Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] to have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a number of reasons why meetings tend to have a poor reputation . |
| 2 | Classical periods of literature are judged severely since they represent a moment of complacent self-satisfaction in which the movement of history is artificially suspended , in which social formations and institutions appear to have a permanent position in a fixed , hierarchical structure . |
| 3 | Peer groups appear to have a dynamic role , the function and influence of which shifts across adolescence . |
| 4 | The emphasis is again on a parent-child partnership and sessions tend to have a special theme . |
| 5 | Drivers tend to have a nasty habit of cutting corners without a thought for the cyclist on the inside . |
| 6 | In practice processions appear to have a favoured place providing there is no actual obstruction , that they are peaceful and that police directions are observed ( see Hirst v. Chief Constable of West Yorks ( C.A. , 1986 ) ) . |
| 7 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 8 | Both counsellors and clients need to have a real understanding of what constitutes counselling . |
| 9 | Whether one applies the older notion of a trend from less to more specialized or the newer concept of a trend from an r-to a K-selected adaptive strategy ( ecologists seem to have a love-hate relationship towards r and K selection ( Dawkins , 1981 ) ) , the phyletically younger organisms would have become progressively more vulnerable to environmental disturbance . |
| 10 | On the whole , algebraists seem to have a slight preference for the latter whilst analysts tend to prefer the former , perhaps because of tradition . |
| 11 | This becomes necessary when chain entanglements begin to have a significant effect on the relaxation times . |
| 12 | ‘ You and the kidnappers seem to have a perfect understanding , Zen . |
| 13 | I have already mentioned that right-handed pilots seem to have a natural tendency to turn left . |
| 14 | Beautifully arranged and produced many of the tracks seem to have a full orchestral backing-the wonders of modern technology Never-the-less this album has great atmosphere evoked by the fact that the songs fit smoothly and easily within the singers ' vocal range . |
| 15 | The PCs need to have a suitable support chipset , typically a NEAT or LEAP chipset . |
| 16 | That course may offer the best hope that the entire document will be given the desirable objective overview : in house productions tend to have a disjointed appearance born of their production by committee which often leads to inconsistency and difficulty of construction . |
| 17 | Kubrick can posit only a mystical promise of future ( individual ) development because he fundamentally has little faith in human nature or society , unlike Clarke ( most sci-fi writers seem to have a deep-down streak of optimism , even when as downbeat as Philip K Dick or as ironic as Kurt Vonnegut ) . |
| 18 | If the questions seem to have a clear age-related bias , however , then you could ask : ‘ Are you a bit concerned about my age ? ’ |
| 19 | Local authority employment increased by 2.5 per cent over the same period , despite a reduction in refuse collection and disposal , the main field till then of tendering to private-sector firms ; ‘ although most of these firms claim to have a national presence , the great bulk of their work is in the South East and coverage of other areas is often patchy ’ ( Le Grand and Robinson , 1984 , 60 ) . |
| 20 | Why do you think many of the farmers prefer to have a long ley in each field rather than changing from arable crops to grass every one or two years ? |
| 21 | These young patients appear to have a good prognosis following infarction and intervention policies based on exercise testing in an older age group may not be appropriate . |
| 22 | Also , some galaxies appear to have a black hole at their centre — a hole that swallows up all the stars that come near it . |
| 23 | Palms seem to have a mechanical defence in the form of a woody endocarp , familiar as the ‘ stone ’ of a date . |
| 24 | The sciences continue to have a bad season in Washington . |
| 25 | Bureaucracies need to have a near monopoly of political and administrative information . |
| 26 | I am sad to say that some Conservative Members and one or two of my hon. Friends seem to have a little Englander mentality . |
| 27 | Boss James Watson says it is still pretty bleak out there in the market , and removals continue to have a rough time . |
| 28 | These salts need to have a high ‘ Biological Availability ’ ie the horse has to be able to efficiently digest and absorb the minerals . |
| 29 | Acidophilic atypical acinar cell foci in the rat have a high proliferative capacity and have been shown to be responsive to CCK , whereas the basophilic atypical acinar cell foci seem to have a low growth potential , not appreciably affected by CCK . |
| 30 | Hence van Maanen claims that policemen and women tend to have a common ‘ working code ’ ( van Maanen 1978 ) . |