Example sentences of "[conj] they have [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , the new owners of great country houses accepted the life of the landed gentleman , even where they had little land . |
| 2 | After we got that fixed , we stopped in Yellow Stone Park where they had these loos that were just holes in the ground and I dropped the keys to the van down one of them . |
| 3 | After we got that fixed , we stopped in Yellow Stone park where they had these loos that were just holes in the ground and I dropped the keys to the van down one of them . |
| 4 | For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance . |
| 5 | Steve White says its the first stepping stone of a month , where they have all the top teams and it 's very much in their own hands . |
| 6 | Women are especially vulnerable to HIV in societies where they have little or no control over their sex lives . |
| 7 | Think of rock concerts where they have those banks of giant speakers grouped together on the stage . |
| 8 | I have been to the Over-Sixties Club where they have some very good concerts and I go to services at Cotherstone Methodist Chapel whenever I can . |
| 9 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |
| 10 | Except they 've all had something . |
| 11 | Some of the rebel leaders , notably Litster , may have appreciated their military weakness , because they attempted to involve members of the gentry in the revolt , and although they had little support of this nature , the very fact that they hoped to obtain it must argue against an interpretation of the revolt simply in class terms . |
| 12 | Bergkamp equalised for Ajax a minute after the interval although they had several opportunities to add to their score . |
| 13 | Their foot were not in the main Highlandmen — although they had some of these , from upland Perthshire and the Glens of Angus — and so could not travel so fast and far each day . |
| 14 | The banks will bargain hard although they have little choice but to accept a restructuring . |
| 15 | He wishes that they 'd all got killed . |
| 16 | Mm , well the government might get in our way now , that they 've all elected back in |
| 17 | They grew big and strong and healthy , for he saw to it that they had all of the best , particularly in winter , and nothing to fear — except the running knot in the hedge-gap and the wood-path . |
| 18 | We should be trying to enhance cooperative arrangements of referral and support between health and social work departments and private homes , and Mike O'Reilly did n't actually say that they had that problem but he said that their clients had been referred by GPs or by the psychogeriatric service . |
| 19 | During that two hours they realised that they had much in common . |
| 20 | Optimistic that they were on the right track , but aware that much still had to be done , first thing on the morning of Monday , 13 March Fleischmann sent a fax to Harwell and then talked on the phone the next day remarking that their information was incomplete , that they had much more to do before they would be confident enough and expressing irritation that they were being ‘ rushed into premature publication ’ . |
| 21 | Both admitted that they had much in common with the Liberals , but both dreamt of political careers with the Conservatives . |
| 22 | Though Steven had not yet qualified as a doctor/passed his A levels/opened his restaurant/learned to tell the difference between a gasket and a sprocket , it was obvious that they had much in common . |
| 23 | Lydia watched it , thinking that they had much in common except that she had her prey in her grasp and was already preparing it for consumption . |
| 24 | Indeed , the West Indians originally thought that they had much in common with British people and expected to be able to identify with the British way of life ( PEP 1976 ) . |
| 25 | For a while they made so much work for the bailiffs that they had little time to harass the Nonconformists . |
| 26 | But on the whole it seems true to say that the minors and the ladies were at their lord 's disposal , and that they had little chance of resisting what he did ; but that none the less the lords were limited by custom , and even a king would be expected to consult his counsellors when he disposed of an heiress , as Henry I promised to do in his coronation charter . |
| 27 | By the third morning , however , I was so weak and the pain so unbearable that they had little difficulty in taking me up to the theatre and performing the necessary operation . |
| 28 | But police warned last night that they had little chance of tracing the rest . |
| 29 | The same can also be said of physical science : despite the apparent breadth of the course , students felt that they had little control over their learning . |
| 30 | From a local survey they found that many girls of this age were very frightened in labour , which made it worse , and that they had little idea about coping with a tiny baby . |