Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Though the document was about the laity , it had failed to take account of the views of the laity — at least until the previous spring , by which time it was too late for them to have much influence upon its formulation .
2 Animals are not human , therefore it seems inappropriate for them to have legal rights .
3 In the past it has been difficult for them to have long runs in the team . ’
4 We need to remember that it is no more natural for women to live longer than men than it is for them to have lower incomes , to expect to give up work if their men wish it at marriage or in later life , to be the keepers of family memory , the main carers of those in need , the main sufferers from the empty nest as children leave home .
5 that 's for the name , yeah so , so , some of them will be confused , but not enough for them to have any problems I should n't have thought .
6 ‘ All the more reason then for them to have some knowledge of basic skills — ‘
7 Today children are meeting and playing with children of other faiths so it is important for them to have some understanding and knowledge of each other 's traditions .
8 Acts undertaken for another purpose and not in order to consent can constitute consent if undertaken in the belief that they will confer a right or impose a duty and if the fact that they are undertaken with such a belief is the reason for them having this result .
9 They were ‘ volunteers ’ who between them had vast experience of how ‘ Maranyl ’ was manufactured on our five extrusion systems at Billingham .
10 He explained that , since he wrote that advice , it was getting more difficult to arrange a DIY funeral because of the growing number of takeovers ; in fact , three companies between them had large parts of the southern half of the country sewn up .
11 And it was three , three mothers hired a hall and a cake and everything between them to have three parties .
12 The force between them has some correspondence with Newton 's finding that the gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them .
13 In sociological terms they are ‘ ideal types ’ and the differences between them have all kinds of thematic and representative significance .
14 The society was formed in October 1982 with nine members who , between them have 257 years of service !
15 Shay and Brenda who between them have 90 years experience of selling poppies in memory of those who died in the service of their country
16 Council put the central heating in when we got advanced in years and when it became necessary in the doctor 's opinion for me to have central heating because I had a heart complaint .
17 It 's not essential for me to have four houses .
18 My mother was the only one was keen for me to have some sort of education .
19 In Newham there were better domiciliary services in 1984 than in Ipswich ( for example it was possible for someone to have seven-day-a-week home help and meals-on-wheels cover ; there were day centres and day hospitals , and a good deal of voluntary organisation provision ) .
20 It is not always possible for short journeys such as yours to have all services available from one stop ( e.g. buses to Cameron Tool are available from both stops ) but the arrangement serves a very substantial proportion of bus users .
21 It might be quite acceptable for somebody to have three packets of sweets a day , whereas I would n't .
22 Told you about her having that dish and it went funny .
23 Endoscopy had a high yield ( 42% ) and duodenal biopsy identified coeliac disease in three patients ( two were aged >70 years ) each of whom had normal folate values .
24 The hospital admitted 35 people , four of whom had serious injuries — including one man with multiple injuries .
25 Eleven were considered unfit for surgery including three with metastases and three recurrences after surgery , two of whom had rectal stump recurrences after abdominoprineal resections .
26 Four University , four College , and three Polytechnic courses in this category were described , involving 26 staff , only three of whom were not doing this as their main concern , and all of whom had appropriate degree qualifications .
27 Vlasov was by this time fully aware of the likely fate of his army , many of whom had grisly crimes to answer for ; however , he himself refused to take an opportunity to escape to Spain .
28 Thorpe J. having held that ‘ there is no doubt at all that J. is a child of sufficient understanding to make an informed decision , ’ I shall assume that , so far as the common law is concerned , Lord Scarman would have decided that neither the local authority nor W. 's aunt , both of whom had parental responsibilities , could give consent to treatment which would be effective in the face of W. 's refusal of consent .
29 Hypersplenism was noted in four patients , two of whom had palpable splenomegaly .
30 The fittest in British society should therefore have been the lower class and the immigrant , both of whom had higher birth rates than the upper classes .
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