Example sentences of "[pron] they have [det] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yes but in Russia they they had this kind of framework before communism began |
| 10 | Those boys who work on it they 've that stuff up there ready for the exam you see . |