Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] have an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the most powerful of the British pressure groups tend to have an established relationship with one or other political party . |
| 2 | ‘ Diesel car drivers tend to have an ideal profile for insurance companies , ’ says Rod Alcorn , the motivating force behind the launch of the new policy . |
| 3 | As Durkheim and others have tried to demonstrate , these relationships seem to have an independent existence over and above the individuals who compose them . |
| 4 | ‘ In fact , you 'll soon find out that three square meals a day is hardly scratching the surface — most kids seem to have an ever-open stomach . ’ |
| 5 | Counter-insurgency and its attendant covert and intelligence aspects have had an inordinate degree of latitude and influence on policy in Ulster partly because the Westminster cabinet and parliament are incredibly ignorant of the region and have been well content if the English politicians and Whitehall civil servants who administer it from the Northern Ireland Office at Stormont Castle succeeded in preventing its problems from impinging on the affairs of the mainland . |
| 6 | I think science has always been characterised by periods when particular subjects have had an enormous outburst of activity , and we 're seeing that with erm immunology at the present time . |
| 7 | Diana 's parents had had an unhappy marriage . |
| 8 | He was an only child whose parents had had an unhappy marriage , with rows and infidelities . |
| 9 | Many organisations seemed to have an in-built reluctance to defend their actions or even to provide a constructive and forceful image . |
| 10 | ‘ You go to a dinner party and find that three of the guests have had an elderly parent murdered . ’ |
| 11 | On the contrary , the economic crisis in the rich countries has led , not surprisingly , to a still greater preoccupation with national economic issues and national development , one aspect of this situation being that aid to the developing countries by the Western nations who are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) has declined as a percentage of their gross national product , while the various protectionist measures which they have taken in recent years have had an adverse effect upon the trade of the developing countries . |
| 12 | As it is unknown whether measurement of serum pepsinogen C can help in the differentiation of patients with hyperpepsinogenaemia A , serum concentrations of both pepsinogens were determined in patient groups known to have an increased incidence of hyperpepsinogenaemia A. |
| 13 | The hazard of this diet was that patients had to have an alternative source of energy so they turned to fat . |
| 14 | Of course the Guinness advertising exports do have an unfair advantage over their competitors : The product itself . |
| 15 | But church choirs continued to have an active rule in music education , together with the schools , many of which remained in close association with the Church . |
| 16 | Professional standards have had an increasing influence on the National Health Service . |
| 17 | There were two problems back then : first , collectors tend to have an inflated idea of the value of their work , and second , since they feared the IRS ( Inland Revenue Service ) would question any evaluation they gave , they overvalued everything , The IRS got to the point where , because of the abuses , it was prepared to recommend to Congress the abolition of the deduction for donations of works of art . |
| 18 | Some committee clerks come to have an important role , especially when they work with the same committee and the same chairman for some time . |
| 19 | But although socialist or liberal-reformist doctrines have had an important influence in some cases — in the Cuban Revolution , in the Popular Unity Government in Chile , and in the Peronist movement in Argentina — it is a conservative nationalism , expressed through military regimes , which has largely prevailed . |
| 20 | The Manchester studies of Charlesworth and Wilkin ( 1982 ) showed that geriatric wards tended to have an even mix of the demented and the non-demented ( about 15% and 30% moderately and severely confused respectively ) , and that psychogeriatric wards had a small minority of non-demented patients ( about 14% were moderately confused and 80% were severely confused ) . |
| 21 | Tomorrow we have to get up at 6.30 ( on a Sunday ! ) in order to go with the participants on the course to a commune outside Nanking , to do our ‘ Open-door Schooling ’ — Open-door Schooling is an essential part of the Chinese political philosophy of education — i.e. educational institutions have to have an open door and renew their contacts with industry and agriculture . |
| 22 | It is clearly one area where government housing policies have had an equalising effect . |
| 23 | Look , the unions have had an Equal Pay for women thing down on the TUC statute books since 1889 , and they 've done nothing . |
| 24 | Councils have had an enormous amount of money through their hands , and have spent it in an equally enormous number of areas over the past 12 years . |