Example sentences of "[pron] have important [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That way I avoid being plagued by calls from obscure planets when I have important things on my mind .
2 Make it snappy — I have important visitors . ’
3 It is also something which has important consequences for the people studying those disciplines .
4 This is an issue which has important implications for both policy and practice in the areas of education and social welfare .
5 An unsolved problem in this area which has important implications for government policy is precisely what costs does inflation impose on the economy ?
6 Training scientific and technical personnel , i.e. ‘ experts ’ , was given priority , which had important implications for the education system and students within it .
7 The overall objective is to measure the cost effectiveness of urban and regional policies and to monitor recent changes in urban and rural economic activity which have important implications for local planning and housing policies .
8 Foster fully supports the International Agreement signed in Montreal to eventually phase out society 's dependence on these products which have important uses in refrigeration , air-conditining and foam-blowing .
9 For the present exhibition , Scully , who has important museum surveys at the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art , where he will be uniting the ‘ Catherine ’ paintings , in May 1993 , and at the Hôtel des Arts in Paris in September 1993 , has created five large new compositions in his studio in Deptford , as well as several seductive smaller canvases and a suite of pastels and watercolours .
10 On the other hand if you 've important business or vital meetings to attend you will be in for a tough time .
11 Her mother was surprised that Sarah was not with her but Anne explained that she had important work to finish .
12 Yet , although the English people were prepared to contribute such large sums at times of real emergency , for most of the time the international Calvinist cause had little real appeal outside a small coterie of radical Protestants , who had important connections at court , but who , as Patrick Collinson has put it , remained ‘ somewhat estranged from the generality of society ’ .
13 The head of the Soviet nuclear weapons programme , Viktor Mikhailov , had said in an interview published by Komsomolskaya Pravda on Jan. 31 that slightly over 100,000 people worked in the nuclear weapons programme , including 10,000-15,000 who had secret information and 2,000-3,000 who had important information on " sophisticated technologies . "
14 The Prince , who had important paperwork to attend to at Buckingham Palace , asked her to drive back with him the following day .
15 Rees gets the chance in place of Sunderland 's Tony Norman , the usual second choice , because the Welsh manager , Terry Yorath declined to pick Portsmouth or Sunderland players , who have important League games that week .
16 Announcing that " the time for negotiation has arrived " , de Klerk invited representative black leaders to " walk through the open door " and take their place at the negotiating table " together with the government and other leaders who have important power bases inside and outside Parliament " .
17 It is a process which enables people from tiny communities who have important ideas about how to make their communities , the nation , and the world a peaceful and humane home for mankind to translate those ideas into action . ’
18 Why do you pick up the evening paper and linger over tales of local gossip or distress when you have important tasks to carry out ?
19 You have important visitors .
20 Then you will tell your master and Chief Justice Fortescue that we have important matters to relate , matters affecting the crown .
21 The argument for feminist education , free from male control , is not as a remedial exercise , it is because we have important work to do together , from which we can not afford to be distracted by the interference and destruction we know happens when men remain in control .
22 We have important league and cup games coming up next month in addition to national squad weekends , so it 's understandable that some of our players do n't wish to take their chances in a club fixture , ’ said the Quins ' press officer Alex Saward yesterday .
23 ‘ Sir John , ’ Athelstan reminded him , ‘ we have important business to attend to . ’
24 We have important negotiations in progress here .
25 Although they acted more as employees than as members of a profession , they had important positions within the companies for which they worked .
26 In their critique of unmanaged capitalism and of colonialism this was especially so , and , together with the related Fabians , they had important influence on the evolution of the working-class Labour Party into a specific kind of social democracy .
27 If they had important people like er such as Mark and his wife , the pianist , erm you 've heard of him of course .
28 Mr Major signalled it was business as usual when he welcomed new Welsh Secretary John Redwood at the morning 's Cabinet and told ministers they had important issues to deal with .
29 The bulk of the remainder are held by companies who show a strong preference for holding the stock of companies with whom they have important trading connections .
30 In this , they have important strengths , and they can teach students skills which courses concentrating on formal features of language often omit : how to greet people , or how to maintain polite contact while listening on the telephone .
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