Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The principal difficulty I have on this aspect of the case is that in Mr. Lester 's submission reference to Parliamentary material as an aid to interpretation of a statutory provision should be allowed only with leave of the court and where the court is satisfied that such a reference is justifiable : ( a ) to confirm the meaning of a provision as conveyed by the text , its object and purpose ; ( b ) to determine a meaning where the provision is ambiguous or obscure ; or ( c ) to determine the meaning where the ordinary meaning is manifestly absurd or unreasonable .
2 Mathematics was my subject , I was simply transferring what talents I had in that direction from one held to another . ’
3 Forget all the images you have of little plastic boxes and bored housewives .
4 We 've sold all the stock we had of pink rock ,
5 The skills of salesmanship and political demagogy are virtually the only methods we have for changing perception .
6 You know — right or wrong — the effect we have on each other .
7 ‘ Do n't underestimate the effect we have on each other .
8 Er I wanted you to maybe describe some more of the responsibilities and duties you had in that job .
9 Dr Nancy Harrison , RSPB marine policy officer , said : ‘ Any information about the use of gill nets and the effects they have on marine life , will help us to understand the true extent and nature of the problem , and to identify any trouble spots . ’
10 It is to the importance of this often underestimated ‘ Anglo-Saxon world ’ and the influence it had on English Nonconformity that we shall now turn .
11 This section , known as " the book of the covenant " , is the oldest record we have of Jewish law .
12 Obtaining frankness within families about the feelings and expectations they have of each other can be mutually beneficial .
13 Pearce could have done with more than the seven years he had at British Aerospace to achieve the kind of management culture he would have liked to have bequeathed to the company .
14 It bears the meaning it has in ordinary language : Lawrence & Pomroy ( 1971 ) 57 Cr App R 64 .
15 ‘ I thank God for all the freedom we have in this country , I cherish it — even the right to burn the flag [ boos from the audience ] .
16 Erm , I work for Scottish Women 's Football and the plans we have for this year erm , shall hopefully encourage more women to come into the sport .
17 In fact erm we have clearly in terms of the of the southern bypass is in place er and and also the A one , er there are two other schemes we do have in place so in terms of doing travel times and seeing er which is the quickest route we have to some extent er Well we rely upon the traffic model .
18 The final bit of luck we had on this job was while we were refinishing this table .
19 The first verbal description we have of this scene of Wagnerian grandeur dates from 1481 when William of Worcester ( despite his name a Bristolian born and bred ) described the camp on the Clifton side as ‘ founded before the time of William the Conqueror by Saracens or Jews or by one Ghyst a giant in the land . ’
20 Whatever national curriculum we have at secondary school , this curriculum will have consequences for primary school .
21 We 're taking a hundred and fifty odd thousand out from a budget we have for additional staffing , and we 're also taking
22 Ah , Elizabeth — what memories I have of that show .
23 Hey listen you see these er the stuff you have in that cupboard there , the hot press .
24 The higher your HDL level the less chance you have of developing heart disease .
25 So when we came to make the recording in Vienna I asked Strauss through a mutual friend we had at that time if I could use a fuller body of strings in the climaxes .
26 In fact , in this case the unit was out on a CDL trial with quite inadequate documentation — the only documentation we had at that time was such that we were frightened to show it to the teacher because we realized that it would ‘ finish him off ’ .
27 The basic figures we have for this emigration — 100,000 prisoners of war brought from Palestine into Egypt by Ptolemy I ( Aristeas 12–14 ) and 1,000,000 Jews in Egypt at the time of Philo ( in Flacc. 43 ) — are almost certainly both false .
28 Indeed , the evidence we have from cognitive psychology of the overwhelming predominance of the unconscious over the conscious parts of mental processes suggests that consciousness may be as peripheral to the central information processing activities of the brain as the whiteness of this paper is marginal to the semantic content of the words printed on it , which are telling you what I think about the mind .
29 I mean , one of the commonest things we have in this area is with the bogus officials who pretend to be something they 're not .
30 Frequently , moreover , there appears to be little concern that advice should be available to the teacher or headmaster , to ensure that he uses what few resources he has to best effect .
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