Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] have [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In addition , high rankers tend to have access to scarce resources so that in competitive encounters the possession of a powerful ally will increase the subject 's chance of obtaining some .
2 Only six out of over 75 interested countries had had forestry plans inaugurated under the plan .
3 Only six out of more than 75 interested countries have had forestry plans inaugurated under the plan .
4 Caricaturing their findings somewhat , they discovered that West German firms had flatter , more widely based pyramids of management hierarchy than French firms , and that British firms tended to have forms of work organisation that were not pyramidal because there was extensive use of line and staff relationships .
5 Indeed this emerges immediately from the fact that adjectives which are plainly non-restrictive can accompany proper names : ( 4 ) the eloquent Dryden is too learned for some tastes clever Polly left before they called for volunteers Even if we accept the view , less than universally supported , that proper names do have meaning , being clever is certainly no part of the name Polly on the type level , nor is eloquence of the name Dryden .
6 Studies of young mothers have found that history tends to repeat itself within a family , and teenage mothers tend to have children who in turn become teenage parents themselves .
7 The work of recent British theorists does have lines of connection with older forms of discourse , whether the New Criticism , traditional scholarship , earlier Marxist criticism , or the Cultural Studies approach given a fresh impetus in the 1950s by Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams .
8 Most of the husbands were in the Forces and mine was at home and er any way er before I left two two different women had had babies and had abortions and died .
9 Whenever I meet with a Sister in print , I always expect to hear that Corydon has prov 'd false ; or that Sylvia ‘ s cruel Parents have had prudence enough to keep two mad People from playing the Fool together , for Life .
10 But individual speakers do have control over their own pitch , and may choose to speak with a higher than normal pitch ; this is something which is potentially of linguistic significance .
11 Taiwan 's telecommunications industry is objecting to a plan by the Directorate General of Telecommunications to invite only foreign bidders for its Intelligent Network project : domestic companies claim to have 80% of the necessary capabilities for the $285,000N project , and are arguing that agreements with foreign partners would enable them to fulfil the conditions .
12 This pole has been treated against rot ( previous poles had to have bits chopped of the bottom periodically ) so there is no reason now to stick to the three year cycle .
13 Those previous kisses had had meaning after all , and now he had only to utter those three little words that would send her up into the clouds .
14 AS VOCALIST with Mudhoney , Mark Arm has proved conclusively that well-off , well-educated Caucasian brats do have blues to sing , and also that he 's the man best-equipped to sing them .
15 Sound , healthy mares tend to have sound , healthy foals , whatever their age .
16 Sound , healthy mares tend to have sound , healthy foals .
17 During the academic year , overseas students need to have access to a wide range of information and support in order to adjust to a different culture and benefit fully from their education .
18 During the academic year , overseas students need to have access to a wide range of information and support in order to adjust to a different culture and benefit fully from their education .
19 But each of the five possible routes proposed has drawbacks : apart from the cost ( about £4 million ) , they would bring new problems for other villages , cut through farm land or devastate the watermeadows and wildlife habitats in the Letheringsett and Glaven Valley Conservation Areas .
20 Section 6 of the Act stipulated that all elementary schools had to have managers and laid down how many of these should be LEA representatives .
21 I think just the fact that my wife knew what was going on , and knew the problems exactly you know , they had their own meetings and the food parcels that they could organize , you know I would n't have a clue how to go about it , the fact that various shops refused to have collection points inside , and they wrote off to the management of these shops and got that changed .
22 Two Creole girls squeezed oranges in the bows while Baccy shouted at his crew as if they were galley slaves rather than a bunch of half-drunk amateurs trying to have Sunday fun .
23 Just four of the disabled professionals had had difficulty in finding work .
24 In good light brown plumage of southern albionis form ( chocolate in summer , greyish in winter ) should also be evident ; northern birds aalge have upperparts black though head always browner .
25 And given the prevailing prejudice against people actually speaking to each other , suitors and their intended sposi had to have recourse to the ambiguous and easily misunderstood language of fans and flowers .
26 Several major Latin American countries have had debt service ratios in excess of 100 per cent which resulted in debt servicing problems .
27 At the same time a group of agrarian reformers came to have influence with the crown .
28 Manufactured goods tend to have income elasticities greater than one , so when we buy more of those , then it 's quite likely that we 'll actually be erm , importing more of those .
29 This is the way certain entities come to have meaning as religious symbols .
30 The War Cabinet on 4 September 1944 [ KP 12 ] approved the proposal " that we should instruct the Middle East authorities to send back all Russians whom the Soviet Authorities wished to have back irrespective of whether or not the men wished to return ; and the practice of obtaining statements from Soviet prisoners as to their willingness to return should be discontinued " .
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