Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] 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 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 .
20 They none of them had much money , but the Bouveries had a house , for which they did not have to pay rent .
21 Neither of them had much appetite but they finished the wine .
22 Most of them had cartilaginous vertebrae , like modern toads .
23 And all of them had one thing in mind .
24 Many of them had blue lights on top .
25 Three of them had serious face and hand burns and were transferred to the burns unit of Glasgow Royal Infirmary .
26 And all of them had various music jobs before meeting up .
27 There was , however , one issue on which both of them had similar views : President Sadat 's peace-seeking journey to Jerusalem in November 1977 and its sequel at Camp David the following year .
28 Most of them had similar extensions .
29 Some of them had crucial help from the Israeli secret service , Mossad ) Those army commanders who did not immediately his were not so lucky .
30 Twenty-five trunk lines went into Chicago and most of them had attendant freight and passenger depots .
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