Example sentences of "have [det] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Many writers on democracy believe that the experience of democracy in ancient Greece has little relevance to democracy in the modern world .
2 Contrariwise , left sided lobectomy affects abstract words but has little effect on recall of concrete words ( Jones-Gotman and Milner , 1978 ) .
3 Age has little effect on dominance in hens , but in many primates older animals are often dominant to juveniles .
4 I am not , though , recommending the ideological antiquarianism of the New Historicism , which has little interest in poetry as such .
5 To find out whether an element is a metal , a metal being defined as an element whose oxide dissolved in water yields an alkaline solution , I have to find out whether the element has this peculiarity in common with other metals .
6 I mean that 's a , a thing that er I remember seeing a TV documentary and there was this bloke , I du n no if he was from the Terence Higgins Trust , I do n't think so , but erm er anyway he was going on about this , this very thing that there 's often the homophobic imagination er has this sort of slippage between you know , consenting adult activity and if you 're gay , if you 're homosexual then this probably means that you 're also interested in seducing children , you 're also interested in sado-masochistic activity er you 're also interested in , you know , a whole variety of other , you know , things which
7 He has this right in relation to goods which the defendant owns at the time the sheriff receives the writ .
8 The small businessman may not think of himself as being in the same league as the Maxwells and Murdochs of this world but if he produces leaflets , price lists , brochures or any other form of printed material , he has some degree of affinity with them .
9 It also has some degree of resistance to ticks and seems to be well suited to range conditions .
10 Influence is the process by which one person in an organisation , A , directs or modifies the behaviour or attitudes of another person , B. Influence can only be exerted by A on B if A has some kind of power from which the influence emanates .
11 However , since the private person has chosen to deal in commercial goods , ( and presumably has some expertise in relation to the subject matter of the contract ) such exclusion is more likely to be reasonable than if consumer goods were the subject matter of the contract , and hence the transaction were a consumer transaction governed by s 6(2) .
12 As for the class of goods , where commercial goods are concerned the party acquiring them presumably has some expertise in relation to them which gives him the capability to assess their quality or to understand if he needs to call in an expert assessor , so that less protection should be required in this case .
13 Deliberate , controlled positive feedback also has some application in connection with amplifiers but accidental , uncontrolled positive feedback is often troublesome in amplifiers leading to instability .
14 Implicit is the idea that A has some form of control over B , or at least a strong bargaining position that enables A to score a ‘ victory ’ over B. Companies sometimes have power of this kind over suppliers , as where the company is one of only a limited number of buyers of a supplier 's goods or services , and even to an extent over governments , manifested , for example , in negotiations over subsidies or in successful attempts to dilute the content of regulation .
15 Clearly , he has some sort of affinity with the part of King Henry , but it does n't seem an actorly affinity .
16 By the time a patient comes to consult me ( of any other professional therapist for that matter ) , he is aware that he has some sort of problem in his life and that he wants to get to the bottom of it .
17 MANY people believe that the Royal Navy is referred to as the Senior Service because it has some sort of superiority to the Army , but the term was not even heard before the 17th Century .
18 The Ulster representation in the 30 player squad is small but team leader , Eddie Limberg , Ulster Branch Chairman , has another mission in mind at Perth when he will present a bid for the 1993 Schools event to come to Ulster .
19 In only one non-human species has such specialisation of role within a hunting team been demonstrated , and that is in man 's closest relative , the chimpanzee .
20 One almost has to wonder if this account has any element of truth to it or if it was some public relations yarn to spur interest in the film .
21 McCawley ( 1976 ) asserts that sentences which are universally judged as grammatical are simply those for which no one has any difficulty in thinking of uses .
22 Do you believe that Halloween has any kind of place with the devil or not ?
23 At the time , the idea of a strong exclusive relationship was something that I did not actually want and I do n't think that even consciously at that time , I would have sought to have had that kind of relationship with David who was considerably younger than me and also , even though I was deeply into the whole scene and everything it represented , I do n't think I actually wanted to settle down with somebody who was a musician and was leading that sort of life style .
24 I know we 've had that debate at length in connection with the housing issue but I would just like to leave you with that point again .
25 She would have liked to have had that sort of relationship with her own father , only he had died , and her uncle had definitely had no affinity with the great outdoors .
26 Lucien had had little experience of female-kind in his life , and it was the women of Mandru 's household who were the most kind to him during the first traumatic days of his life there .
27 Magazines such as Majesty and Royal Monthly would have had little hope of survival in the 1960s or 1970s .
28 They had had this kind of conversation before and it always ended with her frustrated and him defiant .
29 We 've had some benefit from devaluation of sterling .
30 Although the statistical theory of Gibbs and de Marzio has had some success for polystyrene in predicting the variation of T2 with molecular weight , the variation of specific heat with temperature , it has met with criticism .
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