Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [noun pl] [modal v] have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other groups subsidiaries or divisions may have a considerable degree of autonomy in operational matters ; in these cases the role of the parent board is that of an allocator of capital , rewarding successful operating units with funds for expansion and curtailing or restructuring the activities of those whose performance is weak . |
| 2 | Meanwhile judging from the way today 's auction went , the breweries and banks could have a long wait before they get their money back from pubs that close . |
| 3 | ‘ Further concentration of the industry is vital in the longer term ’ , he said , and mergers and alliances will have a part to play . |
| 4 | Although we believe that all birds and bats must have a common ancestor if we trace their lineages back far enough , that common ancestor was also the common ancestor of all mammals ( including ourselves ) and all birds . |
| 5 | Furthermore a student who had a fragile grasp of particular concepts and skills would have a reduced chance of getting much further in a graduated test scheme . |
| 6 | Matroc like other Morgan subsidiaries acknowledges that customers and engineers will have a variety of approaches to problem solving . |
| 7 | On the one hand , it reinforces the argument that officials should have a general duty to provide reasons for decisions . |
| 8 | Some regions and countries would have a comparative advantage , either because they were sparsely populated or because they cared less about the smell of a rubbish dump than their more pernickety neighbours did . |
| 9 | I believe that doctors and patients can have a friendly relationship . |
| 10 | Obviously stallions and colts over ten months old need special arrangements , and brood mares and foals should have a paddock of their own ; but sometimes other horses can be very aggressive . |
| 11 | While changing agricultural prices and subsidies will have a marked effect on which options look most economic , as ENDS remarked , ‘ controls based on a combination of land use and water measures ’ are probably the best option . |
| 12 | In view of the suggestion that FAEEs may have a pathophysiological role via their effect on lipid metabolism and their incorporation into cell membranes , the gene encoding FAEE synthase , when it is identified , would seem to be another ‘ candidate gene ’ worthy of study in relation to alcoholic liver disease . |
| 13 | In short , some heterogeneity and aggregations may have a physical explanation , others not . |
| 14 | Diarrhoea in babies and children can have a great many causes , the most obvious one being infection with bacteria , viruses or other microbes . |
| 15 | Obviously , the short lives of all those babies and children will have a great effect in bringing down the average figure as even the least mathematical of us will be able to understand . |
| 16 | MEN and women should have a statutory choice of retirement at any stage between the ages of 60 and 70 , the Liberal Democrats proposed today . |
| 17 | The idea that teachers can have a strategy emphasises the power of individuals to act in social situations . |
| 18 | The use of septic tanks or cesspools may have a significant impact on maximum permissible density of dwellings per hectare . |
| 19 | Parents who fork out one a year for expensive games would not have to see them abandoned in the cupboard and teenagers could have a dozen games a year at pocket money prices . |