Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thorfinn said , ‘ I think I can look my successor in the face , provided I have even the illusion of free will . |
| 2 | ‘ And I have just the person with me who will be invaluable . |
| 3 | I have just the thing . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I have here the report of the head of our security division . ‘ |
| 5 | I have again the impression of a girl , another girl , sitting still and silent in a crowded room at Oxford while everyone else 's meaningless chatter bumped around the walls or dropped like limp catkins on to the wood-block floor . |
| 6 | Now I have neither the patience nor the ability to train and discipline a dog , and Chip could be a bit wayward and excitable , but he was sometimes quite useful if you wanted to set cattle away across the field . |
| 7 | ‘ I can assure you , my dear Laura , that I have neither the inclination nor the energy to lay my hands on your fair body , ’ he drawled sardonically . |
| 8 | ‘ I have neither the time nor the inclination to play stupid games , ’ he snapped . |
| 9 | And here I have only the sky above my face . |
| 10 | they would allow me half now erm I 've been looking at one particular church , one denomination er , which is the Methodist Church , although it has been said already here this afternoon , or this morning rather there are an overall erm joint style with Methodist and with United Reform Church and erm I have personally the Methodist of last year , last September where it gives and also erm , mileage recommendations . |
| 11 | I have possibly the world 's largest collection of old Springfield external stats and would cheerfully buy more if there were still available . |
| 12 | When you write an essay you have both the opportunity and the responsibility to state your own views in your own words . |
| 13 | Even if you have both the parallel and serial leads connected between the two computers , Fastlynx is intelligent enough to test both and choose the faster and more reliable of the two . |
| 14 | Because they 've always said it 's exactly the same as a day worker and yes you have either the shift off before the night shift off before you go on the course or the one after . |
| 15 | Certainly , we have neither the design nor the actual possibility of showing here the full truth of dialectical materialism … |
| 16 | We have previously the equation Now the internal energy U can be defined as where e is the internal energy density and T the kinetic energy is |
| 17 | We have also the possibility of electronic amplification and distortion . |
| 18 | We have also the group of five pieces from Dornröschen ( or ‘ The Sleeping Beauty ’ ) . |
| 19 | We have therefore the situation where : |
| 20 | Add to this the threat from Europe of the need to be a member of an authorised body to provide tax advice and carry out tax work ( central to the survival of the small practice ) , and the fact that the Institute of Chartered Accountants does not have the qualifications to become such a body ( less than 15% of members are actively involved in tax matters ) , and we have potentially the demise of the small firm . |
| 21 | Furthermore , we have only the patient 's word for what he or she smoked ; such estimates are often wildly ‘ out ’ and can be affected by what the patient thinks the doctor wants to hear . |
| 22 | Even with this explanation , one is not necessarily convinced that Ulimwengu was in the wrong , since we have only the Government 's side of the story . |
| 23 | The Siege is commonly claimed to be the first English opera , though with what justice it is difficult to say since we have only the libretto and stage-designs . |
| 24 | Interviews with doctors who practise euthanasia have shown that they resort to LAWER when they have neither the courage nor cruelty to talk openly with patients , relatives , or colleagues . |
| 25 | Similarly economic policy-makers in the UK and the USA choose policies which satisfy their aspiration levels ; they can not ‘ fine tune ’ the economy because they have neither the information nor the theory to do so ( Mosely , 1984 ) . |
| 26 | When learners are caught up in communication , concerned with making meaning , they have neither the time nor indeed the inclination to monitor their performance , which in consequence reveals what they have acquired without , as it were , the artificial additives of learning . |
| 27 | Although research economists usually make their programs available to others , they have neither the time nor the resources to document and support them properly . |
| 28 | ‘ They have neither the innocence of the daisy nor the legitimacy of the rose . ’ |
| 29 | But they have instead the filth that gathers in stagnant water and its evil smell on many a lawn . ’ |
| 30 | The doctors are then faced with a situation in which the patient has made no decision and , he by then being unable to decide for himself , they have both the right and the duty to treat him in accordance with what in the exercise of their clinical judgment they consider to be his best interests . |