Example sentences of "they have this " in BNC.

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1 They have this extraordinary belief that all women want is hope and promise .
2 The reason they have this versatility is that they are able to join up with no fewer than four other atoms at a time , to form chains or networks .
3 They have this ‘ one thing I know ’ experience , and in an uncertain world everything else tends to be judged in the light of that experience .
4 You build a bond up with them , so that they see you as a friend with whom they have this special relationship .
5 The issue of interpretation arises again , because many systems considered have not been examined with fibre optics , through they have this potential .
6 Yet , since they have this ambiguous , double-edged aspect too , even the latter are not totally evil but can be turned to some good .
7 They 're incredible musicians and they have this feeling that they can cross all the boundaries , which we had , too .
8 It 's still in the experimental stage , but they are accepting guinea-pigs if they have this particular strain of lymphoma and , therefore , nothing to lose .
9 It is vital they have this information .
10 It 's the same when you see black guys at a dance or a disco ; they have this natural fluidity in their bodies .
11 They have this potential within them , this power to do something , but are horribly suppressed , contained , frustrated …
12 When we think of Callas , we think of an incredible musician with an incredibly strong dramatic gift , but there have also been great voices in history and there are some orchestras which are successful with your understanding , at least , because they have this collective voice which impresses you immediately .
13 to do it , although , whether they have this appropriate kind of sensitivity of not I do n't know
14 they 're born into it , they have this position .
15 Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying .
16 None the less , the striking point here is that they have this central feature in common : not just that they both see the life of reason as important , but also that there is a distinctiveness about the quality , character and significance of reason when it is taken up seriously , which marks it out from conventional human experience .
17 A. V. Dicey , the prominent nineteenth-century jurist and by no means an extreme anti-feminist , considered that while distinctions of rights founded on sex often gave rise to injustice ‘ they have this in their favour — they rest upon a difference not created by social conventions or by human prejudice and selfishness , or by accidental circumstances … which split society into classes , but by the nature of things ’ .
18 They have this interest because such mating could affect the likelihood that an individual 's genetic constitution would be reproduced in an individual of a later generation .
19 People see it and they have this immediate compulsion to come close and mull it over .
20 Is not it clear from those figures that the unique disadvantage suffered by the people of Britain is that they have this Government with the right hon. Gentleman 's policies , which depend on putting people out of work ?
21 But the females compete for males because the male has a pouch literally on the front of his , of his belly , you know what a sea horse looks like , he looks like a horse actually , not surprisingly , you know they have this kind of , they have a kind of tail and they have this kind of pouch .
22 But the females compete for males because the male has a pouch literally on the front of his , of his belly , you know what a sea horse looks like , he looks like a horse actually , not surprisingly , you know they have this kind of , they have a kind of tail and they have this kind of pouch .
23 This is one of my film articles which I mean it 's of the things that I 've sent of and I know it will be published because I belong to the Cinema Veterans cinema and television veterans and they have this quarterly magazine and almost certainly you know it will be published in there , there 's no
24 and in empirical sorry and in in empirical work we tend to use these nonlinear demand functions simply because they have this nice property that they have constant elasticity , and it makes subsequent calculations considerably easier , and you may think in actual fact that linear demand curves are quite restrictive .
25 They have this blind list
26 Oh they have this silly man who picks up the telephone in a he 's er got a chef 's hat on and he says Giovanni 's and then it was , it turns out to be one of his old friends so he lapses into sort of Glaswegian .
27 They have this , they have this MP there from the S D L P from nineteen sixty-nine to seventy-two and he 's a , a pacifist , he went to the , apparently he went to and spoke to the leader of the provisional I R A
28 They have this , they have this MP there from the S D L P from nineteen sixty-nine to seventy-two and he 's a , a pacifist , he went to the , apparently he went to and spoke to the leader of the provisional I R A
29 and er sh , you know the test before they could become officers they set captain set the table , you see the and they have this food that they know how , how to use the cutlery , this was one of the tests of being an officer .
30 Yes , yes , it is strange that they have this
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