Example sentences of "have [det] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Far from being unimportant , the study of administration and institutions has much to tell us about the increasing effectiveness of the state and central government in an aspect of government growing more important with every passing year .
2 The shroud thrown over the subordination of women in the mining communities has much to tell us about the myth of the " archetypical proletarians ' .
3 It is because these qualities are so abundantly visible in photography today that the medium has some claim on our attention : photography still has much to tell us about the way the world looks and the experience of living in it .
4 For the non-obese patient over 65 years who needs a sulphonylurea , a short-acting drug like tolbutamide has much to commend it as the elderly are more prone to hypoglycaemia .
5 Digital telecommunication has much to recommend it over the analogue alternative , and the move away from analogue systems is n't restricted to the mobile networks .
6 Its positioning accuracy alone ( + or -1mm ) has much to recommend it over the human alternative .
7 Nevertheless , the principle of chisel ploughing has much to recommend it in the right conditions .
8 These are all experiences we have had that tell us about the body 's state at the time , and we do not have difficulty in interpreting them .
9 Erm so we ou and carrier bags , we may have enough to carry us through the show , I do n't know .
10 We live in a technological age , and there are going to be major changes without a doubt , we 've all seen them over the past few decades , and into the future there are going to be many major changes .
11 I think that the computer presents exactly that challenge and amongst the sorts of things I 'm thinking of is that erm it 's one thing to play with a computer toy , a game of some sort — we 've all seen them in the bar and elsewhere — it 's another thing entirely to devise your own game , to program your own rules in and then to bring your friend along and have them challenge it .
12 You do n't grasp it when you 're young , and if you 're born , obviously as a lot of the population now are , much younger , and have n't really been either touched or involved in a war , it 's very difficult , it 's something which we 've all seen on television , we 've all seen it at the films and you tend if you 're not careful , to pick up the glamorous side of it , you do n't realise I do n't think and in fact I keep saying this — I do n't think you can ever realise what it must be like to be in a battle until you 've actually been there .
13 ‘ I represent about 12 players at Tottenham Hotspur , and they 've all told me in the last couple of days that they certainly will put in for transfers and leave Tottenham Hotspur . ’
14 However , in contradistinction to mortality summaries , period tables have less to commend them in the case of marriage where year-to-year variations may be considerable and past history affects cohorts differentially .
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