Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] have [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This climate severely limited the ability of opposition groups to mobilize within the existing vertical structure , although they did have some success in getting their candidates elected as workplace representatives and as members of the company council .
2 Since most employment rights are dependent upon the possession of a record of continuous service with a single employer , most casual workers would fail to qualify for most of these rights even if they did have dependent employee status .
3 I think some stations might do that , but they only do it if , if it 's , if it 's not going to be detrimental to the turn out , in other words they , they have a system , erm for instance they have a duty crew over the weekend , so that at least some can take their families to the seaside if they wanted to , so six will remain around the house er er but they do have some system , but I think the majority of fire stations , there are twenty seven in Suffolk like that , who work on the system of getting there as quickly as they can , and that is the best competition to get there , to get the ride .
4 Taxes on wealth at death have declined in effectiveness , but they did have some impact ; just as important were crashes in land prices in the 1930s and liquidation of foreign investment to finance war .
5 Hospital outpatient clinics are better : many people attend regularly , precisely because they do have chronic illness and are therefore likely to be disabled .
6 Only a minority of women are in a position where they have control over substantial financial resources ; however , when they do have such control they give money to their children and grandchildren in the same way that men do .
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