Example sentences of "they have [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | In this respect , the French government is right to have made the Minister of Culture also Minister of Education ( although whether they have done it for the right reasons , and with the right man is another matter ) . |
2 | Kangaroos have the same need to move rapidly , but they have done it in a different way . |
3 | Whatever men and women have been interested in , concerned about , preoccupied with , either in the line of duty or on the domestic and recreational fronts , they have communicated it in letters , notes , diaries , journals , files , log books and the like . |
4 | But they have to take it as a fact , and it is a fact which prevents them from envisaging our liquidation . " |
5 | He then says that Caesar does n't seem to let his emotions speak more than his reason , but ( this is the next six or seven lines ) when ambitious young people are starting out , at the bottom of the heap , they are humble and look up with awe , but once they have made it to the top , they scorn all those below them , who have helped them to get there . |
6 | They have received it in the shape of detailed educational theory carefully worked out to see them through the maturation process from infancy to adulthood . |
7 | With characteristic business acumen , the Swiss spas saw the renaissance of the classical water therapy on the way , beckoning all sections of society , and they have turned it to good account . |
8 | The château was empty , almost derelict , and they have turned it into a small hotel and restaurant . |
9 | They have roughed it around the world ever since , at an age when most people would be content with a game of bowls at Eastbourne . |
10 | A well-established tradition holds owners to be morally entitled to their property where they have obtained it by way of an uncoerced transfer from someone who received it in a similar manner , subject to the property having been originally taken into private ownership by a legitimate process of acquisition . |
11 | There are , of course , civil and legal reasons for this , but it also serves the purpose of confirming to the person that their relative has actually died because they have seen it for themselves , the proof is before them . |
12 | They have seen it as an arrangement whereby some gain at the expense of others . |
13 | Because they could n't meet c could n't meet what they were previously doing they have altered it in such a way as to make it easy to achieve . |
14 | They have treated it as a cheap option , giving workers a minimum training and offering them the minimum resources and telling them to get on with it — basically because that 's good enough for the poor . |
15 | The quest for knowledge and the assumption of the limitless power of rationality have shaped our civilization ; above all , they have imbued it with its optimistic view of life . |
16 | Yeah , yes , but there there 's got ta come a time when they have to test it on human beings . |
17 | At some point in its development it has to create more organized political groups , or convert or capture existing political organizations , which are able to engage directly in a struggle for power and have the capacity to use power when they have gained it in order to reconstruct society . |
18 | It is surprising how few students realize the full potential of simple diatonic harmony , even after they have studied it at school and university . |
19 | Horses soon get used to electric fencing if introduced to it sensibly ; once they have touched it with their noses and realised the outcome they will stay well clear . . |
20 | Instead , they have explained it in terms of political conflict over the programmes of central government ( particularly after the election of a Conservative government in 1979 ) or longer-term central-local tensions , in which the centre is concerned to minimize the pressure generated by the existence of local political autonomy . |
21 | The trade unionists have learnt the lesson ; they have taken it to heart . |
22 | Erm that in fact er whether it 's been on board accurately by the report er or not is , is a matter for er question , but it was something that they bore in mind when they where reaching their conclusion , so they believe that they have taken it into account . |
23 | We need to see that they have taken it into account . |
24 | Well they 're only supposed to read one erm they get one on a Monday they take this back on Monday , they have to read it for teacher then they get another one Monday night |
25 | They have to run it as a business now . |
26 | And they have to fit it into their diary . |
27 | They have put it to the test and found it true . |
28 | I think the problem is , that at the moment sex education is so arbitrary and it varies from school to school and from house to house I think they have to make it like a core part of the curriculum , make it compulsory and make it uniform throughout the country , so everybody 's getting the same education , the same quality I think that 'll help . |
29 | They have exempted it from public expenditure cuts because they see it as an investment for the future . |
30 | But instead of filtering food from huge quantities of water they have to extract it from a mass of indigestible vegetable matter . |