Example sentences of "[noun sg] have about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zimbabwe 's elevation has about it a pronounced aroma of political engineering . |
| 2 | The ground resolution of a TM image is such that a pixel has about a 30 m side , which seems appropriate for the scale of analysis used . |
| 3 | General Giap had about the same number of soldiers , but these were reinforced by para-military elements . |
| 4 | The other has about him a ring of nostalgic failure ; in his time everything was good , but it ended in failure both personally ( for Fróthi was killed ) and ideologically ( for Fróda 's son returned to the bad old ways of revenge and hatred , scorning peace-initiatives and even apparently his own desires ) . |
| 5 | In expressing the view that he felt he was n't making a large contribution to the activities of the Commission , he also requested some guidance on what his role should be or what view the Commission had about his role . |
| 6 | My aunt had about a month to live . |
| 7 | We must distinguish the belief that a speaker has about the words he is using from the belief that he is using those words to express . |
| 8 | The society has about 1 , members across the Northern Ireland , people from all walks of life with a common interest in learning about preserving architecture of value . |
| 9 | Amongst those who were Conservative or Labour before the campaign , press bias had about a 6 per cent effect ; amongst those who originally had an Alliance preference it had a 23 per cent effect ; while amongst those who were originally undecided it had a 28 per cent effect — measuring all these effects in terms of the Conservative lead over Labour ( Table 8.14 ) . |
| 10 | For this purpose the current research project has about ECU6 million to spend over a period of two and a half years . |
| 11 | It is quite easy to see , intuitively , that a crack is a nasty dangerous thing to have about the house but it is by no means so obvious that a step can cause a bad stress concentration . |
| 12 | After 10 years of follow up those in the highest grades of employment had about one third the mortality of those in the lowest grades . |
| 13 | Attitudes are a statement of a position an individual has about an object , an event , a person or a belief . |
| 14 | The police officer has about that much space to operate in . |
| 15 | English has about the same lix level as the Nordic languages and this enabled Bjornsson to compare Scandinavian newspapers with those from English-speaking countries . |
| 16 | He wished he had n't spotted it as it made him think of this morning and going round the house in Hill View Road , and the idea his Mum and Dad had about moving . |
| 17 | Well we 've talked mostly about various difficulties that bona fide complainants in the public have about the insurance company , what about the other way around ? |
| 18 | First , there is the information which the client has about the accident . |
| 19 | The Oxford region has about one hundred and forty of the nine hundred cases nationally , and general manager Bob Nichols says they certainly would n't seek to settle out of court . |
| 20 | I do not wish to know how to bring up my children , what view to have about drug addicts , how much Shakespeare should be taught in comprehensive schools or how much I must marvel at the achievements of members of the Commonwealth countries . |
| 21 | The guy had about one brain cell and he was doing time in it . |
| 22 | The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture . |