Example sentences of "that [noun pl] have [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In tests carried out in both Britain and the United States it has also been proved that non-smokers have far better memory and recall than smokers .
2 He had already agreed that the ‘ two-plus-four ’ talks between the Germanies and the victorious powers of 1945 — the United States , the Soviet Union , Britain and France — should start just before the East Germans voted : thereby underlining that foreigners have as much interest as Germans in the issue of unification .
3 The implications of this accelerated diffusion of technology and rapid translation into innovative products are that companies have very little time to rest on the strength of any one currently successful product .
4 To illustrate this process in its simplest form , assume that banks have just one type of liability — deposits — and two types of asset — balances with the Bank of England ( to achieve liquidity ) , and advances to customers ( to earn profit ) .
5 The various levels of technology employed also mean that workers have very different skills and qualifications .
6 This argument is based on the fact that X-cells have better spatial resolution than Y-cells while the latter have better temporal resolution , plus the fact that Y-cells tend to respond only transiently to sustained contrast .
7 However , this example serves to emphasize how misleading it can be to assume that the breeding sex ratio necessarily reflects the extent to which male reproductive success varies for , even among closely related species , it is likely to be the case that males have substantially longer breeding lifespans in monogamous species than in polygynous ones ( see Wiley , 1974 ; Clutton-Brock et al . ,
8 Other differences are that males have much longer finnage , and also a much more humped forehead .
9 Recent survey results suggest that cohabitees have more liberal views towards marriage and divorce than marrieds .
10 It is obvious that humans have far bigger brains than even our closest relatives and the fossil record suggests that the rate of evolution has been spectacularly fast , the brain size more than doubling in less than two million years ( see e.g. Foley , Another unique Species ) .
11 Whereas previously those who had wealth to bequeath typically provided very handsomely for the eldest son , and at a much reduced level for the rest of their children , a practice became common which implied that children had roughly equal claims on a parent 's resources , with some distinction made on grounds of gender so that women and men inherited different kinds of property .
12 allusion to the saying ‘ Little pitchers have big ears ’ , meaning that children have very sharp hearing .
13 Measor ( 1983 ; 1984 ) , for example , has shown that children have very clear ideas about which are high-status subjects in school , and which low-status .
14 Evidence from Huaiwiri in 1975–9 also suggests that women had crucially important influence on men 's decisions .
15 Even if one belongs to a group because of who one 's mother was and not because of who one 's father was , this in no ways implies that women have particularly high ( or low ) status in that group .
16 An exhausting schedule of appointments means that ministers have too little time to think .
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