Example sentences of "the [noun pl] have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the activities have a number : do them in that order . |
| 2 | The Pacific Plate , for instance , underlies almost the whole Pacific Ocean whereas a number of minor plates within the continents have an area of less than 1x106km 2 . |
| 3 | The Pakistanis have a culture . |
| 4 | The peasantry and the labourers had no voice at all , and only the few remaining Polish gentry had any representation in the upper house of the electoral college . |
| 5 | Indeed Hamilton believed that all 3-dimensional systems had to have divisors of zero and considered the fact that the quaternions had no divisors of zero to be one of its chief merits . |
| 6 | Gibbs-Heaviside eventually won as regards applicability but the quaternions have the honour of being the first to demonstrate the existence of consistent number systems not satisfying the commutative law of multiplication . |
| 7 | The solicitors had a conflict of interests , and should have arranged for him to receive independent legal advice . |
| 8 | If the PWRs have an Achilles heel it is their steam-generator tubes . |
| 9 | On average , Butler and his staff cook for 800 people a day and all the chefs have an input when it comes to menu suggestions . |
| 10 | Since shareholders controlled the company they should be entitled to the profits and the managers obliged to act in their interests , for this ensured that the shareholders had the incentive to exploit wealth-maximizing opportunities . |
| 11 | The shareholders have the right to benefit from this . |
| 12 | The directors are , firstly , made accountable to the shareholders by structuring the internal division of power within the company so that the shareholders have the power to appoint and dismiss directors and to supervise them whilst in office . |
| 13 | For example , Manning ( 1977 ) showed how policemen and women in the ranks have an ability to bypass or undermine innovations introduced by police managers , some even doing so while appearing to endorse the policy change ( Chatterton 1979 ) . |
| 14 | In his view , the courts had no power to question the validity of any act passed by both Houses of Parliament and given the Royal Assent . |
| 15 | Those propositions are all established by the decision of this House in Thomas v. University of Bradford [ 1987 ] A.C. 795 which held that the courts had no jurisdiction to entertain such disputes which must be decided by the visitor . |
| 16 | Thus , recognition by Her Majesty 's Government was the decisive matter and the courts had no role save to inquire of the executive whether or not it had recognised the government in question . |
| 17 | The courts had a variety of treatment orders available in respect of the children brought before them , including placing children on probation and sending them to attendance or detention centres or to approved schools . |
| 18 | Even if the courts had the resources to perform the first of these tasks , the latter involves value judgments of a kind inappropriate to the judicial function . |
| 19 | The entire gang will be sentenced next month after customs officers apply to the courts to have the organisation 's assets seized , an estimated £3.5 million . |
| 20 | But her husband applied to the courts to have the children returned and in April this year a High Court judge ruled they should be sent back to him in South Dakota . |
| 21 | As the authorities which I have cited demonstrate , the visitor is applying not the general law of the land but a peculiar , domestic law of which he is the sole arbiter and of which the courts have no cognisance . |
| 22 | Undoubtedly there are factors over which the courts have no control , and for which they have no responsibility . |
| 23 | ( 6 ) Nothing in the Act or in the Convention prevents the Crown from facilitating the giving of evidence by its present or former officers or servants , subject to such conditions if any as it may deem appropriate , but the courts have no power to order anyone to give evidence in circumstances in which section 9(4) applies . |
| 24 | The courts may recognize them , but the courts have no power to enforce them . |
| 25 | A less absolute position is also adopted in Australia and in Scotland ( Ewing and Finnie , 1988 : 99–102 ) where the courts have a discretion to admit illegally obtained evidence . |
| 26 | It might be argued that the courts have a role to play in ensuring that groups which have been unfairly denied access to the policy-making arena or who have a genuine complaint about how that process was conducted , should be allowed to challenge the outcome of that process in the courts . |
| 27 | Instead under section 78 of the Act the courts have a power to exclude such evidence if it appears to the court that the admission of the evidence would have such an adverse effect on the fairness of the proceedings that the court ought not to admit it . |
| 28 | Thereafter , both under our domestic law and under the Convention , the courts have the power and the duty to assess the ‘ pressing social need ’ for the maintenance of confidentiality ‘ proportionate to the legitimate aim pursued ’ against the basic right to freedom of expression and all other relevant factors . |
| 29 | Drink too much this summer , fail a breath test , and the courts have the power to impose a prison sentece . |
| 30 | Again they skimmed the ground all the way to the Front , but this time the Germans had no chance to hear the warning buzz of engines , for they were shelling again . |