Example sentences of "have [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In addition rituals and procedures are laid down for those who have for a variety of reasons become ‘ unclean ’ , and so have become cut off from the rest of the community .
2 With regard to elderly people , Allan suggests that , in any case , old people have for a variety of reasons quite small friendship circles and that even within those circles
3 Apart from that , the hon. Gentleman should acknowledge that the Government have for a number of years , under the farm and conservation grants scheme , provided a 40 per cent .
4 I have for a number of years
5 Then , assuming " phantom " chains , the change in free energy per chain as the end-to-end vector R changes to is Averaging over all chains and remembering that we have For a network of n chains per unit volume the change in free energy will be n times this .
6 Yeah well I I I obviously I would say this but er I think it 's the best opportunity that people have for a career direction because we we 've redirected a lot of people 's careers in this aspect .
7 The quality and amount of information you have about a subject can mark you out as a specialist who is an invaluable source of advice for others .
8 Theories of foregrounding , both linguistic and cognitive ( see , for example , van Peer 1986 or Cook 1990 ) , can help focus the intuitions readers have about a text .
9 They used to work say one week and have about a month off or go on the dole for a month .
10 I have about a pound and a half in a gigantic envelope …
11 Firstly , make sure you have about an inch of waste knitting , separated if possible from the main yarn by a ravel cord .
12 Alongside the theme of the geographical persistence of particular fossils , we have as a corollary , the abruptness of some of the major changes in the history of life .
13 In addition , I have as a consultant — and on behalf of the National Children 's Bureau — been working with a team from the University of London Institute of Education over the past two years or so , to distil the lessons from this research for local and health authorities .
14 The Bridgenorse , Bridgenorth I beg your pardon initiative is proceeding er , in terms of an advisory group , and we have as a committee , a Councillor Tony , a regional member , recently take , took the place of er , Councillor on that group , and he is willing to continue .
15 With the tragedy that is Cyprus today and the role that we have as a guarantor power , will my right hon. Friend confirm that he is prepared to use the framework of the Western European Union to press for an acceptable solution — acceptable to all sides in Cyprus ?
16 on the size or the whereabouts of the potential markets that we have as a theatre ?
17 Er we 're going to continue our focus sponsorship on and corporate hospitality er we 're going to set up er a chairman and chief executives ' club which we er , we have now done being and that it 's the chief executives ' club , it 's their club , we facilitated , have er four or so er lunches er a year and a launch lunch for example we have as a keynote speaker .
18 But simply using his list and any additional items that we have as a check list , no more than that .
19 In each of their second and third years , students of the single-subject English course takes a series of four core units which have as a focus the relationship between literature and its background .
20 If I can get out onto the hill for rescues , then that 's good — but that ca n't always be guaranteed with the work commitments you have as a doctor .
21 GEORGE PHILLIPS : Yes , I have as a matter of fact .
22 I have as a matter of course made a point of attending to those particulars which hereto for have been overlooked not only by collecting the birds in their various changes of plumage but by preserving all the principal forms for dissection as well as preparing skeletons of the same …
23 Nevertheless , the gap between movements of this kind ( which have sometimes been called ‘ pre-political ’ ) and modern social movements remains large , for the latter exist on a vastly greater scale , are more directly involved in political conflict , are influenced by more rigorous and elaborate ideologies , and have as a rule a more enduring , less ephemeral , character .
24 Policemen are not usually intellectuals and have as a rule a distrust of them as animals of a different breed .
25 Ours is the only Government who have as a priority in our negotiations in Brussels the provision that all subsidies should be subject to some form of environmental assessment .
26 And to help us in these explorations we have as a guide Dr. Low Thomson .
27 It is in this latter sense that very often it is claimed that the Conservative Party is advocating an incomes policy , by which is simply meant that the policies which we advocate would , we believe , have as a result the stability of money values and thus have the effect that increases in earnings were real and not merely monetary .
28 And do n't get mixed up between his act , and the feelings you have as a result of his act .
29 walking you will continue to support the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the A N C and Cosatu and others in South Africa that our eyes should be on the prize and that is to get democracy and the first democratic parliament in the country and after that to help in the horrendously difficult task of reconstruction and development and it is going to be a tough battle in South Africa as elsewhere and we will need to work not just for political democracy because you know so often democratic processes are misunderstood for empowerment of ordinary people and what democracy should really mean is that ordinary people have the opportunity to determine their own destiny and you know from your own advanced society and others how little power individuals have as a result of power of finance capital , of industry and of technology now .
30 The opportunity you have as a student to do a lot of work is good though .
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