Example sentences of "of [noun pl] have [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We hear of forced and hard labour , of beatings and groanings , of attempts to have all male children born to the slave women put to death at birth , of the screw being given yet another turn and the people being worked to near-exhaustion . |
| 2 | The life of aphids has some interesting features , as the drawing shows . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I know that a lot of musicians have that kind of pressure put on them , but I 've never really gotten any bullshit from anybody about what to do . |
| 4 | The number of cases have more than tripled in a week , registering the highest increase since the 1975-76 epidemic — when a peak of 350 cases per 100,000 were recorded and 1,283 people died . |
| 5 | There are no factual data that amalgamation of institutions has any advantages beyond economies of some central services such as catering and purchasing , and perhaps administrative convenience . |
| 6 | Many of the intricacies of the law of designs have little relevance to computer technology and a complete discussion of the rights is outside the scope of this book . |
| 7 | These sorts of books have such an excellent hardback sale which is not always carried through to the same extent with the paperback . |
| 8 | Ninety-two per cent of those in old people 's homes compared with 82 per cent of those in other sorts of homes had this amenity — a difference which fell short of statistical significance — but more of those in old people 's homes had a room of their own , two-thirds against half . |
| 9 | Owen believes , for example , that lepidopteran populations fluctuate so widely due to entirely natural causes that the use of pesticides had little effect on them — although it does affect ground predators . |
| 10 | Ah now not a lot of calculators have that . |
| 11 | Instead of hearing blocks of questions that used only more , or only less , they had to respond to such questions as ‘ Does this set of lollipops have more lollipops , less lollipops , or the same number of lollipops as this set ? ’ |
| 12 | Yet , although both sets of protagonists had much to say about how a scientific theory should be constructed , neither said much about the substantive assumptions that underlay inquiry or the types of questions with which the study of international relations in particular should be concerned . |
| 13 | According to one survey conducted in France , only one per cent of Frenchmen have enough energy left after the weekend to have sexual intercourse on Monday nights . |
| 14 | There is enormous value in having a body of Renaissance texts which we can assume a large number of readers have some acquaintance with . |
| 15 | Almost 90 per cent of companies have fewer than fifty employees . |
| 16 | That is why Britain 's Institute of Directors has this week been rudely attacking the government for allowing the business renaissance of the past decade to be ‘ torpedoed by runaway inflation ’ . |
| 17 | Their disbandment was announced , almost en passant , by John Major , and the squads of stewards had little to do , save to crick their fingers and steal glances at their copies of the Daily Mail . |
| 18 | Two animal rights campaigners who took part in a series of firebombings have each been jailed for four years . |
| 19 | Henry Fielding wrote of the capital in 1751 : " What an immense variety of places has this town and its neighbourhood set apart for the amusement of the lowest order of the people . " |
| 20 | Identification and interpretation of conventions has little to do with the courts . |
| 21 | In this respect , the errors of learners have some resemblance to other uses of language where the exigencies of the communicative situation license the disregard of grammatical niceties : telegrams , for example , or the laconic instructions of the surgeon who appeared in the preceding chapter . |
| 22 | Even if we agree that these kinds of assumptions have some general validity , the questions that then stem from them are equally complex . |
| 23 | In each of these cases the majority of farmers have less than 1 hectare under the relevant crop , but most achieve levels of income well in excess of their neighbours who remain outside the projects . |
| 24 | Yet the cap on the compensatory award for unfair dismissal discussed in Chapter 17 meant that a significant number of executives had little option but to fight through the thickets of civil court procedure . |
| 25 | An owner of goods has many rights — they have been described as ‘ a bundle or package of rights . ’ |
| 26 | The north wing with its range of rooms has more the appearance of a hostelry than a house . |
| 27 | Differences in regional characteristics , markets , customers or products , differences in the technology used in various aspects of the organisation 's work , the greater readiness of individuals to identify with smaller work groups than with an entire organisation , and the desire of subordinates to have more authority are all factors which tend towards decentralisation and diversification in different parts of an organisation . |
| 28 | One survey concluded that a full third of patients have some psychological element in their illness , with 18 per cent showing purely psychiatric or psychosomatic symptoms . |
| 29 | In fact , very large numbers of villages have this sort of plan , and the idea of polyfocal centres in villages has proved a useful concept in village plan analysis . |
| 30 | The view that the concern about the declining calibre of councillors has much in common with the opinion that Punch is not as good as it used to be , and the well-known response that it never was , can be supported from the details given in Table 7. 1 . |