Example sentences of "they [verb] to have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What is advantageous about cheaper guitars is that they tend to have one sound , and when you plug 'em in you either like the sound or you do n't . |
| 2 | Character models are less likely to be hit as they tend to have higher initiative values . |
| 3 | They tend to have more empathy towards anything foreign and are more aware of language learning difficulties — having struggled to master English to a fairly high level . |
| 4 | ‘ Most people consolidate their information periodically and report it on a monthly basis : they tend to have huge consolidation exercises that go on for days . |
| 5 | Where kids become worldly-wise with such rapidity , it is easy for a certain laissez-faire to creep in ; they expect to have unbridled access to everything , and in the long run this is not doing any favours to either party concerned . |
| 6 | Other public services , notably the health service , have a comparable complexity even if they appear to have fewer levels of authority and discretions of autonomy . |
| 7 | Nor does , do they need to have good intellectual powers . |
| 8 | They seemed to have many roles , in reproduction , in blood vessels , in certain enzyme systems , and in the activity of nerves . |
| 9 | They seemed to have more money . |
| 10 | A new playroom has opened for children to use while they wait to have artificial limbs fitted . |
| 11 | Though they seem to have great relevance here , approaches to ‘ counselling ’ have tended to emerge and operate mostly in the context of more able , verbal and reflective groups in society . |
| 12 | But they seem to have other things on their mind than lesbian literary history . |
| 13 | And yet they seem to have more resources , more crime prevention officers , more everything |
| 14 | Erm they seem to have some trouble erm grasping erm under what circumstances , according to Locke , you can be deemed to have been given , to have given express consent . |
| 15 | They are wonderful with good or very good orchestras , but with a top orchestra they seem to have both hands bound ! |
| 16 | Yeah although the tape 's on I 'll still say I 'll still say I mean there are people within the company as within any company I 'm sure who you when you get to know their technical ability or lack thereof you think well how have they managed to get where they have but they just seem to be able they seem to have this ability to be able to be in the right place at the right time . |
| 17 | They seem to have this idea about natural talent and any kid who shows the slightest promise is put into sport and made to concentrate on that . |
| 18 | Many patients go on improving their physical abilities for years after their stroke or head injury , if they continue to have skilled rehabilitation guidance . |
| 19 | Does they tend to have more gumption , they tend to have to stand up to him in the end . |
| 20 | They appeared to have one law for the big boys and another for the minnows . |
| 21 | From Asmar 's reports , I knew that some of them were into arms trafficking as well as dope and that meant they had to have close ties with Syrian-supported terrorist groups like the PFLP — GC . |
| 22 | Yeah , and there 's another couple of guys and they were saying that how strict the training was when they first took it on you know that the their masters used to beat them and everything , into submission , s said they had to have complete submission before they could train them to be what they were , you know , bring them up , teach them and train them |
| 23 | His illusions started with reality too , that made the jumping-off point , in the same way that an illusionist on stage has a real girl ; they had to have near possibility , nothing too extreme , not at the beginning anyway . |
| 24 | I remember when they went to Korea and they had to have these overcoats I sewed on hundreds of buttons , about 10 minutes each coat . |
| 25 | In turn , they require to have up-to-date information on Garden activities , and external events , in order to provide accurate information . |
| 26 | Of the animal 's need for water , he points out , ‘ like us , and in this respect unlike flowers , they prefer to have these needs satisfied ’ ( 89 ) . |
| 27 | An account of how they come to have communicative significance , and different communicative significances , can be given in terms of the flouting of the maxim of Quantity . |
| 28 | If you say that the Nationalists of Ireland have a right to claim to go out of the united Kingdom as a community if you say that five or six per cent of the whole of the United Kingdom have that right because they wish to have separate rule for themselves , how can you say that a body in Ireland , not five or six per cent , but twenty-five per cent of the whole population , has not an equal right to separate treatment ? |
| 29 | Yeah well cos you see they have to , most of their fans are women so they have to have female bodyguards cos the males are a bit rough with them but the women are really tough who |
| 30 | They get advice from the officers of the Local Education Authority , so there 's a number of people who are running things , if you like to put it that way , and they have to have good relationships erm and I must say that erm I have n't seen anything obstructive , particularly on our Board of Governors , from local Councillors and we 've had nothing but help from Local Education Authority officers , and I 'm glad we 're not going to lose that help . |