Example sentences of "they have [adv] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And why do they speak so roughly to their husbands and why do they have so few manners ? |
| 2 | I had a most interesting meeting in Scotland with all of our lay delegates there , erm on Friday and some of you within British Gas will know that in Scotland they 've even more problems with the M A P L than any of the other regions because they were operating a different system to start with in the first place . |
| 3 | They had big half circles of pure white skin below . |
| 4 | In those days they had very few clothes . |
| 5 | For the first few months of the campaign they had very few weapons and virtually no ammunition . |
| 6 | Malcolm and Judy said they did n't know they had so many friends . ’ |
| 7 | They had so many anxieties and sorrows to share . |
| 8 | They had so many men they had to start at the other end and |
| 9 | But Commander Roy Penrose , who organised yesterday 's raids , said : ‘ We do not believe they had as much explosives as they claimed . |
| 10 | They decided to go north to Thorpe Old Manor and spend Christmas as if they had as few cares as they now had pence . |
| 11 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 12 | They do not have black balls at the New Club , but they have even more members in the legal profession than Muirfield ; and word reached me that the election committee had received objections to my membership too strong to ignore . |
| 13 | Despite the masterpieces they contain , Italy 's museums are so uninviting and so often closed that they have very few visitors : only the Uffizi is over the one million mark ( 1,048,185 ) , with the Accademia in Venice at a mere 183,474 ( compared with the London National Gallery 's four million visitors ) . |
| 14 | Memorable among these exchanges : Johnson believed that men choose weak and ignorant women as their wives because they ‘ know that women are an over-match for them ’ ; he thought little of poetry he had heard from St Kilda : ‘ it must be poor , because they have very few images . ’ |
| 15 | They have too many bees in their bonnets to be dependable . |
| 16 | The second is that it does not adequately take account of the sad fact of life that health authorities may on occasion find that they have too few resources , either human or material or both , to treat all the patients whom they would like to treat in the way in which they would like to treat them . |
| 17 | The 1988 figures confirm Korn/ Ferry 's leading position with $91.5m. ; although now facing strong competition from Russell Reynolds , they have far more consultants ( 258 ) . |
| 18 | All the small states fear that any strengthening of the European Parliament , where they have relatively few seats in comparison with big brothers like Britain and Germany , will lead to a weakening of their influence by comparison with the Council of Ministers , which they attend as equals . |
| 19 | But whether that is acknowledged by our Friends of the Earth I do n't know because I mean they have so many stamps and seals on |
| 20 | Well I think the problem with , with what they have in Brussels now , they have so many underpasses in fact , and er , motorways that if you you come off the wrong it 's a nightmare trying to get back |
| 21 | They have so many hopes and dreams for their children 's future . |
| 22 | So they have so much problems with it like they 'll never ever experiment with that again . |
| 23 | Many feel that they have so few opportunities to do so . |
| 24 | ‘ The country is at the moment run by the Conservatives and they have so few votes in Scotland it should bring to their attention that there 's something not quite right in this situation . |