Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surprisingly , LA has only about half the police force of London for a city of ten million . |
| 2 | Once Univel softens up the marketplace and the marketplace protests that it has only so much money and ca n't possibly buy both NetWare and UnixWare , poof , Univel is integrated back into Novell . |
| 3 | That this began to happen only after 1760 and to be anywhere near completion only after 1790 has perhaps rather less to do with the availability of investment funds , or the level of engineering knowledge , than with the overall pace of industrialisation , urbanisation and demographic increase . |
| 4 | He has not so much brain as ear wax , ( Troilus and Cressida ) — to anyone slow on the uptake . |
| 5 | ( The USSR , with one-tenth as many motor vehicles as the United States , has just as many traffic fatalities ) . |
| 6 | However , every state has just as many parents as children , so searching backwards wo n't help . |
| 7 | The nice beer-bellied English gentleman with the Union Jack T-shirt and shorts , a can of lager in one hand and a cigarette in the other , has just as much right to be there as you do . |
| 8 | Now such a meal , as any dietician will tell you , is far too rich in nitrogenous substances , since fish has just as much assimilable albumen as meat , and contains a great deal more phosphorus … " |
| 9 | This lane once known as Lord 's Cross Lane , has like so much of Halling disappeared into the chalk quarries . |
| 10 | Tests show that eating lots of fibre or switching to polyunsaturated fats has about as much chance of prolonging your life as wearing a wig , but a kipper two or three times a week will have your life assurance rep collecting the premiums for ever . |
| 11 | Austin is a good deal smaller than Edinburgh , but has about as much motorway as the UK . |
| 12 | Nor would it be a significant gesture towards Britain 's 2.5 million Moslem inhabitants , as he suggests , because those Moslems mostly come from the Indian sub-continent , and the Khalili collection has about as much connection with their material culture as a collection of French medieval art has with Czech baroque art . |
| 13 | Yet his own researchers have confirmed that the ‘ British ’ tag on food has about as much impact now as ‘ made in Hong Kong ’ might have had on other commodities a couple of decades ago . |
| 14 | They realise that a servant has often very little choice in the matter . |
| 15 | The interior is simple and has now hardly any painting or mosaic except on the floor . |
| 16 | Every appointment seems to be an outrageous shot in the dark , either because the person appointed has no experience , or because he has far too much experience , having been fired from 43 other clubs ( three times from QPR ) . |
| 17 | Anyhow , I think that Hatherby woman has far too much influence on Constance . ’ |
| 18 | It has far too much legislation and far too much centralisation . |
| 19 | I have got past that stage many , many years ago , and I believe that a foreigner has equally as much right to live in the world as a Britisher . |
| 20 | It has n't even any so-called old world charm , and the site is too low to command a good view . ’ |
| 21 | In such a context , therefore , it comes as less of a surprise to find Sidney Webb actually advocating a cut in the wages of working youths — in evidence before the 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws , of all places — so that ‘ the youth , who now has even too much pocket-money , and gets , therefore , too soon independent of home , and too easily led into evil courses ’ could be brought down a peg or two . |
| 22 | It is bad enough to fail one 's driving test once ; to do so for a second time reinforces the sense of hopelessness in the learner 's mind — he now has twice as many failures to build upon — so that he uses his ability to visualize in an even more negative fashion . |
| 23 | Jimmy has x chickens , but his friend Mark , has twice as many as Jimmy . |
| 24 | ‘ In addition to being based on new technology and being over 40 per cent more powerful than its predecessor , the 820 has twice as much memory and this will provide us with the potential to exploit new , more efficient techniques for online applications and batch processing . ’ |
| 25 | The United Kingdom has quite as much skill and technical resources as France , yet we have been worsted time and again by the French in the field of space , simply because the French have a centrally directed , planned , national space programme and we have not . |
| 26 | The sense of outrage has almost as much to do with the invasion of a hallowed shrine of old Boston as with the robbery . |
| 27 | It remains a member of NATO , but it has no longer any obvious function . |
| 28 | It does not make them feel he is one of them ; it merely makes them feel he has no longer any clout . |
| 29 | At this point of the account Antiochus has become a Hellenizer far beyond Judaea , and the Hellenizing group of Jerusalem has no longer any relevant part in the story . |
| 30 | Dyson could n't be expected to wet-nurse his staff — he 'd far too much on his hands already . |