Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I support the measure , but for those reasons I have no confidence that the Bill will make more than a very small difference . |
| 2 | From the ramparts I had a view across the bay to green marshes and , far above them , rising above a swathe of cloud , the snow-covered summit of Olympus , infinitely remote . |
| 3 | In three minutes I had the Hispaniola sailing easily before the wind , along the coast of Treasure Island . |
| 4 | I did quite well at school in the sports area , and for ages and ages I had the school record for the under-14 's javelin … . |
| 5 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 6 | For over seven months I had no idea what had happened to my family — and in that time both my father and my sister died . |
| 7 | Heads says you have the kids , tails I have the combining . |
| 8 | In Germany , Domagk and his colleagues investigated the potential of sulphonamides , gradually moving towards compounds which had no connection with his original antistreptococcal drug Prontosil . |
| 9 | We will discuss here two different methods which have the advantage that they can be combined into a more comprehensive system . |
| 10 | Organizations which have a market orientation are said to have adopted the ‘ marketing concept ’ . |
| 11 | If one looks for the perfect image of a great country seat in the Victorian novel , it is hard to better this one , seen by middle-class eyes which have no place in the picture they present to the reader : |
| 12 | Since the mid-nineteenth century , the continuing reform of company law has tried to strike a balance between all of those parties which have an interest in the corporation — shareholders , creditors , directors , customers , suppliers and employees . |
| 13 | In Part Two we shall examine these in more detail and consider some of the mundane influences which have a bearing on their execution . |
| 14 | Indecent material may only be displayed in licensed sex shops which have no window display and can not be seen into from the street , do not admit people under 18 years of age and which carry a warning sign to this effect over the door . |
| 15 | On behalf of the Do n't Tax Reading Books Group , the BA has produced A2 , A3 and A4 posters , and A5 bag stuffers/leaflets which have a poster on one side and the arguments as to why books should not be taxed on the other . |
| 16 | Similarly , the impact of GIST may have been as great in schools which had no contact with the project at all , because of the changing climate of opinion in which girls ' under-achievement in science and technology came to be seen as a serious educational issue . |
| 17 | Over the years he has woven an intricate pattern of life in private and in business ; he has established a system of relationships which has the merit that it works . |
| 18 | Since this strategy works outwards from the highest scoring words , it is possible to show ( see Woods 1982 ) that islands always incorporate words which have a density score no greater than the words already in the island . |
| 19 | Signed Danish is a gestural/auditive language in which Danish is spoken at the same time as signs from the Sign Language are used for all words which have a concept , and as far as possible grammatical rules [ are used ] from sign language . |
| 20 | It is verbal irony when some character comes out with a statement or a choice of words which have a meaning to those in the know , either within the text or outside it , that is significantly different or even contradictory to that which the character may be supposed to have in mind . |
| 21 | In the past , the predominant ideology insisted that psychology and sociology were ‘ bourgeois ’ subjects which had no place in a socialist system . |
| 22 | There are some things which no one would wish to know for their own sake , some subjects which have no possibility of being endowed with general significance . |
| 23 | Since moving to New York Jacklin has celebrated the city 's trades and parades , crowds and entertainments in a series of pictures which has no match among contemporary American painters , although the city had captured the attention of the Ash Can School , Edward Hopper and , at the beginning of his career , Mark Rothko , whose subway depictions provide a point of comparison . |
| 24 | In a parliamentary written answer I was told : ’ The sale and possession of knives is subject to a number of controls There will be practical problems in seeking to apply more general restrictions on the sale and purchase of knives which have a variety of legitimate everyday uses . ’ |
| 25 | Europe , of course , still contained many nations which had no state to express , far less to guarantee , their political existence ; the Poles were the glaring example . |
| 26 | Of course , merely artificial creations are unnatural and are therefore unjust ; but if there is indeed a common descent from Adam , and the world is a family grown demographically from him and his wife , there must be potential descent groups larger than nations which have no taint of artificiality . |
| 27 | The RHA thus sought to ‘ encourage all those Districts which have an interest in a particular large hospital to come together to determine how the service can best be developed to meet local demands within the expected financial constraints ’ . |
| 28 | Walkers who have no desire to locate the potholes of Newby Moss and refuse to be deflected from their intention to reach the top of Ingleborough can best achieve their objective by continuing upwards , guided by Grey Wife Sike across the rough and rising terrain of Ingleborough Common . |
| 29 | Schools who had the interest and expertise should be encouraged to make a reasonable investment of time in teaching such units in place of separate optional topics . ' |
| 30 | ( How often one wishes that readers who have no hearing loss would take the trouble to follow the same procedure ! ) |