Example sentences of "[pron] they have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the National government and the Conservative Party leadership felt obliged to pay some attention to a movement with which they had little sympathy ; they frequently referred to pacifist feeling as a reason for slow rearmament and later for " appeasement " of Germany and Italy . |
| 2 | In some areas , such as vision , what happens to the food they eat , explanations of day and night , shadows and plant growth , many children had well-established views which they had little difficulty in expressing . |
| 3 | The inhabitants of ancient Mesopotamia had to contend with variations of climate , scorching winds , torrential rains , and devastating floods over which they had little control . |
| 4 | From this change , it is said , followed another change , from prescribing as the cure more self-help and hard work among the poor , to recognition of the need for government intervention to support the poor in an economic situation over which they had little control ; from ‘ individualism ’ to ‘ collectivism ’ as it is often put . |
| 5 | Many teachers feel aggrieved at having ‘ taken the rap ’ for the introduction and implementation of theories and methods over which they had little control . |
| 6 | Their agreement was bought with concessions to certain aspects of sovereignty about which they had strong feelings . |
| 7 | While a lack of entry qualifications did not rank as the most important reason overall for not doing a course , the 14% who did need entry qualifications may suggest that some of the non-enrollers had insufficient information about the courses they were applying to and , consequently , applied to courses for which they had insufficient entry qualifications . |
| 8 | Those hardy souls in the present century who ignore the mysteries and regard themselves as random atoms , moving purposelessly in a world of blind chance , must necessarily behave differently from those who , like so many in the nineteenth century , believed that they inhabited an ordered world in which they had moral duties to perform , even if these were obscurely glimpsed and seldom accomplished . |
| 9 | The achievement of Edward IV and Henry VII lay less in the size of their income than in their creation of a landed estate which gave them a substantial revenue over which they had complete control . |
| 10 | It all seems to have lacked sparkle ; Johnson told Mrs Thrale , ‘ Boswell was very angry that the Aberdeen professors would not talk , ’ while Boswell says they were afraid to , and as a consequence he and Johnson round themselves ‘ barren ’ — having already spent a morning in which they had scant conversation with anyone . |
| 11 | Elisabeth recalled the picnic in the bay ; they had grilled plaice on top of a fire in the ashes of which they had baked potatoes . |
| 12 | To discourage them , we pretended that my rifle case contained a machine gun a weapon for which they had considerable respect , having occasionally encountered one when fighting Government troops . |
| 13 | Or you could ask people to give their opinions of a subject on which they have strong views . |
| 14 | They are not aware of all such emissions , however , from all plants and other creatures — just those with which they have close ties . |
| 15 | The minimalist interpretation is too weak since it assumes that people are never bound by authority regarding issues on which they have firm views . |
| 16 | As people increasingly realise that decisions are being made which affect their daily lives , but over which they have little influence , they will demand more say — for themselves and for their elected representatives . |
| 17 | But by the age of 18 months children seem to have a relatively clear understanding of the actions over which they have direct control and the events in the material world which they can influence only indirectly via their actions or the actions of other people . |
| 18 | Disruptive behaviour can be reduced dramatically by schools concentrating on those factors over which they have direct control . |
| 19 | This can not be achieved by existing military contractors moving into civilian markets for which they have few skills , but by giving the market-oriented companies more access to ‘ front-line ’ technology . |
| 20 | The one is that the use of white-collar staff rather than blue-collar workers does not imply that the former are doing ‘ complete ’ jobs over which they have full control . |
| 21 | Transnational practices are , of course , abstract concepts , but they refer directly to the practices of agents and derive meaning from the institutional settings in which they occur , and because of which they have determinate effects . |
| 22 | The actions of political forces and corporate bodies , within the resistant medium of social collectivities over which they have some influence but which they can not shape ex nihilo , may either conserve or transform in various ways the system of economic class relations . |
| 23 | Most Africans had and still have just this one significant resource over which they have any control : their labour power and that of their children . |
| 24 | Other car makers will tell you they have similar projects on the drawing board , just waiting for management approval . |
| 25 | She says that the bailiffs came very early and told everyone they had 10 minutes to get out . |
| 26 | When they arrived at the house , they saw a man whom they had good reason to suppose to be the assailant washing blood from himself . |
| 27 | Like Maurice , with whom they had some affinities , Nevin and Schaff had a horror of party-spirit and sectarianism , and also of the individualism they found deeply entrenched in much American Protestantism , especially in the revivalist movements which came more and more to the fore through the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | The bulk of the remainder are held by companies who show a strong preference for holding the stock of companies with whom they have important trading connections . |
| 29 | Their views frequently are less innovative ( not necessarily in a pejorative sense ) than the next generation over whom they have considerable control . |
| 30 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |