumption of that basic face-to-face conversational context in which all humans acquire language , or as Lyons ( 1977a : 637-8 ) has put it rather more precisely : The grammaticalization and lexicalization of deixis is best understood in relation to what may be termed the canonical situation of utterance : this involves one-one , or one-many , signalling in the phonic medium along the vocal-auditory channel , with all the participants present in the same actual situation able to see one another and to perceive the associated non-vocal paralinguistic features of their utterances , and each assuming the role of sender and receiver in turn There is much in the structure of languages that can only be explained on the assumption that they have developed for communication in face-to-face interaction . |
| 9 | ICPIC gives access to details of global environmental legislation including case histories of other companies and the policies they have developed in response to environmental problems . |
| 10 | When confident awareness is not available to managers , they have to rely on intuition , judgement by analogy and the informed reports of other people . |
| 11 | In the absence of a minimum wage , many of our constituents earn such low wages that they have to resort to state benefits on top . |
| 12 | ‘ I think it has something to do with the word counselling ; people seem afraid of it — maybe it conjures up the wrong image — that they feel they 've failed in some way if they have to resort to counselling . |
| 13 | Or , if they do not , they have to take on trust the material that the New Historicist scholar-critic hands them . |
| 14 | In that obviously they have to take on board the views of their constituent districts . |
| 15 | Yet in fixing the allocations between departments , they have to take into consideration the policy of the government and what each department proposes to do with the money . |
| 16 | I congratulate my right hon. and hon. Friends on the positive case that they have made on behalf of the Labour party , especially for common environmental policies and for minimum social standards as proposed by the social charter , which has been agreed by 11 other countries . |
| 17 | On using the straws they often note and comment on the matchings they have made for colour and/or size . |
| 18 | Cos normally they are n't stitched , they have to heal by nature |
| 19 | The bonus each policyholder will actually get will depend on the reversionary ( or annual ) bonuses they have received to date on the with-profits element of their policies and will probably be paid out as part of the 1993 bonus distribution in February or March 1994 . |
| 20 | Under s16 of the Legal Aid Act 1988 , if the Legal Aid Board suffers a deficiency in respect of an assisted person 's proceedings ( ie they have paid more to the assisted person 's legal advisers than they have received by way of costs from the other side and from contributions paid ) the statutory charge may attach to money or property " recovered " or " preserved " that has been " in issue " in the course of proceedings . |
| 21 | Divide the weights of the fish they tell you about by three but more importantly listen to what they have to say about location . |
| 22 | What they have to say by way of appraisal has no effective force unless it is incorporated into the mediation process enacted by teachers and under their control . |
| 23 | The structure of the Pacific — its enormous , landless centre , its contorted and congested peripheries — is due entirely to the plates of which it is constructed and the manner in which they have moved in relation to each other . |
| 24 | And so they came to a negotiated settlement by which the Soviets agreed to withdraw the missiles and the United States promised that they would not interfere with Castro again , although from that day to this they have maintained of course their economic embargo . |
| 25 | And so they came to a negotiated settlement by which the Soviets agreed to withdraw the missiles and the United States promised that they would not interfere with Castro again , although from that day to this they have maintained of course their economic embargo . |
| 26 | But they have survived with equanimity and , indeed , with enhanced prestige . |
| 27 | The Conservatives have been concerned about what they have regarded as bias , especially left-wing bias , in the way issues have been presented to pupils by some teachers . |
| 28 | Whatever arguments there may be in favour of the independence of members of assemblies or parliaments , it is hard to see what they have to do with representation as it is commonly understood . |
| 29 | They have to do with programming : French culture and communications ministers in the 1980S protested at US cultural imperialism -thus , over five years , during prime-time viewing , French-made programmes were allegedly down by 30 percent and American-made programmes up by 60 percent ; France is battling to win ‘ la guerre des images ’ — star wars waged via the TV set . |
| 30 | They , they are going beyond what they have to do by law , and all credit to them for doing that . |