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

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1 Mothers and daughters tend to develop a close grooming association which tends to persist so that these close relatives have about the same rank , the daughter 's being contingent upon that of the mother .
2 As far as noise reduction is concerned , sealed double glazing units have about the same value as having the window reglazed with glass twice as thick as the original glass .
3 The inhabitants of area A of Umhausen have about the same lifetime radon exposures as one category of uranium miners in West Bohemia ; given about equal levels of lifetime exposure , the ratio of observed to expected lung cancer deaths is about the same ; and mortality from cancers other than lung cancer is not significantly raised .
4 Third , Special Branch of the Metropolitan Police who have about the same job as Security but are more up-front , more visible .
5 There is little evidence so far , though , to suggest that counterurbanization has halted the decline of service provision , since population thresholds for services have at the same time been rising ( Johansen and Fuguitt , 1984 ) .
6 And so it goes on through life ; always a struggle between wanting to hold on to what we have at the same time as we are reaching out for new joys and satisfactions ; always the dilemma of making choices , of greedily wanting everything , of resenting having to let anything go .
7 I have at the same time suggested that Benjamin 's own aesthetics were very much a postmodernist aesthetics .
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