Example sentences of "have [adj] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | This group of pronouns has weak forms pronounced with weaker vowels than the and of their strong forms . |
2 | The tournament , which runs for six days at Pontin 's Holiday Club , in Brixham , south Devon , has 70 competitors taking part . |
3 | Table 4 shows the bank 's initial position ; it has total deposits amounting to £10,000 and is just maintaining its 10 per cent cash ratio by holding in its tills £1,000 in cash . |
4 | Univel Inc , which last week closed its first full quarter booking orders , says it has 500 resellers signed and another 2,000 US , 1,000 PacRim and 1,000 European resellers going through the process . |
5 | You have very little room for manoeuvre within this service , and the Registrar General has reserve powers to impose services on you , and I would have to advice you it would be virtually , or I would have to say it would be impossible to achieve that ongoing reduction in future years . |
6 | The tour still has eight dates to complete without us . |
7 | When a graphic is places it has eight handles positioned at the corners and centres of each side for re-sizing and general manipulation . |
8 | Under the Pelly Amendment , President Clinton has broad powers to impose penalties , including a total ban on imports . |
9 | The sort of book that has sane adults moving rapidly through all kinds of emotions , especially the laughing kind , Second From Last In The Sack Race is one of the best comic novels ever written , funny and sad and , perhaps inevitably , very northern . |
10 | N.B. A married man whose wife is totally incapacitated can also claim this allowance , in addition to the married couple 's allowance , if he has dependent children living at home . |
11 | It has historical connections going back many centuries , as early as the reign of Athelstan ( AD 925–940 ) ; it was the property of the church of St John of Beverley . |
12 | Nightlife : Brand has 2 discos to choose from . |
13 | The aim is to ensure that Graseby Andersen has adequate resources to fund further growth , possibly by the acquisition of complementary companies or product lines . |
14 | I stress that any person wishing to operate buses must have a PSV operator 's licence issued by the traffic commissioner , who has to be satisfied that the person is of good repute and financial standing and has adequate facilities to maintain the vehicles in a roadworthy condition . |
15 | In particular the deterrent effect is weak since the penalties for operating an illegal cartel are inadequate , and the Director General of Fair Trading has few powers to intervene and initiate investigations in situations where there is a suspicion that a secret cartel is in operation . |
16 | The city centre has few residents left . |
17 | However , the skilled human reader has few problems reading text in many different fonts , including new ones , or with handwritten material , including un-familiar handwriting . |
18 | Siemens is keen to add more logic devices to its semiconductor line , and Hewlett has few licensees fabricating Precision Architecture — and several US chipmakers fabricate more than one RISC family . |
19 | The annalistic tradition has few facts to relate ; a few purchases of corn in times of famine , and the offer to Delphi after the destruction of Veii . |
20 | When it comes to mobilising support , the left wing has few lessons to learn . |
21 | Actually , I think that life has few pleasures to compare with dam-building . |
22 | The Llandinabo herd has British bloodlines going back 200 years . |
23 | The tenure of rural housing is of considerable interest to social geographers , since access to specific sectors is restricted for many persons and the variation in security of tenure has social implications relating to quality of life , welfare , accessibility and expenditure on housing . |
24 | A young girl at a picnic , let us suppose , has some peanuts taken from her plate by a foraging squirrel and indignantly throws stones at it . |
25 | HP ( hire purchase ) The term used by shoppers and many shops to describe both true hire purchase ( where the shopper is in effect hiring the goods , with an option to buy at virtually no extra cost when he has paid all the instalments , and the lender has some rights to repossess the goods as securing against default ) , and the more common credit sale . |
26 | He has me fetch the plastic bucket from under the sink , then returns to the caravan with the bigger bits in the bucket saying he has some letters to write . |
27 | He still has some details to arrange . |
28 | Today , the pattern of industry in Central Scotland has some features remaining from each of these periods . |
29 | There is much talk of cutting back management costs ; the redesign team hopes to simplify the station 's ghastly management structure , which has different contractors working with different NASA centres all over the place . |
30 | Moreover , this type of information must be signalled in the form of the verb itself : an Arabic verb has different forms depending on whether its subject is , for instance , second-person singular feminine or third-person plural masculine . |