Example sentences of "[conj] they have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them would also have borrowed in the open market , maybe from a clearing bank where they had a current account and the manager had allowed them to draw over and above what was in it — an overdraft ( the cheapest way of borrowing ? ) — or perhaps a Personal Loan . |
| 2 | courses in turn , tended to select for observation those schools where they had a good relationship with the drama specialist . |
| 3 | Then , putting it on and pulling the collar tight about her throat , she lit the candle that was standing in a holder on her bedside table , and went quietly out and along the corridor to the kitchen , through it and into the scullery , where they had a running tap above a shallow stone sink . |
| 4 | At the same time , recall suppression was discovered when deaf subjects were instructed to hold blocks of wood while watching the presentation of items , in a way similar to suppression experienced by hearing people in tasks where they have a redundant phrase to say aloud at presentation . |
| 5 | We arrive at the works and call in at their pollution control offices where they have a small full-time staff looking after pollution in the works . |
| 6 | It may have come as a surprise to some , especially those nations where they have a fixed XV to which they only add as time goes by ’ . |
| 7 | The East Europeans complain that these accords penalise them just where they have a competitive advantage — in textile , steel and meat exports . |
| 8 | I 'd say you 're looking for a business where they have a heavy demand for rough paper . |
| 9 | Like other Ministers , Chancellors do not confine themselves solely to matters where they have a departmental interest . |
| 10 | Many authorities provide in their Standing Orders for the attendance of councillors at meetings of committees of which they are not members where they have a particular interest in certain matters on the agenda . |
| 11 | It also allows the designer and the builder to be involved in the project only at those stages where they have a particular expertise . |
| 12 | Also , we observed that males close to the breeding site seem deliberately to sit out on roads , where they have a clear view , and wait to jump on females as they pass . |
| 13 | In a spoken message we notice the quality of the voice as well : maybe the speaker 's voice was shaking , or they had a particular accent , or hesitated , or slurred their words . |
| 14 | Or they have a little book where they can look it up . |
| 15 | Many people visit their doctors to have their ears syringed — often because their hearing is impaired or they have a bad earache . |
| 16 | At one point you know , there was no point buying wheat from the United States , alright , because although they had a comparative advantage in production , the costs of transportation were prohibitive and in essence we can produce it cheaper over here than the er , the import cost of foreign produced wheat . |
| 17 | Such ideas have probably influenced the process of teaching more than the content of courses in higher education , although they had a direct bearing on the original terms of reference of university extra-mural departments . |
| 18 | And of course , although they have a legal sovereignty as I 've mentioned , and they each have a place on the General Assembly and the General Assembly of the United Nations , there are enormous differences between the resources which are available erm for different states and their capacity to act . |
| 19 | For example owls and other predatory birds such as buzzards have binocular vision and acute hearing although they have a poor sense of smell . |
| 20 | Griffith then took ordinary cold rods of the same glass about a millimetre thick and broke them in tension , finding that they had a tensile strength of about 25,000 p.s.i . |
| 21 | And so the Air Staff found that they had a vociferous and powerful industrial lobby in both Westminster and Whitehall to back their case for GOR 339 . |
| 22 | The fact that the two hospitals were less than three miles apart , that they had a combined acreage of 375 acres , that they were outmoded from the point of view of treatment , and that both had ‘ spare capacity ’ because of the continued decline in the long-stay population meant that there was much to be gained from merger . |
| 23 | All the competitors agreed that they had a challenging game and more than the usual number of wet balls and soggy bunkers ! ! |
| 24 | All religions have had their solitaries too , but the greatest of these usually made sure that they had a spiritual advisor and some kind of structure . |
| 25 | Lord Donaldson was suggesting that the parties made an informed decision that the matter had to be referred to arbitration on the basis that they had a formulated dispute where their rights and obligations were to be determined . |
| 26 | what you 're implying is that how that they had a radical policy in mind but because of the war it had to be moderated but I , somehow I tend to believe the reverse , that how that they may have continued the moderate policy but was forced into it because of circumstances to , forced to erm into radicalizing their policies . |
| 27 | Although the LTTE denied involvement in the assassination , it was widely noted that they had a strong motive , believing that Gandhi had betrayed them in 1987 when he dispatched the Indian army in an unsuccessful effort to bring Sri Lanka 's civil strife under control [ see p. 35313 ] . |
| 28 | The kids had been sent to her mother 's house , and now it seemed that they had a new surrogate father . |
| 29 | There is not much evidence of a determined drive by the Communists to control NICRA and even less that they had a great deal of influence . |
| 30 | Thus , older workers were more than twice as likely as those under 40 to say that they had a great deal of respect for the top management at the firm ( 72 per cent ) . |