Example sentences of "they have [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interviews with doctors who practise euthanasia have shown that they resort to LAWER when they have neither the courage nor cruelty to talk openly with patients , relatives , or colleagues . |
| 2 | Similarly economic policy-makers in the UK and the USA choose policies which satisfy their aspiration levels ; they can not ‘ fine tune ’ the economy because they have neither the information nor the theory to do so ( Mosely , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | When learners are caught up in communication , concerned with making meaning , they have neither the time nor indeed the inclination to monitor their performance , which in consequence reveals what they have acquired without , as it were , the artificial additives of learning . |
| 4 | Although research economists usually make their programs available to others , they have neither the time nor the resources to document and support them properly . |
| 5 | ‘ They have neither the innocence of the daisy nor the legitimacy of the rose . ’ |
| 6 | But they have instead the filth that gathers in stagnant water and its evil smell on many a lawn . ’ |
| 7 | The doctors are then faced with a situation in which the patient has made no decision and , he by then being unable to decide for himself , they have both the right and the duty to treat him in accordance with what in the exercise of their clinical judgment they consider to be his best interests . |
| 8 | The reason for putting the onus of proof on the firms is that they have both the incentive to make the case , and access to the detailed information on which the case is to be based . |
| 9 | I 'd just forced myself to drive , for the first time in my life , in a country where they have n't the sense to drive on the proper side of the road . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , they have n't the structure of a lawyer 's work , ’ she said . |
| 11 | So they get thrown when faced with a canvas which represents nothing other than form or shape or colour and they get thrown because they have n't the vocabulary , it seems to them , to respond to it , and they feel the need to respond verbally . |
| 12 | They have n't the talent , nor the technical ability . |
| 13 | ‘ And they have n't the strength for heavy digging . |
| 14 | The police say they have n't the time or resources to worry about hashish . |
| 15 | They have n't the time or the engergy left to provide a sporting outlet for them . |
| 16 | The times I 've had to go in and get Durex for somebody else , because they have n't the nerve . |
| 17 | Even if they can produce more food , they have n't the transport or the packaging facilities . |
| 18 | They have n't the training , the intellectual equipment . |
| 19 | ‘ Defence has been perfected to a remarkable degree , ’ he said , ‘ and I have heard it suggested that through its further development football may be brought to a state of stalemate … it will be a sorry reflection on forwards if they have not the intelligence , the inventiveness to devise means by which they can carry their attack to a successful end . ’ |
| 20 | One looks firstly to see whether irrelevant considerations have been taken into account ; if they have not the decision may still be struck down if it is unreasonable in the substantive sense . |
| 21 | ‘ new Invention of Raiseing of Water and occasioning Motion to all sorts of Mill Work by the Impellent Force of Fire , which will be of great Use and Advantage for Drayning Mines , Serveing Towns with water , and for the working of all Sorts of Mills where they have not the benefit of Water nor Constant Windes ’ . |
| 22 | They have not the time for speech training , and are perhaps afraid to embarrass you , and by criticising your speech to add to your shyness in discussion . |
| 23 | " They have only the shade of the trees . " |
| 24 | Against the shuffling columns , they have only the weapons of abuse and loathing . |
| 25 | And thanks to a smart directory — a custom-designed programme by Richard himself — senders can track down the person they want even if they have only the recipient 's first name , or just the vaguest idea of their title or where they work . |
| 26 | They do look at the statistics the government statistics for fertility and mortality , but they have then the ability to amend , to adjust to local erm to match up with local information . |