Example sentences of "of [noun pl] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this country , lead pipe was traditionally used for the water system ( the word ‘ plumbing ’ derives from the Latin word for lead ) , but this has now largely been replaced by copper , and an increasing number of houses have a copper plumbing system . |
| 2 | Here both foot-soldiers and officers were required , and indeed they still are : what churches call stewardship of talents has a place . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's very important for preparers of accounts to have a voice , and only the top 100 companies really have the resources to cope with the amount of time and effort that takes . |
| 4 | CALMS 's big snag is that only 73 per cent of homes have a phone . |
| 5 | More than 88pc of homes have a telephone , up from 75pc in 1982 . |
| 6 | I pointed Armstrong westwards but pulled over near a post office and a couple of shops to have a think . |
| 7 | As much as 85 per cent of cars had a radio , and over half were used whenever the car was driven . |
| 8 | The act created the concept of commercial contracts and of traders having a firm registered at the ‘ Firm Registry ’ and also dealt with partnerships , limited partnerships , joint-stock companies , and co-operatives ( which were considered to be business enterprises ) . |
| 9 | Rather surprisingly , the recent The Artist readership survey found that although the cast majority of readers have a video player , not everyone has purchased an instructional art tape . |
| 10 | The reduction in the number of candidates had a side effect in that no count in 1975 went beyond 12 stages whereas in 1973 two counts reached 18 stages . |
| 11 | The great majority of molluscs have a minute , planktonic larval stage , a small ciliated object bearing no resemblance to the adult , that drifts as part of the plankton until ready to settle and assume its mature form . |
| 12 | A poem with a very regular beat is one which is strongly organised hierarchically , so that there is metrical organisation beyond the line ; each line , stanza and possibly group of stanzas has a beat which is its strongest metrically , up to the stanza level or possibly even higher , as in many nursery rhymes , for example . |
| 13 | The grid of wires has a spacing of 100 micrometres |
| 14 | In a square matrix A of order n the array of elements has a determinant unc which is in general nonzero : this implies that the columns ( and the rows ) are linearly independent , so that there is no nonzero column vector x such that Ax vanishes . |
| 15 | In the past all sorts of different kinds of buildings had a stone placed in the wall to show when they were built . |
| 16 | This most elegant of bridges has a centre span of 702 feet . |
| 17 | Linnaeus ' system of plants had a basis in arithmetic : he counted the male and female parts of the flower , and these figures placed it in its class . |
| 18 | That joke no doubt will appeal to all who question the value of accountants having a stranglehold on top jobs in Britain 's industry and commerce . |
| 19 | He stood there in the crowded classroom , half listening to Mrs Willmot , and thought of the inexorable process going on all round him — the lives whose courses were being decided at this moment , behind the innocent-seeming chatter , the smiles , the faintly carnival atmosphere of families having a day out . |
| 20 | I think he 's has loads and loads of things had a lot 's and lot 's to eat |
| 21 | In the towns and cities , every block of flats had a Party representative , who reported to an area controller , who , in turn , was responsible to a district officer . |
| 22 | On the Marley system , the ends of gutters have a notch cut into them to fit the retaining clips at joints . |
| 23 | In this study about a quarter of patients had a biopsy for a sole haematological abnormality . |
| 24 | Approximately 5% of patients have a risk of bleeding from gastric varices after successful obliteration of their oesophageal veins . |
| 25 | In the study reported by Pezim and others , 5% of patients having a pouch procedure were identified as having indeterminant colitis . |
| 26 | In the early 1950s no more than 10 per cent of households had a television . |
| 27 | In those areas where it was possible to receive transmissions only 9% of households had a set , and only 8% of our sample watched television daily . |
| 28 | In these often lonely circumstances people 's desire for medical advice may be acute , and with nearly nine tenths of households having a telephone in 1990 ( up from three quarters in 1981 ) , advice is becoming more accessible . |
| 29 | The second point is that the writing of objectives has a purpose . |
| 30 | As well as tidying up the whole system , it re-affirms that the doctrine of saints has a place , but not the central place , in Catholic piety . |