Example sentences of "have [det] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " 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 | Nor can I feel that the far finer E flat Symphony has much to commend it as a performance , beyond its solid assurance and resilient rhythm . |
| 5 | The Wentwood experience as described in this monograph has much to commend it as a means of enabling people with quite severe learning disabilities to take their part in ‘ normal ’ middle class life ; but as the authors themselves say , ‘ We will not succeed in this ( developing potential for growing as a person ) by concentrating on making people better functioning conglomerates of various skills only ’ ( p. 28 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Its positioning accuracy alone ( + or -1mm ) has much to recommend it over the human alternative . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the principle of chisel ploughing has much to recommend it in the right conditions . |
| 10 | It is important , at the time when they leave home , that she has enough to occupy her of a useful , creative and absorbing kind ( see chapter 16 ) . |
| 11 | Erm so we ou and carrier bags , we may have enough to carry us through the show , I do n't know . |
| 12 | An expensive all-concrete , all-dredge , work-from-both-sides approach may in certain cases have much to recommend it to a few of the more old-fashioned river managers , especially since the cutting of straight ditches involves minimum initial design and subsequent supervision , combined with maximum actual earth-moving and construction works on the ground . |
| 13 | 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 . |