Example sentences of "[that] they have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At some stages in their lives children are quite convinced that they have magical powers and often after a tussle about bedtime or a rejected request to watch a TV programme will ‘ wish ’ that the irritating adult would vanish . |
| 2 | Any analogies have to be with living creatures that are distantly related in the zoological sense , although there may be reasons to suspect that they have similar life habits to those that the fossil animals once enjoyed . |
| 3 | Stratigraphical interpretations of the Eycott and Borrowdale Volcanic groups have confirmed that they have similar evolutional histories and support the reinterpretation of biostratigraphical evidence in favour of their coeval eruption . |
| 4 | He becomes crucially aware that they have little need of any critical analysis , for as Benyon ( ibid. 23 ) goes on to point out , |
| 5 | It is hard , after a lifetime of sharing disappointments and problems with a parent , to find that they are no longer capable of sustaining conversation , that their memory is failing or that they have little interest in things outside their own immediate situation . |
| 6 | What happens very often here is that participants are inspired by the social and professional intensity of the event but find that they have little to carry home with them except a heady sense of general enlightenment which is often quickly dispersed on its contact with reality . |
| 7 | Not only then is subcontracting widely practised but the small firms are so dependent on a limited range of buyers that they have little alternative but to accommodate to tight kanban schedules . |
| 8 | Part of the answer is of course that they have little choice if , for example , the firm is made bankrupt . |
| 9 | Support teachers sole brief is to support specific children may find that they have little room for manoeuvre to combat these likely problems . |
| 10 | Most feel , perhaps rightly , that they have little or no need for them , that they are able to and indeed profit from individualism . |
| 11 | They are good educative examples of the search process , but it can be argued that they have little to do with practical intelligence . |
| 12 | New schemes or amendments to existing schemes within member states have required Community approval , and more recently the Commission has recommended the abolition of some existing state aid schemes , arguing that they have little " regional " relevance . |
| 13 | He says that they have little information to go on , so the search has to be very wide . |
| 14 | Now that hope will have been taken from her , leaving her feeling that they have unfinished business , which ( unless she believes in life after death ) will remain unfinished for ever . |
| 15 | Many TECs explain graphically that they have inadequate money and that employers are offering too few work experience places because of the recession . |
| 16 | This will mean the vendors bear the financial risk of not being able to locate fellow vendors or finding that they have inadequate funds . |
| 17 | The fact that the polytechnics have largely grown out of a technical college tradition , geared to different ends , means that they have practical problems of a kind unfamiliar to the universities today . |
| 18 | Responsibility lies with the SROs , but it could be argued that they have insufficient resources to carry out this role , and should merely be ombudsmen ( although there is also some doubt as to their ability to act in this limited capacity given their degree of underfunding ) . |
| 19 | Sunderland defender Anton Rogan is linking-up with the squad after his club bowed to pressure from the Irish FA that they have first call on him under FIFA 's World Cup rules . |
| 20 | The problem with all these drugs is that they have many side effects which are sometimes fatally toxic . |
| 21 | Artists have found in the past that they have many enquiries about their work after having a painting reproduced by us . |
| 22 | Artists have found in the past that they have many enquiries about their work after having a painting reproduced by us . |
| 23 | Pilots , and even instructors , often believe that they have good judgement and can land accurately anywhere because they can manage on their own site . |
| 24 | As is well known , chimpanzees can be taught to communicate with sign language , though there is no evidence that they have such a language in their natural state . |
| 25 | The surprising feature is the certainty with which American lawyers presume that they have such a right outside the USA . |
| 26 | So many poison-producing amphibians give vivid and unmistakable warnings that they have such defences at their disposal . |
| 27 | Gobies , small fish that live in tidal rock pools , prove in a particularly convincing way that they have such a thing . |
| 28 | Conversely , the Profitboss accepts that they have greater skills in packing , driving and cleaning than him . |
| 29 | The conclusion on predators is therefore that they have minimal effects on small mammal populations when numbers are high , that they have no braking effect when numbers are increasing , that they may have some effect when numbers are declining , but their major effect is when numbers are low , when they may also delay the recovery phase of the population cycle ( Southern , 1979 ) . |
| 30 | Their meaning is such that they are to be distinguished from various other " if " statements , that they have certain logical properties , and that they are entailed by independent nomic conditionals together with further premisses in a way derived from the antecedents of the latter conditionals . |