Example sentences of "have considerable [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I realise that he has considerable problems .
2 There are no major heavy industries , but light manufacturing and service industries have become increasingly important , and the large leisure and tourist industry has considerable consequences for bird habitats .
3 The defence expenditure to which the hon. Gentleman referred has considerable benefits for the scientific world and for British industry .
4 Under section 10(1) , however , the court has considerable powers :
5 Unlike the UK , where the Court on declaring an agreement " contrary to the public interest " then has little power to impose effective penalties against offending firms , the Commission has considerable powers of enforcement and can fine firms up to 10 per cent of their turnover for operating an anti- competitive practice .
6 The pool format has considerable merits if it 's employed as a round-robin league table qualifier for the knock-out stages as per the '91 World Cup , but in Sicily it was so exhaustive it was almost self-defeating .
7 Keeping our dogs healthy into old age has considerable advantages .
8 A file arranged as in Fig. 8.1 has considerable advantages for the retrieval of records that meet some request based on a number of separate criteria which are often called record attributes or descriptors .
9 In many ways it has considerable weaknesses .
10 My hon. Friend is right to remind us that the Universities Funding Council has considerable funds which it receives from the Government and distributes partially for research-based purposes .
11 She also has considerable reservations about her singer teacher in Stockholm , the Scottish tenor , Joseph Hislop .
12 The division into 3 LFA zones in the Auvergne has considerable implications for nature conservation .
13 This has considerable implications for knowledge about language .
14 This has considerable implications for regulating and controlling corporate crime .
15 Of obvious importance within individual societies is the relationship between the different age groups as this has considerable implications for the development of health and social policy and economic development .
16 Wet-rice production also has considerable implications for the community engaged in it .
17 A United States ' claim that those parts of the Convention that it favours have become customary international law has considerable implications for the international law-making process and for the third party rule .
18 Size has considerable implications for the ecology and behaviour of an animal .
19 There is , however , one major development which had a powerful impact on the portfolio and has considerable implications for the economy , namely the events that started on Wednesday 16th September , when the base rates went up from 10% to 12% to 15% and then back to 12% to 10% , all in the space of 24 hours .
20 This need has considerable implications for those activities which affect our environment , for instance by polluting it or creating visual eyesores .
21 That has considerable implications for the conduct of affairs .
22 The impact of increased environmental awareness has considerable implications for Scotland .
23 Including staff in the restrictions , rules , cash limits etc to allow them to consider all possible permutations has had considerable benefits .
24 It has had considerable benefits , it 's had one or two drawbacks and er I think the biggest lesson that we have probably learned so far from the Eurofighter programme , is that we have to be very careful when we make work sharing agreements in future , that er we do n't try to drive the work sharing requirement down to too low a level .
25 The defence advocate , Herbert Kerrigan , QC , said his client , a drug addict , had had considerable difficulties with heroin .
26 Absence of amenity is no longer of real significance in housing in North Shields but the ageing stock may have considerable problems regarding structural repair .
27 Coins do have considerable advantages over other objects as sources of information .
28 Communism did have considerable advantages , as Tamara , 70 , a pensioner from Moscow , points out .
29 They do have considerable advantages though , and it 's worth giving them a try to see if they suit you .
30 ‘ What happens within this house after that may have considerable repercussions . ’
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