Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO union officials at Timex were yesterday given a week to counter a claim that they have breached an interim interdict granted at the Court of Session earlier this month . |
| 2 | Once they have pasted a few posters in a Punjabi town , the instruction on them becomes law . |
| 3 | Then there are the poems of Persia and India that I love above all others ; they have gone the farthest and have been freest of the world 's gravity . |
| 4 | In other parts of Brazil , giant corporations exist alongside small peasant producers , with whom they have developed a complex inter-dependence , based on the supply of goods rather than labour . |
| 5 | They have developed a revolutionary new radar system , the Type 966 , which is fitted , or about to be fitted , to Invincible-class aircraft-carriers , the Type 42 Sheffield-class destroyers and the new Type 23 Norfolk-class frigates . |
| 6 | They have developed a sliding scale charge so that organisations can get together to take advantage of bulk ordering and so save them some of the administration expenses . |
| 7 | Parents become increasingly worried as they see their daughters putting on weight , and make suggestions about diets , and in Joanne 's case , fear they have developed a thyroid condition . |
| 8 | What makes her set-up different is that husband Roland is also an accountant with his own practice , and they have developed a symbiotic business relationship that allows both to work and share in organising the family . |
| 9 | With over 21 years ' expertise in conditioning , they have developed a light but protective 2 in 1 especially for frequently washed hair . |
| 10 | They have developed the pleasant habit of touching each other on the shoulder in time of trouble , as a sort of physical sympathy . |
| 11 | We have seen that by the time children start school they have developed the basic cognitive and linguistic abilities required for handling explanations in the empirical and intentional modes . |
| 12 | At the same time they have developed an agreed body of industry-wide procedures to regulate the risks both share ( Chambers 1990 ) . |
| 13 | They have developed an intensive 6-week pre-ski training programme ( £23 per session ) for all levels of fitness and skiing ability , specially designed and supervised in groups of up to six , featuring weight training , aerobic machines , flexibility and plyometrics . |
| 14 | Both men , in fact , were and still are , honestly convinced they have done a first-rate job . |
| 15 | When anyone suggests , as people will , that they have done a great thing for Anna , Tony and Christine are quick to reply that it has been a great thing , also , for them . |
| 16 | As early as 1707 Hugh , first Earl of Cholmondeley [ q.v. ] , was advised by a surveyor in London that the Smiths did a ‘ great deal of busness in the Contry and they have done a great deal of work thearabout & in Warwick you may easy hear of them ’ ; and when in the 1730s Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough [ q.v. ] , was building a house as far away as Wimbledon , Surrey , she stipulated that ‘ Mr. Smith of Warwickshire the Builder may be employed to make Contracts and to Measure the Work and to doe every thing in his Way that is necessary to Compleat the Work as far as the Distance he is at will give him leave to do . ’ |
| 17 | They have done a superb job . |
| 18 | If they last twenty years before being replaced they have done a good service . |
| 19 | But they know what the game is , and they know when they have done a good job : the rewards are tangible and clear . |
| 20 | They have done a wonderful job of creating crime , but they will still not recognise the link to which I have referred . |
| 21 | They have done a little bit of redecorating , such as in the hallway where they put up a pretty floral paper with a wide matching border at dado level , and hung an original time recorder clock , made in Leeds and bought from an antique shop in Leigh-on-Sea . |
| 22 | Students frequently say they have done the recommended reading , taken the necessary notes and reviewed all their materials , but still can not come up with a solution to the problem posed . |
| 23 | They have done the same thing to us as Ward did — they suspended us . |
| 24 | Having publicly committed themselves to extending legislation to protect residents in small private residential care homes , the Government left it to a Back-Bench Member to bring in a Bill , and they have done the same thing again . |
| 25 | Over the past year or so they have appointed a new captain , coach , and secretary . |
| 26 | Consistent with that policy they have adopted a supervisory structure that is common in professional counselling training . |
| 27 | They have adopted the same macho rhetoric which , until recently , was the sole preserve of the Tories . ’ |
| 28 | BETWEEN THEM THEY HAVE LANDED THE BIG FISH . |
| 29 | If they have an arrow in the gold they are paid two shillings ( no decimalisation here ) , if they have a hit in the red , blue or black they receive one shilling , but if they have hit the outer white the bowman has to pay one shilling into the pool . |
| 30 | Until now they have made a tidy profit from selling re-issued pop hits from the fifties , sixties and seventies . |