Example sentences of "have [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She has plenty of the proper sort . ’
2 He has none of the other worries or tasks that you have to deal with daily .
3 While this contributes to crime prevention , especially with respect to joy-riders who steal and drive cars at speed at might ( which requires neighbourhood men in West Belfast to work might duty ) , it has none of the wider community service functions evident in Easton .
4 Aswan has none of the melancholy transience of most end-of the-line towns .
5 Very much the unsung hero of Mercedes ' 190 range , the six-cylinder 2.6 has none of the cosmetic bravura that distinguishes the 2.5–16 from its lesser stablemates .
6 Its weakest point is the character of Pat — while the two men are realistically observed , Pat ( who has none of the shrewd toughness of her profession ) , is a fluff-headed mechanical doll who inexplicably switches from initial dislike of Sonny to a lovestruck Shirley Valentine .
7 It has something of the African tomtom and voodoo dance . ’
8 Has anybody at the English F.A .
9 So , too , has anyone without the special pass needed to get through military cordons .
10 Perhaps it is too radical and imaginative a suggestion , but has anyone in the local government structure of Suffolk looked beyond their plans to build houses on Ipswich Airport and considered what a fine civil airport for the county either of the two unwanted RAF airfields might make ?
11 Although relatively fresh and interesting , neither has anything like the same energy as his screenplay for Mackendrick .
12 Erm , and I also understand that this is the first time you 've actually had someone from the private sector , er , whose been invited to er , address your A G M so , I 'd like to thank you for the privilege , and for also for the opportunity to speak on a subject which I personally er , find of of great interest .
13 Since we started doing ‘ proper ’ front covers ( ie , not flogging them to Tom Jones ' and Cilla 's record companies for ads ) in 1972 , the great man has had plenty of the hallowed Page Ones , but others have had more .
14 You and I might have done the same if we had been there , though we would have had none of the technical skill and detailed knowledge of Fleming .
15 But I have n't had anything on the other piece and I want something on .
16 As I say I 've not had anything like the bad experience of it that a lot of people have had .
17 Mr McLean will have none of the stirring signs of contrition on the part of the SMG .
18 Of course , such enlargements would have none of the glossy prettiness of the snaps in the guidebook .
19 To achieve a fine white printing quality , the paper is oxygen bleached , thereby having none of the detrimental effects on the environment which are inherent in the conventional chlorine bleaching process .
20 After all , I was more of an outsider there than at home , being out of my milieu and having none of the social graces or advantages of my fellow-pupils .
21 ‘ They wo n't have regular fashion articles , but might have something on the political significance of hemlines . ’
22 Oh and I 'll have one for the last card .
23 We did n't have one on the last play .
24 Perhaps that 's because being a larger lady I prefer to have something on the large side rather than the small !
25 But once we have left school and have gone on to a different sort of existence , those relationships cease to have anything like the same meaning .
26 Her hair had been re-styled and had nothing of the incompetent dye job that had once been her most eyecatching feature .
27 He had nothing but the highest praise for you , sir .
28 They had nothing but the meagre income provided by supplementary benefit .
29 In Venice she had nothing beyond the one case except for learning Italian , teaching English , sightseeing and trying to be patient with , and understand , her increasingly morose husband .
30 Standard English used to be restricted in this way : if we look at Standard English as an historical dialect , then we find that 200 years ago it had a much smaller number of speakers in England , and had nothing like the geographical spread it has nowadays .
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