Example sentences of "have [verb] the [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The General Assembly has asked the richer countries to give one per cent of their annual budget to try and wipe out poverty in the third world . |
| 2 | In his biography of John Wesley the by then very conservative Robert Southey warned : Perhaps the manner in which Methodism has familiarized the lower classes to the work of combining in associations , making rules for their own governance , raising funds , and communicating from one part of the kingdom to another , may be reckoned among the incidental evils which have arisen from it . |
| 3 | In this respect , MAFF has created an awkward precedent which has enriched the larger farmers in the LFAs at the expense of smaller farmers . |
| 4 | And you know , you always you er give , gave your number you see and er course some people I believe had an a I believe in later days they 'd given the older numbers out again , I do n't know wh you know , because some people that 've joined since me have got an older number , so I do n't know whether they 've given the ol they were sort of long since run out , you know . |
| 5 | Pity you were n't here , I could have rushed up a ticket or two and you could have explained the finer nuances . |
| 6 | [ Having considered the earlier authorities his Lordship continued : ] |
| 7 | That so few boilers in the UK would have met the tougher standards would have provided an excellent opportunity for new , cost-reducing investment . |
| 8 | Texas Instruments , having recognised the wider implications of producing high performance processors , has attached great importance to its C compilers and produces them for their TMS320C25 and TMS320C3x . |
| 9 | In an expanding universe in which the density of matter varied slightly from place to place , gravity would have caused the denser regions to slow down their expansion and start contracting . |
| 10 | Of course it need not follow that separate assessment must have cast the younger members of every family as wage earners , any more than it did in other shires where traces of an emergent discrete labouring class were already manifest . |
| 11 | Delegates blocked the election of former ZSL Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister Kazimierz Olesiak , as chairman of the newly named party , feeling he would have hindered the broader moves towards the reunification of the peasant movement , electing instead Jozef Zych . |
| 12 | He might have rejected Malebranche 's extension of the arguments about relativity of perception from secondary to primary qualities ; he might have rejected the further conclusions Bayle said should be drawn from them . |
| 13 | Having established the finer points , the course moves out to the Barossa training area of gorse , bracken and small pine woods adjacent to the Academy . |
| 14 | She had lifted the larger pieces clear when she saw something buried in the grey ash . |
| 15 | ‘ It would have been a different story if the brewery had done the earlier repairs . ’ |
| 16 | Indeed , the implication of his resignation letter was that for five years there had been conflict at the very heart of the government that had precipitated the earlier resignations of Heseltine , Lawson and , in July 1990 , Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and industry Secretary ( the last after he had expressed intemperate views about Britain 's European partners that many observers believed the Prime Minister herself shared ) . |
| 17 | ‘ But ’ , as Mrs Napier George Sturt described in her Life of Charles Stun , ‘ these paintings had been the delight of Sturt 's leisure ; he was devoted to ornithology , and had collected the rarer specimens at great trouble and risk , and at no price would he part with the folio . ’ |
| 18 | I 've got the bigger styles of Maggie Thatcher |
| 19 | According to the extracted deposition of one pupil , Doris Harrison , Miss Outram had told the older girls about the forced feeding of suffragettes in prison . |
| 20 | Both Lyell and Wallace opted for a theory in which a supernatural force had affected the later stages of human development . |
| 21 | Most , however , had reached and even overshot their maturity ; they had become the elder statesmen of their breeds : exceptional , memorable examples of the extremes nature is capable of attaining . |
| 22 | It was no help to discover that I was not alone in my distaste for the new order because , along with the ever-present sexism , I had to fight the crueller jibes of ageism . |
| 23 | They had learned the finer points from a freebooter at Dover , later buying their own streamlined cutter and running it from Folkestone to the French coast , dealing in brandy and fine lace . |
| 24 | The older kids were at school and two of the women had taken the younger ones to the park . |
| 25 | She had disdained the smaller waves in the shelter of the islands , but now she seemed to tremble as her hull soaked up the ponderous force of the ocean . |
| 26 | You you ti , you tithe of your parsley , and your thyme , and your sage , yo you tithe of these things , when you , when you go and pick ten figs , you give one fig to th to God , you tithe of that but you 've left the weightier things undone . |
| 27 | In most instances , though not all , I have listed the bigger titles first . |
| 28 | We have provided comics , magazines , records and cassettes ; we have installed comfortable seating and modern furniture , and have laid on numerous events and activities : we have been successful in updating our image , but one of the consequences of our success has been the degree to which we have attracted the rowdier elements of the local youth . |
| 29 | Certainly the scousers have had the better results , Saturdays was no big deal … 2–0 at home to 10 men Sheff Wed who were totally impotent up front . |
| 30 | Like many other executives who have reached the higher echelons , you may well find that the career evolution methods you used earlier can no longer produce the results you seek today . |