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

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1 This story has many of the motifs common to dragon legends .
2 I think it right to say at once that on the authorities , consisting of a series of previous decisions of the Divisional Court in which the provisions now contained in section 7(3) and ( 4 ) and section 8(2) of the Act of 1988 have been considered , neither the magistrate nor the Divisional Court in this case had any option but to decide as they did .
3 tough and well made , this sack has some nice touches allied to a basically simple design .
4 I know also that some Conservatives that feel that perhaps what I 've laid before you this afternoon has some credence .
5 ‘ Well , if it 's any consolation we 're going back this afternoon to have another go . ’
6 This pull has little effect on the land but is strong enough to move the waters .
7 Nobody else in this dive has any money , and for them it will he a long cold evening .
8 This measure has several advantages .
9 This building had such happy memories for me , ’ says Hilda , who rents her four-room flat from the council .
10 Before this defence has any role to play it must be shown that the defendant has committed a tort .
11 This provision has most application in the area of whole agreement ( or entire agreement ) clauses which limit the bounds of the relationship of the parties to the particular contract in question .
12 This experience had such a dramatic effect on the Pole that he hanged himself some days later .
13 She used to ring Otto at his office , rather as if she felt this experience had some professional interest to Otto .
14 The south face of this crag has many three and four pitch routes at 5b to 6a .
15 Nowadays they may be esteemed by their peers who know something of their work , but this esteem has little currency value in the committee-rooms where performance is appraised .
16 At a more theoretical level this characterization has some affinities with Gouldner 's concept of ‘ functional autonomy ’ :
17 Christianity may be represented by a tombstone and a gold ring with an incised palm branch and the legend AMA ME , although this religion has more significance in post-Roman Carlisle .
18 But it seems more likely that this fear has more to do with the childhood horror of seeing the parent scream at the ‘ smothering ’ cat that has just jumped up on to a cot or bed .
19 No , as Geoff Cooke admitted , ‘ this side had some flaws . ’
20 This club has some very talented young players and it would be terrible to frustrate them . ’
21 This instrument has many advantages .
22 You see I would like to see people at the end of this programme to have some idea , not just of fancy figures in the air , but of practical effects that will affect them on the ground .
23 This result has many useful consequences , as we shall see in subsequent sections .
24 This question had little significance and was relevant only to the part-time farmers as most family farmers said they did not take holidays .
25 Maybe this question had some relevance to the fact that there was a large space vacant before the stage — or did the fish smell like fish ?
26 There is evidence that this tactic had some effect in marginal seats and , indeed , made the overall result far better for Labour than it would have been had people not voted tactically .
27 Whatever its origin , this discovery had much importance in the future of penicillin .
28 The design task set in this test has some non-mathematical features and it was used in an exercise with some groups of teachers to obtain their views on what should be marked .
29 Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number .
30 Most programs of this type have several stories in memory .
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