Example sentences of "[adj] have [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the British having more distance to cover at that time than any other nation , including the Americans : ‘ Cable enterprises supplanted the railways as popular investments ’ 2 . |
| 2 | ‘ The Portuguese coach , Carlos Quieroz , may now think his side have to beat Scotland in the Stadium of Light to have any prospect of qualification , ’ said Brown . |
| 3 | ‘ Because the merchant thought it was a waste of light to have both eyes open ; why not save the light the way you save money ? ’ |
| 4 | Nobody was prepared to have any dealings with this force , even to attempt to pacify it by being kind to the black cat . |
| 5 | ‘ So you 're saying that to prevent the risk of your sister possibly being hurt at seeing us together you 're not prepared to have any sort of relationship with me ? ’ |
| 6 | They were not prepared to have these doctrines shaken , even by descendants of Jesus or his family . |
| 7 | Might be interesting to have another try . |
| 8 | She let herself into the comfort and glow of the solar to hear her father 's querulous voice complaining , in terms in which surely he himself did not believe : ‘ My mind misdoubts me we have done wrong to have any part in this . |
| 9 | The French had little room for manoeuvre , and in May 1358 a treaty known as the ‘ First Treaty of London ’ was drawn up , under which Edward was to have a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty , together with Calais , Ponthieu and Guînes . |
| 10 | Again , in the case of Vietnam , this was accompanied by bitter political acrimony , at least on the operational level , between the Americans on the one side , the British and French on the other , about whether or not the French fighting in Vietnam were to be regarded as allies and whether or not the French had any entitlement to resume their pre-war position in Indochina . |
| 11 | He no longer thought the French had any intention of leaving Vietnam . |
| 12 | Although tired and running out of provisions , the English had several advantages : a good defensive position ; a united command ; and the use of an army which had already proved highly successful against the Scots , a combination of archers and dismounted men-at-arms for which , in the conditions prevailing on the day , the French cavalry and the crossbowmen of their Genoese allies proved no match . |
| 13 | They might have been supplied by sea , but the English had more ships than that first fleet driven off , and presently many vessels appeared at the mouth of Tweed , not to attempt attack this time but to patrol up and down , blockading the harbour . |
| 14 | They did not : the Canadians had one sort of sovereign , and the British had another sort . |
| 15 | Thus was shared space introduced to Germany , with a new traffic sign indicating a rest and play area , new priorities , changed parking arrangements , speed limits set at walking/running pace and a street design using similar principles and infrastructure to the now familiar array used in the Woonerf So popular have these approaches to residential area layout become that some variant of restraint is now the norm in newly constructed housing areas . |
| 16 | THE British have more sex surveys than they have sex . |
| 17 | It should also be noted that many of the otherwise unemployed have little sense of attachment to the organisation for which they work and regard the jobs they have as transitory . |
| 18 | So serious has this issue become to Philips that the launch of CD-I has been substantially delayed while Philips engineers attempt to produce their own compression-decompression architecture to make video possible within the CD-I standard . |
| 19 | I was aware that I was attracted to boys and men from about the age of twelve or fourteen , but although I was brought up in London I still did n't find it very easy to have any sort of contact with other gay men . |
| 20 | ‘ An individual shall be entitled ( a ) at reasonable intervals and without undue delay or expense ( i ) to be informed by any data user whether he holds personal data of which that individual is subject , and ( ii ) to access to any such data held by a data user ; and ( b ) where appropriate to have such data corrected or erased . ’ |
| 21 | When he split up with his wife , a while before , she spread some damaging stories about him , and I think the college was secretly quite relieved to have some evidence that he was het after all . |
| 22 | It 's small wonder that this plateau has claimed lives , since in the weather that I experienced it 's impossible to have any sense of direction at all without the constant use of a compass and map . |
| 23 | And Hume 's point is that it is impossible to have any reason for that last belief . |
| 24 | So I think there are a number of questions about the principle about the nature of criteria , what would be appropriate in a structure plan , what would not be appropriate in a structure plan as well as , would it be helpful , unhelpful , impossible to have some order of priority . |
| 25 | But I reminded myself that I was fortunate to have any sort of job , and that I would certainly get used to teaching these girls , who , although they were very poor , might be as good and as intelligent as children from the greatest families in England . |
| 26 | If they are fortunate to have enough money , where are they to find out that that helpline exists and obtain the numbers ? |
| 27 | Manager John Gorman 's already spent half a million on Calderwood 's replacement , Adrian Whitbread , but he 's delighted to have more money for buying players . |
| 28 | Though heads are delighted to have more autonomy — they will now be able to hire a plumber without going through the town hall — many feel that they are being buried under a mountain of paperwork . |
| 29 | Well I would think the Council would be delighted to have those details in front of it for us to have a full discussion and to make it known but thank you Councillor for all those details . |
| 30 | My Lord Mayor , I 'm delighted to have this opportunity to debate the Government 's health reforms again . |