Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] have a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I believe it is a hundred times better to have a leader who wants to go forward rather than one who retreats towards the hills when the going gets rough .
2 The hot garlic butter sauce poured over the snails obviously has a lot to do with the success of the dish , but to those who say that that is all you taste I have always protested that the soft , salty flesh of the snail is very much part of the enjoyment .
3 Now this one , four hedges together have a mass of two hundred grams how many have a mass of two and ha ?
4 Mr Guthrie 's Pizzaland restaurants already had a turnover of £50 million and the additions from Rank will immediately increase that to £70 million .
5 The art criticism in such books generally has a slant , questioning whether the country or places have had a determining influence on art .
6 It is not enough to explain this , as some outsiders and many insiders did , by invoking some theory of social inertia , to the effect that Libyans still had a Bedouin mentality .
7 Several schools also had a Wolf Cub pack , many of which excelled in sports meetings against other Wolf Cub packs .
8 The Institute of Journalists also has a list of freelance photographers .
9 The spikes also have a 50% chance of causing infected wounds .
10 TRENDY snowboarders now have a one-kilometre ski slope reserved exclusively for them at Nassfeld in Carinthia , southern Austria .
11 Her brown eyes now had a film of tears over them .
12 In that regard , the United Nations surely has a peace enforcement role as well as a peace-keeping role .
13 In general , however , GIS surely has a function to perform in simulation and role-playing exercises .
14 Fourteen percussionists here had a stage of their own , stretching around half of the choir seats , and the average decibel count from the brass was well up in proportion .
15 Some textbooks imply that it does n't matter ; few instructors teach it ; and some schools even have a policy not to lean .
16 Besides ecclesial and liturgical pluralism , theological pluralism is also commended — a genuine diversity ‘ even in the theological elaborations of revealed truth ’ ( Unitatis Redintegratio 4 ) , the natural consequence of the ‘ lawful freedom of theological enquiry to which laity and clergy alike have a right ’ ( Gaudium et Spes 62 ) .
17 All but the smallest modern computers therefore have a layer of supervisory programs , the operating system , between the hardware and the problem programs , as shown in Figure 1.9 .
18 I mean we have dealings with solicitors for all sorts of things , asking for reports and we send a lot of notes away to have a lot of er medical opinion reports and they take ages to come back .
19 It was great to see so many climbers just having a go and obviously enjoying themselves .
20 Given that most visitors only have a couple of weeks , it is necessary to arrive with some sort of plan .
21 Conservatives alone have a vision of a modern Scotland in a confident Britain .
22 In the social sciences and humanities specially designated Data Archives already have a benefit of some twenty-five years of experience in storing and disseminating machine-readable files for secondary use ( Anderson 1992 ) .
23 It was agreed at an early stage ( principally at Citrine 's insistence ) that sales in urban and rural areas should be at common prices , so that many rural dwellers already having a supply had prices reduced , though new consumers distant from the mains still had to pay a one-off contribution or line rental ( which varied according to the Board ) to meet part of the cost of connection .
24 When first designated , the areas already had a population of 945,000 ; now they contain rather more than 2 millions .
25 Nike 's Air Escape shoes already have a percentage of reused materials in them — by next year it plans a completely recycled athletic shoe .
26 ‘ My parents still have a home out there . ’
27 Certainly witches still have a tradition of performing rites at special places in the countryside and it seems natural for people to want to express their relationship with the Earth in the form of ritual at sites where they know the earth energy can be found .
28 Some of these electronics companies still had a family firm element , or had a shotgun marriage background , or were in some other way eccentric enterprises .
29 The judges clearly had a predilection for this style , the Second Empire mode as Hitchcock calls it , as out of the total of fourteen prizes for the offices , seven were awarded to designs in this style , including the first and second in each class .
30 But parents also had a responsibility and it was too easy to direct demanding children towards the TV screen .
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