Example sentences of "they have [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 They had no short-term solution to the bomber and assassin and they knew it .
2 They had no personal loyalty to him and were too strongly unionised to accept his way of working .
3 This week , the government decided to award the men payments , and the move is a coup for Mr Robinson and the firefighters , as they had no legal requirement to redundancy pay .
4 What success he had depended at least in part on the willingness and vigour with which the women supported his pleas for help : without their backing his affines could well say they had no greater obligation to him than to his enemies , and refuse to help .
5 Additionally , as the stallions had n't seen or heard the other behaving like a stallion — calling and courting mares , and threatening rivals — they had no particular reason to be suspicious of their travelling companion .
6 Living in the northern cities , they had a deep commitment to the radical wing of the Liberal Party and were overwhelmingly nonconformist in religion .
7 Family was Jim and the others ; family was her women 's group and squabbling at two-thirty in the morning about whether women could be said to constitute a separate class because they had a separate relation to the mode of production , while still making each other coffee and giving each other hugs .
8 Lily said , ‘ No , we can get Miss Bradshaw 's signature any time we want it ’ , and Vernon shouted that they had a perfect right to loiter on a public pavement .
9 Swallow explained ‘ They had a low-key attitude to the region and had just wanted to get a foot in the door .
10 The children themselves were not present at the Hearing , as they had a legal obligation to be .
11 This is all a far cry from the halcyon days of the mid 80s when investors almost felt they had a vested right to 20 per cent per annum plus returns on a year by year basis .
12 maybe that 's one of women 's traditions , I believe they had a big part to pla play in it .
13 He was right when he had said that they had a peculiar reaction to each other .
14 I really a word , and they had a little chat to us .
15 Then , they had the perfect solution to the problem of audience laughter .
16 Under Indonesian law , however , they have no recognized right to the land .
17 There seems to be agreement that corporate criminals can be deterred because their crimes are essentially instrumental , being outcomes of a fine balance between perceived costs and rewards , and they have no emotional commitment to them , whereas they do have a very high stake in conformity and respectability .
18 Because medical practitioners are either salaried or paid on a capitation basis they have no financial incentive to " overtreat " , and the competitive bidding-up of salaries has not been possible when pay and salary structures are nationally negotiated ( though this may change in future ) .
19 ‘ Some goods can only be bought with FEC , so they have a higher value to the Chinese who are desperate to get hold of them .
20 For this purpose , shares should be regarded as non-equity if they have a restricted right to dividends or capital , or are redeemable .
21 They have a narrow frontage to the street and are planned around an atrium and peristyle .
22 Sue Goss , chair of Southwark 's Women 's Committee between 1982 and 1986 , claimed that because ‘ of the specific roles to which women are constrained , they have a specific relationship to local government service provision , employment and political representation ’ ( Goss 1984 : 122 ) .
23 They argue that they have a strong commitment to the environment and are making major investments to improve efficiency of water consumption , but that at the same time they also have a commitment to their customers .
24 They have a good claim to be considered " the world 's first organized radical-democratic political party " .
25 They have a similar principle to me — they only brew on Saturdays and Sundays !
26 Later , as Paul prays for the disciples at Ephesus and lays hands on them , they have a similar experience to the household of Cornelius , namely they speak in tongues and prophesy .
27 The evidence of variable spelling in ME seems to point to an early origin , and if the arguments for this can be sustained , they have a clear relevance to understanding historical patterns of variation .
28 ‘ They like a drink but they have a weird attitude to anything else . ’
29 But they have a ready answer to this challenge .
30 This is perhaps not surprising : their preference for home care at the first interview indicates that they have a stronger commitment to looking after the dementia sufferer than those who said in the first interview that they would prefer institutional care .
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