Example sentences of "have [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Who has right of way on a roundabout ?
2 Even when we 're talking about the person who has right of way on a roundabout .
3 Now who normally has right of way on a roundabout ?
4 Who has right of way at that point ?
5 So always work out in your mind that nobody has right of way in those circumstances .
6 On some you 'll find screens and pews and font-covers of such exuberance they 'd more at home in a Moorish palace .
7 As landlords ' solicitors become ever wary that they should leave nothing to chance , the number of individual tenant 's covenants appear to be increasing with heavyweight commercial leases quite often having comfortably in excess of 30 covenants and not far short of 50 .
8 In this sense , power is not something that individuals and groups do or do not have automatically through occupation of a particular social or economic position , rather it is something gained through the skilful deployment of political resources in order to achieve particular objectives .
9 The boats averaged four to six miles an hour , and had right of way over cargo boats on the canal .
10 The inspectors , appointed by the Crown in order to avoid governmental interference , had right of access to virtually any chemical company .
11 The Mamur Zapt had right of entry to all premises in Cairo .
12 In other words , Saab felt that she had less in common with ‘ feminists ’ in general ( which , as we know , is often a shorthand for White Western women ) than with women of the Orient .
13 Careful examination of Jones ' experiment showed that it had less in common with that of Fleischmann and Pons than the media advertised : Jones measured no heat and his neutrons were more than a billionfold too few to explain the amounts of heat that the chemists were claiming .
14 She had already from time to time employed Mrs Rafferty , although the incredibly swift rate of her pregnancies made her appearances at Four Winds unpredictable .
15 This was a band inspired into existence by The Sex Pistols , but who had more in common with Sabbath , Hawkwind , Hendrix , Pink Floyd …
16 Although Barrett described himself as an ‘ antiques dealer ’ , the way he handled Miss Prinsep had more in common with the foot-in-the-door techniques employed by what the Sussex police wearily refer to as the ‘ knocker boys ’ .
17 None of this included identification with a national entity ; indeed , ‘ a French knight , like a French priest , had more in common with a knight or a priest from Italy or Germany than with a French peasant ’ .
18 Tony Beard in Record Mirror described the group as ‘ Rumbling rather than jangling ’ and that songs like ‘ Crushed ’ had more in common with Sonic Youth than Orange Juice .
19 Coleridge had little sympathy with their overheated prose , and his own response to this charged and mysterious place probably had more in common with that of a later visitor , Samuel Palmer , who in the nineteenth century saw Culbone through visionary eyes .
20 The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation .
21 The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation .
22 Louis had more in common with Carl than with Sam , Jerry or me .
23 David Martill of the Open University , and David Unwin of Reading University , discovered the fossilized tissue of the wing of a Sandactylus alive 100 million years ago , which had more in common with bat wings than the skin of modern reptiles .
24 If anything , these studies had more in common with the avowedly anti-correctionalist ‘ labelling ’ theories of the later 1960s .
25 Going to the cinema in the 1940s and 1950s , for example , was an important part of courtship among young people : it had more in common with other courtship rituals than with other forms of media use , such as reading the paper .
26 In production terms , the morning paper perhaps had more in common with the assembly line than with the production of most TV programmes .
27 The Gascons did not consider themselves French ; their language was barely intelligible to those who spoke the langue d'oil of the north , and their culture and society had more in common with Languedoc than with northern France .
28 In some ways , Wendell decided as he went upstairs , he had more in common with Harry than with his own son , Judd .
29 One suspects that police constables had more in common with local popular culture than with evangelical vigilantes .
30 The British coal dispute of 1984–5 had more in common with the American ‘ labor struggles ’ of the early twentieth century than the post-reform era UMW strikes of 1977 and 1981 .
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