Example sentences of "have [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are poor in nutrients and their peaty soils have little capacity to absorb any more acid without deleterious effects . |
| 2 | It has often been claimed that especially in large , newer urban estates , residents have little ability to control their personal environment , the state of repair of their flat or its surroundings ( Power 1988 ) . |
| 3 | This means that she can throw out the eggs of her nest mates , but they have little chance to throw out hers . |
| 4 | Charities have little money to spend on fees , so nobody wants to be seen looking after them . |
| 5 | Managers do not want to start factories , shops , or entertainments in the rural areas because there are few workers there and the old and very young have little money to spend . |
| 6 | Private finance is unlikely to be attracted to areas where people have little money to spend . |
| 7 | Many of these people are migrants from the lowlands , where most of the country 's agriculture is located , who have little money to invest to ensure success in the longer term and who lack security of tenure to make farming the heritage enterprise that it is in many nations . |
| 8 | Nature has seen to it that for the most part we see things as they are , and so have little occasion to say , ‘ It appears to be … . ’ |
| 9 | They have little opportunity to use judgment or creativity . |
| 10 | Aerial work pilots such as crop-sprayers , aerial photographers , power-line inspectors etc. have to give great concentration to their work and have little opportunity to scan the sky for aircraft approaching at high speed . |
| 11 | The imbalance between service commitments and training is such that doctors have little opportunity to learn from their experiences , and little or no teaching takes place in protected time , when they would be free from service commitments . |
| 12 | In our ( hopefully ) crystal-clear water , Koi have little opportunity to sift the silt . |
| 13 | Constant vigilance is essential , but undergraduates have little opportunity to gain first hand experience of infectious diseases during their hospital training . |
| 14 | Younger workers living in company dormitories have little opportunity to escape from the affairs of their firm and from an early age their leisure time is dominated by work colleagues . |
| 15 | The lake rarely freezes so we have little opportunity to discover our ice-legs . |
| 16 | Although we have little opportunity to meet the participants socially , there is very little sense of social barrier , and I wonder what all these western myths about the ‘ inscrutable Chinese ’ mean . |
| 17 | Also many of them have little inclination to cook much for themselves when they usually have to eat alone , and they prefer to use the smallest possible number of cooking utensils , pans and dishes which have to be washed up afterwards . |
| 18 | I did n't recognise much of it because birds passing through Shetland on migration are not on territory and therefore have little inclination to advertise their presence by singing . |
| 19 | They share one common characteristic : they have little power to challenge the authorities . |
| 20 | Banks have little desire to underwrite — it is risky and demands lots of precious capital . |
| 21 | English bacteriologists and microbiologists have little reason to claim that they were more perceptive than their American contemporaries , but there was one exception . |
| 22 | We have little reason to assume that the response of solitary lesions would be fundamentally different . |
| 23 | However severe the victimization or inequality of potential pay , they give no thought to having a lottery to determine positions on the coal face [ thc Durham tradition — of cavilling ] ; however their labor may be divided , they have little impulse to regulate production collectively or coordinate themselves in work groups to forestall management initiative . |
| 24 | He says that they have little information to go on , so the search has to be very wide . |
| 25 | The status sub-text here is ‘ I have little time to talk to you ’ or ‘ I 'm a person who is very much in demand . ’ |
| 26 | Most sole traders have little time to spend on displays or promoting goods effectively |
| 27 | Sometimes , mothers find it necessary to work ( mainly in service industries ) and so have little time to spend with the children . |
| 28 | Organising a change in diet can seem daunting , especially for working mothers who have little time to spend on complicated recipes . |
| 29 | If you have little time to deal with personal tax matters or have tax worries , the Bank 's tax expert can deal with any aspect of personal taxation and will look after your interest no matter how simple or complicated your tax affairs may be . |
| 30 | Because we are engaged in practical actions of great complexity , which we nevertheless ‘ pull off ’ day after day , we have little time to stand back and analyse how we do all the things that we do . |