Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] to have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a number of reasons why meetings tend to have a poor reputation . |
| 2 | The sessions involve boys that Spurs want to have a look at and among the 16 taking part tomorrow will be two already signed — Paul McVeigh and Jason Carlisle . |
| 3 | Classical periods of literature are judged severely since they represent a moment of complacent self-satisfaction in which the movement of history is artificially suspended , in which social formations and institutions appear to have a permanent position in a fixed , hierarchical structure . |
| 4 | Will Compact employers expect to have a role in the management and curriculum of the school ? |
| 5 | Peer groups appear to have a dynamic role , the function and influence of which shifts across adolescence . |
| 6 | One important distinction is that British soccer fans tend to have a much greater sense of commitment to , and identification with , both the game itself and their favoured soccer team than American soccer spectators . |
| 7 | However , students gaining good degrees in the arts tend to have a very flat profile of marks clustering around the 70–75 per cent range , whereas science students show more peaks and troughs with marks often ranging from 65 to 85 per cent . |
| 8 | The emphasis is again on a parent-child partnership and sessions tend to have a special theme . |
| 9 | Drivers tend to have a nasty habit of cutting corners without a thought for the cyclist on the inside . |
| 10 | Some animals appear to have a highly developed magnetic sense and use magnetic variations to find their way around . |
| 11 | In practice processions appear to have a favoured place providing there is no actual obstruction , that they are peaceful and that police directions are observed ( see Hirst v. Chief Constable of West Yorks ( C.A. , 1986 ) ) . |
| 12 | She works in such haste that her words cease to have a meaning , and a mind seems to be going to waste . |
| 13 | A number of owners have noticed , to their dismay , that their feline pets seem to have a passion for drinking from puddles and pools of water in the garden . |
| 14 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 15 | The candidates need to have a commitment to world mission , good presentational/speaking skills and the mental and physical stamina for frequent travel . |
| 16 | These kids have to have a structure , and to know that you mean what you say . ’ |
| 17 | Both counsellors and clients need to have a real understanding of what constitutes counselling . |
| 18 | Animals have to have a certificate of health . |
| 19 | Paragraphs have to have a purpose . |
| 20 | The lateral arm plates appear to have a more open calcite skeleton giving the plate a spongy appearance . |
| 21 | Whether one applies the older notion of a trend from less to more specialized or the newer concept of a trend from an r-to a K-selected adaptive strategy ( ecologists seem to have a love-hate relationship towards r and K selection ( Dawkins , 1981 ) ) , the phyletically younger organisms would have become progressively more vulnerable to environmental disturbance . |
| 22 | Outside of their own milieu , Arabs seem to have a penchant for choosing the hustler as confidant , or the shyster as business companion . |
| 23 | Nevertheless the debtor countries continue to have a problem because the flow of private finance fell considerably between 1982 and 1984 after the emergence of the debt problem , and this fall in private flows of capital has not recovered . |
| 24 | On the whole , algebraists seem to have a slight preference for the latter whilst analysts tend to prefer the former , perhaps because of tradition . |
| 25 | This becomes necessary when chain entanglements begin to have a significant effect on the relaxation times . |
| 26 | ‘ You and the kidnappers seem to have a perfect understanding , Zen . |
| 27 | Short and intermediate courses and those which do not involve the student in heavy costs tend to have a more democratic social composition . |
| 28 | The ‘ skill mix ’ of the workforce may have a bearing on the conduct of the strike , since skilled workers tend to have a more harmonious relationship with the employer , and their relatively favoured position in the labour market usually enables them to achieve their demands without having to resort to violence . |
| 29 | Clowns seem to have a lower centre of gravity , or a magnetic field that converts everything to prose . |
| 30 | Their statements seem to have a number of points in common : first , they tend to be expressed in inappropriate circumstances , for example , someone makes a contribution to a congress , and someone else feels compelled to make an immediate reply . |