Example sentences of "[noun pl] have considerable [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Clients have considerable expectations about the means of delivery and timeliness of information . |
| 2 | The Act is very wide ranging particularly in relation to the adjective ‘ identifiable ’ and subjects have considerable rights of inspection and amendment of their own records . |
| 3 | As yet there is usually a reluctance to follow the Psalmist in including the negative aspects of human emotion , but songs have considerable potential for the expression of anger and sadness . |
| 4 | In certain cases individual businessmen had considerable success in setting companies on more prosperous paths . |
| 5 | But it is still the case that such countries have considerable difficulty in servicing their debts and the debt problem continues to be serious . |
| 6 | Adolescents who take overdoses have considerable problems in their relationships with their parents . |
| 7 | In conclusion , the argument that the duty of directors to act only in the interests of the shareholders operates to ensure that the will of the shareholders is implemented by the management of the company is fundamentally flawed because the directors have considerable discretion in defining exactly what the interests of the shareholders are . |
| 8 | While they were subject to important central pressures , the Area Chairmen and their Boards had considerable authority and status at the local level , which they sought to develop by rooting their Boards firmly in the local community . |
| 9 | Monetarist ideas had considerable influence among economics ministers . |
| 10 | The economists had considerable prestige inside the government , based on their success in wartime planning , particularly the counter-inflation policy . |
| 11 | Thus in Sweden , where industry or higher level bargaining predominates , although there are variations as between unions within individual industries , the unions are generally strongly organised and their officials have considerable power . |
| 12 | Dai Hudd , Liverpool based secretary of the union representing ordnance workers , said : ‘ The development of bomb blast-retaining metals and containers has considerable potential in the fight against terrorism . |
| 13 | The Elamites had considerable power in Babylonia . |
| 14 | Both development officers had considerable experience not only of the elderly mentally frail , but also of implementing new initiatives in care , and of negotiating with other service-providers . |
| 15 | It is not surprising that teaching machines had considerable appeal to the military and to large scale industry . |
| 16 | These proposals for major structural changes had considerable appeal . |
| 17 | Many of the sheriffships were also heritable offices , which again conferred powers of private patronage upon their holders where this had not been specifically reserved to the Crown , and a great magnate who had inherited a small empire of such judicial rights had considerable powers of influence in his region , both from the offices themselves and the opportunities which they gave to oblige friends , and from the powers of the courts , for regalian jurisdiction was extended over the possessions of landowners who held their estates as the vassals of the magnate . |
| 18 | The latter two cardinals had considerable experience abroad . |
| 19 | In any large firm the managers have considerable scope for indulging in actions which may not be in the best interests of the owners , or for allowing their subordinates a freer rein than might be in the owners ' interests . |
| 20 | These changes have considerable implications for the criteria for social work intervention in the lives of families and for the nature of public child care provision . |
| 21 | These studies have considerable limitations , however . |
| 22 | As we have seen the courts have considerable choice as to whether to categorise an issue as one of law or fact . |
| 23 | Thus , the local Serbian chiefs had considerable freedom of action , and most , like Miloš , used it arbitrarily and grew rich and powerful by the exercise of their power . |
| 24 | Four patients had considerable disturbance in renal and hepatic function . |
| 25 | BR 's LDCs have considerable influence over issues such as the allocation of work between depots , and have strongly resisted changes to the established pattern of working , since this determines earnings levels . |
| 26 | Over the next few years the planning of urban motorways had considerable impact on the metropolitan areas of the West Midlands , Greater Manchester , Merseyside and Greater Glasgow , and the M4 , snaking across West London , was the longest road viaduct in Europe . |
| 27 | Once established as a professional body , doctors had considerable control over their market situation . |
| 28 | Local councillors have considerable flexibility in their budgeting . |
| 29 | However , Aracy Lopes da Silva , who has recently done research with Shavante females , tells me that : ( a ) Shavante females have considerable strength within the ‘ domestic arena ’ , and ( b ) Shavante males are often gentle with women and children when interacting within the domestic field . |
| 30 | Modern society , it may be argued , is not like a set of neatly intermeshing and well-oiled cogs , but rather a game in which groups of players have considerable discretion so long as they keep within a set of rules which are often themselves rather loosely defined or at least open to negotiation and change . |