Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] to 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 two indices appear to have equal validity in measuring the relative change in price or quantity levels between two periods . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The virus is easily transmitted via needles — and addicts tend to have dirty habits . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | All animals appear to have some capacity to learn from experience . |
| 10 | In contrast to the Hanmers , the Chidlows seem to have experienced years of relentless poverty . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Cocaine is so inexpensive that most heroin injectors like to have both drugs in the mix at the same time . |
| 13 | If it is cold the animals come to have thick coats of hair , or feathers . |
| 14 | We believe that all peoples need to have one day in the week which is different , and which provides an opportunity for varied forms of community life and activity . |
| 15 | It is clear from both the untransformed and the transformed plot that the oil-producing countries tend to have low life expectancies for their level of wealth . |
| 16 | So developing countries tend to have cheaper services . |
| 17 | The picture is very variable but , as might be expected , larger settlements tend to have better services . |
| 18 | In some cases , trade associations seem to have little sanction over rogue members . |
| 19 | Although bankers seem to have some optimism , even members of the Reichmann family say the debt restructuring will be a long haul . |
| 20 | Some groups seem to have more power than others . |
| 21 | Languages which have elaborate systems of case inflections tend to have fewer restrictions on word order than languages like English which have very few case inflections . |
| 22 | Other studies show that older workers tend to have fewer accidents , less absenteeism , and greater output and job stability than their younger counterparts . |
| 23 | However , it may be noted that overtly ‘ theatrical ’ pieces tend to have key schemes to match from the earliest French cantata collections onwards , copying now stage action scenes in helping to dramatize the text , now divertissements in functioning independently from it . |
| 24 | Workers expect to have some control over the means by which they perform a set task , and they resent having means specified in too much detail . |
| 25 | That this mild-mannered three piece manage to fulfil those rash dreams is a genuine joy at a time when so many bands seem to have one trick less than a dead pony . |
| 26 | Workers need to have factual knowledge about HIV/AIDS which they can accurately pass on to a child to give the child a full picture of what is involved . |
| 27 | Pine is weak this way , while the other timbers tend to have straighter grain . |
| 28 | Many studies have shown that one-parent families tend to have low incomes and that a large proportion — now more than half — rely mainly on state benefits for their incomes . |
| 29 | Biological growth of itself will not increase the size of the congregation , at least in the case of white Protestant churches , for the simple reason that white Protestant families tend to have fewer children . |
| 30 | On the minus side , rented houses and flats tend to have strange colour schemes , ie , a mismatch of all the odd bits and pieces from the landlords other houses . |