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

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1 I mention them briefly because among management trainers they have many aficionados ; they are written about more fully elsewhere .
2 Although together these elements comprise only about 22 ppm of the Earth 's crust they have many industrial uses , particularly as homogenous catalysts , as well as in less obvious areas such as cancer chemotherapy and in car exhaust systems .
3 Well they have four cars they have this wee car for , to tow the caravan to the caravan sites on holiday and then he has his new car and the father has a Jaguar and then they 've some other wee car just to get them about you know .
4 ‘ They have the same basic EQ as a humbucker , so you can get that really crunchy sort of distortion , but we also found that when you linked them up to a Fender-style five-way switch they had this amazing ability to clean up , like a Strat , in the in-between positions .
5 Where bureau heads are mobile within the structure of state administration they have less of an egoistic interest in maximizing budgets .
6 The man they follow was a fine storyteller himself by all accounts — and there is no question they have some very good basic material . ’
7 They said all of a sudden they 've all grown up !
8 After two weeks they had enough evidence and they charged me .
9 On this point they have much in common with travellers from the past : the word ‘ travel ’ comes from ‘ travail ’ and until the second half of the nineteenth century travel was such hard and dangerous work that few people contemplated it .
10 In the past year they have lost a bishop in a love-child affair but over the past few days they had more faith in prayer than in their politicians when it came to saving the Digital computer plant .
11 These were not people with chronic or serious illnesses and yet they claimed that on most days they had some sort of ache or pain or just a feeling of being ‘ run down ’ or ‘ drained ’ .
12 But said that they went on Tuesday evening they had some people over and they were looking we were gon na go for a meal in Chorley er they 'd come over from Grantham , and they were going over on the night on the night ferry , on night boat from Hollyhead .
13 While sexually mature males may remain in their natal troops they have little access to females , unless they are of especially high dominance .
14 Leaving their nest-holes they have some way to go before the sea can provide them with a refuge .
15 If you went into your Clarke 's shoe shop they 've all got the same clothes .
16 Tizard 's findings led her to conclude that the adopted children were the most fortunate — as a group they had fewer problems than the restored children .
17 Though in truth they had little need ; the last time we fought , they vanquished us easily … ’
18 Well , after the war they had these clinics where people went
19 When agricultural improvers visited Sussex in the war years they had little favourable to say about the situation in general and the Weald came in for wholesale condemnation , although there was some disagreement about the details .
20 In consequence they had more free time for family and social activities and they found less problems in transferring the farm from father to son because the son could continue his own employment and live in his own house .
21 Pop into Marks and Spencers they have some amazing shapes in Marks and Spencers that the children will enjoy .
22 If you just make random proteins a hundred amino acids they have some kind of catalytic activity — not much , but some .
23 In individual cases catching criminals depended on the usually less than willing readiness of the village constables to act ; since they were chosen by vote annually from middling tradesmen and farmers they had little hope of dealing with many common incidents unless the rest of the community felt sufficiently outraged to support them .
24 With video they have all the additional clues the visuals give them while they watch and listen .
25 ‘ So he wandered the countryside for a long time , starving and having to beg for food , and sleeping in barns and under trees , and eventually he found a little town where all the beggars and old people he 'd had thrown out of the city had gone ; they were very poor , of course , but by all helping each other they had more than the merchant had .
26 She said that was a nice day they 've all gone out .
27 Everywhere in China sophisticated hand-made tools are used , and the Chinese assume that because anyone can make such things they have less value than , say , a plastic bag .
28 In many ways they have much in common .
29 Except for , perhaps , a half day excursion to Skegness which costs one and threepence and if you 'd missed the train they had another one ready for you , not like British Rail today , enterprising .
30 Yes I well remember er I use when I was staying down at Trimley there was erm a lady there who worked in the Billeting Department , who ca who herself was evacuated from London and er , I used to catch the same bus with her but she never would speak to me , erm and erm one morning er she lived down at Curton and one morning they had some erm er German planes over Curton and they were doing some machine gunning and that sort of thing and erm and we met at the bus stop and she was full of it and erm that sort of broke the ice it was
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