Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one else in the tragedies has as many soliloquies as Iago does ( not even Hamlet ) . |
| 2 | Thus Moore 's methodology points inevitably to his main ethical conclusion , which is that nothing , or at least very little , is to any great degree good except for cases of personal affection and the enjoyment of beautiful objects and that everything in life which does not come under these heads has barely any value apart from whatever it may have as a means of promoting these great goods . |
| 3 | All staff had been invited to submit book lists through their heads of department , but often these lists had too much textbook-type material , and there was inevitable overlap between lists . |
| 4 | Never in the history of racing has a new stables had so many horses … and so many winners … the assistant trainer we know all about … |
| 5 | Financially , the slave traders had rather more reason to take care of the people they were carrying than the transporters of convicts or of indentured labourers did ; all of these groups were being taken over as a speculative venture on which the shipper got no return unless he delivered live bodies , but the slave traders had already paid out cash to purchase their slaves . |
| 6 | The Scots , Irish and Jews had so much in common . |
| 7 | Progress on Cambodia appeared to be minimal , not least , according to observers , because the superpowers had far less influence in south-east Asia than in Afghanistan . |
| 8 | In the twenties , both in England and in America , we have a situation in which the infant and child mortality rates are fast declining , mainly owing to new advances in medical knowledge ; at the same time , the world 's values have been shaken by the First World War , writers and journalists have both more freedom and more inclination than ever before to discuss religion from an agnostic point of view , and the vengeful God of heaven and hell no longer impresses in quite the old way . |
| 9 | Some species of the unjustly called ‘ primitive ’ amoebas have as much information in their DNA as 1,000 Encyclopaedia Britannicas . |
| 10 | " So many clients have so much money to burn , " explained a manager of another dealing firm , as he handed round condoms to some six trainee dealers on his floor , " blow them up big " He said . |
| 11 | It will take a lifetime for companies like Nike and Adidas to realise that their designers have too many coloured pencils . |
| 12 | ‘ The shops have so much , the shelves burst with food , the houses are so big . ’ |
| 13 | The London branches have recently all cooperated to provide extra manpower throughout the capital to deal with the large council jobs that have been undertaken . |
| 14 | He had already agreed that the ‘ two-plus-four ’ talks between the Germanies and the victorious powers of 1945 — the United States , the Soviet Union , Britain and France — should start just before the East Germans voted : thereby underlining that foreigners have as much interest as Germans in the issue of unification . |
| 15 | The large aeroplane manufacturers have as much as 10 years ' worth of future work on their order books , and an active market has developed among airlines and leasing companies for delivery slots . |
| 16 | It is helpful if trainers have as much information as possible so that they can set the context for trainees at the time of the viewing . |
| 17 | Sometimes the candidates have so little imagination and so little understanding of the work of the examiner that a new question is started at the bottom of the page . |
| 18 | After all , as Adebayo points out , the reality for too many black people is that positive images have precious little to do with their lives . |
| 19 | Few homes have nearly enough socket outlets to cope with all the electrical appliances the average household now owns , and at Christmas the demand rises to a peak as seldom-used appliances are pressed into duty , and every item of home entertainment equipment seems to be on at once . |
| 20 | The lower voices have here more significance than mere accompaniment . |
| 21 | A lot of their songs have so much personality that Mike has to be the one that plays it live . ’ |
| 22 | Babies under six months have very little natural protection and should be kept out of the sun altogether . |
| 23 | The decline of countries has as much to do with the loss of vision as any other factor . |
| 24 | It 's quite strange because when you think of teenage mothers you think of Michelle in Eastenders having all those problems and the father running off and everything . |
| 25 | His very short statements , and constant insistence that they had done the right thing , made it difficult , if not impossible , to reflect the point of the view of ‘ the other side ’ — the side of the authorities , who then complained that the parents had too much publicity and had the full support of the press and media . |
| 26 | Other accelerators had far more citations |
| 27 | More mundanely , it was also because the supply of pictures and information from the frontline was so meagre that tv companies had precious little material with which to fill their programmes . |
| 28 | It should be remembered that the canal engineers had very few existing structures from which to obtain ideas . |
| 29 | By the mid 1850s England 's major railway lines had nearly all been completed or were being constructed . |
| 30 | The French negotiators had very little leverage , because their president had indicated so often and so publicly his determination to reach an agreement as soon as possible . |