Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Captain McArthur said , ‘ Typewriters have n't the romance of Shopgirls . |
| 2 | Barkerend is a similar unit that operates in Bradford , where there is no provision of home tuition , so pregnant school-age girls have only the choice of continuing at school or attending this unit . |
| 3 | Contemporaries such as Joseph Townshend who , in his Dissertation on the Poor Laws in 1786 , referred to the poor rate throughout as a tax , were in no doubt that the landed interest , from landlords through the gentry to large and smaller tenants and owners , bore the main brunt of the poor rate : " Monied men have greatly the advantage over the owners and occupiers of land , as being free from those heavy taxes , which the latter pay to the King , to the church , and to the poor . " |
| 4 | The tradesmen had also the satisfaction of knowing that they had saved the cricket club , paying off its debts and placing it firmly on its feet again . |
| 5 | By 1983–7 women had twice the incidence of men . |