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

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1 Perhaps because of disincentives built into the Supplementary Benefit system , the ‘ zero-earner couple ’ category is bigger than one would expect if the wives of unemployed men had the same economic activity rates as the wives of employed men ( see Rimmer , 1987 , p. 44 for a discussion of this phenomenon ) .
2 The Board of Inland Revenue had the power to serve a notice on any body corporate , requiring particulars that appeared to them to be relevant to a transaction to which s 485 might apply .
3 Does the portrayal of sexual violence have the effect of making it more likely ?
4 This is why a mix of different people has the potential to dovetail and become a cohesive team .
5 In no other aspect of public affairs has the authority of the Executive been abused as much as in Civil , Religious and Democratic Liberties .
6 In either type of case the Director of Public Prosecutions has the power to take over the proceedings at any stage , either by conducting them himself or discontinuing them .
7 It follows from these conjectures that members of literate societies have the possibility of developing logical functions , of specialising in the ‘ truth functions ’ of language , and of extracting themselves from the embeddedness of everyday social life .
8 To measure the power in a load , whichever of the movable or pair of fixed coils has the lower resistance is connected essentially or actually in series with the load as indicated in figure 7.2(b) , so that the load current is essentially or actually carried .
9 It would be helpful to consider what Dr Slabbert said at the conference in Johannesburg on August 2 , 1991 , namely that the Department of National Health has the capacity to deal with major health problems .
10 As class leaders as well as local preachers , persons of humble birth had the opportunity to play a responsible role in their communities .
11 But the overwhelming majority of black women have the legal status of children .
12 It was a kind of verse at which he himself excelled — there are those who say that it is to be found just under the surface of some of his apparently " serious " poetry — and Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats has the spirit , if not the content , of the Bolovian stanzas which he had been writing since his early twenties .
13 A hairdressing business and a manufacturer of armoured tanks have the same profit objective , but radically different objects .
14 Suppose a competitive industry of small firms has the supply curve and long-run marginal cost curve LMC whereas a monopolist , by taking advantage of scale economies , would face the long-run marginal cost curve LMC ' ; .
15 Using a number of small distributors has the advantage of good coverage , and is advantageous where there are regional differences in culture or business practices .
16 He went on to stress the likelihood of sectarian clashes had the procession followed the original route and he defended the actions of the RUC as necessary to avoid even worse violence .
17 To treat women of the eighteenth century narrowly as pioneers or precursors of modern feminism has the unfortunate effect of visiting a new teleology on eighteenth century studies .
18 To make up these leaf forms , each motif is prepared by first cutting out two rectangles of suitable size having the grain running obliquely at about 45° which are then edge-jointed and taped together .
19 Perhaps in the area of man-made climates has the physical geographer climatologist contribution been most significant and the work of T.J. Chandler ( 1965 ) on the Climate of London stands as an exemplary model in this field , and subsequent research by B.W. Atkinson on thunderstorm activity ( see Atkinson , 1979 ) clearly demonstrates the kind of contribution that can be made to document the inadvertent effects of man .
20 The original definition of financial resources had the virtue of approximating to be a generally-understood distinction between monetary and non-monetary assets , though even that distinction can be difficult .
21 One reply to this is that most offences of bad driving have the potential to cause death or serious injury ; and that the North Committee 's proposals undervalue the element of endangerment where no harm occurs rather than over -value the resulting harm where it does occur .
22 In 1952 Denys Darlow , then organist of All Saints church , Tilford , Barbara Gregory , a member of the church choir , and a group of local enthusiasts had the idea of combining a church with ideal acoustics , with an organist-conductor with a passion for Bach and access to young professional and semi-professional musicians .
23 Instead of local authorities having the inherent right , or what in England is called the common law right , to conduct their affairs as they wished , it became established that local authorities could only do those things which Parliament had authorised them to do .
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