Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Let's go to see you tomorrow Other languages have PrOnominal systems much richer than the English one : in Japanese , pronouns are distinguished also with respect to sex of speaker , social status of referent and degree of intimacy with referent , so , for example , the second person pronoun kimi can be glossed " you , addressed by this intimate male speaker " ( Uyeno , 1971 : 16-17 ; Harada , 1976 : 511 ) ; and village Tamil has up to six singular second person pronouns according to degree of relative rank between speaker and addressee ( Brown & Levinson , 1978 : 3206 ) .
2 Although the Inland Revenue has up to three months in which to confirm the validity of the election ( s 248(2) ) , in practice it is usually prepared to give confirmation within a much shorter period .
3 Following the formal request for a special prosecutor , Attorney General William Barr had up to 30 days to make a preliminary ruling .
4 She had obviously been well cared for throughout her illness — but then , Shiona had never for one moment doubted that .
5 still had no prospects of employment and I do n't think er , er my parents had any erm particular ideas and my father who worked for erm Roads and Bridges Department was speaking to the Chief Clerk at that time , that was , er , his name was in fact and erm he was a very sympathetic character and er he said he 'd have a word with erm with somebody in the County Council and erm see if they could find me employment as a typist and erm using the argument of course that the Education Department had up to that time at the R N C erm paid the balance of the fees for my course , erm I could just mention to you that the scholarship was worth forty pounds a year fee .
6 If Harrods had n't in this ridiculous way offered you a credit card , no crime would have been committed .
7 Despite the policy agreements , the infighting over the succession to both Mitterrand and Mauroy had not at that point been resolved .
8 However , all G-2 sources tell that the North Koreans have up to 100 Russian planes and a training program for pilots .
9 Jane is unlikely to earn much sympathy by virtue of the attention given to the environment which produced her dabbling in eventfulness and her poor kiss , and yet the two environments have more in common than would once have been thought possible .
10 For example , the IBM 370 range has up to seven : character string and packed decimal ; half- and full-word fixed-point binary ; and short , long , and extended floating.point binary .
11 The County Council has never at any time considered a paper or come to a conclusion erm on the preferred general location for the new settlement .
12 Some models have up to nine power levels , but the most useful ones for thawing , cooking and heating are : High ( 100 per cent ) , medium-high ( 75 per cent ) , medium ( 50 per cent ) and medium-low ( 30 per cent ) .
13 ‘ Exactly , and remember , art and sport have this in common , they are both means of self-expression .
14 Foucault 's approach and analyses have also to some degree informed this work and for that reason alone deserve a critical appraisal .
15 I mean , my husband has even at one point had to come into the bathroom , when I got my mother stuck in the bath er , could n't get her out , it was , it was him or the fire brigade , tha that was the choice , basically !
16 The best trainees and established dealers had little beyond brief academic demands made on them in the early days .
17 Mr Average had up to 30 ties but wore only four regularly , said the Guild of Tie Makers .
18 The guild found Mr Average had up to 30 ties in his wardrobe , but wore just four favourites .
19 From the fairly casual manner of Nicholls ' wording and his failure to mention what he had recommended , we may take it that , at least so far as he was concerned , the problem of the status of emigres holding non-Soviet passports had not at this stage been presented as of overwhelming importance or urgency .
20 What these bands have most in common , however , is that they FAIL ABJECTLY .
21 What what kind of difference have round in ten years ?
22 Few workers have not at some time or another been strongly attracted towards a client .
23 ‘ Three-and-a-half years have past without any sign of recovery .
24 The author has felt that these latter efforts have not in some way brought out the real flavour of the game in the sense that the play does not take place on a real pitch , surrounded by players who get in the way of run-making and occasionally do their stuff by bowling the batsman out or sending him back to the pavilion by some other means .
25 For example , even the hedgehog has two somatosensory representations in its cortex , while monkeys have up to seven ( Merzenich and Kaas 1980 ) .
26 A few are wondering whether to go at all , whether the festive season has not after all been too tiring , whether a night in slippers in front of the television with a bowl of soup might not be a wiser choice than the doubtful prospect of a crowded room .
27 But the return to opera has not by any means been a search for a lost past .
28 Last month , after checking with the experts in Moscow , we felt compelled to publish the disappointing news that Ivan the Terrible 's library has not after all been found , whatever Pravda and The Times might say .
29 The retina of the octopus has up to 20 million light receptors , while the eyes of a giant squid are huge , measuring an incredible 40 centimetres across , and may be equipped with over 1000 million light detectors — nearly 100 times more than our own eyes .
30 That , at the Norman Conquest , Anno Christi 1066 , the kingdom had somewhat above two millions of people ;
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