Example sentences of "they have [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I need to know who your customers are , what orders they have placed in the past and why they no longer wish to trade with you . |
| 2 | ‘ Dear God , we beseech ye , visit the reactive wrath of their own foulness upon those nasty wee buggers in the Khmer Rouge in general , and upon their torturers , and their leader Pol Pot , in particular ; may each iota of pain they have inflicted on the people of their country — heathen or not — rebound upon their central nervous system with all the agony they originally inflicted upon their victims . |
| 3 | But they have gone through an experience of doubt which has purged them forever of the desire to doubt without finding an answer . |
| 4 | It is a touching scene that every parent can immediately identify with because they have gone through the same ritual with their own children . |
| 5 | After they have gone to the ball , Cinderella , with a giggle , picks up her broom and gives it the same lesson , using it as a partner . |
| 6 | In a lifetime they have gone from a self-assured majority to a beleaguered minority , strangely distanced from the city that has grown up around them . |
| 7 | The model is developed from research they have conducted into the relationship between job characteristics , motivation , and job satisfaction . |
| 8 | Three times in succession they have fallen in the semi-finals , and Beenhakker 's departure became a formality when they were thrashed 5-0 by Milan at San Siro last season . |
| 9 | It is estimated that they have fallen from a peak of £62 a square foot to £38 . |
| 10 | They have waited in an unattractive waiting room for long periods and by the time they reach a counter are at breaking-point . |
| 11 | They have to notify before the send animals and there are spot checks . |
| 12 | They make their own glazes from finely ground rocks to recipes that they have developed over the years . |
| 13 | There are two broad sets of problems to be considered : first , the political impact of the working-class movement in capitalist societies as they have developed since the late nineteenth century ; and second , the political systems that emerged from revolutions carried out under the banner of Marxism as ‘ proletarian revolutions ’ , in Russia , China and other countries . |
| 14 | They have their own search company which they have developed as a service business . |
| 15 | From then on they have developed as an almost necessary part of Church life . |
| 16 | After ten years in a department working , for example , on housing , the fact that one man 's undergraduate degree was in philosophy and another 's in sociology will make little or no difference ; what will matter is the capacity and experience they have developed at the task . |
| 17 | What liaison they have developed with the special schools , the day centres , or the general service fieldwork teams of the Social Service Department is conducted on an informal basis . |
| 18 | ‘ War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions , when they have developed to a certain stage , between classes , nations , states , or political groups , and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes . ’ |
| 19 | They have developed into an oligarchy , most interested in their own affairs … |
| 20 | In Shark Bay , on the northwest coast of tropical Australia , they have developed in a particularly spectacular and significant form . |
| 21 | As we have attempted in our previous books on further education succinctly to summarize the chief characteristics of the polytechnics , we intend therefore to restrict ourselves to a discussion of the ways in which they have developed in the three years since the first edition of this book was written . |
| 22 | Individual colleges and institutes vary both according to the proportion of advanced work which they provide and also the types of courses which they offer , depending partly on the nature of the institutions which went to make them up and partly on the way in which they have developed in the past few years . |
| 23 | Ethologists have followed Darwin in their prime concern with the evolution of species and the various forms of physical and behavioural adaptation that they have developed in the process of competing for survival . |
| 24 | By retaining the link between finance and accounting , local politicians are forced to bear some of the cost of their programmes in the annual taxes that they have to levy in the short run . |
| 25 | They are the ultimate jugglers , but they have to manage without the help of disposable nappies , supermarkets and freezers . |
| 26 | For example , some governments would probably not have spent as much on telecommunications as they have done without the stimulus of a foreign-dominated export sector that produces hard-currency earnings , and the expectation that such facilities , however expensive , would attract even more companies . |
| 27 | They 're asked to make two still images showing what the townspeople might be feeling at this moment — first , about their success in getting the railway to the town , and secondly , about what they have done to the old man , who is now homeless . |
| 28 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
| 29 | Nothing guarantees that the Americans and Russians will go on supplying it as they have done for the past couple of years . |
| 30 | People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past . |