Example sentences of "of [noun pl] have [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since lots of birds have highly conspicuous plumage , the possession of such plumage would seem to carry with it some real advantages . |
| 2 | This research showed that one group of bronzes had very similar lead isotope ratios to the Benue Rift ores , while others had isotope ratios which , although different to the ores , could result from Benue Rift material being mixed with another ( and geologically younger ) source . |
| 3 | The majority of the ‘ halls ’ can be divided into two on the basis of their floor area , one group of settlements having mostly large buildings , the other smaller , which may reflect the status of the settlements ( Figure 2.7 ) ( James , Marshall and Millett 1984 ) . |
| 4 | The decline of countries has as much to do with the loss of vision as any other factor . |
| 5 | Texts used to talk of organisations having just one goal , frequently profit maximisation . |
| 6 | A majority of comets have either parabolic or hyperbolic orbits . |
| 7 | Although the majority of gliders have extremely docile stalling characteristics and are very reluctant to enter a full spin , most of the more serious accidents in the sport are caused initially by stalling . |
| 8 | The flames from hundreds of eruptions had once furnace-fashioned this valley and left it with rocks precariously dangling on steep hills , scattered warningly across the path , uncertainly wedged , it seemed , against the few huts which passed for homes over an ill-repaired double span of bridge which crossed the stream feeding the lake . |
| 9 | The Department of Highways has approximately 1100 employees on the payroll at any one time . |
| 10 | If some slight evidence of that is required , the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations has over 550 entries for the Book of Common Prayer . |
| 11 | Our expectations of teachers have as significant an effect on them as their expectations have on pupils . |
| 12 | Er lots of languages have very complex kinship terms where in English they 're fairly simple , er I mean someone who is one of your parents brothers is going to be an uncle , no matter what . |
| 13 | Gairdner , who examined a large number of normal children during their first five years of life , observed that at birth only 4% of children had fully retractile prepuces , while in half the prepuce was partially retractile . |
| 14 | These two groups of children have quite different characteristics , care histories , prognoses and needs for social work support . |
| 15 | The most pessimistic viewpoint is that the brains of different groups of mammals have very little in common because they evolved separately from a common ancestral form in which the brain was relatively formless , lacking the distinctive sub-divisions that can be identified in the brains of modern mammals . |
| 16 | On the other side , men of letters have so few opportunities of applying themselves to the general practice that the rules they lay down , however plausible they may seem in the closet , would often ruin the honest gardener who should venture to follow them . |
| 17 | It is notable that students with no qualifications or who enter only on the basis of O-levels have relatively high non-completion rates , while students entering on the basis of one A-level or Access courses have completion rates which are marginally better than A-level entrants . |
| 18 | Since previous to the revolution the majority of women had very low levels of education and , therefore , few opportunities open to them , the FMC embarked on an educational program and a rehabilitation scheme for the many women who found themselves in degrading and unrewarding situations . |
| 19 | The proportion of women having just two children , for example , rose from 28% for the 1920s generation to 43% for those born in 1945 . |
| 20 | A lot of skulls have very good teeth , when you come to think about it . ’ |