Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun pl] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could we arrange for such offenders to have a sound thrashing ? |
| 2 | ‘ Accepted this recommendation while emphasizing that the estimates for the precise amount of plutonium in the fuel discharge from an individual nuclear power station in any one year has a marginal uncertainty of around plus or minus five percent , and the aggregate total of such estimates has a margin of uncertainty of around plus or minus ’ |
| 3 | Assume also that each of these states has a probability of 0.5 . |
| 4 | The supporters from three of these teams have a history of violence ; in Cairo , riot police are nearly always on hand , and even referees need protection from death threats . |
| 5 | Such research has shown that one group of these creatures had a brain very like that of the living lamprey . |
| 6 | She arrives , convincingly , at a much more positive — for the women in question — interpretation ; but also one which allows the writings and lives of these women to have a depth and dimension for us which was simply not available in many cases while we insisted on trying to see them as sexual victims of appalling restrictions of personal freedom : to see them as though they were us . |
| 7 | This is a good argument as it stands but one can well imagine that it would have been pressed in terms of these hopefuls having a right to be paid if they succeeded . |
| 8 | One of these men had a wife and family , and only joined the Powis Square circle when he was on a spree . |
| 9 | However , they are well recognised in children with extrahepatic portal hypertension and almost half of these patients have a history of previous surgery . |
| 10 | ‘ After delivery , the drop in the level of these hormones has a rebound effect on the immune system , which could trigger the disease , ’ he says . |
| 11 | Many of these trainees had a drugs problem . |
| 12 | At the same time , it will return a missing sense of dignity which citizens of all ages have a right to enjoy . |
| 13 | Consumes of all ages have a right to reasonable protection against the sale of faulty goods and , of course , against fraud . |
| 14 | 80 per cent of all delegates have a hotel lunch and all had refreshments during the day in the form of tea and/or coffee . |
| 15 | There are 3.5 million women and 2.5 million men caring , with 19 per cent of all households having a dependant in need of care . |
| 16 | The number of radio licences rose from two to eight million between 1926 and 1939 with 71 per cent of all households having a wireless by the Second World War . |
| 17 | No similar difference was noted in primary schools where two thirds of all schools had a health policy whether or not one existed at regional level . |
| 18 | Mergers with a Community dimension are defined as those where the parties have an aggregate turnover in excess of ECU 5 bn , and where at least two of those parties have a Community turnover greater than ECU 250 m . |
| 19 | Each one of those pulses has a carrier frequency of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of cycles per second . |
| 20 | Walking through the village on any racing day one would hear conversation like , " What do you know today Fred " and the reply would bring forth such words of wisdom as " Watch Richards in the 2.30 " , or " Back top weight " for these men had a language of their own and in the evening , meeting over a pint the locals would discuss the downfall of the favourite or starting prices and often the first greeting one would get on opening the door of the bar was " How did you get on today " Tich " " , and often the reply was " First and second , Fred " . |
| 21 | This may seem like a fairly trivial point to make as all behaviours have a beginning and end — even sitting still doing nothing . |
| 22 | To reiterate the point just made , this is not an argument about the functional necessity for all societies to have a category of ‘ crime ’ but an argument about the positive qualities of what happens to be defined as crime under capitalism ; indeed , the argument is usually combined with the assumption that under socialism there would be no such thing as crime . |
| 23 | David Beskine of the RA said ‘ This is not private land but open moorland over which the public has for many years had a right to roam . |
| 24 | The peer group makes decisions in a democratic way , with all owners having a say in the final decision . |
| 25 | The occupier of the land on which the chattel is found may in some cases have a title superior to that of the finder . |
| 26 | Certain ones of them , for instance the Brazilians may not be taking an awful lot of notice , or may not apparently be taking an awful lot of notice at the moment , but I think the pressure is on , and that things are changing , and more and more countries are going towards policies that will in fact support , sustained yield production and timber from the forests , and the reservation of the forests for that purpose , erm I mean in many countries have a policy where they just let tribal institutes use the raw material , and the forest is not reserved , and it 's not looked after . |
| 27 | It is also worth noting that patients with active chronic duodenitis in both groups had a total of 20 of 25 duodenal ulcers ( 80% ) diagnosed in all patients ( χ 2 =15.38 , p<0.001 v patients without active duodenitis ) . |
| 28 | Even the songs they sang on such occasions had a defiance in them , always remembering of course they had a drink in them at the time . |
| 29 | Although Jonadab Oaks had never encouraged his girls to ride , as he did his sons , they had all on several occasions had a go at riding the horses owned by their father . |
| 30 | Equally , the responses to this problem were not pre-ordained by the state of the economy , and the choice among those responses had a number of highly significant political as well as economic ramifications . |