Example sentences of "[pron] have a considerable " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a considerable amount . |
| 2 | It is a condition , therefore , which has a considerable natural mortality . |
| 3 | With financial support from the DES , the Language Teaching Centre is investigating the feasibility of recruiting trained foreign language teachers , particularly in the Federal Republic of Germany , which has a considerable surplus , and reschooling them in a custom-made , one term induction course prior to their taking up a teaching-post in a British school . |
| 4 | These themes were summarized and developed by a large group of contributors writing for the Black Papers between the late 1960s and mid 1970s , which had a considerable impact on educational debates , and indeed on public policy . |
| 5 | But their work has recognizable stylistic affinities : a clear respect for techniques and materials , a deep love of tradition , and a belief in the vernacular which had a considerable impact on both theory and practice of British twentieth-century industrial design . |
| 6 | Other demographic factors which have a considerable influence on household formation are less easy to predict — one is marriage : for example , the 1978-based official population projections expected two-thirds more married men in the 20–24 age band than were actually found in 1985 ( Population Projections 1978–2018. 1980 ; Sparks , 1986 , p. 24 ) . |
| 7 | It may be questioned whether this change achieves very much of a practical nature since ( a ) one still needs to look back at the common law of detinue to determine what constitutes the new form of conversion and ( b ) there still survive two torts of interference with property which have a considerable overlap with conversion , i.e . |
| 8 | One exemption not to be overlooked is the normal expenditure exemption under which a taxpayer who has a considerable amount of net income arising over the years is able to make gifts into a discretionary trust out of his income provided the expenditure is normal and that , after allowing for all transfers of value forming part of his normal expenditure , the transferor was left with sufficient income to maintain his normal standard of living ( IHTA 1984 , s21 ) . |
| 9 | YOUNG Jason Ennis is a superb illustrator and one who has a considerable number of strings to his artistic bow . |
| 10 | They were , after all , members of a class who had a considerable stake in property and land . |
| 11 | In the same way , herbs were introduced in the sixteenth century from Europe to North America , to be grafted on to the use already in existence of the herbs of the North American Indians who had a considerable and long-standing tradition of herbal cures from the plants native to their own continent . |
| 12 | I found nothing noteworthy except on one , possibly the leader , who had a considerable amount of silver which I pocketed for distribution to the poor . |
| 13 | If you are over 45 or 50 , you are unlikely to find it worthwhile , unless you had a considerable period of paying full contributions before you got married . |
| 14 | I said , ‘ You have a considerable library here . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I am sure you have a considerable career ahead of you . ’ |
| 16 | We had a considerable degree of pity for Mrs Sugden , whose feeble-mindedness made her the butt of her husband 's callous disposition . |
| 17 | ‘ It had to be the East Coast main line apart from the obvious attraction of the line , we had a considerable fleet of locos and rolling stock of the right pedigree , ’ said Richard . |
| 18 | You know we have a considerable holding of er , land immediately adjacent to the reasonable shopping centre there and erm , if and when things become buoyant again and I went down there a couple of weeks and I was rather impressed by , by the look of the area , then clearly land prices go up and we have the capacity to , to generate more profit . |
| 19 | They had a considerable army of former lawyers to call upon in parliament , and the comments of the former lord chancellor , Lord Hailsham , that the Government was ‘ thinking with its bottom and sitting on its head ’ caused a flurry or two . |
| 20 | I visited a school in the North West recently and the school told me that they had a considerable number of girls applying to university to read engineering about two years ago . |
| 21 | Pilot has been contacted by R.W. Ferris , Head of Aircraft Registration at the CAA , telling us that they have a considerable number of aircraft on file where the owner 's correct current address is not known . |
| 22 | He had a considerable influence upon the thinking of Piaget . |
| 23 | By 1939 , he had a considerable list of achievements to his credit , including 116 new tramcars , new depot and transport offices at Blundell Street , modern fare collection and accounting systems , and extensive track relaying and modernisation of turning facilities . |
| 24 | ‘ He had a considerable amount of mickey-taking from friends and wants to forget the incident . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ He had a considerable presence . |