Example sentences of "have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Cyclists should dismount and walk up all gradients greater than 1-in-17 , especially on roads which are poorly constructed and have rocky surfaces . |
| 2 | Both businesses have regional operations as well as on-site engineers , but work exclusively with large corporate customers because , Biermann said ‘ their level of spend is much higher ’ than small companies or local government . |
| 3 | The Opposition argue that other European countries have regional government and we must have it as well . |
| 4 | We should not assume that because some European countries have regional government the people there want it . |
| 5 | Articles on exhibitions sometimes glide away into topics which have little to do with the art on display . |
| 6 | But both Salters 's and Russell 's work in Northern Ireland schools have been used by catholic schools supporters to aid a general principle , also derived from the work of some sociologists of education : namely that schools have little impact on children in terms of their basic values anyway , and one should recognize parents and community environment for the real source of these . |
| 7 | Heavily-promoted but weak and gassy , UK lagers have little in common with genuine bottom-fermented beers from Europe . |
| 8 | He becomes crucially aware that they have little need of any critical analysis , for as Benyon ( ibid. 23 ) goes on to point out , |
| 9 | The police , therefore , have little to gain in promoting any exploration of their modes of thought , for analysis can only hold the possibility that the whole intricate system , to paraphrase Lévi-Strauss ( 1967 ) , will be revealed ‘ as an immense disorder [ which ] is organised in the form of a grammar ’ . |
| 10 | resulted in the controllers making … a puritan attack directed at the drug taking of the ( underground ) movement ; and since the drug-scene is complex and confused , and we have little time in which to develop a reliable folk-lore about drugs and how to take them ( as we have long ago done about alcohol ) , they have been particularly successful in fostering anxiety among teachers , parents and establishment figures . |
| 11 | You have little to lose by attacking with the utmost determination . |
| 12 | It is not a million miles away from Fodor 's ‘ methodological solipsism ’ — though phenomenologists have little interest in the causal interplay between the mental states thus identified . |
| 13 | Some of these changes will be related to neural processes that have little psychological relevance . |
| 14 | ‘ We hope very strongly that the attitude of China 's authorities will be adequate to change the significant percentage of people who seem to say they have little confidence . ’ |
| 15 | Despite the democratic element in government , however , the liberal-leaning elected members of the Assembly have little power , because the conservatives dominate the body through appointed indirectly-elected seats . |
| 16 | The people most affected by them — office workers and passers-by — have little or no influence on their design , and are dependent on the benevolence of the developer and on planning laws . |
| 17 | ‘ I have little doubt that more help will be needed after next year , ’ he said . |
| 18 | In practical terms , the gates and fence probably have little advantage over the waist-high barrier and high-profile police presence which has effectively sealed Downing Street from the public for eight years . |
| 19 | Age and mileage have little to do with values any more . |
| 20 | The measures have little relevance to public health . |
| 21 | But users who do not have modems and keep their data ‘ hygienic ’ by not borrowing software have little to fear , Mr Keane said . |
| 22 | The social divisions within Northern Ireland society have little direct effect on the nature of crime in Easton , which influences the nature of routine police work in the area , enabling the police to pursue Easton 's crime and criminals without recourse to religion . |
| 23 | Laing is convinced that businesses which are run by people who have little understanding of the products being made are ultimately doomed to failure . |
| 24 | But the constraints on their existence implied by operating from open waste land or shacks have created a situation where they have little security , and the owners of such enterprises are discouraged from reinvesting a high proportion of their profits back into the business . |
| 25 | Um , he says , and goes on to explain that in Norway a small , useless knife sometimes seen about the person of hunters and campers who have little idea is known as a ‘ mouse castrator ’ . |
| 26 | While it is true that village women in India have little power or status in society as a whole , Janet misunderstands what lies behind the caring and ‘ fussing ’ . |
| 27 | Surgery and manipulation have little or no place in the treatment of most RSIs . |
| 28 | Most refugees have little time to prepare for life in a new country . |
| 29 | They are poorly paid , mainly young and female , have little chance of career progression and no incentive to remain in the profession . |
| 30 | Women , with certain exceptions , have little to offer the House of Commons . |