Example sentences of "[noun pl] have the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steel can be extracted magnetically from waste , but only one in 10 local authorities has the necessary equipment . |
| 2 | Landing on various board squares has the following consequences : |
| 3 | About a mile away , at Sheridan Circle , our director , the former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Leteleir and Ronni Moffitt , an institute worker , were killed in October 1976 by a car bomb planted by right-wing Cubans in the pay of the Pinochet secret police : only in the past few months has the Chilean government paid compensation to their families . |
| 4 | Financial incentives , L 24 billion to the region and L 6 billion to the communes having the nuclear power stations , have helped to encourage many regions to request one . |
| 5 | It being reported to this Meeting that the Peck Measures of the different corners of Islay do not agree in size , & that many of them are deficient of the Legal Standard Measure of this Country-In order to remedy this evil it is recommended that in place of the Heaped Peck commonly used that a streak measure answering exactly to the standard measure of Islay shou 'd be substituted in place of the Heap measure , & in order to carry this Resolution into Execution the Meeting do hereby appoint the following Committee … it is earnestly recommended to these Gentlemen to have the different Pecks of the different Parishes brought to the proper Streak measure , and to have these pecks Branded with Shawfield 's Iron , and this being once done it is recommended to the said Committee to cause publish at the Parish Churches that if any person within their Bounds shall Sell or Buy with any other peck than the Peck so ascertained & stamped , that they shall be Fined at the discretion of the Baron Baillie of Islay |
| 6 | Jeffrey — who was watched by most of his sevens charges — spent some of the tie on the wing , but there was a customary rumbustious downing of Cassell , and the scriptwriters had the perfect finale as he notched the Scots ’ sole try , courtesy of a pass from his ‘ not so old ’ back-row pal , Finlay Calder . |
| 7 | Her words had the desired effect . |
| 8 | I can not answer for other members of the United Nations , but in our meeting last week I certainly drew attention to the necessity for ensuring that the United Nations had the right financial and material aid to complete the tasks that we have set it . |
| 9 | The non-metropolitan districts had the additional advantage of being able to portray themselves as the victims of county councils spending heavily in one of their own non-election years . |
| 10 | At an awards ceremony at the Polytechnic of the South Bank in 1974 he castigated those people ‘ who would like to make polytechnics exactly like universities ’ , and who ignored the fact that the polytechnics had the distinctive feature of not only pursuing knowledge for its own sake , but also treating the acquisition of knowledge as ‘ never far removed from its application ’ — and constructing courses of study accordingly . |
| 11 | Post offices , railway stations and schools had the new , and the rest the old ; in the cottages there was friction as children and their fathers turned up for meals at different times . |
| 12 | Many primary schools have the good fortune to have a separate dining hall while others have to make do with a hall that serves for dining , assemblies , PE and numerous other activities during the day . |
| 13 | I read to him sentences from the Report such as : ‘ Schools have the clear responsibility to ensure that all children have full access to Standard English , given its role as an international language used throughout the world and essential for many purposes . ’ |
| 14 | How that coffee machines any , any old machine well it 's a small office , maybe a bigger offices have the vending machine , but every office will have a machine . |
| 15 | It provides them with the chance to be ‘ centre stage ’ and thus profoundly influence the delivery of care to mentally disordered people , and voluntary organizations have the additional advantage that they need only expand at their own pace , developing those areas which they know have the greatest need . |
| 16 | I extraterrestrials visited humanity in the very early days of our species , the cultural impact must have been major — unless , that is , the extraterrestrials have the common sense not to interfere too much with whatever level of civilisation the existed . |
| 17 | Marxists have the dogmatic assurance that comes from possessing a world-view that offers total explanations of social and cultural processes , and which is mysteriously immune to the ideological determinism ind deformation that they diagnose in others . |
| 18 | Massively parallel computers have the added advantage , for all users , of being much cheaper to build and to run than vectors . |
| 19 | The young lads have the right idea . |
| 20 | These audio-visual methods have the added advantage of being independent of the availability of the system . |
| 21 | The spears have the typical cross-piece of Frankish weapons . |
| 22 | BPXC also ratified its recommendation that workers native to Tauramena have a priority in the hiring process when applying for posts offered by contractors working in that municipality , provided the candidates have the required experience and fill the legal and contractual requirements . |
| 23 | His eyes have the glazed look of imminent death . |
| 24 | Alternatively , if we view the anions as the cubic structure then the cations have the tetrahedral arrangement . |
| 25 | Spain 's National Association of Electronic Industries reckons that approximately 12% or 1.5m Spanish homes have the necessary equipment to receive satellite television : out of the existing 285,000 satellite installations , 88% belong to individuals , the rest are either collective or use cable networks . |
| 26 | But the results are often seized upon in an ill-digested way by popular writers , occasionally the scientists themselves , as confirming that the animals have the linguistic competence and cognitive awareness of human beings . |
| 27 | Indeed , it is usually even more significant , for animals have the remarkable tendency to repeat during their individual development the stages through which their ancestors passed during evolutionary history . |
| 28 | From the cat 's point of view , the folded ears have the slight disadvantage that they do not communicate the usual mood signals seen when a cat , becoming angry or scared , starts to flatten its ears ready for fighting . |
| 29 | The existence of this body of appellate decisions in social security matters has the obvious effect of contributing to consistency of decision making not only by adjudication officers in their initial decisions on claims , but also by SSATs . |
| 30 | A subsequent pregnancy may re-awaken grief and anger if the birth mother feels she was forced by her parents or social circumstances to have the previous baby adopted . |