Example sentences of "they have [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to recognise that such a circumstance may have significant psychological implications for the self-images of the individuals concerned : not only do they have less than everyone else , but they may feel and see themselves as different — less significant , less integrated , almost outside the mainstream of society . |
| 2 | And they want to know why … ’ cos the other children have got them and why ca n't they have this and why ca n't they do this … it 's hard , it 's really hard on them . |
| 3 | Well they had er , they had all that this morning , they should go for a little while . |
| 4 | And they had that and a |
| 5 | And me proficiency c certificate , I took that as well and they had that as well . |
| 6 | They had little and sometimes no money , and Mary 's mother was far too busy and uninterested to notice , spending her inherited fortune on her lovers . |
| 7 | Right-wing papers improved their readers ' images of Thatcher and the Conservative Party , and damaged their readers ' images of Kinnock and the Labour Party , though they had little or no influence upon their readers ' images of the Alliance and its leaders . |
| 8 | Much has been written about the pioneering spirit of the men and women who left their homelands in times of primitive travel facilities and poor communications , to settle on virgin land of which they had little or no knowledge . |
| 9 | A hundred years before Elizabeth came to the throne no member of the human race had ever been in a position to make a map of the whole world ; civilizations had risen and flourished in different regions of the world but they had little or no idea of their geographical relationship to one another . |
| 10 | They had little or no permanence and cohesion and therefore no organisation and no prospect of standing up for their rights . |
| 11 | Now at th the last school they had these and they were , they 're buying from the school shop |
| 12 | For example , in 1992 , a family with two children of 12 and 14 yrs and whose income was less than f66.60 a week , could claim a maximum of f75.50 a week in family credit provided that they had less than f3,000 in personal savings . |
| 13 | Now they had less than nothing to lose she felt an ancient pugnacity stirring within her . |
| 14 | Neither admitted to the other that each was tortured by fear : now they had more than ever to lose . |
| 15 | Well , what you need , Joe , is to follow my fitness regime — the one designed for people who , in their heart of hearts , with their cigarettes already lit , wish they had more than just two hands to eat with , but because they are also cursed with a love for sport have to get fit the best they can . |
| 16 | I suggested that they had more than likely received a stern lecture in lieu of a death sentence ; in the world of Arabs , blame for unsanctioned sex is placed wholly on the shoulders of the female . |
| 17 | ‘ So he wandered the countryside for a long time , starving and having to beg for food , and sleeping in barns and under trees , and eventually he found a little town where all the beggars and old people he 'd had thrown out of the city had gone ; they were very poor , of course , but by all helping each other they had more than the merchant had . |
| 18 | There 'd been a lot of changes under the malais , I 'll give them that , even if most of the development was for reasons of military necessity and accomplished , like the Japanese for whom they had more than a sneaking admiration , with forced-draft labour . |
| 19 | I said that I just happened to have my travelling rod with me … though it hardly mattered as they had more than enough gear . |
| 20 | His point is that there are also molecular changes occurring which are not selected , because they have little or no effect on function . |
| 21 | Cellars are notorious for damp , and for wet and dry rot , because often they have little or no ventilation . |
| 22 | Loss of the loved one can raise the same intensity of emotion : a sense of betrayal , hatred of the betrayer , extreme jealousy of a rival-feelings over which a person may believe they have little or no control . |
| 23 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 24 | They have little or no sexual contact and only rarely do they express their feelings for each other . |
| 25 | They have little or no sexual contact and only rarely do they express their feelings for each other . |
| 26 | Women are especially vulnerable to HIV in societies where they have little or no control over their sex lives . |
| 27 | Most feel , perhaps rightly , that they have little or no need for them , that they are able to and indeed profit from individualism . |
| 28 | They have little or no potential to effect the ozone layer ; either they contain no chlorine or they break down lower in the atmosphere . |
| 29 | Oh , they have more than that I think . |
| 30 | Typically they have few or no possibilities of substitution in an actual sentence : |