Example sentences of "have many " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was new to the country and did not have many friends . |
| 2 | The fact is I do n't have many dealings with people of Mr Hatton 's … ’ |
| 3 | We may not have many estate agents and delis in Tottenham , but I like it here . |
| 4 | It 's terribly difficult to make a call to those sort of islands as they do n't have many telephones . |
| 5 | Noting that we do have many ideas and beliefs , he asks what is perhaps the most basic question of epistemology : ‘ How comes … [ the mind ] to be furnished ? |
| 6 | Although she may have many other fine qualities , she is clearly not an international fashion model . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , I see , you are poor , weak , you do n't have many GCSEs . |
| 8 | Although horses do have many emotions , the belief in them only having two is also frequently demonstrated by conventional horse photography and in the show ring . |
| 9 | Thus the soignee appearance of Cresson and other French women politicians blazes a torch and tells others that , while everyone is mortal and while women may have many cards stacked against them , it is possible to face up to the worst as well as the best . |
| 10 | ‘ Do you have many strikes here ? ’ she asked , in an effort to shift the focus of conversation . |
| 11 | He could have many reasons for being vindictive . |
| 12 | A building adapted or retained in its totality can have many lives ; keeping just the facade might prolong its life by no more than twenty years . |
| 13 | It can have many different kinds of answers . |
| 14 | The act of controlling for a third variable can have many possible results . |
| 15 | We did n't have many chips , but that was because my mother did n't want to go to the bother of making them , nor did she like the mess that boiling , spluttering fat can make . |
| 16 | ‘ But we do n't have many holiday houses lying empty for the better part of the year , ’ said one local , proudly . |
| 17 | Foam-breathing would have many uses , beginning with the use of oxygenated foam for instant well-being . |
| 18 | Reading failure can have many causes . |
| 19 | They may have many detailed conversations without realizing that each has attributed a different meaning to the ‘ it ’ or the ‘ that ’ they are talking about . |
| 20 | Colour and shape have always been used as a basis for sorting , but objects may have many properties , and can be sorted , for example , according to size , weight or texture . |
| 21 | Nearly all children want to go out in the snow and , if they are suitably dressed , they can have many mathematically rewarding experiences as well as lots of fun . |
| 22 | In Britain , Tin Machine 's imaginative brand of tense , futuristic grunge has regularly been the butt of the kind of vitriolic press coverage that would have many a younger , less experienced band pleading for their day jobs back . |
| 23 | We must have many other things to say — to women about their interests , needs and values , to constitutional reformers about decentralisation and pluralism , to the party itself about democratising our own affairs , to our European partners about a new European agenda — but our main task is to identify with that majority constituency . |
| 24 | I 'm sure several readers will wonder why we do have many similar races in Britain . |
| 25 | It costs a fortune to run and can not have many years left before scrapping , anyway . |
| 26 | We do n't have many sitters capable of milking goats but we will provide someone if we can . ’ |
| 27 | It is changeable , and may have many forms . |
| 28 | ‘ We now have a very healthy nationwide membership that 's growing all the time , but I 'm afraid we still do n't have many members from Newquay , supposedly the country 's surf capital . |
| 29 | ‘ You do n't have many polyps in Egypt , do you ? ’ said the doctor , and the man from Cairo said , ‘ Not in the colon , ’ though without adding where they did have them . |
| 30 | Such elders may be stoically enduring remediable suffering , have internalised an ageist view that old folks should not have many desires ‘ at their time of life ’ , or hold a belief that it is wrong to want things , or to be assertive . |