Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] have a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Also , you must ensure that there is sufficient time and resources for them to have a reasonable likelihood of success .
2 Although babies do n't really need to wear ‘ proper ’ shoes , it 's nice for them to have a soft covering in ‘ breathable ’ leather to protect their delicate feet .
3 When she finally came downstairs it was to find Carole insisting that , since this was their last night in the Hamptons before returning to the apartment in New York , she 'd arranged for them to have a romantic candle-lit dinner in their cottage .
4 It is difficult for them to have a high profile throughout the whole of the night and into the morning . ’
5 That part of a social policy course that is concerned with describing policies and the institutions responsible for them has a clear face value to the social policy ‘ practitioner ’ .
6 Perhaps in the matter of excitement Davis and Baker between them had a special way of making the blood dance , but ( listen to the Overture , for instance ) Nelson achieves a fine clarity of texture and , even more than Davis , he makes the phrases ‘ speak ’ .
7 It 's a big honour for the choir , who between them have a combined age of 2,500 years .
8 It was old Mr. Stavanger who paid for me to have a good secretarial course , and when I 'd qualified he gave me a job in the shipping office .
9 So straightaway there there is absolutely no reason at all for me to have a long barrelled weapon
10 Those who are looking after her have a difficult task and it should not be made more difficult by being harassed by requests for information .
11 ‘ He hates to think of me having a good time , ’ said Camille .
12 At first some of them had a deceptive brightness , but their abominable quality soon revealed itself and decay rapidly set in .
13 Nearly all of them had a pronounced industrial character long before the Industrial Revolution .
14 None of them had a coherent programme , or strategy designed to bring the mass movement into power .
15 That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it .
16 None of them has a sore throat .
17 For example , a man with a hundred head of cattle , sheep and goats trains his son to know them by their colour only or by their size and type of horns , while every one of them has a special name .
18 Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them .
19 One of them has a handle-bar moustache ; another wooden deity , dredged not long ago from Lake Geneva , has a formless face , like those that melt and distort in Francis Bacon 's paintings .
20 Each of them has a large leather money bag .
21 One of them has a fake beard .
22 At various points in this book I have referred to such agents — among them nations , dynasties , social classes , elites of diverse kinds , generational , ethnic and cultural groups — and we have now to examine more closely their role in political life and especially the conditions under which one or other of them has a predominant influence .
23 The hamper would be a present for the three of them and she 'd be thinking of them having a jolly evening .
24 In fact , gardens that are long and narrow are among the more simple to design because they can be broken down very easily into separate garden areas or ‘ rooms ’ , each of them having a different function or theme .
25 Visitors are catered for by hotels , guest houses and a large caravan park and many of them have a regular clientele .
26 Several of them have a vague impression of a coin-like disc near the base .
27 Yet ( while there are more lifers than there used to be ) most of them have a great deal to lose .
28 However most of them have a strong sense that in this celebration of the Church , Christ himself is present and feeds with Word and Sacrament those who come to him through faith .
29 It is important that United Kingdom companies keep themselves informed of developments in these proposals , as many of them have a real effect on the day-to-day functioning of a UK company and its cost structure .
30 Yes , these are for the in-service B Ed. and various other courses like that , yes , and some of them have a scientific aspect to them and we 're involved in those as well .
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