Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the most powerful of the British pressure groups tend to have an established relationship with one or other political party . |
| 2 | There are a number of reasons why meetings tend to have a poor reputation . |
| 3 | Supermarkets , including Tesco 's store in Banbury and the Co-Op in Kidlington , were also found to be selling ham , which experts say had a high risk of food poisoning . |
| 4 | Classical periods of literature are judged severely since they represent a moment of complacent self-satisfaction in which the movement of history is artificially suspended , in which social formations and institutions appear to have a permanent position in a fixed , hierarchical structure . |
| 5 | Peer groups appear to have a dynamic role , the function and influence of which shifts across adolescence . |
| 6 | The emphasis is again on a parent-child partnership and sessions tend to have a special theme . |
| 7 | Boys from unskilled , working-class homes tend to have the hardest time ; at 11 years , 36 per cent were beaten with an implement by the father , the mother or both . |
| 8 | Drivers tend to have a nasty habit of cutting corners without a thought for the cyclist on the inside . |
| 9 | ‘ Diesel car drivers tend to have an ideal profile for insurance companies , ’ says Rod Alcorn , the motivating force behind the launch of the new policy . |
| 10 | In practice processions appear to have a favoured place providing there is no actual obstruction , that they are peaceful and that police directions are observed ( see Hirst v. Chief Constable of West Yorks ( C.A. , 1986 ) ) . |
| 11 | The evidence available shows that school provision could have a marked impact on the way in which special needs arise , and can be met ; yet schools appear to have no clear view on what provision is the most effective . |
| 12 | As Durkheim and others have tried to demonstrate , these relationships seem to have an independent existence over and above the individuals who compose them . |
| 13 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 14 | ‘ In fact , you 'll soon find out that three square meals a day is hardly scratching the surface — most kids seem to have an ever-open stomach . ’ |
| 15 | So those animals do have a raw deal ! |
| 16 | If so , bearing in mind that intention in this context is not the same as motive and that the tort may be committed without any ill will towards the plaintiff , it is likely to be a rare case in which A's words have had a causative effect on B's conduct and yet A escapes liability on the ground that they were only ‘ advice . ’ |
| 17 | The rest of the Peachtree side have had a mixed time . |
| 18 | To my knowledge , such considerations have had a major influence on the circumstances of many other homeless people in West Yorkshire and elsewhere . |
| 19 | In this time it seems that all other areas of the Lakes have had a new guide , and some of them two . |
| 20 | Pesticides have had a damaging effect on a lot of wildlife , including birds of prey , but for some reason this does n't seem to have affected barn owls as much as the sparrowhawk and peregrine populations . |
| 21 | Both counsellors and clients need to have a real understanding of what constitutes counselling . |
| 22 | Counter-insurgency and its attendant covert and intelligence aspects have had an inordinate degree of latitude and influence on policy in Ulster partly because the Westminster cabinet and parliament are incredibly ignorant of the region and have been well content if the English politicians and Whitehall civil servants who administer it from the Northern Ireland Office at Stormont Castle succeeded in preventing its problems from impinging on the affairs of the mainland . |
| 23 | I think science has always been characterised by periods when particular subjects have had an enormous outburst of activity , and we 're seeing that with erm immunology at the present time . |
| 24 | THE Republic of Ireland expect to have a full strength team out on Wednesday , they expect to beat Lithuania and they expect to be in the USA for next summer 's World Cup finals . |
| 25 | ‘ Denmark seem to have the easier run-in and they have already beaten Spain in Copenhagen , ’ said Charlton . |
| 26 | Whether one applies the older notion of a trend from less to more specialized or the newer concept of a trend from an r-to a K-selected adaptive strategy ( ecologists seem to have a love-hate relationship towards r and K selection ( Dawkins , 1981 ) ) , the phyletically younger organisms would have become progressively more vulnerable to environmental disturbance . |
| 27 | Although some Roman keys do have a vertical bow , keys from the Saxon and medieval periods rarely employ a horizontal bow . |
| 28 | And for another , it 's about the only one that England do have a vague chance of winning . |
| 29 | Droning Dot and nurdish Nigel do have the odd laugh , but there 's never been a character who you could call easy going and game for a laugh . |
| 30 | Droning Dot and nurdish Nigel do have the odd laugh , but there 's never been a character who you could call easy going and game for a laugh . |