Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] have [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , no occasion has yet arisen on which the courts have had an opportunity to demonstrate the Convention as having practical effect in this aspect .
2 In spite of these problems , the proposals do have the potential for righting the current gross geographical imbalance of services , though only if the resources made available to and by local authorities genuinely match the local costs of domiciliary and residential care .
3 If the Times wishes to have a go at a book , then at least the paper should choose one that is worthy of shot and shell .
4 It seemed that both incomers and Shetlanders presumed that the researchers did have a clearcut image of conflict in the area and that they were just fiddling about trying to show it , rather than attempting to do something about it ( e.g. putting the incomers somewhere else , helping out the incomers for once , etc . ) .
5 During the movement of the narrative , space expands and contracts ; even the objects mentioned have a fluid status and take their places in shifting strings of signification .
6 The candidates need to have a commitment to world mission , good presentational/speaking skills and the mental and physical stamina for frequent travel .
7 If it is too strong , the soil will be dry before the animals have had a chance to move out of it and they will die in the soil .
8 He says … he says one of the cars has had an accident in the rain .
9 Yeah I think they had their own little meetings in various pubs or whatever after our meetings , and certainly the management in one of the quarries seemed to have a lot of information about what went on in our lodge meetings because of various members of this clique , I think we were all fairly sure that they would be returning to work , it was just when that was the crunch .
10 Smales was successful with two kicks at goal but by half-time the Kiwis looked to have the game well under control , scoring tries through Edwards and Watson by the 16th minute , and through Watson and Nikau in the three minutes before the interval .
11 The remedies seem to have the power to help harmonize the body 's metabolic processes and to correct imbalances in them .
12 Major international telecommunications service providers are teaming under the auspices of the Network Management Forum to agree purchasing specifications for an open , standardised computing environment to support their network , service and business management needs — and with annual spending of $20,000m a year on computer systems , the parties involved have the muscle to impose any standard they set .
13 They are all part of the advertising and marketing that the parties believe has an effect on the voters — while failing to notice that this effect is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of thought , work or effort that has gone into any individual contribution .
14 The defendants sought to have the claim struck out on the ground that it disclosed no cause of action .
15 The defendants applied to have the plaintiffs ' actions struck out on the ground that the proper forum for any claim against them was Scotland and that the special jurisdiction laid down in articles 5 and 6 of the Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters 1968 , scheduled to the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982did not apply so as to permit the defendants to be sued in England , notwithstanding that they were domiciled in Scotland .
16 And because each of the directors seems to have a share in the brother 's or brother in law 's concerns you know we all thought right , if they 're gon na play the game together , we 'll play the game together , and see what happens .
17 The owners decided to have a depot ship to house strike breakers .
18 The 34-year-old star of Bonfire Of The Vanities has had the implants — which only last a few months — twice before .
19 But in the meantime the investors have had the benefit of a gross roll-up of interest and the flexibility of deferring their tax charge until it suits them which , of course , may be at a time when the tax charge is lower or after they have emigrated .
20 If the paintings do have a value , it may only be for what they have to teach criminal psychologists .
21 So long as the documents have been sent to all those entitled to attend a general meeting in accordance with section 238 , it is a pointless farce to require a formal general meeting to be held in order that they may be ‘ laid ’ unless a member wants to raise questions about them at a meeting , or the auditors want to have an opportunity of talking to the members about them .
22 The patients studied had a range of asthma severity , with maximal period diurnal variation in peak expiratory flow ranging from 23 to 79% and from 0.11 to 102.0 mg/ml being required to cause a 20% drop in forced expiratory volume ( PC 2 ) .
23 The Americans have had the title in their country for too long .
24 The Americans have had the title in their country for too long .
25 The players need to have a chance to settle down .
26 ( 2 ) Allowing the appeal , that before making the prohibited steps orders the justices should have informed the parties of their intention and given them an opportunity to make submissions as to whether such orders were appropriate ; that the justices had had no jurisdiction to make an order prohibiting the parents from having contact with each other because such contact was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibility towards his child and thus was outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; that , on the evidence they accepted , the justices had been plainly wrong to refuse to make the interim care orders ; and that , accordingly , the court would substitute interim care orders relating to both children ( post , pp. 271B–D , H — 272A , F , H — 273A ) .
27 The winner will be the first Six in which all the members have had a go at egg rolling and have returned to their places .
28 Obviously , the Cup is different but the guys know having a home tie against Gloucester is a great opportunity to put themselves and the club back on the map . ’
29 Namely , he will be inviting your Lordship to er look at whether or not the business the plaintiff 's would have failed in any event er because it is the defendants case relying er extensively upon the opinion of their expert Mr er that even if the plaintiffs had had the finances which were originally anticipated and had completed the deal in accordance with that , the probabilities are that this business would have failed in any event and that they would have incurred the losses they did er so I anticipate there is going to be a dispute between us as to the basis in which your Lordship is to determine compensation in this case .
30 The other point which is made by the defendant is this , he says that the plaintiffs have been guilty of delaying tactics er during the course of this litigation , the result of which has been that er he has not been able to realize his interest in the partnership premises , also he has not been able to acquire a partnership premises and he he , doctor mentioned to me that to the actual conveyance of the partnership premises he 's , he tells me was only produced I think thirty and er that er it was only then that he realized there might be a chance that he could acquire the premises for himself , but he says that er because of the general , I think the case is , because of the general conduct of the plaintiffs in delaying the trial of the action one way or another , er the practical effect has been that the plaintiffs have had the benefit of use and occupation of the premises at which he erm , a main view , has a lot of that interest and that they are getting benefit of the kind from that occupation and he is not getting any money in res in respect of that , at least nothing like any market rent because it maybe that there is a fairly small er payment being made , but I 'm not too entirely clear whether that is the case or not , but the stock bond is suggesting that the plaintiffs have been obtaining benefit of the use of the premises at his expense and in those circumstances it is unfair er in , in , or otherwise not appropriate that the plaintiffs should be entitled to obtain interest on their bill of costs , in respect essentially of the period of delay , and when I say period of delay included that the period during which the forward of Mr Justice remained erm unprotected .
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