Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's a big honour for the choir , who between them have a combined age of 2,500 years . |
2 | Those who are looking after her have a difficult task and it should not be made more difficult by being harassed by requests for information . |
3 | It should come as no surprise that , in a society with increasing numbers of very old people , proportionately and absolutely , a substantial proportion of whom have a serious degree of mental infirmity , a significant number will suffer abuse . |
4 | Most of the cavers I have met , and I have met hundreds , have been careful and courageous people who cave for the adventure , challenge and hard physical exercise , and most of whom have a deep appreciation of the beauties of underground limestone . |
5 | Many of them have a wider spread of activities than we do , making things like glass containers , aluminium cans or paper and board products . |
6 | Visitors are catered for by hotels , guest houses and a large caravan park and many of them have a regular clientele . |
7 | Several of them have a vague impression of a coin-like disc near the base . |
8 | Yet ( while there are more lifers than there used to be ) most of them have a great deal to lose . |
9 | However most of them have a strong sense that in this celebration of the Church , Christ himself is present and feeds with Word and Sacrament those who come to him through faith . |
10 | It is important that United Kingdom companies keep themselves informed of developments in these proposals , as many of them have a real effect on the day-to-day functioning of a UK company and its cost structure . |
11 | Yes , these are for the in-service B Ed. and various other courses like that , yes , and some of them have a scientific aspect to them and we 're involved in those as well . |
12 | Several other salts of this radical have since been prepared , all of which have a similar appearance . |
13 | He admitted that this would involve ‘ a change in mentalities , ways of thinking and prejudices , all of which have a long history ’ . |
14 | Feminist thinking does not , of course , exist in a vacuum , and in thinking about women 's autonomy , feminists have drawn on different ( and conflicting ) approaches to questions about the human self , some of which have a long history . |
15 | It is largely the case that catholic nationalists go to one set of schools which have a visible catholic and nationalist ethos , and protestant loyalists go to another , some of which have a less visible protestant ethos , but all of which have a loyalist ethos as well . |
16 | In this respect , NAB will also have to define its relationship with the voluntary colleges , many of which have a major involvement in teacher education . |
17 | ( 41 ) The question that focusses the problem most sharply is : " how handle sets of data manifesting a superficial identity of patterning , some sets of which have a psychological reality for a society as a rule-generated scheme , but others not ? " |
18 | So as to illustrate the use of the various operators , we will consider the two four parts , three of which have a ten week compulsory unit and a choice of options . |
19 | There is still an important place for traditional hymns , many of which have a timeless quality about them , even if some of their language raises problems . |
20 | Objective a ) requires the provision of information resources to underpin the research effort , and implicitly provides for our function as a publisher ; b ) explicitly mentions the library and the archive collection ; c ) implies the efficient curation of information , and the granting of access to the resources ; d ) specifies our enquiry , consultancy and educational functions , all of which have a high information content ; e ) demands the use of expertise and data for the provision of specialist services , and f ) relates to our public amenity function , and sets out the purposes for which access to the amenity is provided . |
21 | ( e ) Be sure students on your right and on your left as well as those in front of you have a good chance to see the flashcard and understand it . |
22 | I mean we hope we 're doing the right thing , and as I say the response we 're getting seems to indicate that , but we have not erm followed through each of we have a large number of participants every year , you see , in the order of about erm a hundred and fifty each year , so very difficult for you to try and follow through the fate of each of them . |
23 | Obviously no academic course in Britain is geared towards working class Blackwomen 's experience across the board , but so many of us have a vast appetite for knowledge — for a herstory . |
24 | Some of us have a lower threshold of boredom ; some have a better physical metabolism ; others have a lower resistance to cold ; and so on . |
25 | Most of us have a certain elation after a successful ‘ performance ’ which relaxes inhibition and stimulates perception . |
26 | And most of us have a general sense that things are pretty gloomy for people in the Third World : we might remember that Sudanese women must walk hours in search of firewood , that Brazilian peasants are still going hungry , that children are dying all over the world of something as simple and easily treatable as diarrhoea . |
27 | Most of us have a major problem when faced by a very unpleasant character who is screaming like an animal or explaining how he is going to separate us from parts of our body . |
28 | Small wonder that most of us have a bad posture , with much neck tension and resulting headaches , sore backs and other musculo-skeletal problems . |
29 | The trouble is that few of us have a clear idea of what our motivated abilities are . |
30 | Christmas is a natural time for us to indulge ourselves , free from the constraints of commissioning clients , and as calligraphy lends itself admirably to the creation of ephemera such as greetings cards , most of us have a large collection of those many of our distinguished colleagues . |