Example sentences of "of [noun pl] have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some strains of nematodes have a high propensity for arrested development while in others this is low . |
| 2 | This study showed that all nuclei in the upper one third of crypts have a diploid DNA content in both FAP cases and SCRC cases . |
| 3 | In this country , lead pipe was traditionally used for the water system ( the word ‘ plumbing ’ derives from the Latin word for lead ) , but this has now largely been replaced by copper , and an increasing number of houses have a copper plumbing system . |
| 4 | Twenty nine per cent of cases had a mixed infection , and chronic diarrhoea was more frequent in these patients . |
| 5 | Here both foot-soldiers and officers were required , and indeed they still are : what churches call stewardship of talents has a place . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's very important for preparers of accounts to have a voice , and only the top 100 companies really have the resources to cope with the amount of time and effort that takes . |
| 7 | By recognising that a number of subjects have a valid and useful contribution to make , some elements may be given less weighty consideration than others and the interrelationships may become lost . |
| 8 | CALMS 's big snag is that only 73 per cent of homes have a phone . |
| 9 | More than 88pc of homes have a telephone , up from 75pc in 1982 . |
| 10 | I pointed Armstrong westwards but pulled over near a post office and a couple of shops to have a think . |
| 11 | As much as 85 per cent of cars had a radio , and over half were used whenever the car was driven . |
| 12 | The act created the concept of commercial contracts and of traders having a firm registered at the ‘ Firm Registry ’ and also dealt with partnerships , limited partnerships , joint-stock companies , and co-operatives ( which were considered to be business enterprises ) . |
| 13 | Some versions of traps have a capped connector on the side , for connecting an overflow assembly , which can be unscrewed for cleaning . |
| 14 | In his report on the Hillsborough disaster , Lord Taylor , now Lord Chief Justice , said : ‘ The presence and activities of touts have a grossly anti-social effect , leading both directly and indirectly to disorder . ’ |
| 15 | Congratulations to Club member Barbara Keys who was chosen from hundreds of entries to have a makeover together with her mum , Betty . |
| 16 | Classes are crowded , with 40 per cent of schools having a teacher-pupil ratio of 45:1 or higher , and many schools have multi-grade classes . |
| 17 | Rather surprisingly , the recent The Artist readership survey found that although the cast majority of readers have a video player , not everyone has purchased an instructional art tape . |
| 18 | As the subject of historical studies , and the heroine of romantic fiction , Mary Queen of Scots has a massive lead over all other earthly Maries , only the Virgin scoring more heavily — as even the most cursory glance at the British Library Catalogue of Printed Books makes clear . |
| 19 | The reduction in the number of candidates had a side effect in that no count in 1975 went beyond 12 stages whereas in 1973 two counts reached 18 stages . |
| 20 | ( The All-Union association of philatelists had a separate influence , for example . ) |
| 21 | I can say that truth , friendship and the statute of limitations have a common root in time . |
| 22 | The specialization of functions has a dispersive effect and a primary function of government becomes that of securing co-ordination amongst the parts . |
| 23 | The great majority of molluscs have a minute , planktonic larval stage , a small ciliated object bearing no resemblance to the adult , that drifts as part of the plankton until ready to settle and assume its mature form . |
| 24 | A poem with a very regular beat is one which is strongly organised hierarchically , so that there is metrical organisation beyond the line ; each line , stanza and possibly group of stanzas has a beat which is its strongest metrically , up to the stanza level or possibly even higher , as in many nursery rhymes , for example . |
| 25 | The Institute of Directors has a total membership of 33,500 , only 2,600 of them women . |
| 26 | Since N. battus infection of lambs has a unique epidemiology , its control is best considered separately . |
| 27 | The grid of wires has a spacing of 100 micrometres |
| 28 | In a square matrix A of order n the array of elements has a determinant unc which is in general nonzero : this implies that the columns ( and the rows ) are linearly independent , so that there is no nonzero column vector x such that Ax vanishes . |
| 29 | In the past all sorts of different kinds of buildings had a stone placed in the wall to show when they were built . |
| 30 | This most elegant of bridges has a centre span of 702 feet . |