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

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1 The board usually has little credibility ; there is little reliable financial information , no management , assets or money .
2 The clerk therefore has some control over the flow of work for each barrister in the chambers .
3 The ICI also has many eyewitness accounts of troops using flame-throwers to incinerate corpses .
4 Perhaps it is the legacy of my Fifties upbringing , when the States always had that image of the cornucopia of goodies and pleasureable things , with no whiff of European austerity and rationing .
5 The walkers still have some finger nails left and do n't have skid marks in their boxer shorts .
6 The girl just had this dick in her face .
7 The girl just had this dick in her face .
8 The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss .
9 The council thus had little choice but to accept Gloucester 's claim to be protector .
10 The council thus had little choice but to accept Gloucester 's claim to be protector .
11 However , as the S&M trial illustrated , the judges effectively have this power already in many areas .
12 The Lady never had any gold bars and she never took them .
13 The outcome always has some degree of uncertainty associated with it .
14 Despite the eager shouting of his Goblin mates , the Fanatic really has little idea of where he is going , and will happily plough through troops from his own side if they get in the way .
15 No doubt this was the real point of the missive , but it is rather vaguely expressed and makes one wonder whether the author really had much idea what had happened .
16 That claim may have been sheer bravado , but given his long association with US intelligence , the general undoubtedly has enough mud to splatter many of his erstwhile US friends .
17 Where a defendant raises the defence of latent defect , and the defect alleged is one arising in the manufacture of the product , as opposed to a defect caused by lack of maintenance , the plaintiff now has another weapon in his armoury .
18 By his fourth plea , the defendant pleaded that the plaintiff never had any cause of action against the defendant in respect of the £2,000 , the subject of the Exchequer proceedings , which the plaintiff , at the commencement of that action and thence until and at the time of the making of the alleged promise , well knew .
19 The fourth plea states that the plaintiff never had any cause of action against the defendant in respect of the subject-matter of the action in the Court of Exchequer , which he , the plaintiff , at the time of the commencement of the said action , and thence until the time of the making the promise in the first count mentioned , well knew .
20 The plea , in plain terms , avers that the plaintiff never had any cause of action , and he well knew it .
21 Unfortunately , unless the device is skilfully earthed the shielding often has little effect .
22 The Nazis now had little need of the Volkstag , and it met only rarely .
23 Although Thomas did n't know whether it was poisonous , the creature surely had enough power to squeeze the life out of him .
24 He claimed the Government already had enough evidence to bring terrorists , who were currently free , to court .
25 The Jones rarely had this luxury .
26 The restaging generally has less bite and less fluency than Hall 's original — Susanna 's humour is more truly peasant-like — but it feels warmer and more sympathetic .
27 The man certainly has some style , ’ said Toby reflectively .
28 First , the hire period was short and the plaintiffs therefore had little time to arrange insurance .
29 That does not mean , he wrote , that if the body does not protest the project necessarily has any value , though for reasons I have gone into already it is necessary to put such thoughts out of mind , they can not help , they can only hinder , they can not water , they can only blight .
30 Ivy-covered or not , universities had once protected themselves as if by walls from the outside gaze ; effortlessly so , on the whole , since for centuries the world beyond had little curiosity about them , they cost the taxpayer nothing , and their inmates were proverbially remote and ineffectual .
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