Example sentences of "the [adj] have [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally the wounded had to be got away first , but later that day a plane came back over the mountains , and we were lined up again , and told that we could take only a small amount of personal possessions . |
| 2 | " An increase is long overdue and would assist materially when the care for the deaf has to be presented at the top level , " is a lament from the BDDA 's annual report for the year 1954 . |
| 3 | It shows the appalling deprivation and human loss that Russians suffered during the Second World War and the difficulty that children of the thirties had in adjusting to life in post-war Russia . |
| 4 | Much of this would have been intended for re-export , rather than directly for consumption , but as half of England 's total exports by this time were re-exports rather than domestic products the commercial community suffered enough of a loss to show why the English had to be far more concerned about command of the sea than any other country except the Netherlands , and also how fragile that command was before 1700 . |
| 5 | The February and October revolutions seem to have had the same effect on the Russian colonists as the expulsion of the British had on the American colonists in the eighteenth century — a removal of all restraint on the ambitions to despoil native lands and assets . |
| 6 | ’ I never understand the sentimentality the British have for animals , ’ said Irina . |
| 7 | The vessels used by the French had to be brought from Marseille and Genoa . |
| 8 | The first , Phan Boi Chau , believed that the French had to be removed — and that this could only be achieved through armed struggle . |
| 9 | Gracey 's British Indian forces eventually totalled over twenty thousand men ; and by December 1945 the French had about the same number in Vietnam . |
| 10 | Recent surveys show a significant improvement in the opinion the French have of nuclear power , but also show that a small minority remains stubbornly opposed to it . |
| 11 | It 's interesting to note that , while the French and the English spend similar amounts of money on clothes , the French have by far the more stylist reputation . |
| 12 | It is difficult to exaggerate how many eggs the French have in the EC-German basket . |
| 13 | ( Sadly , there is not exactly equivalent expression in English ; the French have in mind businessman whose fingers seem to stick everywhere . ) |
| 14 | By the time that the OEEC Council agreed in October 1957 to set up the so-called Maudling Committee , named after Reginald Maudling who was appointed by the British premier , Harold Macmillan , in July 1957 to conduct the negotiations on Britain 's proposals for a wider free trade area , the Six had in a sense already passed the point of no return . |
| 15 | Maybe other industrialised Nations will affect European trade in the future , as the Japanese have over the last 10 years . |
| 16 | Before the irruption of reckless manslaughter Fenton Atkinson LJ in Stone & Dobinson , above , rejected the view that the accused had to be grossly negligent as to the likelihood of death or serious injury . |
| 17 | This offence occurs when the accused has with him a firearm , imitation firearm , weapon of offence , or explosive . |
| 18 | For these reasons , the Siamese has to be kept calm and healthy if it is to retain its beautiful sealpoint pattern . |
| 19 | The following have in the past been regarded as a natural user of land ; water installations in a house or flat , a fire in a domestic grate , burning stubble in the normal course of agriculture , electric wiring and gas pipes in a house or shop , the ordinary working of mines and minerals on land , erecting or pulling down houses or walls , trees whether planted or self-sown ( if not poisonous ) . |
| 20 | If the subordinate has to be so elaborately controlled the supervisor might just as well undertake the task . |
| 21 | The good has to be imposed from outside , it 's not , it 's not in human nature . |
| 22 | The evidence already cited on the worsening position of the poorest in the unemployment stakes suggests that these assumptions will lead to an underestimate of the difficulties the poor have in finding work . |
| 23 | Some of the injured had to be transferred to Middlesbrough General Hospital because no scanner was available at Darlington to assess the extent of their head injuries . |
| 24 | The latter had for the moment deserted him . |
| 25 | I now noted that the latter had on each hand only three fingers and a thumb , and only four toes on each foot , in the manner of the monkeys we had come across in another existence . |
| 26 | The latter had at first supported an agreement signed on Oct. 29 establishing a transitionary state prior to the creation of a third republic , but had then refused to participate in the " unity government " formed by Razanamasy in November [ see p. 38565 ] . |
| 27 | The latter has for many years been the preference of the majority of established practitioners : according to a recent Law Society survey , almost 75 per cent of solicitors in practice are equity partners in a firm . |
| 28 | And they have argued that , whilst feminism should indeed always have a critical relationship to psychoanalytic theory , the latter has within it the potential for allowing a better understanding of the complexities of human desires and of the psychological construction of ‘ masculinity ’ and ‘ femininity ’ . |
| 29 | The growth rate is modest , because Matisse was fully appreciated in the Seventies and the massive revaluations that were widely applied in the Eighties had in his case already happened . |
| 30 | Some analysts of the eighties have in effect , developed and modified these approaches in response to some of the criticisms made earlier , and to the changing features of political life . |