Example sentences of "[vb base] they have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is how you realise they have different origins . |
| 2 | We are part way through a randomised multi-centre control trial of rehabilitation and the majority of physicians collaborating say they have insufficient time to review all their patients after discharge , after this aggressive therapy of 3 or 4 days in hospital . |
| 3 | Neither the family of Kingsley Sam nor the police say they have any idea why he was shot . |
| 4 | Old residents say they have more in common with the latinos than with the ultra-rich who have taken over their valley . |
| 5 | Marje says : ‘ I think I 'm not so different from my readers , who write and say they have brutal husbands , and how they are beaten night after night by drunken swine who abuse them in every way and yet they still go on living with them . |
| 6 | According to a survey carried out by Brylcreem , 43% of British men say they have sensitive skin . |
| 7 | German prosecutors say they have enough information to investigate GM 's complaints that Mr Lopez , and other senior executives who defected , took secret documents with them to VW . |
| 8 | There are many different groups of travellers and gypsies — and the terms which describe them have social , cultural , and legal connotations . |
| 9 | The bouncers at Lord Tom 's disco bar maintain they have little trouble . |
| 10 | But the meditators maintain they have scientific proof that it does work and they can bring peace to a troubled world . |
| 11 | My Lords , I do n't accept that , er one can look at some of the London hospitals , University College , London Hospital er where seventy-one beds we closed and where we know they have one of the best accident and emergency departments in the country . |
| 12 | erm , but actually near the erm near the bridge the the large roundabout before you go over the Gateshead bridge erm underneath that there 's a subway and what have you there 's shops in there , there 's a little shop in there that th that used to do these rolls and beautiful rolls , any bread you wanted , any filling you wanted you know they have vast variety of different fillings you know , and it was all there in these erm show cases , and we used to go down there and get a sandwich , take it back to the place where we was you know , this conference centre and erm it was great and then course when we got back |
| 13 | Walters added : ‘ We know they have weak links . |
| 14 | Walters added : ‘ We know they have weak links . |
| 15 | Walters added : ‘ We know they have weak links . |
| 16 | But the females compete for males because the male has a pouch literally on the front of his , of his belly , you know what a sea horse looks like , he looks like a horse actually , not surprisingly , you know they have this kind of , they have a kind of tail and they have this kind of pouch . |
| 17 | That 's why I 'm a little worried it 's that , you know they have three questions , so one quest one hour for each . |
| 18 | Managers , for example , often assume they have all the relevant information required to conduct an adequate assessment of the need for change . |
| 19 | SCIENTISTS believe they have new evidence to strengthen a suspected link between Epstein-Barr virus and Hodgkin 's disease , a cancer of the lymph nodes . |
| 20 | They believe they have such an opportunity at the moment and no one here dares say where the pound may stand against the Deutschmark when the Chancellor rises to speak tomorrow . |
| 21 | Professor Otto Wolff and Dr David Muller at the Institute of Child Health and Professor June Lloyd at st George 's Hospital Medical School believe they have some of the answers and have recently advanced their theories ( Lancet , 29 January , p 225 ) by drawing together clues from a number of apparently unrelated diseases . |
| 22 | It had been an eye-opener to me in 1987 when I realized how naïve I had been about the press , discovered how they believe they have some God-given right to intrude on the privacy of well-known individuals in the name of journalism . |
| 23 | He writes : ‘ It would appear that a small number of club chairmen , or in the case of Arsenal their vice-chairman , believe they have some God-given right to an advantage — an unfair advantage — over their fellow members . |
| 24 | The anti Hunt campaigners believe they have enough to carry the day tomorrow . |
| 25 | The neighbourhood culture workshops specially promoted by her predecessor apparently feel they have insufficient support from her , although in fact only three out of seventy workshops have been scrapped . |
| 26 | This fact tends to make full-time reserve police very cautious in their behaviour , for they feel they have less opportunity to ease , which further means that their opinion of some regulars is not good . |
| 27 | But I think it may be more appropriate if I actually met with say the management committee as opposed to myself yes I 'm quite happy to do that to meet any individual or group who feel they have some concerns they wish to discuss and I give that I give that assurance this evening . |
| 28 | The nature of stress is simple enough — practically everyone would agree that the first syllable of words like ‘ father ’ , ‘ open ’ , ‘ camera ’ is stressed , that the middle syllable is stressed in ‘ potato ’ , ‘ apartment ’ , ‘ relation ’ and that the final syllable is stressed in ‘ about ’ , ‘ receive ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , and most people feel they have some sort of idea of what the difference is between stressed and unstressed syllables , though they might explain it in many different ways . |
| 29 | I mean they have all the other children to teach and a dyslexic child has certain problems which need individual care and attention . |
| 30 | Problem solved : bouncers at Lord Tom 's disco bar — black jackets , broad shoulders and slicked-back hair — insist they have little trouble . |