Example sentences of "[det] [noun] have the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BARGAIN-HUNTERS who scour the Church bazaar , the Scout fete and the car boot sale this Easter have the right to demand their money back if what they buy turns out to be a pig in a poke , a report says today . |
| 2 | Blocks of this kind have the advantage of being regular and of uniform size , making planning , estimating and building easier than if using natural stone . |
| 3 | Selection of a topic and group is also affected by the fact that some groups have the power to refuse access to researchers . |
| 4 | Some interviewers have the ability to carry impressions and those assessments in their head ; most do not . |
| 5 | In my opinion , there is a definite relationship between the size and incidence angle of the horizontal stabiliser ( tailplane ) and the angle of the main shaft ( some designs have the shaft raked forwards ) . |
| 6 | Some grandparents have the sadness of losing rather than gaining grandchildren . |
| 7 | They are the only ones who in this war have the life or death of which one dreams . ’ |
| 8 | Some substances have the ability to soak up , or adsorb , other chemicals . |
| 9 | Some machines have the capacity to freeze the picture on the screen when you pause and we discussed in Chapter 1 the way picture quality can vary between videodisc and videocassette when you do this . |
| 10 | It is lamentable that few butchers have the storage or the cash to put away half a hundredweight of potential turnover , watch it shrink by ten to fifteen per cent and charge the prices needed to make it all worthwhile . |
| 11 | You have n't got political democracy and you ca n't have democracy er er er as long as er some people have the control of other other people . |
| 12 | Some people have the view that it 's self-indulgent or self-centred to seek help for difficulties . |
| 13 | The NWA song ‘ Fuck The Police ’ sinks home : ‘ Some people have the authority to kill a minority . ’ |
| 14 | The sequences presented in this paper have the accession numbers X68684-X68689 , and X69115-6 ( EMBL database ) . |
| 15 | Manipulation PhotoFinish is at its best with 24 bit images — containing anything up to 16.7 million colours — but very few people have the hardware to display such complex images at the moment . |
| 16 | Very few people have the luxury of starting completely from scratch although those who do seldom see it as an advantage . |
| 17 | The Joint Venture and other gas producers in this area have the opportunity to participate in each package of contracts . |
| 18 | Nowadays , he is sad that few teachers have the training , the freedom and thus the confidence in their own creative skills , to set such positive activities in motion . |
| 19 | Some sponges have the property of being able to ‘ rebuild ’ their colonies of cells if they are mashed up . |
| 20 | Some girls have the relationship with their mothers that if anything happens they can tell their mother . |
| 21 | ‘ I think it is tragic that anybody has to die in this conflict but the Peter Brookes and Richard Needhams of this world have the solution in their hands . |
| 22 | Some estimates have the world 's population peaking/stabilising in 2050 , others 2100 at about ten billions ; however , these population projections are dependent upon there being sufficient food supplies , and no nuclear war or ecological disaster on the planet . |
| 23 | LOCAL companies will later this year have the chance to take part in an IDB trade mission to three of the fastest growing economies in the Asia Pacific region . |
| 24 | Today , deep into a third term of Conservative government , the hopes and phrases of this time have the ring of a bygone era . |
| 25 | Er Mr Deputy Speaker I 'm glad er at last after some further delay that members of this house have the opportunity to discuss the important matter of the boundaries on which the European elections will be fought on June the ninth and the extension to the vote to E C citizens in the U K for those elections . |
| 26 | Sometimes projects are suggested to the governments of LDCs as part of an overall economic development programme , especially where such projects have the potential to generate export earnings in foreign currencies to service loans provided . |
| 27 | When will the Government place an order for the fourth Trident boat and how much money have the Government already spent on it ? |
| 28 | Such operations have the advantage of removing the pollutants entirely from the waste stream ie the compounds do not merely undergo a change of state within the environment — and can exhibit beneficial interactions with microorganisms ( eg the so-called powdered activated carbon ( PACT ) process , in which powdered carbon is added to activated sludge and ‘ biological activated carbon ’ , in which microorganisms extend the life of carbon filters before regeneration is required ) . |
| 29 | Such plants have the potential for a single clone or genet ( product of a single zygote ) to dominate large areas of the vegetation . |
| 30 | Farmers in such situations have the experience , knowledge and wisdom to recognise that implementation of structural policy could lead to the end of their occupancy of land as independent entrepreneurs . |