Example sentences of "they [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Racing people do have flexible hours , ’ he observed , ‘ and they mostly have free afternoons . ’ |
| 2 | And the specialists ' impact on other classes was limited ‘ because they rarely have sufficient time to work alongside their colleagues ’ . |
| 3 | Not because they may relate more positively to menstruation and to their sexuality ( as some psychologists have suggested ) , but more likely , I believe , because they rarely have the opportunity to experience menstruation . |
| 4 | It 's not that the TV folk like to be topical , it 's because they rarely have the nous to come up with anything original . |
| 5 | Apart from the Heads of Units , they rarely have contact with other similar services . |
| 6 | While forums such as these can take a community-wide approach , they rarely have executive power , being largely bodies for debate and comment . |
| 7 | Instead of the 125mph Class 89 prototype , an order was placed in January 1986 for twenty-nine Class 90 locomotives but they only have a potential of 110mph . |
| 8 | Consequently , many people find the unsmiling face of a horse rather expressionless which encourages them to think that horses are virtually emotionless — that they only have two emotions : ears forward , and the horse is happy ; ears back , and he is bad tempered . |
| 9 | Are they saying , they only have control up to a point ? |
| 10 | They only have to look at Thames 's shares to see what life might mean under Labour : since the start of March they have fallen 13 per cent to 333p . |
| 11 | I reckon they only have one door apiece , so she 'll be trapped . |
| 12 | As the emigré Hungarian humorist , George Mikes , remarked ( in How to be an Alien ) , the English have no soul , they only have the understatement . |
| 13 | The trouble is , they only have one edge . |
| 14 | They only have to request it , and they can certainly go across to the shops . ’ |
| 15 | This method is ideal for nervous species , because the fish can use the daphnia to hide among — and they only have to open their mouths to eat . |
| 16 | But they only have the dormitory , of course . |
| 17 | But within this group he looks specifically at solid tumours and they only have a four year survival of twenty percent . |
| 18 | If anyone wants to judge the competence of government in industry they only have to look at the results of our nationalised companies as a guide . |
| 19 | If they only have ten days , that 's er not very much . |
| 20 | And I will go on stressing that because traditional musicians have this traditional training in university music departments and music colleges , and they become isolated ; they only have contact with Western Art Music , you know . |
| 21 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 22 | Calling all pensioners … with a message from welfare officer Sheila Redmond : ‘ If any retired employees are in need of advice or help that they think I could offer , they only have to ‘ phone me on . ’ |
| 23 | If someone deliberately flouts the law in that manner , they only have themselves to blame for the consequences . |
| 24 | They only have seven minutes in which to do so . |
| 25 | The Americans do it much better having Thanksgiving to space it out so they only have a month of Christmas though they do seem to let their elections creep back just as we do with football … ’ |
| 26 | People are so trusting and hopeful , they only have to see you to imagine they 're cured . |
| 27 | If this is what they need now , this is what you give them , er , on the understanding that perhaps they only have it for fifteen or ten years , but in fifteen or ten years ' time , they might well be able to afford to extend it and pay more . |
| 28 | They 've uncovered the remains of a first century village and graveyard … but they only have a short time to dig up the relics , before work continues on a pipeline straight through the site . |
| 29 | They 've uncovered the remains of a first century village and graveyard … but they only have a short time to dig up the relics , before work continues on a pipeline straight through the site . |
| 30 | There 's even a class for mini dogs … they have to be under fifteen inches tall for this competition … but at least they only have to clear fifteen inch hurdles.Dog agility is this country 's fastest growing canine sport , and many of the eight hundred dogs at Malvern have taken part in events all over Britain.But this is the biggest ever : |