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

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1 Where business executives are concerned , employers tend to have considerable discretion in the way that they implement redundancies .
2 The point at issue is that both sets of disciplines tend to have different conceptions about the domain and status of proof in the pursuit of knowledge .
3 The rapid increase in the number and diversity of states has had long-term consequences for global politics .
4 Increasing unemployment in the cities has had all kinds of unfortunate consequences : it reduces demand for such services as retailing , while at the same time increasing pressures on public-sector provision ; and social services , housing training and education encounter increased demands for certain activities .
5 The two indices appear to have equal validity in measuring the relative change in price or quantity levels between two periods .
6 Where , and Financial Times has had some increase in , in sits vac too , which is a high yielding er , category of course .
7 The rest of the car will also stand up to hard use as well , and diesel cars tend to have bigger batteries and more powerful electrical systems to cope with the greater demands of starting .
8 Jews empowered to have friendly relations with Aryans .
9 The virus is easily transmitted via needles — and addicts tend to have dirty habits .
10 Big animals tend to have big brains partly just because they are big , but this does n't necessarily mean that they are , in any interesting sense , ‘ cleverer ’ .
11 The problem that this might create lies in the fact that many peripheral areas within nations tend to have lower productivity levels than the core areas .
12 In addition , the clergy appear to have considerable difficulty in recognizing the transformation which theoretical positions on Christian belief and morality undergo as they are concretized in historical human relationships , doubtless also because of the strong essentialist bias in their perception of socio-ethical issues .
13 All animals appear to have some capacity to learn from experience .
14 Organised pressure from women within the parties has had some effect .
15 ‘ These young jet lads seemed to have little respect even for their parents .
16 In other words , children who were poor readers seemed to have greater insight into likely difficulties for other readers .
17 In contrast to the Hanmers , the Chidlows seem to have experienced years of relentless poverty .
18 But while biomorphic forms are widespread in Surrealist painting and sculpture produced by either sex , in the paintings of Agar , Colquhoun or the Danish artist Rita Kernn-Larsen , the shapes manage to have multiple readings and echoes in the rest of the natural world , while also leaving no doubt as to their true origins .
19 Cocaine is so inexpensive that most heroin injectors like to have both drugs in the mix at the same time .
20 These schools appeared to have several things in common : first , each could be characterized as an ‘ innovative ’ school in some sense .
21 There is no doubt that the reactions of the parties do have some effect on the leaders , though probably this is a little more true in the case of the Conservative Party .
22 Different nations do have different interests .
23 Although the line between the theory-specific and the more generic surveys is a difficult one to draw , it is important as a reminder of the very important point that methods do have theoretical implications of a profound kind , even if these are not always easy to determine .
24 This is not the place to repeat Wittgenstein 's rejection of such figments of linguistic bewitchment nor yet to deny that people and animals do have inner lives of pains , itches , tingles , thrills , and throbs .
25 For instance , Pythagoras ' proof that the sides of a right-angled triangle are related by the formula a N2 + b N2 = c N2 shows more than the mere fact that all right-angled triangles do have this property .
26 The common culture which Parsons postulated has three types of symbolism : ( a ) evaluative symbols which express moral standards ; ( b ) cognitive symbols which give an account of what there is in the natural and social world ; and ( c ) cathectic symbols , which define appropriate feelings about objects .
27 But to be fair , none of the drivers had had that Mr Major or Mr Kinnock or Mr Ashdown in the back of the cab .
28 And more often than not , out of the sun would come the yellow-nosed Messerschmitts , long before our fighters had had sufficient time in which to gain their best operational height .
29 However , this combination of the two signals does have one drawback ; it prevents pictures and sound from being erased and re-recorded separately during editing .
30 Before their initial gall stone dissolution treatment , 15 of 82 patients followed up for more than six months had had solitary stones , compared with 67 who had had multiple stones .
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