Example sentences of "[noun sg] that they have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The petitions on their own may be unreliable , but the response of the Crown to them must surely be an indication that they had some substance : a government which was regularly short of funds would be unlikely to grant remissions , and the fact that different towns were allowed varying amounts of tax allowance suggests that some attempt was made to calculate the resources available . |
| 2 | I would not recommend to this side that they have any truck with that particular perspective . |
| 3 | Part of the answer is of course that they have little choice if , for example , the firm is made bankrupt . |
| 4 | Again , a story in Thucydides ( v.45 ) shows that the Council hears foreign ambassadors before the Assembly does ( Alcibiades persuades a Spartan delegation , after their first audience , which was with the Council , to deny at their later audience with the Assembly that they had full powers to treat with Athens ) . |
| 5 | To both later historians and eleventh century knights it appeared that ‘ truth ’ was intrinsic to the kind of evidence that they had both , in their different ways , been socialised into respecting . |
| 6 | As is well known , chimpanzees can be taught to communicate with sign language , though there is no evidence that they have such a language in their natural state . |
| 7 | This will not so much create a two-tier structure within the Division , as enable a wider spectrum of students to participate in the profession , allowing them to stop off , by way of academic attainment , economic circumstances or job notice , at different levels , secure in the knowledge that they have professional status , capable of being upgraded if they so wish . |
| 8 | Oh certainly , certainly , erm boys grow up on the whole fairly secure in the knowledge that they have both work cells , occupational cells and also that they 'll be able to have families . |
| 9 | But police warned last night that they had little chance of tracing the rest . |
| 10 | Both purport to change the normative situation of another , and both purport to do so by voluntary acts undertaken in the belief that they have these normative consequences . |
| 11 | They must satisfy the Authority that they have all technical equipment to do their job efficiently and that their manager has the necessary professional quali-fications . |
| 12 | Now that hope will have been taken from her , leaving her feeling that they have unfinished business , which ( unless she believes in life after death ) will remain unfinished for ever . |
| 13 | Do you think that when people are buying the insurance that they have much of an idea about their consumer power ? |
| 14 | Artists have found in the past that they have many enquiries about their work after having a painting reproduced by us . |
| 15 | Artists have found in the past that they have many enquiries about their work after having a painting reproduced by us . |
| 16 | Such groups may be informal in the sense that they have few rules , enjoy participative leadership and have flexible roles . |
| 17 | ‘ With psychological astuteness , the Dadaists spoke of energy and will and assured the world that they had amazing plans . |
| 18 | and in empirical sorry and in in empirical work we tend to use these nonlinear demand functions simply because they have this nice property that they have constant elasticity , and it makes subsequent calculations considerably easier , and you may think in actual fact that linear demand curves are quite restrictive . |
| 19 | Gobies , small fish that live in tidal rock pools , prove in a particularly convincing way that they have such a thing . |
| 20 | There is no doubt that they have some excellent musical ideas but at the moment their efforts are a little unfocussed . |
| 21 | At job interviews , 77% of respondents ( 585/757 ) tell the lay interview panel that they have cystic fibrosis , either always or sometimes . |
| 22 | Unfortunately most people have no idea that they have high blood pressure because it does n't actually feel any different . |
| 23 | The fact that they had contentious articles written with a fearless pungency seems to have been due to his joint editorship of both . |
| 24 | His view that the accountants in the earlier case owed a duty of care was based on the fact that they had actual knowledge of the plaintiff 's intended and actual reliance on the accounts that they were to prepare . |
| 25 | However , there was no doubt that , despite Owen 's low salary as a lecturer in philosophy at Columbia University , and the fact that they had two small children to clothe and feed , her cousin and her husband were amazingly happy and contented together . |
| 26 | The Direktor felt , not for the first time , deeply resentful of the fact that they had any part in choosing the programme . |
| 27 | Contrary to popular myth , many men can remember those small but important details about the women in their lives , such as their birthday and the fact that they have two eyes , one on each side of their nose , probably browny-blue ( the eyes , not the nose ) . |
| 28 | When they are quite innocent of certain events they are unfortunately blamed by the public in those areas , and they are seen as damaging the countryside and they are seen also they do not encourage the matter when you envisage the fact that they have these erm , for instance , animals — the dogs around their sites which are not noted for their behaviour , and there are many aspects of their behaviour which upset people around . |
| 29 | Though I suppose one has to make a passing one has to make a passing er reference to the information which has come out in the other house erm and be publicised this weekend in the press but er er at one million almost one million a slug , M E Ps do n't come cheap , er I suppose one however would want to make allowances for the fact that they have three parliamentary buildings , that they have to go on trips and that er they have to pay er er I suppose German rates for their bureaucracy so there clearly are exceptional factors and indeed I would n't want to make too much of that . |
| 30 | Briefly , Cloward and Ohlin argue that there is greater pressure on members of the working class to behave criminally or delinquently due to the fact that they have less opportunity to succeed by legitimate means . |