Example sentences of "that [noun pl] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 First , writers such as Badie and Birnbaum ( 1983 ) or Moore ( 1967 ) operating from a broad historical perspective suggest that states have a distinct character resulting from long-term processes of political development .
2 It is worth noting once again that calls have an unlimited profit potential similar to that of the long share while that of the puts is limited to E — P ; i.e. the maximum is reached when the share price S has reached zero .
3 Additionally the right qualification ensures that employers have a good idea of an individual 's capabilities .
4 But , as novelists are well aware , it is true , as I hope to show in the final chapter , that houses have an autonomous being of their own : ‘ I 've no control over the saucy things , ’ Margaret Schlegel complains in Howards End , ‘ Houses are alive . ’
5 And , in view of her theory that anorexics have a poor sense of their own size , weight and proportions in general , it may be interesting to examine more closely the status of the eldest child and more specifically the eldest daughter .
6 It is important to note in this context that courts have an inherent power to permit anyone to act as advocate , though this is seldom exercised except for the massive exception which at one time allowed police officers to act as prosecutors in the magistrates ' courts .
7 In particular the HMI discuss the role of schools in a changing society , arguing , for example , that schools have a limited role in social change , and rejecting the ‘ curriculum for violent change ’ .
8 Furthermore , three other significant reports ( Hargreaves 1984 , Thomas 1985 and Mortimore 1988 ) continue to present evidence that schools have a significant influence on pupil behaviour .
9 This , however , proved to be wholly inappropriate for Wellcome 's needs , largely due to the fact that GIS had a big effect on the system response times and that the amount of report formatting which was required proved to be unmanageable for on-line GIS .
10 Furthermore , he argues that proper-nouns have a grammatical structure , and that the compositional rules for such compounds will have to be written into NLP systems .
11 Granted that words have a certain elasticity of meaning , the general rule remains that the judges regard themselves as bound by the words of a statute when these words clearly govern the situation before the court .
12 In general we assume that words have a standardised spelling in British English .
13 Studies that have examined parental influences on children 's eating patterns have shown that parents have a significant influence .
14 Despite this interest in the way families raise their children , there nevertheless remains a fundamental belief that parents have an inviolable right to determine their children 's upbringing independently of outside interference .
15 Dr. Aronstam believes that businessmen have an important role to play in the fight against AIDS .
16 The point is : virtually everyone in sport , to some extent , accepts that blacks have a natural ability at sport which functions at both physical and intellectual levels .
17 The Regional Secretary of the Country Landowners Association , Richard Lethbridge , agrees that planners have an important role to play , and he 's got his own ideas about how to solve the problem .
18 It was a strong and diverse movement which originally had its roots in the hippie communes and the pop lyrics of the earlier Sixties , but had , by the end of the decade , encompassed so many political and social causes — particularly in America — that governments had a full-time spy network , through the likes of the FBI , the CIA and Scotland Yard 's Special Branch , keeping tabs on its leaders .
19 It sometimes seems that individuals have a startling impact on this pattern which can only be understood by appealing to specific psychological traits .
20 The problem with using thalamic nuclei as a guide to cortical organization is that primates have a thalamic nucleus , with extensive cortical projections , for which there is no clearly identifiable homologue in other species .
21 Centres should ensure , taking into account the entry requirements of Section 3 , that applicants have an appropriate profile of prior attainment , including adequate practical experience , to succeed on the programme or on the individual area of study for which they wish to enrol .
22 The implication is that lenders have a myopic outlook with a tendency to discount the future more heavily .
23 Concentrating upon the growth in government budgets as an indicator of the size of government in the United States , Niskanen argues that officials have a vested interest in maintaining large budgets .
24 It is certainly true that pigeons with bar magnets attached to their heads navigate incorrectly on overcast , but not on sunny , days ( Figure 4.9 ) ; which suggests both that pigeons have a magnetic sense , and that it may be used by pigeons as a back-up compass sense when the sun is invisible .
25 Indeed the size of the profession means that actuaries have a strong sense of fellowship which it is difficult to achieve in other professions with memberships numbering many tens of thousands .
26 The radical changes which are taking place in the pensions industry mean that actuaries have a growing responsibility to ensure that desirable objectives — such as easily transferable pensions — are achievable in practice .
27 Is it true that accountants have a special dispensation ?
28 It seems to me that things have a nasty habit of going haywire around you . ’
29 The introduction of characters " names is strangely delayed — but this is accountable if we consider that names have a low priority in the elaboration of psychological reality : if James had begun his first sentence : " Pemberton hesitated and procrastinated " , he would have succeeded in giving his main character a label , and nothing else .
30 And it is important to make sure that zips have a generous baffle behind them to prevent cold spots .
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