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

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1 There are no factual data that amalgamation of institutions has any advantages beyond economies of some central services such as catering and purchasing , and perhaps administrative convenience .
2 Similarly , the drawing with the older person of a family tree to collect information about family composition and contacts has several advantages over the more traditional methods of information gathering .
3 So riddled with complexities has this question proved to be that one is tempted to follow the example of the legendary definition of folk song — ‘ all songs are folk songs ; I never heard horses sing 'em ’ — and suggest that all music is popular music : popular with someone .
4 The Community practice of stating reasons in the recitals has many advantages .
5 She will be expanding her world travel experience and in between times has many interests in and around Glasgow .
6 However , there are plans afoot to see if tutoring in primary schools has any effect on performance later on .
7 None of the beneficiaries has any interest in the property — except in respect of income on capital actually paid to him .
8 Nowhere inside our brains or eyes has any neuroscientist ever found anything remotely resembling our constant everyday experience of light .
9 Metalheads had Donington , goths had the Electric Ballroom , Stranglers fans had each other and as for the rest , well , too bad .
10 In complex market economies , where the decision to produce and the decision to consume are taken by different people at different points in time , it is important for manufacturers to have some idea of the likely demand for products .
11 It always has been desirable for governors in special schools to have some knowledge of the curriculum in mainstream schools and for this awareness to be reciprocated .
12 With regard to the supply of lead-free 97-octane number fuel , I feel it would be of value to readers to have some idea of the problems involved .
13 Will he take steps to have that issue ventilated in a multi-question referendum of the people , which could perhaps be held in harmony with the general election ?
14 Dr McGowan , the Chief Medical Officer , reported to the County Secretary that there was no immediate danger to the public health but called as a matter of urgency for a resolution to the problem , as lead is a cumulative poison : ‘ The continual exposure of people to such high levels of lead is a definite health hazard and remedies to have this matter rectified should be carried out as a matter of urgency ’ .
15 We can assume that the Norse invasions of the later ninth and tenth centuries had some influence on the more vulnerable coastal churches , but there was nothing like the disruption which drove many northern bishoprics southwards for over a century .
16 The shroud was beginning to adopt a couture of its own , with distinct styles for boys and girls , men and women ; those for males were sans bows whilst the female styles had less panel ruching on the torso and a high-neck frill .
17 On the whole the writing of the 1880s did demand change and assumed that the privileged readers had such change within their power .
18 Gittell ( 1980 ) , in a research study of school-related citizen organizations in three American cities , finds that both lower- and middle-class parent organizations had little effect on educational decision-making , their declared goal .
19 We married them to make a strong peace ; their brothers had some women from us . ’
20 The Far Eastern bank interviewed took an entirely different line ; they always worked with the large international firms , claiming that neither they nor candidates had any confidence in the smaller firms .
21 Owen believes , for example , that lepidopteran populations fluctuate so widely due to entirely natural causes that the use of pesticides had little effect on them — although it does affect ground predators .
22 Before 1914 , when European socialist parties had little prospect of power , the contradiction between their ambition to establish democratic control over economic life , and their sympathy for a liberal internationalism rooted in the principles of the free market , remained largely unacknowledged .
23 They were however , the districts where the loyalist paramilitary organisations were strong and where the more uncompromising political parties had much support .
24 Other supporters had less interest in biogeography and adaptation .
25 If the lads had any brains th the touts used to say yearlings , they , in the yard got any , yes , get the markings for us , you see .
26 But if her words had any effect on him , he had n't revealed it ; instead he had continued to avoid her glance , riding at her side with his features frozen in the same expressionless mask .
27 And er they felt had little prestige and that the French peop The French Canadian speakers had little prestige in their own language .
28 Iranians had more respect for people with graying locks ; North , already tipped off by Ghorbanifar , had put more white in his ; so Hakim and Nir went back to the shop and had Nir 's hair sprayed , Hakim all the while keeping his identity firmly under his wig .
29 None of the Lunn Poly or Thomas Cook branches had any signs informing customers of their links with tour operators .
30 None of the Lunn Poly or Thomas Cook branches had any signs informing customers of their links with tour operators .
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