Example sentences of "have the [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Hermens added : ‘ Anyone can order the seals in the same number range and it would be easy for anyone who has the seals to open them . |
| 2 | Compassion is not Jack 's strong suit : he advises a woman , worried about a scar , to tell her husband that she ‘ looks like a Playboy centrefold — and has the staple-marks to prove it ’ . |
| 3 | When a manager is given the authority to do something , it is automatically presupposed that he has the ability to do it , the facilities that he needs and that the desired results will be achieved . |
| 4 | Macca comes second and has the ability to do it with both feet ! |
| 5 | We must surely be at a stage now where almost every angler on a given match has the ability to win it , given a draw . |
| 6 | He has the ability to get you into the right frame of mind , to get you mentally prepared . |
| 7 | He really knows which details to bring out as part of the musical logic of the piece , and he has the technique to do it . |
| 8 | That puling creature has the gall to remind me that Stephen is a consecrated king and should not be treated as a felon . |
| 9 | ‘ She hurt him dreadfully when he came home from Africa , crippled and his career in the army over , just when he needed her loving support the most , and now she has the gall to chase him again , when I hoped and prayed that he had finally recovered from her brutal treatment of him . ’ |
| 10 | Shrewsbury will never be Welsh again for more than a matter of days , and Llewelyn has the wit to recognise it . |
| 11 | If the Legal Aid Board , as the only party adversely affected by the proposed order , has the opportunity to challenge it but decides not to do so , one may ask rhetorically what possible objection of substance there can be to the existing practice . |
| 12 | In developing countries , energy can be used wastefully by whoever has the money to use it , while the poorer and less powerful go without . |
| 13 | That your debtor has the money to pay you . |
| 14 | It is finding that the phrase ‘ equal opportunity ’ is usually a meaningless compromise ; if the good things of life are really dependent on opportunity — which everyone knows they are not ; would the rich and powerful really be so careless ? — what human agency has the hubris to imagine it can deal out opportunity in a fair or even meritorious fashion ? |
| 15 | What is new , according to DEC consultant engineer Lawrence Stewart , is that hardware now has the horse-power to drive them in real time . |
| 16 | What is new , according to DEC consultant engineer Lawrence Stewart , is that hardware now has the horse-power to drive them in real time . |
| 17 | If the situation is basically stable , the drama then begins when something occurs which has the potential to destabilise it . |
| 18 | There 's only one issue to which you should be giving your time and energy and that has the potential to give you back far more than you could ever lose . |
| 19 | He adds : ‘ I do n't like living like a big star — where everyone has the potential to hurt you or want something from you . |
| 20 | The discount system has the potential to run us into a substantial amount of trouble and I believe that very few people will be prepared to defend it in a year or two . |
| 21 | Yes , the Alexander Technique is a very useful tool which you can use to help you find the solutions to many physical , emotional and mental problems but , more than that , it has the potential to help us use our intelligence in a way that is constructive both for us and our fellow man . |
| 22 | Monica will be alright she know 's what she 's doing , it 's just whether she has the time to do it , she would liked it if we had done this before Christmas , so that while you were away John |
| 23 | Robin Chambers , the principal of Stoke-Newington school in South London , where the programme has been used for two months , says : ‘ We are ironing out a few difficulties , for instance getting the individual answer sheet completed in the correct way and working out who has the time to do it . |
| 24 | Its advantage is that it is at least problem-orientated and gives the impression ( which is sometimes justified ) that one has the means to solve it . |
| 25 | Then he has the cheek to say he needs another 6,000 for his sex-change operation . |
| 26 | I said to Robin , ‘ If its owner has the nerve to call it that , the least we can do is back it . ’ |
| 27 | These days people bring hamsters and terrapins and rabbits and dogs , but nobody quite has the nerve to pin them down on a slab and cut their throats . |
| 28 | Whatever you home laundry requirements , Radio Rentals has the package to suit you . |
| 29 | Homo homini lupus : who has the courage to dispute it in the face of all evidence in his own life and in history ? |
| 30 | ANDREW ARROWSMITH has the information to help you hedge your bets . |