Example sentences of "have [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well I had the the twenty one and thirteen in the two groups so subtract those two and have twice the amount of X I thought I would have . |
| 32 | Mr. Lawson applies that description to people like me , who believe that tobacco advertising and sponsorship of sport are immoral and have precisely the effect that they are intended to have , which is to recruit young people into smoking . |
| 33 | In fact , some of the canvases of this type have almost the appearance of being paintings of sculptures and masks . |
| 34 | They do look at the statistics the government statistics for fertility and mortality , but they have then the ability to amend , to adjust to local erm to match up with local information . |
| 35 | Add to this the threat from Europe of the need to be a member of an authorised body to provide tax advice and carry out tax work ( central to the survival of the small practice ) , and the fact that the Institute of Chartered Accountants does not have the qualifications to become such a body ( less than 15% of members are actively involved in tax matters ) , and we have potentially the demise of the small firm . |
| 36 | But they have instead the filth that gathers in stagnant water and its evil smell on many a lawn . ’ |
| 37 | Now I have neither the patience nor the ability to train and discipline a dog , and Chip could be a bit wayward and excitable , but he was sometimes quite useful if you wanted to set cattle away across the field . |
| 38 | Luckily , as most of us have neither the money nor the time to undertake major remodelling , it is quite possible to make significant changes without going to the bank for a loan or calling in a builder . |
| 39 | Many couples continue to enjoy sexual intercourse once or twice a week into old age , but some people have neither the inclination or ability for this , and of course in a long relationship we do adjust to our partner 's needs . |
| 40 | ‘ I can assure you , my dear Laura , that I have neither the inclination nor the energy to lay my hands on your fair body , ’ he drawled sardonically . |
| 41 | ‘ Just that you 've apparently cornered the market in finding weak and easy targets , people who have neither the strength nor the wherewithal to fight you . ’ |
| 42 | Hedgehogs have neither the speed nor the manoeuvrability to catch rabbits but I have known them to kill the young in a stop , gaining entrance during the times when the doe has left the stop unsealed just before the young rabbits are moved out . |
| 43 | ‘ They have neither the innocence of the daisy nor the legitimacy of the rose . ’ |
| 44 | In my own turfs we are quarrelling among ourselves with intense energy about whether women can be ordained priests , about who is more Catholic than their neighbour and about a whole host of internal issues , because we apparently have neither the grace nor the guts to face up to the real issues which are the business of the Church in the current world . |
| 45 | Similarly economic policy-makers in the UK and the USA choose policies which satisfy their aspiration levels ; they can not ‘ fine tune ’ the economy because they have neither the information nor the theory to do so ( Mosely , 1984 ) . |
| 46 | They probably have neither the time nor the inclination to go through the necessary learning process , and particularly so now that the more modern battery-powered devices are available and are so efficient . |
| 47 | When learners are caught up in communication , concerned with making meaning , they have neither the time nor indeed the inclination to monitor their performance , which in consequence reveals what they have acquired without , as it were , the artificial additives of learning . |
| 48 | Most voters have neither the time nor the inclination to scrutinize position papers or to weigh judiciously the qualities of those who offer themselves in primary elections . |
| 49 | Vague and slightly patronising references were made to volunteers providing the companionship and neighbourly services for which health and social service workers have neither the time nor the responsibility " . |
| 50 | ‘ I have neither the time nor the inclination to play stupid games , ’ he snapped . |
| 51 | Although research economists usually make their programs available to others , they have neither the time nor the resources to document and support them properly . |
| 52 | Certainly , we have neither the design nor the actual possibility of showing here the full truth of dialectical materialism … |
| 53 | They are generally awarded by juries , who have neither the power nor the proficiency to impose a sentence in any other area of law . |
| 54 | Interviews with doctors who practise euthanasia have shown that they resort to LAWER when they have neither the courage nor cruelty to talk openly with patients , relatives , or colleagues . |
| 55 | A great proportion of our farmers , large and small , know in their hearts that they are on the wrong road , but have neither the wisdom nor the courage to strike out on radically new lines . |
| 56 | I have again the impression of a girl , another girl , sitting still and silent in a crowded room at Oxford while everyone else 's meaningless chatter bumped around the walls or dropped like limp catkins on to the wood-block floor . |
| 57 | Detailed scrutiny of large scale and complex undertakings on a continuing basis is not a task for which most MPs have either the inclination or the time . |
| 58 | I use 3-4lb main line and have either the feeder or the bomb on a very long paternoster link of 4-7 feet . |
| 59 | Because they 've always said it 's exactly the same as a day worker and yes you have either the shift off before the night shift off before you go on the course or the one after . |
| 60 | We have previously the equation Now the internal energy U can be defined as where e is the internal energy density and T the kinetic energy is |