Example sentences of "have a monopoly on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it not enough that the government has a monopoly on war ? ’ |
| 2 | The BBC , which can not collect statutory licence fees from European viewers , has been transmitting ‘ scrambled ’ programmes on the basis that it has a monopoly on the right to authorise the making and selling of the necessary ‘ unscrambling ’ decoders . |
| 3 | Scotland has never had much time for earthquakes : the national football team already has a monopoly on disasters . |
| 4 | No nation has a monopoly on it . |
| 5 | The Armed Forces have immense prestige , but no mystique ; generals are masters of a trade , the Party has a monopoly on insight . |
| 6 | It denotes an attempt to unify society through ‘ corporations ’ , each of which has a monopoly on the representation of particular categories of workers , professions and business ( capital ) . |
| 7 | And SPUC does not have a monopoly on horror . |
| 8 | London does not have a monopoly on chat this Sunday , however . |
| 9 | Plants do not have a monopoly on photosynthesis . |
| 10 | The British Technology Group should be there to support them — but it should not have a monopoly on Britain 's brains . |
| 11 | At the outset the book recognises that ‘ the United Kingdom does not have a monopoly on the best ideas or all of the problems ’ , so it is not a surprise to see discussion of Woonerven in the context of environmental protection and enhancement . |
| 12 | Russia does n't have a monopoly on unwanted teenage pregnancies but one statistic that does shock is the high abortion rate . |
| 13 | Teachers do not have a monopoly on educational debate . |
| 14 | But writers do not have a monopoly on such claims ; they are part of oral practices too . |
| 15 | Just to prove that the Slovenians do not have a monopoly on canoeing competition labels on alcoholic drinks , the French came up with this pleasant number . |
| 16 | By this time the Hintons more or less had a monopoly on sugar processing , and more and more land was being turned over to sugarcane production . |
| 17 | Yet in the 1930s the Soviet experiment , in the eyes of Western intellectuals , had a monopoly on health , vitality , youth and hope for the future . |
| 18 | BY SUGGESTING that women have a monopoly on being civilised , does Tony Parsons not open the door for double standards of judgment to be applied to the behaviour of women and men ? |
| 19 | One of the corporate myths is that top managers have a monopoly on stress — the incidence of stress is actually highest at the bottom of the hierarchy among process , clerical and service personnel . |
| 20 | Conversely , why is it that finance managers seem to think they have a monopoly on numeracy ? |