Example sentences of "they have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them has a handle-bar moustache ; another wooden deity , dredged not long ago from Lake Geneva , has a formless face , like those that melt and distort in Francis Bacon 's paintings . |
| 2 | Each of them has a value and a part to play but they should serve us ; we should not be their slaves . |
| 3 | One of them has a fake beard . |
| 4 | For example , a man with a hundred head of cattle , sheep and goats trains his son to know them by their colour only or by their size and type of horns , while every one of them has a special name . |
| 5 | And these six can now be further reduced by asking which of them meets a number of desirable but not essential wants : Which of them has a garden ? |
| 6 | Nevertheless , a couple of drinks later it transpired that one of them has a boyfriend who gets up at six in the morning to meditate , while the other said her best friend had been snapped out of a severe depression by a weekend of psychodrama . |
| 7 | That part of a social policy course that is concerned with describing policies and the institutions responsible for them has a clear face value to the social policy ‘ practitioner ’ . |
| 8 | Each of them has a large leather money bag . |
| 9 | At various points in this book I have referred to such agents — among them nations , dynasties , social classes , elites of diverse kinds , generational , ethnic and cultural groups — and we have now to examine more closely their role in political life and especially the conditions under which one or other of them has a predominant influence . |
| 10 | Not one of them has a day 's experience of working in British industry . |
| 11 | If two assets have the same risk but one of them has a lower return than the other , then it is sold and the proceeds are invested in the other . |
| 12 | They have been encouraged to be suspicious of whatever may be ‘ unsound ’ ( a favourite Oxbridge concept ) ; they owe a sentimental and intellectual allegiance to the same few places ; barely one of them has a ‘ regional ’ accent . |
| 13 | None of them has a sore throat . |
| 14 | That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it . |
| 15 | Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them . |
| 16 | The party expects its young hopefuls to fight at least one unwinnable seat in a rotting inner city or municipal wilderness before letting them have a crack at a seat in the safe suburbs . |
| 17 | Let them have a prospectus to take away with them and if they have already decided to bring their child to your school take the minimum of details at this stage . |
| 18 | He will now use some of the spare days on tour to let them have a bit of a rest . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ If the bones are my family 's I 'd like to see them have a decent Christian burial in a Russian Orthodox church . |
| 20 | It 's as if everyone else had given up and the Government then said , ‘ Oh , give the workers some money and let them have a go . ’ |
| 21 | Well all these people , we would always let them ha when we killed one we would share it out amongst the people who had given them , like er , I do n't say every time but occasionally we would do that and we 'd let them have a piece of pork you see , which we could legally do see . |
| 22 | You 'd people think it 's easy let them have a go at it . |
| 23 | Perhaps I could be Eric 's stunt man , standing in when he turns on the flash dangerous stuff that terrifies the defenders in his wake and makes them have a go like David Burrows did . |
| 24 | Although you may be able to fob off your opponent by letting them have a copy of your accounts ledger , you should not be in a position where you have to write off for copy receipts ; all these documents should be properly filed . |
| 25 | She says they want to spend it on recreation , holidays , books , equipment and special aids which will help them have a better life . |
| 26 | where they did n't like the Christmas , not the modern parents where they , they would n't let them have a Christmas tree , the erm the critics is was erm oh what was that about ? |
| 27 | We 'll eat stra virtually fairly soon and then let them have a look at them . |
| 28 | Well , let them have a go at you , you do n't have to do what they say . |
| 29 | In fact , gardens that are long and narrow are among the more simple to design because they can be broken down very easily into separate garden areas or ‘ rooms ’ , each of them having a different function or theme . |
| 30 | The hamper would be a present for the three of them and she 'd be thinking of them having a jolly evening . |