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

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1 ‘ He has the advantage this year of having a new £2,500 lightweight hi-tech Cannodale bicycle which will be a great help . ’
2 My wife has the opportunity these days of pursuing , with great enthusiasm , her hobby as a singer .
3 I 'm rather dreading that , but everyone has the problem some time , do n't they ? ’
4 has the individual any long-standing difficulties with communicating and how have these been coped with ?
5 Has the Minister any understanding of the individual human tragedy of unemployment ?
6 Has the Minister any plans to lower the total burden of taxation on the people of this country , which reached its highest levels in the 1980s after the very much lower levels that we experienced under Labour in the 1970s ?
7 Has the Minister any plans to assist the West Yorkshire police authority to enable it to bring its police forces up to the required standard ?
8 Nor has the author any more substance .
9 It was a stroke of genius on my part to avoid such awkward questions as ‘ Why has the club such an appalling record ? ’ and ‘ Is the club 's current position due to managerial incompetence ? ’ by pretending it was a terrible phone line and I could not hear the questions .
10 It is an interesting garment which , with its long sleeves , has the flavour more of a monastic habit than a shroud .
11 we have n't had the bad weather , we have n't had the fogs that
12 I 've had the trousers some time .
13 Well okay , you could have a you could , you could have the chance all there and th you get charged near hundred and fifty quid , but you 're getting all that extra !
14 Thank you The the the good news for you the good news for you is that if we erm run out of time on Tuesday morning , we can have the hall all night , Tuesday night .
15 Dryden bounced back 24 hours later to lift the Cleveland Salver , just to remind McLure that he wo n't have the Masters all his own way .
16 On Thursday , no , on Thursday we get the last period off , then we come home , home early on Thursday , Monday 's Bank holiday so we do n't have the school any school and erm , one day in May you 're back with
17 In this region , accompanied only by a gillie or local boatman , you can have the water all to yourself .
18 ‘ They did n't have the time any more and we started stocking things like cook-in sauces .
19 Changing working habits and increased competition for leisure time mean that many people feel they simply do n't have the time any more .
20 You may have the carriage all day and take Lyddy with you so that there will be no difficulty about dressing — ’
21 ‘ Well , maybe I 'll have the pleasure another time .
22 Simply ‘ tightening the legislation ’ will not have the results some imagine .
23 ( b ) to be able to appreciate the interlinking of everything and the force of cumulative evidence , and that what is done and learnt in school can not be divorced from what happens outside ; ( c ) to appreciate that religion challenges head-on any view that regards knowledge as something only arrived at by reasoning and scientific experimentation ; ( d ) to be concerned about conviction for or against religion , but to be open to evidence and to experience — not to have the answers all neatly sewn up , but to see life as a journey of exploration with exciting prospects and a sense of fulfilment in actually moving forward and , if necessary , changing in order to accommodate fresh insight .
24 And at the same time these voices call for some social sacrifices in the very idealistic belief that it 's better to have the pain all at once and be able to put the operation behind us .
25 It was difficult to avoid splashing oneself when filling , admits Mr Doig , and often difficult , too , to have the chemical all in the tank by the time it was full of water .
26 Her school are sponsoring me to have the baby that day — Comic Relief day — providing we have photos taken of me and ( later ) the baby with red noses on .
27 Although it believes it has a technological lead of around a year in the RISC notebook market , Gilkes does n't expect Tadpole to have the ground all to itself for much longer .
28 He said they had the wires all streaming down the platform so they had to wire up , close off the platform .
29 Alton had the incentives all going for them .
30 ‘ God be praised that we had the foresight this morning to leave the palace and take refuge here ! ’
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