Example sentences of "have [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 These days , of course , now that I am a grown woman , I would have little problem with saying I was feeling ill and suggesting we take a break for a few minutes .
2 If you already operate a conventional publications production system then you will have little problem in converting those existing skills onto the new technology .
3 Zeneca will have little problem in paying its whack , but for the residual ICI businesses problems clearly remain .
4 Unless she sees a local advertisement , she will have little knowledge of job opportunity and if she has moved into the district from elsewhere , she may have difficulty in assessing the employment prospects .
5 He will have little opportunity to stand back and examine the data in the cool light of the academic ‘ ivory tower ’ .
6 If he is , attack while he is rising because then he will have little opportunity to launch a powerful counter-attack .
7 The wife may be unable to get a job and may have little opportunity to work in the house especially if it is customary for servants to do all cooking and housework .
8 This is a skill which many pupils bring to the classroom but may have little opportunity to show .
9 The Germans use this model precisely because of their tradition of promoting people in their specialties , especially in research and engineering ; if they did not have available commands in near-independent subsidiaries to put people in , they would have little opportunity to train and test their most promising professionals .
10 It would seem , therefore , that the courts would have little opportunity to sentence in cases where proof of injury was not available .
11 It is certainly the case that a student with , say , a moderately good pass in A-level French may have little capacity for the responsive reading of French poetry .
12 They forecast that the Scottish white fish fleet of more than 600 boats will have little choice but to continue fishing for species such as cod and whiting , even though haddock will also be caught .
13 It was the British proposals which , as much as anything , stalled Scandinavian discussions on a Nordic common market , for if Britain was to be fortunate in its attempt to forge something beyond the Europe of the Six , the Nordic states would have little choice other than to follow the British lead .
14 But in David Souter 's court — and by no stretch of the imagination is this William Rehnquist 's court — whoever replaces Byron White will have little choice but to be a judge first , and a politician a very distant second .
15 But with banks and investors wary , the company may have little choice — unless , of course , Walt Disney once again comes to the rescue , as it did by deferring its management fee .
16 If firms exploit the escape clause , IG Metall may have little choice but to go along .
17 And this is of course , as if I agree with the view that you expressed yesterday in a general context , although it was made specifically then in relation to one village , any recommendation I make in relation to that village , if it is based on the general principle , must apply by analogy also to Skelton , and I would have little choice but to recommend to the councils that they may wish or indeed they should , reconsider this question of washing-over or insetting elsewhere .
18 It fears that local authorities will want to move residents to somewhere cheaper and that they will have little choice but to comply .
19 An anonymous reviewer of the book in the Times Literary Supplement declared : ‘ If a student of British politics were to demand some precepts to guide his researches , the compiler would have little difficulty about the first and most significant maxim in the creed .
20 Even if Swapo fails to get the two-thirds of the vote it needs to write its own constitution , it will have little difficulty in persuading one or another of the smaller parties to work with it .
21 But Mr Davies , who leaves behind a lower paid £85,000 at the commission , conceded he would have little difficulty in signing up for the business priorities agreed by the CBI 's governing council for the incoming government .
22 The Pizza Express National League champions should have little difficulty in beating Royal Leopold , of Belgium , today and Racing Club de France tomorrow , but face the holders , Uhlenhorst , in Sunday 's final group match .
23 Say the following sentences up to time and you may have little difficulty in including the missing words shown by the dots .
24 The former high class hurdler has not come off the bridle to record two effortless chasing victories and , although this is his stiffest task to date over fences , he should have little difficulty in completing the hat-trick .
25 In the past it had always been our view that irrespective of strengths the North Korean forces would have little difficulty in dealing effectively with the forces of South Korea should full scale hostilities break out .
26 But the worker who is able to achieve rapport with his or her clients , who is confident in his or her own sexuality and who is sufficiently knowledgeable about sex to be able to help will have little difficulty in broaching the subject .
27 When we come up to date with the recent rise of ‘ law and order ideology ’ encouraged by politicians of the Right , Marxists need have little difficulty perceiving whose interests are being served ( Hall et al. , 1979 ; Hall 1979 , 1990 ) .
28 unc Once you have learnt this method you will have little difficulty solving the following equation .
29 If you can learn how to handle the lecture you will have little difficulty when you come to meet seminars .
30 During your undergraduate studies you should have little difficulty in tracing the information that you need , since most will be contained in well-known textbooks .
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