Example sentences of "they often have a " in BNC.

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1 Even those currents that attached themselves to the drift of labourism , and with which they often had an uneasy relationship , were pathologically infected by the same bourgeois traditions .
2 These may not always be the people who sparkle a great deal because they often have a maverick quality .
3 ‘ When goalkeepers come to England they often have a problem with the physical side of the game and dealing with the vast number of crosses , ’ said Mr Ferguson .
4 Cylinders rely on suction , which is why they often have a higher wattage than uprights .
5 These divergent states are often subjectively perceived as having distinctive characteristics that mark them out as discrete varieties : people can recognize regional varieties such as ‘ Birmingham ’ English , ‘ Yorkshire ’ English and so on , and they often have a fairly clear idea of how such varieties are distinguished from one another .
6 They often have a broad product range , operating in more than one industrial sector , and sometimes show a high degree of vertical integration , having control of their sources of supply at one end and the chain of distribution at the other .
7 Admittedly , not all practical activities are as routine as many laboratory techniques ; they often have a degree of open-endedness built into them , demanding a personal response from the student .
8 The danger for players who swing out-to-in is that they often have a feeling of swinging in-to-out .
9 In class structure grammar ( see under grammar ) , a clause may be defined as " a syntactic unit which usually has a subject ( S ) and a predicate ( P ) ; they often have a complement ( C ) and an adjunct ( A ) as well . "
10 Indeed they often have a lot of misconceptions about the profession … amounting to an overall impression that actuaries are dull , uncreative , myopic number-crunchers buried in mortality tables in the back-rooms of insurance companies .
11 They often have a very small percentage of the population anyway , and er I 'm glad we 've brought this matter up , because I think that is something which needs further investigation , that the the ordinary public and the many little , or the millions of voluntary organisations ought to be encouraged to have a more output in forwarding names .
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