Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [conj] they have " in BNC.

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1 I feel sorry for novelists when they have to mention women 's eyes : there 's so little choice , and whatever colouring is decided upon inevitably carries banal implications .
2 People will be less susceptible and more resistant to infection if they have an adequate diet and sufficient exercise , sleep and rest .
3 Unlike modules , DCs are not subject to revision once they have been approved .
4 Securicor were at one time synonymous with quality for they have paid to be synonymous with quality .
5 Unfortunately , as this book points out , some of the alternatives may look good on paper but they have a long way to go before they can match the tokamak .
6 Tony is married to Anna and they have five children .
7 David is married to Geraldine and they have three children .
8 Kerry , Brendan is married to Kathy and they have three children .
9 By birth a Cavan man ( from Bailieborough ) , Leonard is married to Pat and they have two grown-up children .
10 It is helpful to worshippers if they have editions with at least the melody line printed with the words .
11 Dogs are polymorphic in appearance because they have been made to look different by selective breeding controlled by their human masters .
12 How dare the hon. Gentleman and the Labour party claim to be concerned about jobs when they have put forward a package of proposals that would decimate employment in this country and confine millions of people to the dole queues .
13 The labour-intensive car-cleaning method involves either my supervising them carefully or running the risk of the paintwork being scratched by sponges full of grit because they have been dropped in the gutter , and the car bonnet dented by the smallest child climbing on it to reach the windscreen .
14 They say contrary to reports that they have required psychiatric intervention , they have neither sought nor received any counselling .
15 Cold setting resins such as ‘ Epo-tek ’ are convenient for impregnation as they have a low initial viscosity and thus penetrate very well .
16 At the same time , some smart security companies have wised up and realized that such people are bad for business and they have duly set out to recruit the New Bouncer , who is trained to smile and defuse , rather than scowl and disembowel .
17 In English and Welsh courts the position remains that defendants are only liable for losses that they have caused and , as Mr Justice Hobhouse put it , the plaintiffs had ‘ failed altogether to prove their case on causation ’ .
18 Subsequent legislation and regulation have only supplemented the 1974 Act that made directors , managers and other officers liable to prosecution where they have consented to or have connived at the committing of any offence or where an offence has been caused by neglect on their part .
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