Example sentences of "[adj] have their [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice most buyers are prepared to have their names used for publicity purposes provided that this is done in a controlled manner and with their prior consent . |
| 2 | However , the parties involved were prepared to have their heads hit together to arrive at a solution . |
| 3 | Winners must be prepared to accept their prize in person or to nominate a representative on their behalf , be willing to have their names published , and be interviewed , if necessary . |
| 4 | As governments increasingly demand cost-effective public transport , poorly used routes are likely to have their services curtailed . |
| 5 | Of the big six , only Arthur Andersen says it has not made any redundancies and accountants emerged in one survey as the professional group most likely to have their houses repossessed . |
| 6 | There is a culture of amateurism that survives from the days when scholarly gentlemen with private incomes were glad to have their articles published without payment . |
| 7 | Very popular it was and the parents glad to have their kids taken off their hands . |
| 8 | If the poor have their faces ground into a mud made sharp and painful by slivers of diamond and chunks of ruby , whose fault is that ? |
| 9 | Mr Whelan said : ‘ Although the idea has caught the imagination , pupils are most reluctant to have their feet washed . ’ |
| 10 | Similarly , if parents are able to have their views upheld ( as might occur on an appeal against a decision not to reinstate a permanently excluded pupil ) , ‘ it may not be clear whether it is primarily the child 's right or the parents ' rights over upbringing which is being upheld ’ . |
| 11 | A teacher friend of Eileen 's told her that although most of the mothers were genuinely upset , some were pleased to have their children taken off their hands . |
| 12 | The Bank , however , does regularly review its list of banks who are eligible to have their bills rediscounted at the Bank of England and it is arguable that the credit risk of many UK corporates is lower than some of the banks on that list . |
| 13 | Parents are extremely keen to have their children admitted to the college because they want them to take advantage of the excellent education that it offers . |
| 14 | As I read the stated case there was no question of the taxpayers being entitled to have their children educated at the school . |
| 15 | For many years the school has run a concessionary scheme under which members of the staff are entitled to have their children educated at the school on payment of only one-fifth of the sum charged to members of the public . |