Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays they may be esteemed by their peers who know something of their work , but this esteem has little currency value in the committee-rooms where performance is appraised . |
| 2 | The American New Critics and I.A. Richards before them were as anxious as the Formalists to sever literature from its historical and biographical context , and their preoccupation with form and technique has many points of analogy with that of their Formalist counterparts . |
| 3 | The bromodeoxyuridine technique has many advantages over this technique as it is complete in 3–4 days compared with 14 days for tritiated thymidine and furthermore the reaction is found in the plane of the tissue section facilitating rapid cell counting . |
| 4 | With deposits of limited size variations the technique has some success but better discrimination is achieved where there are large size differences . |
| 5 | Agriculture has fewer and fewer workers to give up to industry or the tertiary sector , and short-term migrant or daily labour has steadily declined from a peak in the 1960s . |
| 6 | ‘ The Bloody Sunday grant has more to do with vote catching in the Bogside and Creggan in May , ’ claimed Mr Adams . |
| 7 | Even so , King argues that his theory has the advantage of also explaining why a lump-sum grant has less of an impact on local spending than does an equal value-matching grant — another result evident in empirical work . |
| 8 | Xerox Corp has some good news for Utica in upstate New York , a town that is more used to news of plant closures : on Maundy Thursday , Xerox announced that it plans to locate a new manufacturing subsidiary in Utica , which could create as many as 300 new jobs , although it will start with only 50 ; the new plant , called the Low Complexity Manufacturing Group Inc , will supply simple subassemblies for integration into Xerox copier and printer products , and could also bring back work to the US from foreign suppliers , as well as saving Xerox $2m a year . |
| 9 | What matters at the end of the day is that the target text has some thematic organization of its own , that it reads naturally and smoothly , does not distort the information structure of the original ( see 5.1.2 above ) , and that it preserves , where possible , any special emphasis signalled by marked structures in the original and maintains a coherent point of view as a text in its own right . |
| 10 | The case for privatising British Rail has little to do with saving money : private companies will probably have to waste even more on safety to avoid charges of putting profits before lives . |
| 11 | The Shimadzu CS9001PC computer controlled scanning densitometer has all the major features of the Shimadzu CS9000 with the added benefits of direct computer control . |
| 12 | Nobody else in this dive has any money , and for them it will he a long cold evening . |
| 13 | As the harem matures , however , the females show a close collaboration that can oppose a male effectively ; they determine the direction of movement and the male has little control . |
| 14 | But in the absence of high stress they find no reason to conclude that emotional support has any general influence on mental health . |
| 15 | The department said : ‘ We have no evidence to show that germanium has any nutritional value or is beneficial . ’ |
| 16 | This not only creates body but also takes a lot of the hard work out of blow-drying as styling very wet hair has little effect . |
| 17 | This story has many of the motifs common to dragon legends . |
| 18 | His story has many inconsistencies . |
| 19 | Penhaligon 's story has all the ingredients of a Victorian melodrama . |
| 20 | The Arbroath guidebook 's glossary has some of these — ‘ clearstorey : the range of windows in the upper part of a building ; Frater : a monastic refectory or dining hall [ alas not taken from the Latin for ‘ brother ’ , but from a French reduction of ‘ refreshment' ] ; Gablet : a decorative design in the form of a small gable , often above a window ; Pend : a vaulted passageway [ several pends in St Andrews ] ; Slype : a passage ; Triforium : the arcaded gallery between the main arcade and clearstorey ; Tympanum : the enclosed space within the head of an arched doorway [ does that mean it has a space behind like a drumhead — an open space inviting impressions to be made upon it ? ] ’ |
| 21 | But his Privatisation Express has many features that are lurchingly familiar to the average London commuter . |
| 22 | This provision has most application in the area of whole agreement ( or entire agreement ) clauses which limit the bounds of the relationship of the parties to the particular contract in question . |
| 23 | Only in Champagne has this grape proved so successful . |
| 24 | A quick glance at the specifications that Detroit 's idea of a '90s performance saloon has more in common with current European thinking than the muscle-bound 7-litre American V8 's of the '60s and '70s . |
| 25 | Judges ruled that the ban on the National Salvation Front was unconstitutional but the decision has little effect as Mr Yeltsin last month cancelled the ban , imposed in December , in a decree . |
| 26 | Part of the campaign against any form of discrimination has this problem : part of the success of any such campaign carries with it , by the yardstick of some , disbenefits . |
| 27 | If trifling Hope has any room to plead , |
| 28 | Here again , provided the driver has such an opportunity , I can see nothing in the language of the statute which would justify a procedural requirement that the driver be invited to express his own preference for giving blood or urine , either before a constable indicates which specimen he will require or at all . |
| 29 | It is claimed that a fifth of road fatalities say 1,150 deaths a year can be attributed to ’ drunk ’ driving : a driver has more than the permitted level of alcohol in his blood . |
| 30 | tough and well made , this sack has some nice touches allied to a basically simple design . |