Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] have a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Where personal profiles have a strength , however , is in what the critic says about personal reactions to artist and work .
2 He 'd had enough of all that European political crap about overseas subsidiaries also having to represent the interests of the local host country where United Motors had a manufacturing presence .
3 Her water-melon breasts rest heavily on her lap and her cleavage starts where other women have a navel .
4 Mr Polyakov was speaking at the Soviet Embassy School , where Russian schoolchildren had a preview of the books that will be available in the Soviet Union from next month .
5 Boaden found that Labour councillors have a tendency to favour higher standards , and hence to support larger expenditures by local authorities , even when allowance is made for other contributory factors ( Boaden 1971 : 112 ) .
6 But again we said , see , that er although British children have a lot of freedom , the rate of the success in marriage is n't that great , not very encouraging .
7 Like Bulmer ( 1982 ) , we believe that social researchers have a responsibility to the subjects of their research , but this is doubled in our case because of the additional obligation on us to protect their personal security in whatever small way , as researchers , we can .
8 Thus , there is in these Articles , a recognition that individual governments have a role to play in combating the vagaries of the economic system within their own boundaries .
9 First , there is the demand that individual animals have a life that fares well , all considered .
10 We shall , however , take care not to prejudice the great asset that native speakers have a tendency to focus more on message and less on medium than non-native foreign-language teachers do .
11 However , we have shown that mental models have a role in the interpretation of ellipses , and that a surface representation is used to interpret pronouns .
12 It is in the constitutionally-sanctioned performance of this cooperative and critical function that legislative assemblies have a share in the exercise of state power .
13 Also throughout the branches of physical geography it was necessary to convince members of other disciplines that physical geographers had a contribution to make and this had to be done by showing what could be done rather than by simply stating in advance that a physical geographer had much to contribute .
14 It is little wonder that fundamentalist sects have a field day welcoming in disillusioned people who have been put off Christianity by forms of Anglicanism which offer so little and demand nothing .
15 The test will check that post-1980 vehicles have a vehicle identification number .
16 As writers like Leavis and Raymond Williams saw it , although educational institutions had a duty to do what they could to sustain it , the common culture was almost irredeemably lost .
17 Recruitment personnel agreed that there was a need for an attitudinal change in this area of business and suggested that educational establishments had a responsibility to help achieve this .
18 The House , individual hon. Members and political parties have a role to play , as have the political parties in the Republic of Ireland and the Government of the Republic of Ireland , who have a central role .
19 The broader ranks of managerial and professional employees have a degree of autonomy in their work , a degree of decision-making responsibility , and a certain amount of control over others .
20 Together advertising and public relations have a freedom and range of techniques at their disposal which advertising alone does not since public relations seeks to earn reputation and to persuade through opinion while advertising buys space or time in which to say exactly what it wants you to believe .
21 and interested parents have a right to know what this initiative actually means .
22 It was noted that American firms had a domestic market of over 200 million consumers , and Japanese firms had a market of 100 million .
23 Usually conservation programmes and individual projects have a number of elements , some contrary to the interests of the state elite , others neutral , and occasionally others which could provide opportunities ( e.g. contracts for earthworks , labour recruitment for building of dams , or tax advantages for conservation undertaken on private land ) .
24 During the storm itself , people already ill often become worse , women nearing the end of their pregnancy may go into labour and unbalanced individuals have a tendency to become violent .
25 Anyway , he pointed out , by and large Hindus have a sense of humour .
26 The various mathematical and logical operators have a priority order .
27 Many UK primary and secondary schools have a Sinclair Spectrum .
28 A focus upon changing aspects of a rapidly developing local community embracing social , technological and ecological perspectives had a number of advantages in the eyes of the library committee : ( 1 ) they wanted to begin something that was ongoing and to which resources could be added ;
29 From watching raindrops , bubbles and insects walking on ponds it is obvious that water and other liquids have a surface tension .
30 But modern children have a lot of facts and it 's the interpretation of facts and feelings that makes them civilised . ’
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