Example sentences of "have [det] [noun sg] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In France they have devised a logical system whereby senior officials of the Bureau d'Enquête d'Accident are formally recognised by the magistrate as officials of his court , thereby relieving the magistrate himself of much responsibility relating to highly technical matters of which he has little comprehension while at the same time enabling the professional investigators immediate access to the wreckage of the aircraft and its records , etc. in their pursuit of the cause of the accident .
2 Does not this inclination arise from his believing in the goodness , the worth , of what has this property and from his belief that its goodness is an important ethical truth ?
3 Because there are so many variables in the equation , it is inevitable that management has some discretion as to how much weight it attaches to any point in a particular case .
4 In The Black Queen of 1961 , Mariana has more substance than in the early collages of rags , and so , being more tangible , is more a victim , of Gironella , of time , of historical circumstances ( Fig. 6 ) .
5 He was simply pointing out that palaeontology , as a science , depends on the interpretation of fossil relics of bones , not flesh ; no palaeontologist has any clue as to what a living dinosaur actually looked like .
6 If the referee has any doubt as to whether or not a try would have been scored he can only award a penalty , exactly the decision in the final .
7 Her voice stayed steady , despite feeling sick with anger and humiliation ; ‘ — but I imagine the Cabinet Office must have had some idea as to whether this is going to touch on security within this country . ’
8 But in David Souter 's court — and by no stretch of the imagination is this William Rehnquist 's court — whoever replaces Byron White will have little choice but to be a judge first , and a politician a very distant second .
9 Right from the very start it will help if you can decide at least on the number of main meals you will have each day and on the number of snacks , if any .
10 It does not seem possible with the research which their Central Office are regularly doing , and with the continual monitoring of public opinion , that they did not have some idea as to how people would react .
11 Nor did Yeremi have much option but to gas Tundrish in turn .
12 The shots are flying straighter both in the sense of having less fade and of greater accuracy .
13 What can be interesting is feeling more alive , having more energy and in general feeling great .
14 They may then have more flexibility as to who is allowed to be the greedy one .
15 A further advantage is that you will have more flexibility as to when you can retire .
16 David and I then had to tell him we did n't have any choice because at that time there were no other futuristic stories ready .
17 The liquidator says that he can not say how much of the stock was supplied by our client , nor does he have any information as to whether or not the amount received from debtors includes any amount for the sale of AB stock originally supplied by our client .
18 Certainly he did not regard large-scale state intervention as having any effect except in the very long term , since the causal conditions are located ultimately in cultural attitudes , not in the factors on which state intervention operates .
19 We stayed there for ten and a half years until 15 September 1991 , without ever having any explanation as to why we were being held .
20 TOMMY SMITH : ‘ So you 're saying his decision to have this operation and to actually sell it to the Sun came all within five seconds ? ’
21 ‘ For to obviate the inconveniencies that might result from the too frequent communication with the out pupils the Professor will demonstrate to the latter only what might be useful to them as Surgeons and Physicians to the human body , such as the most important demonstrations of comparative anatomy as likewise experiences [ experiments ] on several animals , which could not be attempted on Man without imminent danger , and lastly , a comparison between epidemical and epizootic diseases — therefore the out pupils ought to be considered by the Society [ College ] as a separate Class : the consideration of which ought not to have any influence as to the situation of the establishments .
22 Dona never had that problem because during her affair she entered a new and secret world that was so different from her other life .
23 It still had that ownership because under a hire purchase agreement property does not pass until the customer has paid all his instalments ( see paragraph 1–14 and Chapter 17 ) .
24 They had little doubt as to the contents of the sacks and their prompt action in jumping the men was vindicated when the sacks were found to contain large quantities of spirits and cigarettes .
25 After much fretting and threats of legal action , the RFU had little choice but to back down — and endorse a strip that is if anything , more garish than the last effort .
26 In fact , multinational oil companies working in the North Sea had little choice but to be receptive to the attempts to maximise the spin-off for UK industry if they wanted to stay in good standing with the Government when applications were being considered for exploration licences .
27 He had little idea as to how far they had come and had lost count of how many times they had fallen .
28 Frustratingly , however , the IPG was unable to view these publications in advance and so it had little idea as to how useful they would be .
29 She had little idea as to the extent of his amputation and of his various trips back and forth from theatre .
30 Whether or not in our time parents may be said to be justified by the sad statistics of the permissive society , it is certain that in the nineteenth century , parents had little option because of the sad statistics of mortality among children .
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